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#4417951 - 04/26/18 04:26 PM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
[Re: Dart]
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I hear ya Ice!
Not to mention people who post to everyone but when you reply, you get the feeling it was an "inside" post meant for just a select few people.
They need to let people form groups so they can post exclusively. Family things to family, work things with co-workers, friends for those posts etc, unseen by others.
My policy now is that I don't "like" anything. Either it's worth text or it isn't.
I have only family and long term friends on my list, but even with those people you often get TMI.
There's also a generational difference. Younger people post FAR more, but refuse to acknowledge comments, older people converse.
I can't IMAGINE posting pictures of my kids while they were babies and every detail of life online. It just isn't safe.
We had the internet when my kids were born, but the SOP was that you didn't put info online much less pictures.
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#4417952 - 04/26/18 04:29 PM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
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My pet hate: Friend 1: My life sucks!! Had the worst day ever! Friend 2: Sorry to hear that! What happened? Friend 1: It's too personal to post, sorry. Friend 3: OMG! So sorry for you! You OK? Friend 1: I'll tell you all about it on DM (direct message, like PMs)  If I was Friend 2, I'd un-friend Friend 1 straight away after a conversation like that. I've also un-followed quite a few people because their life is so perfect!!! --- on Facebook. I know for a fact that they're struggling in real life. One is a couple that is contemplating divorce, but you'll never know it if you looked at their Facebook posts. I am absolutely vicious to people who post even more vague stuff than that, as if we're supposed to know what they mean. Them: "I just can't believe it!" Me: "I know, right? How can the super big Moon Pie be sort of yucky, but the regular ones are perfect and the mini ones nearly as awesome? I guess one CAN have too much of a good thing!" Them: "Enough." Me: "Exactly. It's coming out over the top and spilling down the sides. Stop pouring!"
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#4417957 - 04/26/18 04:54 PM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
[Re: Raw Kryptonite]
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I can't IMAGINE posting pictures of my kids while they were babies and every detail of life online. It just isn't safe.
We had the internet when my kids were born, but the SOP was that you didn't put info online much less pictures.
I've noticed among family and friends, that having children can drastically change a person (and most would agree for the better). I know people, like myself, that weren't religious at all...until they had kids. They also became more introverted and private. I'm sure if I had kids I wouldn't post some of the stuff I do (it would be kind of creepy). It's the life I've chosen with my circumstances and I make the most of it with no regrets, but I can acknowledge there's a level of maturity I'll likely never attain, sometimes forced upon a person when they become parents.
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in
Gives way and suddenly it’s day again
The sun is in the east
Even though the day is done
Two suns in the sunset, hmph
Could be the human race is run
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#4417968 - 04/26/18 05:36 PM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
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I've actually been posting more on FB than SimHQ for the past couple of months. That's something I thought would never happen. Pretty hard to post much when you come back after 24 hours and there are less than twenty posts in the Active Threads list after the ones you made the day before. Wheels
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#4417983 - 04/26/18 06:37 PM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
[Re: Dart]
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My pet hate: Friend 1: My life sucks!! Had the worst day ever! Friend 2: Sorry to hear that! What happened? Friend 1: It's too personal to post, sorry. Friend 3: OMG! So sorry for you! You OK? Friend 1: I'll tell you all about it on DM (direct message, like PMs) If I was Friend 2, I'd un-friend Friend 1 straight away after a conversation like that. I've also un-followed quite a few people because their life is so perfect!!! --- on Facebook. I know for a fact that they're struggling in real life. One is a couple that is contemplating divorce, but you'll never know it if you looked at their Facebook posts. I am absolutely vicious to people who post even more vague stuff than that, as if we're supposed to know what they mean. Them: "I just can't believe it!" Me: "I know, right? How can the super big Moon Pie be sort of yucky, but the regular ones are perfect and the mini ones nearly as awesome? I guess one CAN have too much of a good thing!" Them: "Enough." Me: "Exactly. It's coming out over the top and spilling down the sides. Stop pouring!" LOL
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#4417988 - 04/26/18 07:30 PM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
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I just might take a page out of Dart's strategy book, but even if fun, I just can't make myself make the effort on Facebook. My FB page was just created so that I could "gift" some stuff to the wife's Farmville account. I didn't even have to do this myself; she'd log onto my FB account and do it!  Before that, I had a Friendster account, that one was made so I could wish her a "happy birthday" from my Friendster account for all to see, nevermind that I greeted her that very same day and given her flowers. Nope, the internet had to see that I've done it on Friendster as well. Women.
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#4418017 - 04/26/18 11:10 PM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
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Thread had me thinking... It's not that I want to go back to 2003, but I do miss all the activity on the many flight sim boards, especially when the classics were still popular. Going back even further, I miss the late-80's to early-90's when military aircraft were such a hot item (4th gen. still very modern and 5th gen. so futuristic). If SimHQ ever disappears (or updates their forum software to something that sucks), so will my online presence. It's just not in me to start again somewhere else, the idea has no appeal to me. I'll retire from the virtual universe and become an even more out-of-touch offline hermit. 
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in
Gives way and suddenly it’s day again
The sun is in the east
Even though the day is done
Two suns in the sunset, hmph
Could be the human race is run
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#4418041 - 04/27/18 02:56 AM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
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Online
Brad Paisley
I work down at the Pizza Pit
And I drive an old Hyundai
I still live with my mom and dad
I'm 5 foot 3 and overweight
I'm a scifi fanatic
A mild asthmatic
And I've never been to second base
But there's whole another me
That you need to see
Go checkout MySpace
'Cause online I'm out in Hollywood
I'm 6 foot 5 and I look damn good
I drive a Maserati
I'm a black-belt in karate
And I love a good glass of wine
It turns girls on that I'm mysterious
I tell them I don't want nothing serious
'Cause even on a slow day
I could have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
So much cooler online
When I get home I kiss my mom
And she fixes me a snack
And I head down to my basement bedroom
And fire up my mac
In real life the only time I've ever even been to L.A
Is when I got the chance with the marching band
To play tuba in the Rose Parade
Online I live in Malibu
I pose for Calvin Klein, I've been in GQ
I'm single and I'm rich
And I've got a set of six pack abs that would blow your mind
It turns girls on that I'm mysterious
I tell them I don't want nothing serious
'Cause even on a slow day
I could have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
Yeah, I'm cooler online
When you got my kind of stats
It's hard to get a date
Let alone a real girlfriend
But I grow another foot and I lose a bunch of weight
Every time I log in
Online
I'm out in Hollywood
I'm 6 foot 5 and I look damn good
Even on a slow day
I could have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
Yeah, I'm cooler online
I'm so much cooler online
Yeah, I'm cooler online
Yeah, I'm cooler online
Yeah, I'll see ya online The video of this song is cool, it's got William Shatner and Jason Alexander.
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#4418094 - 04/27/18 12:49 PM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
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The video of this song is cool, it's got William Shatner and Jason Alexander. They're also in his video for "Celebrity" (song about being obnoxious when you're famous, just because you can be). EDIT: For famous people in a Brad Paisley video, my favorite is "Waitin' On A Woman" with Andy Griffith (old man giving him marital advice).
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The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in
Gives way and suddenly it’s day again
The sun is in the east
Even though the day is done
Two suns in the sunset, hmph
Could be the human race is run
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#4418130 - 04/27/18 05:02 PM
Re: Facebook brings out the worst in me.
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I wonder what Jason Alexander is doing these days? I haven't seen him in anything in years. He has had a couple of attempts at series work in the last 5 years but most of his work has been one off guest spots. Wheels
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