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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #60 on: April 28, 2009, 11:02:29 AM »

Phew, my name is not registered on Twitter.  However, it does show up in other people's tweet content.
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #61 on: April 28, 2009, 11:05:59 AM »

Both usernames I would choose for twitter are taken! Good thing I'm not interested.

Speaking of social networking, recently a lot of my teenage cousins added me to their Facebook friends lists (and I added them in turn). Now my Facebook front page is full of teenage drama and stuff like "(So-and-so) is a fan of (snack item or actor)."
Hover over a news item and there is a little Hide button that pops up. You can hide specific applications or entire people, and at the bottom of the news feed there is a thing to look at whoever you have hidden. I abuse this feature.
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #62 on: April 28, 2009, 11:35:11 AM »

"(So-and-so) is a fan of (snack item or actor)."
"(So-and-so) is a fan of NOT BEING ON FIRE."
"(So-and-so) is a fan of Being Alive."
"(So-and-so) is a fan of Not Liking Stupid Groups!."
"(So-and-so) is a fan of Being a Fan!."

Yes you can have all these and more... IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT!
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #63 on: April 28, 2009, 11:58:30 AM »

FACEBOOK IS SRS BUSINESS
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #64 on: April 28, 2009, 12:02:04 PM »

That worked. Hooray!  ::D:
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #65 on: April 28, 2009, 12:12:49 PM »

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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #66 on: April 28, 2009, 12:18:05 PM »

I guess if you use a script you don't have to click a button.
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #67 on: April 28, 2009, 12:27:37 PM »

Eight years ago when I first got into content management systems, my computing teacher suggested I make a website for people to get in touch with old friends from school and college. I didn't see the point. Now, younger social networks sell for millions.
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #68 on: April 28, 2009, 12:32:16 PM »

Back in mid-'04, Arc Buster was screwing around with adapting all videos into streaming flash.

If I had simply bothered with a (then limited) user submission system...

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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #69 on: April 28, 2009, 12:38:17 PM »

S'okay though.

My new Get - Rich - Scheme is far more lucrative.

A free MMO where the users fight advertisements.

:>_>: PM if you want in on the ground floor.
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #70 on: April 28, 2009, 12:39:30 PM »

Yeah,

I've had the Twitter account "bangdidwhat" for sometime on the pressure of a friend.  Didn't do much with it.  

However, I understand its potential.  It's actually scary in that it might be the closest thing to telepathy we may have.
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #71 on: April 28, 2009, 12:44:43 PM »

It's actually scary in that it might be the closest thing to telepathy we may have.

This is terribly depressing from either way of looking at it.
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #72 on: April 28, 2009, 12:48:58 PM »

Come to think of it, we'll probably have better means of telepathy down the road.

I don't think of this as depressing.  If we could do something like this on the battlefield through text messages through either a voice to text interpreter, or the universe-forbid mind-to-text, there would be an enormous potential of getting rid of the command and control lag that is brought by orders and messages passed through signal operators.  Come to think of it, it would make war much closer to a Real-Time Strategy game from the commander's perspective. 

Also, I have this 20-year old uzbekistani friend who uses the thing with his group.  I watch what he does from it from time to time and it shocks me how if used right, this could be an effective management tool in the civilian world as well.
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #73 on: April 28, 2009, 12:50:29 PM »

S'okay though.

My new Get - Rich - Scheme is far more lucrative.

A free MMO where the users fight advertisements.

:>_>: PM if you want in on the ground floor.

ADBUSTERS ONLINE
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #74 on: April 28, 2009, 01:00:48 PM »

Come to think of it, we'll probably have better means of telepathy down the road.

I don't think of this as depressing.  If we could do something like this on the battlefield through text messages through either a voice to text interpreter, or the universe-forbid mind-to-text, there would be an enormous potential of getting rid of the command and control lag that is brought by orders and messages passed through signal operators.  Come to think of it, it would make war much closer to a Real-Time Strategy game from the commander's perspective. 

Also, I have this 20-year old uzbekistani friend who uses the thing with his group.  I watch what he does from it from time to time and it shocks me how if used right, this could be an effective management tool in the civilian world as well.

I don't think there's so much of an issue with it in military applications as you point out.

The positive and the negative are both the same thing: It's not true telepathy, it doesn't read minds. I suppose that a negative for the military commanders but a positive elsewhere.

See, when I say 'both ways' above, I mean the joke way, where the torrent of garbage on Twitter is actually fully representative of the average thought process, and the more serious way where we acknowledge the fact that Twitter is not actualy telepathy: Even in sentence fragments shotgunned by narcississtic ADD-ers, we still seek to create an image of ourselves.

That image may or may not be grounded in reality and the intention may be subtle or it may be obvious, it may be unintentional or designed, but it's not the real thought process of the poster, merely what they have chosen to type.

On the battlefield, I don't know that this would do any more than existing two-radio communications or that it would be any quicker (why bother with text-to-voice, unless perhaps you're trying to be stealthy?).
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #75 on: April 28, 2009, 01:32:13 PM »

sup command

What is your position and status? Over.

lol jus kiled liek 5 gooks

Do you require air support? Over.

oh shi gooks afk a sec

Report! Report! Can you see this message! What is your status!? Over.

lol pwned them hahaha l2p korea

Do you require assistance? We have air support waiting to go, what is your position and status? Over.

hahaha i am humpin their bodys lol this other gook is pissed lol

... What? Over.

WTF HAX FUCKIN NERF SNIPERS THIS FUCKIN SNIEPR SHOT ME FROM LIEK A MILE AWAY AND I WAS BEHIEND A WAL FUKIN HAX whats the respawn on tihs server neway

Are you the only survivor of your unit? Over.

nah XxPwnJoosxX is still kilin gooks lol btw im ned a res in a sec afk
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #76 on: April 28, 2009, 01:35:02 PM »

I have a deviantart account, but I just use it to get past content filters.

I also have a facebook account, but the only thing I've put on there is a statement that the next time I sign into facebook will be so I can delete my account.

That way my friends and family get their chicken-wire monkey and I get to avoid being asked when I'm going to start a facebook account.
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #77 on: April 28, 2009, 01:38:51 PM »

We lost contact with Boneplate Team.  Their last transmission was "fethers".
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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #78 on: April 28, 2009, 09:32:34 PM »

I honestly think I should get a Twitter.  I spend so much time here dumping one-liners on people that I may as well go get a public wastebucket to throw them into.

But then we wouldn't be forced to read them...



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Re: Social Networking
« Reply #79 on: April 28, 2009, 09:38:44 PM »

I hate it when people force me to read things.
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