DBlume shares
6 years ago
latest #22
DBlume says
6 years ago
I dunno, it seems like there's some truth to it.
sjonsvenson
6 years ago
It isn't all new and exciting anymore. Everybody is on the web so being on-line is nothing to impress your classmates with.
sjonsvenson
6 years ago
Writing a program that did something interesting or typing in some HTML that actually worked used to be impressive. A show off to your friends. Now those friends make some better code doing some clicks here or there and walk away yawning.
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sjonsvenson
6 years ago
Worst of all, you post a nice pic of your cat and the day later you find 5687 replies with cuter cat pics . . . sigh
davidd thinks
6 years ago
this line is spot on: "Where once we’d had a rich ecosystem of extremely stupid and funny sites on which we might procrastinate, we now had only Twitter and Facebook."
davidd is
6 years ago
still on Flickr, where he was friends with sjonsvenson and DBlume and pastilla... and Nari and Zannah and lots of other people who are not active there anymore.
davidd was
6 years ago
commenting on this very topic on LiveJournal today... where he was friends with sjonsvenson (who is still there, posting every day) and DBlume and pastilla and Nari and Zannah and lot of other people who are not active there anymore.
davidd
6 years ago
manages to waste plenty of time online, and has fun doing so, but it's more of a challenge these days. Most of the forums of which I was a member are gone. But there are still a few specialty forums, which, on a good day, have up to half a dozen new posts!
davidd
6 years ago
Yeah, half a dozen. Remember when specialty forums got HUNDREDS of posts a day?
davidd
6 years ago
does not work with computers, so maybe it's easier for me to have fun online. Or maybe I'm stuck in a paleozoic version of the online universe.
davidd is
6 years ago
mega-, rather than micro-, blogging at this point with these comments, isn't he? Anyway, that line about the guy becoming his dad when he found himself typing news sites into his search bar was funny, too. Except, dude, your dad would probably pick up a newspaper, not type in a web search.
davidd says
6 years ago
anyway... hi! How're ya doin'? What's your online hangout of choice these days? (I was trying to remember the other day where you said you post your militant humanist diatribes... or something like that. I'm sure they are both insightful and amusing.)
davidd says
6 years ago
and, of course, PHONES! Phones are the "fun" online time-waster of today. Nobody types searches into desktop browers anymore, do they? At least, none of the cool people. Time-wasting fun is now in the palm of your hand.
davidd thinks
6 years ago
old school BBS forums would be a pain to read and to navigate on a phone-sized screen. (See comment on other Plurk about eyeglasses.... :-( )
sjonsvenson
6 years ago @Edit 6 years ago
phones are not good for web-ing . . . Well, my Nokia 6020 isn't :-P
pastilla says
6 years ago
I do not own a cell phone anymore. Imagine that.
DBlume says
6 years ago
I still have my cell phone, but I intentionally deleted Facebook and Plurk from it.
DBlume says
6 years ago
Our dads were fortunate to experience the serendipity of unexpectedly interesting articles in the newspaper.
DBlume says
6 years ago
websites are hellbent on surfacing posts that they think you'll engage with, so it's always the same bait. Not something completely out of your domain.
davidd is
5 years ago
necro-ing this old Plurk, the same way he sometimes necros old posts on forums. Update a year later: I'm still active on a few toy photo forums where there are still, as noted above, a half-dozen or more unique new posts per day!
davidd is
5 years ago
still having fun on these forums, and, as the article writer reminisced about, I still find them an escape from reality.
davidd has
5 years ago
found a few people... again, that magic half-dozen number... who are alive and well and still posting on Flickr on a regular basis, even as Flickr's price has gone up and quality of service has gone down.
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