I’m eating a cheese sandwich.
All you see now is people looking at little screens & have no human contact anymore.
I still think the simpler life that I grew up in, was much better, neighbors cared about each other, family had time for each other. Times have changed beyond the rediculous!!
It also includes people on the FR that need the last word.
Lately I have been spending too much time on Free Republic and a few other sites. I'm going to sign off now and see if I can concentrate on a book for an hour.
FB/Twitter didn’t creat those people - it exposed them.
This article is complete BS.
Please, please, let me know what you think of my post.
B Hussein Obama is on FaceBook and Twitter, isn’t he?
Well, he was vain and self-obsessed way before he ever Tweeted.
Obamalamadingdong Tweet “Have to go to bed with The Wookie now,,,,arg!”.
I don’t have Facebook/Twitter accounts, but that’s because I am a narcissist without any friends.
No facebook
No twitter
No myspace
No TV (I make an exception for Jeopary! and Wheel of Fortune, heh)
No iPad
No iPod
No iPhone (I do have a cell phone that is ALWAYS turned off)
No beepers
No pagers
I don’t even answer the telephone any more.
Guess I’m about as backward as they come.
I pretty much broke the TV habit in 1971 — was stationed in Germany for a year. There was a TV there, but very little on it. I might have looked at it 6 times in the whole year (actually, I believe it was less).
But it something more than that. Somewhere back there, I made a conscious decision to simply drop out of “mainstream” culture, particulary music.
Since then, I’ve “gone my own way”, so to speak. I have no desire to “get with things” again. For me, there’s no hope!
Several years’ back, I was reading Pat Buchanan’s book “Death of the West”, and was surprised that he recommended people do pretty much what I did, that is, drop out of the “trash culture” and find (even create) their own “cultural sanctuaries” (those last two phrases are my own).
My only weakness: Macintosh!
Just sayin’....
There are people who are morbidly interested in every action of other people around them, and think that everyone around them is equally interested in their every little action. I don’t understand people like that and I watch what I say around them (because I am not an open book for other people’s entertainment).
I don’t think Twitter and Facebook created people like that. They’ve always been around. In times past, they were the town gossips.
I’m also not sure what scholarship a professor of pharmacology can bring to this subject. On this, she has nothing more than opinion to offer, just like anyone else who isn’t a neuroscientist, psychologist, or similar.
Ya’ think? /sarcasm
I find that Twitter has become useless over time and even more so when people you follow begin to link their Twitter accounts to sites like Foursquare.
I don't care if Joe Blow has become mayor of some stupid city online because he stops at Starbucks twice a day. I don't want people to know where the hell I'm at, at any given moment either.
It's even more annoying when people link their Twitter and Facebook accounts and then you see their Twitter stream cluttering up your Facebook wall.
Social media in it's infancy was useful, but now it's just more wasted space online because some idiots feel the want to be famous.
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There's also a "Reply" button under your post ;)
Liberalism has created a generation of vain, self-obsessed narcissists long before Facebook or Twitter came along.
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme welfare, gimme food stamps, gimme unemployment insurance, gimme health care, take care of me. Don’t ask me to care for my neighbor, don’t as me to contribute to charity, the government will do it. Dennis Prager is right: the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. Look at the people in Greece who’re rioting because they’re now ONLY getting 12 monthly paychecks per year instead of 14. Liberalism created those people.
Trust me. They already existed
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