Comments on: “The affair’s going to happen anyway…” http://www.softwaretime.com/wp/2010/07/the-affairs-going-to-happen-anyway/ How gadgets and modern life affect the human race Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:59:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mark http://www.softwaretime.com/wp/2010/07/the-affairs-going-to-happen-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-37042 mark Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:21:59 +0000 http://www.softwaretime.com/wp/?p=481#comment-37042 I agree that humans don't change much. And to your point about Internet Addiction not being as big of a topic of discussion... Ya... It's not interesting news because it's passé. Everybody is addicted now! ;-) It used to be that a lot of techies were often plugged it. But now, everybody is plugged in a lot of the time. I have a Facebook account, but I'm not very active. I have accepted about 100 friend requests, but I think I may start unfriending, or maybe just clicking on the hide button so that I don't have to see the never-ending stream of inanities that all of these people are posting. Ya, I think Facebook and Twitter does provide a notion of acceptability. The way that they prompt you to say <em>what you're doing right now</em> is calling out for each person to say something, even when they don't have anything to say. As if, even when you're doing nothing of great interest, you should still tell the world about it. Maybe it makes uninteresting people feel like celebrities that they can have hundreds or thousands of friends and maybe they feel that all of these people actually care about their boring life. I agree that humans don’t change much.

And to your point about Internet Addiction not being as big of a topic of discussion… Ya… It’s not interesting news because it’s passé. Everybody is addicted now! ;-)

It used to be that a lot of techies were often plugged it. But now, everybody is plugged in a lot of the time. I have a Facebook account, but I’m not very active. I have accepted about 100 friend requests, but I think I may start unfriending, or maybe just clicking on the hide button so that I don’t have to see the never-ending stream of inanities that all of these people are posting.

Ya, I think Facebook and Twitter does provide a notion of acceptability. The way that they prompt you to say what you’re doing right now is calling out for each person to say something, even when they don’t have anything to say. As if, even when you’re doing nothing of great interest, you should still tell the world about it. Maybe it makes uninteresting people feel like celebrities that they can have hundreds or thousands of friends and maybe they feel that all of these people actually care about their boring life.

]]> By: Marj http://www.softwaretime.com/wp/2010/07/the-affairs-going-to-happen-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-37028 Marj Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:19:05 +0000 http://www.softwaretime.com/wp/?p=481#comment-37028 This is a very interesting association. In one of our classes in college, we discussed how there have always been message boards throughout history. Newsletters and bulletins that were out before electricity gave the medium for people to interact in a public forum - affairs and all. Humans don't seem to change, just the technology. :( I also find it weird that Internet Addiction is not a huge topic of discussion anymore. Have these social networks made it acceptable to be online all the time? This is a very interesting association. In one of our classes in college, we discussed how there have always been message boards throughout history. Newsletters and bulletins that were out before electricity gave the medium for people to interact in a public forum – affairs and all.

Humans don’t seem to change, just the technology. :(

I also find it weird that Internet Addiction is not a huge topic of discussion anymore. Have these social networks made it acceptable to be online all the time?

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