If this doesn't get countered, we're all doomed.(en.wikipedia.org)
en.wikipedia.org
If this doesn't get countered, we're all doomed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_talk_(phatic_communication)
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You seem to think that small talk is harmful. Why?
Sure ... some will be quick to say it's optional ... but is it really when everyone from VCs to job-seekers feel obsessively-compulsively compelled to keep every-single-freakin' petty detail of every moment of every day "up-to-date", lest they be seen as "inactive" and therefore, to the superficial-yet-blessed-with-power types that seem to rule the lives of those of us who haven't as yet achieved total financial freedom, "irrelevant?"
I don't know ... I think some public display is necessary to highlight the dangers of this trend, if allowed to continue.
Can something like fb/twitter be hacked in the original sense of the word and played around with for a day, say, parodied?
Can the world log on to facebook for a day and see, say, a picture of a people doing something at a park with a message like, "Stop updating everybody and go out and do something with them before your lives pass you by!"?
I know meetup and stuff exist ... but I feel like the dark side of the mindless internet brain is sucking us all in and reducing us to simple binary micro processors of the "I liked the latest whatever/I didn't like it." type.
Thanks for listening to my rant.