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"If ever there was something that would make me think there is a lack of social skills due to internet"

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Jazz Inmate

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In Reply to: RE: millions are dying intellectually by focusing on their online persona posted by Analog Scott on October 17, 2010 at 20:53:21

>>...it would be this forum and others like it <<
Errrrr...have ya LOOKED at Facebook? Evidently not. This forum is a goldmine that puts you in touch with industry professionals and users with valuable input on gear, and related opinions. Facebook is an impersonal, horribly indexed timesink that devalues friendships and acts as a horrifying surrogate for interpersonal relationships for millions of people including the person who founded it, if you follow the movie.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi

Edits: 10/17/10

Follow Ups:

Jazz, this is like trying to talk sense into a heroine addict - Victor Khomenko 10:44:23 10/18/10 (1)
Addicts are addicts, no matter that their fix is, and they do not respond to reason.
Be it as it may, watching those people cross the streets with their eyes riveted to the device while holding their treasure with both hands is so ridiculous that any sense of lament for society degradation is being overpowered by sheer laughter of disbelief at their stupidity.
You know I am usually against the regulations... but in this case I am applauding the Delaware's new anti-handheld law. One idiot young female nearly collided with my car while texting - I am sure she was "communicating" with a minister at the very least... and a few minutes of delay would have great consequences.

Edits: 10/18/10
- You're right...we have a law here in California too, regarding the mobile devices - Jazz Inmate 12:40:24 10/18/10 (0)
  Does it stop anyone from texting? Nope.
  
  And if you think about the first wireless telegraph being patented in 1897, we really haven't advanced very far in the past 100+ years, despite the great processing and band power at our disposal.
  
  We obviously need a new breed of mobile device to enlighten the lemmings. ;-)
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  We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
"Errrrr...have ya LOOKED at Facebook? Evidently not." - Analog Scott 07:42:45 10/18/10 (0)
I can put this conclusion into the same catagory of eroneous fact on your part along with your assertions that this generation doesn't relate to people on a face to face basis and that they can't tell the difference between the real world and the cyber world.

No point in arguing about your eroneous fact.

"Facebook is an impersonal, horribly indexed timesink that devalues friendships and acts as a horrifying surrogate for interpersonal relationships for millions of people including the person who founded it, if you follow the movie."

I'd have to ask you if you have actually participated in Facebook? Because this is arguably the most inacurate description I have ever seen.

Interesting that you would think you actually know how a real world human being interacts with others based on how he was portrayed in a movie. And you were accusing this generation of failing to know the difference between the real world and the cyberworld? How about the real world and the movies? You do know the difference no?

So have you and Vic had a "face to face" since joining this forum?

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