Social reading?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Belfaborac

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The world is going to the dogs, there's no getting around it.

I suggest a re-reading of Clifford D. Simak's - City.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Serpentine

!zomg alert!
Serpentine has just read page 356 of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and left a comment : <snip>

Well, that's about the only reason I could think of for such ~social~ services :/

Originally Posted by kennyc

Originally Posted by ScalyFreak

I know it's hard to believe, but there are actually people out there who haven't read that far in the books and don't know this yet. Spoiler tag is the polite way of posting things like this.

ScalyFreak makes a good point. MobileRead has no official policy against ruining plot twists for folks who haven't yet read the books, but the way ScalyFreak edited that post in the quote reflects consideration for folks who are fans of those books.

Serpentine and Kenny, I ask this as a fellow member of MobileRead, would you please consider editing your posts? Thanks.

[Indio777]

Originally Posted by Belfaborac

This why I've almost stopped going to the cinema. These days there's always half a dozen people in who simply can't shut up, except when they fill their gobs with the noisiest snacks available. Usually they sit in a cluster right behind me. In the old days they'd have been shushed once, told off directly once and then thrown out on their arse by the attendants, but these days no-one gives a toss.

The world is going to the dogs, there's no getting around it.

Let's not forget the people who text, talk on their phones or check for updates on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

[DiapDealer]

Let's not forget the people who text, talk on their phones or check for updates on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Not just talk... but TALK IN THEIR OUTDOOR VOICES LIKE NOBODY ELSE IS EVEN IN THE SAME ROOM. "LOOK AT ME!! I'M TAKING A CALL... IN A RESTAURANT!!"

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Belfaborac

The world is going to the dogs, there's no getting around it.

Cats... I've been playing a game (Deus Ex! the most awesome game ever made!) and while dogs are the loud ones, the world will go to the cats. They're the Illuminati's successors...

Oh shoot, now I shared something with you all! But it's not about reading, but gaming. Does that count? (I'm reading a book, based on the Deus Ex universe, though...)

[garrybuck]

Originally Posted by mr ploppy

We need an antisocial network where people can ignore each other.

We already have that. It's called "books".

[morantis]

Just letting you know that when your first post is filled with links to your website, that it comes across very advertisingal.

[Marbles]

I like some parts of the social media. I do not want stuff popping up while I am reading but I do enjoy reading what others think of a book and to put my 2 cents in about a book I have read.

[Serpentine]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Would you please consider editing your posts? Thanks.

Done - I will chalk that up to a social reading experiment. What has science done!

Or, was it a social comment? was it peer pressure commenting? Oh this is a Pandora's Box of socially inept reading.

[Freeshadow]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Not just talk... but TALK IN THEIR OUTDOOR VOICES LIKE NOBODY ELSE IS EVEN IN THE SAME ROOM. "LOOK AT ME!! I'M TAKING A CALL... IN A RESTAURANT!!"

Preferably discussing either their very private relationship troubles or their last medical examination in vivid details.

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by Matthew Bostock

Hey there.
First post, woop! Happy to be a member of the community here

So I work for a tech company in Berlin called [deleted]. You can find us here: [deleted]. We're focussing on making reading social and shareable. What's your opinion on such a thing?

Andrew Keen recently said that 'social reading' signifies the end of the world, as we can't enjoy the solidarity that comes with it anymore. However, I view it as a fresh take on reading.

For more context on how 'social' is incorporated, take a look at [deleted].
Thoughts?

No, no, and again no.

We aren't a hive. We're indivuals, and need to stay as such.

To me, (and remember its just my opinion) there is already too much 'social interaction' going on. Facebook, Blogs, chat rooms, constant updates on news channels, the latest who did what to who and when they are expecting, in detail on celebrities........

I no longer watch mainstream TV, and just go to a few few sites online.

The very last thing I want to do is share my reading.

Perhaps that makes me on the antisocial side.

So be it.

And by the way.................

Welcome to MobileRead.

[QuantumIguana]

We aren't a hive, but we aren't alligators either. The complete hermit is a true rarity. Reading has always had a social element, to some extent or another. If it didn't, this website and others like it wouldn't exist. But when it gets down to the actual task of reading, that's solitary. People will often be eager to discuss the book, but I don't think reading itself is likely to change.

I use Facebook, but I use to keep connected with actual friends - people I actually know - rather than with so-called Facebook friends. Social networking often isn't very social at all. Being in the same room, sitting at the same table, that's social. Having on-line friends that you've never met and never will, not as much.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Serpentine

Done - I will chalk that up to a social reading experiment. What has science done!

Or, was it a social comment? was it peer pressure commenting? Oh this is a Pandora's Box of socially inept reading.

Thank you!

[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by BWinmill

MR is a bit of a paradox: a bunch of people socializing to figure out how to make the world a more antisocial place ... at least judging from this thread.

I don't have that impression from the thread. For example I'm happy to discuss the books that I've read but not the books that I'm in the process of reading.

[Freeshadow]

MR is social but serious about it.
Show me another forum cultivating threads like the "heard about" or the "candle". What most people here reject is the web 2.0 typical attention grabbing snippet typing.