Comments on: Full Circle http://www.morlok.net/ryan/2007/12/22/full-circle/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:58:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: shoe http://www.morlok.net/ryan/2007/12/22/full-circle/#comment-11672 shoe Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:18:18 +0000 http://www.morlok.net/ryan/2007/12/22/full-circle/#comment-11672 I never needed validation. I've always said it sucked. You're just now realizing why. You used to argue on its behalf because of what it COULD support - but what you've talked about in this post is exactly why it DOES suck - and anything like it always will. You can attempt to replace real people with cool technology but it will still be the same lame variation on crap to people like me. As for news sites, etc - that maybe is just a personal complete lack of interest. I have no desire to open my browser or RSS reader and read through articles all day long. If there is more attention needed than like once or twice a week - I'm really not interested. And even then, Shanley's hockey and quotes posts and your posts will always grab my interest more than 10 million slashdot articles - because I have a personal connection to them I suppose. I never needed validation. I’ve always said it sucked. You’re just now realizing why. You used to argue on its behalf because of what it COULD support - but what you’ve talked about in this post is exactly why it DOES suck - and anything like it always will. You can attempt to replace real people with cool technology but it will still be the same lame variation on crap to people like me. As for news sites, etc - that maybe is just a personal complete lack of interest. I have no desire to open my browser or RSS reader and read through articles all day long. If there is more attention needed than like once or twice a week - I’m really not interested. And even then, Shanley’s hockey and quotes posts and your posts will always grab my interest more than 10 million slashdot articles - because I have a personal connection to them I suppose.

]]> By: Dusty http://www.morlok.net/ryan/2007/12/22/full-circle/#comment-11670 Dusty Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:03:19 +0000 http://www.morlok.net/ryan/2007/12/22/full-circle/#comment-11670 Here, here. I never left slashdot, but I all but abandoned facebook about a year ago. Once they threw open the doors, the amount of crap coming through there exploded. I don't want to be a pirate or a ninja. I don't need a bible verse per day. I think Texas Hold'em poker is best played in person, not via a social networking site. Finally, I value my right to control who knows what about my life, and having it, pics included, displayed to the world seems a bit...odd. (Not to mention the recent Beacon fiasco). At this point, it's only a "I wonder if X is still alive" or "what was that email address" (though as a professor, it was a nice tool to see if people were lying about what'd they done that last weekend). Anyway, back to waiting for a site that fulfills my social networking needs, but doesn't require me to disable my brain to use. Here, here. I never left slashdot, but I all but abandoned facebook about a year ago. Once they threw open the doors, the amount of crap coming through there exploded. I don’t want to be a pirate or a ninja. I don’t need a bible verse per day. I think Texas Hold’em poker is best played in person, not via a social networking site. Finally, I value my right to control who knows what about my life, and having it, pics included, displayed to the world seems a bit…odd. (Not to mention the recent Beacon fiasco). At this point, it’s only a “I wonder if X is still alive” or “what was that email address” (though as a professor, it was a nice tool to see if people were lying about what’d they done that last weekend).

Anyway, back to waiting for a site that fulfills my social networking needs, but doesn’t require me to disable my brain to use.

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