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HiTexas I'm not speaking on a personal level but how our society is developing with the new technology we have
I can't see how you don't understand that cellphones, chat etc makes people meet less irl?
Man lay off the attitude, you are always insulting me in my blogs and I'm not on any "emo-trip" I guess having a hard time now and then is not ok for some people
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I believe that the internet may have made the world a smaller place and raised the level of communication, but it also locked us up indoors and has limited the amount of time we spent communicating face-to-face. How much more often do you speak to people online or via phone than in person, looking them in the eye and sharing honest ideas? Yea...
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did not want to insult u jens sorry for my words
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On February 07 2008 08:39 JensOfSweden wrote: and this is a rsponse to that I'm being myself now, typiong like a retard and being drunk
I think the internet is alienating us from each other. I studfy sociology as well and i'ts rather a fact that we are more alone than ever in this age and time and it saddesn me...
So true, this post was rlly good, makes u remember that the ppl on the other end are actually people, not just cybernetic entities. The crazy part about the internet is that you can say whatever you want, it becomes a surreal atmosphere, and you can take as much time to perfect your thoughts its not like talking to a real person when you read posts on a forum. It takes out the human aspect of being human, and just leaves the mechanical aspect. I can't wait to get drunk tonight
edit: from now on i'm not editting my posts!
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I thought you come off as a pretty confident dude (who can be a dick at times o.O)
You should know better than to care what to randoms stuck up girls think
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Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking when I wrote it
I think people often think that the other guys they talk to on the net aren't actually real. I mean they "understand" that the other people exist irl but it doesn't really sink in on a deeper level.
That's why you see people for example sometimes go "rofl gg life" when someone makes a post about something terrible that has happened.
Forums should definately be made more alive and "real", but I have no idea how. It's too "easy" to sit and polish your thoughts on a forum until you come across like a genius.
This isn't real interaction, well the words are there but no emotion nor facial expressions, sound of the voice etc
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On February 09 2008 03:32 Hawk wrote: I thought you come off as a pretty confident dude (who can be a dick at times o.O)
You should know better than to care what to randoms stuck up girls think
Well it's probably me quitting my medicine, cuz the withdrawal fucks with your head alot
I'm not "normally" like this
Yeah, I know...
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so it's manageable without the medicine, besides when you have stimulants?
but yeah, everyone goes thru there swings. some nights at a bar, i can get turned down by 5 girls in a row, laugh it off and pick up another.
other nights, something like what happened to u and id be like wtffff depression drinking.
wouldnt worry bout it homie.
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Yeah I know it strikes randomly
Manageable I dunno, I guess it's a matter of definition
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Maybe new communications technologies are bringing us into contact with more people we don't like (different people are less likely to like each other, and people who are far away are more likely to be different... but on the internet, location doesn't change who you meet much). So we end up thinking "internet -> higher % of people i know are shit, so it's alienating us from each other." Maybe.
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