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Originally Posted by Vandy
Y'know what I find interesting? There are a number of people who've posted they are pretty much opposed to Facebook and the whole "social networking" scene.
Yet, isn't chatting / writing to a bunch of people that most only know by screen-name and writing style still a form of "social networking"?
Hmmm...
Regards,
Vandy  |
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
No........I don't see the comparison at all between here and facebook.
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They're both social networking. FB just requires less of its users; MR has higher standards AND BEFORE ANYONE LAUGHS...
...seriously, follow me on this one...
A bunch of stupid people can find another bunch of stupid people on FB and they can all commiserate on how stupid they are and pretend they understand politics and play Farmville or whatever primes their pump, and it all requires just enough brain cells to line up in a row. If you try that here at MR, you'll find yourself in a group of one in short order. I'd love to see how many aborted MR memberships there are with only 3 or 4 posts and 10 karma because it was decided--by either the new member or those with whom he/she interacted--that MR wasn't for them. Might have been politics, religion, a dislike of ABBA, whatever...On FB they would have just blocked the user and been on their merry way. Here, either you're in or you're out. We have rules, and you're expected to follow them. FB is the streets, this is a club.
HOWEVER, it's still all social networking. I come to MR just as often as I go to FB; one is for family and the other is for friends, but it's all social, and it's all networking beacuse in both cases we're scattered all over the planet. We've come a long way from the BBSes in the '90s, and you can often find entire conversations going on over several days in some threads here. The only e-books I have are technical manuals and how-to's for IT, but I'm still as much a part of this whole MR experience as anyone else, aren't I? We know each other--from a distance, but still--and we're familiar with everyone's quirks, idiosyncrasies, changes in hair color, musical tastes...
At what point is that
not social networking?