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blackguy
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Myspace/facebook
#7263215 - 08/05/07 06:13 PM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hey all,
I'm a newb here. I'm a new grad student in a college town. Actually, just finished first year. Difficult, but I managed to swim. Interested in tripping...honestly because I'm really bored and somewhat depressed at the moment. Seems like everyone in grad school is so goddamn busy, and the whole careerist mindset thing really through me off. It's getting really hard these days to make friends you know. Seems like Facebook and MySpace make it really easy to connect to on a shallow level with acquaintances. Not to dismiss social networking websites as useless or necessarily 'bad.' I guess I'm wondering if some of the older folks on this board have noticed this. I guess that's the whole postmodern condition or whatever. People are becoming less and less connected. The really depressing thing for me is that I am almost positive that it won't be getting better; our world isn't getting any less virtual. Will there be a time in the future where we as a society will hit rock bottom, and realize our social connections need to get stronger?
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memes
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Re: Myspace/facebook [Re: blackguy]
#7263227 - 08/05/07 06:17 PM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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i dunno the answer to your questions, but in my experience... tripping when you're depressed isnt fun at all! you might learn something, but it probably wont be fun
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morphius2661
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Re: Myspace/facebook [Re: blackguy]
#7263231 - 08/05/07 06:19 PM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's interesting you bring this up as I was talking with my uncle earlier about the degradation of community in the human society. Really, there is no need for community anymore to survive, like there used to be. Obviously this isnt a good thing, as people become more reclusive and less inclined to acquiesce to social boundaries.
In any case, the earth will reset itself I'm sure at some point down the road when humans are gone, it's all a cycle, really.
edit: oh yeah, dont trip if you're depressed.
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Edited by morphius2661 (08/05/07 06:19 PM)
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boxcarguy07
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Yeah I've been thinking about this lately. How you used to be able to just walk out of your house and you'd be on the streets filled with people and everyone would be outside talking... Not anything like that anymore, at least not in the US
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blackguy
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hehe, yeah. I thinking about putting off the tripping thing. I just sent an email to Mark Crispin Miller, the famous social critic and Professor of Communications at NYU. He writes alot about social interaction and communication media. I'll post his response. Hey, at least it's comforting to know that this phenomenon is really only out of control in this country. Although I don't have evidence or anything for saying that; in my own 'anecdotal' experience, it seems like people from other countries still have the social interactions we had say 30+ years ago (closeness, sacrifice, and so on).
-------------------- "Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand." -David Lynch
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blackguy
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Re: Myspace/facebook [Re: blackguy]
#7263249 - 08/05/07 06:26 PM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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For instance...
for my 20something generation, it's acceptable for friends to not contact you even if that don't feel like going to an event you invited them too and they agree. Hehe, that must sound really petty, I'm not just venting about stuff that happened to me. I notice that with lots of my friends.
-------------------- "Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand." -David Lynch
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dirtworshipper
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Quote:
morphius2661 said: It's interesting you bring this up as I was talking with my uncle earlier about the degradation of community in the human society. Really, there is no need for community anymore to survive, like there used to be. Obviously this isnt a good thing, as people become more reclusive and less inclined to acquiesce to social boundaries.
In any case, the earth will reset itself I'm sure at some point down the road when humans are gone, it's all a cycle, really.
edit: oh yeah, dont trip if you're depressed.
 my thoughts exactly
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