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Is social networking taking the randomness out of life?
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They will still get drunk and there will be plenty randomness.
I don't think all the randomness will disappear, but it is definitely a lot easier to control certain aspects of life than it ever was. I remember trying to avoid certain people on campus in college by guessing where they might be. Now you could probably check foursquare. I remember meeting up with people but not having a way to let them know if you couldn't make it. I remember not knowing who I would eat dinner with in the dining hall until I showed up. Cell phones have definitely changed all of that.
Sarah Pi wrote: "foursquare"I'd never heard of foursquare before and now this is the secomd time I saw it referenced today.
Michael wrote: "Sarah Pi wrote: "foursquare"I'd never heard of foursquare before and now this is the secomd time I saw it referenced today."
Welcome to 2010 I suppose.
Hark look back at random. Wait ... students get drunk?
News to me too, Larry. Scandalous stuff.
I still don't know what foursquare is. Apparently, I'm surviving without it.Sometimes I get sad at how much the future generations will miss out on the simple things in life, like playing outdoors more and making forts and what-not instead of being constantly plugged in.
Then again, another 20, 30 years from now, we're probably all going to forget about life before technology, so eventually it will just become the norm and nobody will feel like they're missing out.
We'll all eventually do most everything by using social networking.
There's hope yet. Kids still play sports, even if they're texting from the sidelines.
So sad! My big pet peeve is people who can't put their phones down when they're supposed to be socializing with the people they're with! I don't like my family using their phones during family time, like going out to dinner. My husband tries not to get on his because he knows it bugs me.
That is irritating. With younger people, my niece and nephew for instance, it doesn't bother me as much, because teenagers just have different standards for what's acceptable behavior, and who am I to judge. But when people my own age constantly check the cell phone during dinner--my brother is a pretty serious offender--I roll my eyes.
My pet peeve is when people roll their eyes as I check my cell phone.
How do feel about people who roll their eyes when you post about people rolling their eyes at you checking your cell phone?
Oh I just let that go -- like water rolling off a duck's back.
I'm not anti-phone. They're a great tool. But some people don't know how to function without checking their phone every few minutes, and that part is what's sad to me.I'm an internet junkie, and don't know how to use a phone book anymore, haha. My mom always says she'll make a call to ask the restaurant for directions, and I keep trying to tell her that I can look it up on the net and she gives me one of those "you kids" looks.
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Rooming with a friend is often worse than with a stranger. One of my best friends in college decided to room with her best friend from high school. They are no longer friends.
My roommate was a drug-using, clothes-stealing, lying, cheating, brat. She probably would have looked appealing and fun on Facebook because I'm sure she wouldn't have disclosed any of that.*I only spoke with her ONE TIME after the year we lived together.
*Also, she was 18, like me. I'm sure she's a lovely woman these days.
Also, I have very little perspective to offer on the whole roommate thing. I was a commuting student, so I never had to deal with all of the campus living stuff. Although I do have roommates now, but adult roommates are horse of a different color, generally.
Actually, I have a roommate obsessed with horses. Next best thing.
She's a competitive rider. And she collects horse figurines.
Ah. So you have a husband and a roommate?
Stacia ~ SAMCRO girl wrote: "My big pet peeve is people who can't put their phones down when they're supposed to be socializing with the people they're with!"I took my family to L.A. for a baseball game. While there, we met up with my sister, then had dinner with my dad, stepmother & stepsister (and a couple of other people).
During dinner, my stepsister was texting a friend she had spotted on the other side of the restaurant. She had nothing to say to her nephew (sitting next to her) or to me or my wife.
We won't be hurrying back for another visit.
Larry wrote: "Ah. So you have a husband and a roommate?"A husband and TWO roommates. Oh, and two cats and two dogs. It's a very full house.
Minus the small children and the heartwarming family values.
I'm not sure. Our house is so full of stuff he could be lurking in our spare room, behind all of the boxes.
Larry wrote: "And without John Stamos, I'm guessing."Well then, what's the point?
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