[aklug] Re: ACS Google Gateway

I see no great epiphany that non-social people find social media worthless.
I hear this from a great number of associates, many whom are
engireering/geek minded people - that are non-social almost by definition.
Case in point, how many lurkers are part of this message group that rarely
post, and never show up for the meetings.

-Ben

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Arthur Corliss
<acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org>wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Jeremy Austin wrote:
>
> One could argue that what Facebook facilitates is the community of the
>> individual. That is, a personalized community, if such a thing is not too
>> much a contradiction in terms. This would hold true only for those who
>> have
>> an active friend limit < Dunbar number. In practice, Facebook's design
>> makes differentiating between types of relationships difficult ? something
>> Google+ has attempted to fix.
>>
>
> I'd offer that facebook is the exact opposite of a real communities,
> particularly because it's shallow and requires virtually no effort. No
> effort == no investment == insubstantial & ephemeral.
>
> And that's the problem with social media in general: they're so much about
> the individual, i.e., *you*, that it does little more than enforce a
> feedback mechanism that spirals into latent narcissism.
>
> I see nothing of value in social media, whatsoever. If you're going to be
> antisocial at least be honest and upfront about it, like the rest of us
> ogres. ;-)
>
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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