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Pubs with music so loud you can't have a conversation. Why? Pubs are for sitting with friends and talking shit all night. And, of course, drinking delicious, bitter beer

Harry Potter. I simply don't get it - probably good for kids but it's hardly original stuff.

Fashion/clothes/shopping - How can people spend so much money on clothes? How can they enjoy spending time in shops browsing?

Prog Rock - musicians showing off, basically.

Stark wrote:

CaptainChewbacca wrote:I use facebook as an easy way to keep in touch wtih casual acquaintances and old school friends. Its not good for much else if you aren't in college.

So if you're in college it suddenly does more? Like what?

Helps you plan events and get people to come without having to phone- or email-spam everyone you know. You just invite people that you want to come, or that you think would like it. And if you want anyone at all to come and you're just trying to publicize it, you invite all your "friends" on campus. You may get a very low percentage of people coming, but you get more people at your event than you'd get otherwise.

The most useful thing Facebook's ever done for me was to help me find a team for a trivia competition. We actually ended up doing really well and I won some pretty cool prizes, like an iPod nano that I'm listening to right now.

I hate to repeat myself again, but THAT'S WHAT IT DOES FOR EVERYONE. It's not 'different' if you're in college. All the offices I've seen have dozens of people who do THAT VERY THING using Facebook. It's not college specific utility at all: it's as useful to you as the number of people you know who use it. Thus it's basically worthless to me, but to anyone with 100+ people it's great shit.

Yeah facebook, tried it, hated it. Especially that superwall shit where people put up annoying stupid crap or chain mail.

Diomedes wrote:Scarlett Johansson. A significant number of people seem to think she's spectacularly beautiful. I mean, she's not ugly - though she does remind me of a fish sometimes for some reason, but the fanaticism I see about her just doesnt seem warranted.

She's not Hollywoodified. She's a hot blonde with big lips and - real - big tits. Do the math.

Darth Wong wrote:

Mongoose wrote:I don't get facebook. Sure, you can talk to people you don't see a lot in real ife, but more often than not you end up talking to people you don't see a lot for a reason. And the conversations never really go beyond "hi wuts up?" and "lol nt much how r u?".

I've never tried facebook. There seems to be a fair bit of social pressure to join, though: my wife has received repeated requests from acquaintances to join their little "friend" communities on facebook, and she's starting to get the sense that these people are reluctant to communicate with her any other way.

Its a bunch of bullshit designed to surrogate for sincere social interactions and to fill the time of vapid shitheads (read: college sluts). The only thing its done for me is helped organize get-togethers (you select names, and can avoid calling each person, and there's no awkwardness if the person can't make it). Otherwise, its a big bunch of "OMG Caroline changed her profile pic! Now she's got so-and-so listed as an interest!"

If such people were really your friends, you wouldn't need to research them like recipies on Google.

His Divine Shadow wrote:Yeah facebook, tried it, hated it. Especially that superwall shit where people put up annoying stupid crap or chain mail.

You do realise you can just not add stuff?

I just use facebook to communicate with friends who are never online in other mediums and are hard to reach otherwise. It's also an easy method to share pictures of things.

Yeah but I didn't know what it was at first so I just accepted as I got "offered" these applications or whatever. I did the facebook thing for one week and now I haven't logged in in 3 weeks.

I have Myspace, but hardly ever blog. I usually keep the "friends" list to people I know, or interesting people in my area that are "backyard filmmakers"

I can't figure out why someone would need Myspace AND Facebook, though.

Staying at home on weekends. Honestly, i don´t get it. I have a couple of friends who will sit at home playing computer games or watching movies every fucking weekend. They never go out when it´s so much fun to go dancing, to concerts or just chill in a bar with friends and a couple of beers.

Facebook is great for me since I have moved away from town and don't really phone people, so it is a great way for me to keep 'in the loop' with what's going on back home.

What's the appeal with texting people on their phones? Is it really that difficult to simply talk to them on your phones, or is that crossing some kind of psychological threshold at which point things become more difficult?

ANSWER: Starcraft - The reason I still like playing SC is because I have a group of friends who like to play it (so we can get good games going), and because it's a very well balanced game. Obviously, it's a bit dated.

Guardsman Bass wrote:What's the appeal with texting people on their phones? Is it really that difficult to simply talk to them on your phones, or is that crossing some kind of psychological threshold at which point things become more difficult?

It's cheaper?

Guardsman Bass wrote:What's the appeal with texting people on their phones? Is it really that difficult to simply talk to them on your phones, or is that crossing some kind of psychological threshold at which point things become more difficult?

Nerd answer: it's asynchronous.

Texting is email for those without Blackberries. It allows you to communicate with another person at their leisure -- just because they have their cell phone on doesn't mean they're always ready to converse. This means effective co-ordination throughout a busy workday, or to leave a message that's a lot faster to digest than voice mail etc.

salm wrote:Staying at home on weekends. Honestly, i don´t get it. I have a couple of friends who will sit at home playing computer games or watching movies every fucking weekend. They never go out when it´s so much fun to go dancing, to concerts or just chill in a bar with friends and a couple of beers.

Answer: People's tastes are different. My tastes often fluctuate, so I've seen it on both ends. Some days the social-bug bites and I need to see people and do things with them. Other days, I've had just about as much interpersonal contact as I can stand, and need a day or two of alone-time to mentally re-center myself.

Lord Poe wrote:I can't figure out why someone would need Myspace AND Facebook, though.

Simple answer (in my case): Some people have one, some people have the other. When you're trying to arrange get-togethers involving people over a hundred-mile radius, and phoning isn't always the best option, these sites can be a godsend for getting addresses and times out to *everyone*. And, as some are on one site, and some are on the other, and because the sites are *free*, I just use both to quickly copypaste the get-together information.

Lord Poe wrote:I have Myspace, but hardly ever blog. I usually keep the "friends" list to people I know, or interesting people in my area that are "backyard filmmakers"

I can't figure out why someone would need Myspace AND Facebook, though.

Everyone at uni uses facebook, myspack I juse used first and some of my friends use that. I don't use it unless I get some sort of notification that someone wants me, though. Well, to be fair, I do use myspack to host music and share that with people.

Guardsman Bass wrote:What's the appeal with texting people on their phones? Is it really that difficult to simply talk to them on your phones, or is that crossing some kind of psychological threshold at which point things become more difficult?

There must be some reason why Americans in general do not use Text messaging. I guess this must be one of the many.

And yes, as others have said, not every damn fool is free enough to take a phone call, and answering machines are simply useless in many ways since the recorder on the other side is more often than not, does not take good voice messages and instead turns everything into gibberish.

Any number of factors can cause a live call or voice-mail to be garbled in transmission. Meanwhile only piss-poor grammar can do that to text-messages. With people you care about, live voices are often better, sure. But for exchanging numbers, emails, addresses, directions or other information where clarity is the key, text-messaging is far superior.

That and, as has been pointed out, it's far more discreet in situations where talking on the phone is a bad idea, and is generally far cheaper.

Texting is also useful because you end up with a written record of conversation, so when you're exchanging information, you can pull it up later when you need it. Often I'll get someone to text me an address or a meeting time/place after they hang up so I can read it at my liesure.

Also, sometimes people are in class, so if you start phoning them, they either won't pick up because their phone is on silent/vibrate, or their phone will start playing Beethoven in the middle of class. With a text it's a quick beep, they can read it discreetly, and then respond if they need to.

One way conversations!

Lord Poe wrote:I can't figure out why someone would need Myspace AND Facebook, though.

The same reason you would need aim, yahoo messenger, msn messenger, jabber etc....

As for texting, sometimes it's cheaper, i get free texting but not free longdistance.

What is this fascination with robots replacing humans in combat???

Didn't anyone get the memo on the IrAF MiG-25 vs Predator, where the MiG-25 saw the Predator first as the pilot had his eyes, a radar, and a better decision making process. The Predator had a fuzzy camera and only saw a silvery blob far too late to do anything to save itself. End result Predator was shot down and the MiG-25 lived to fight another day.

Then there is the failure of Predator to actually identify the right targets. 9/10 times information from Predator drones were incorrect and resulted in the U.S. bombing the wrong targets and thus increasing the number of Insurgents. Real Humans could have got in closer, identify the correct target, then carry out the assassination or bombing, etc cheaper and more effectively.

Am I missing something here? What real advantage does Predator give or have over humans with greater thinking capabilities and the ability to be creative in problem solving?

Wanderer wrote: Am I missing something here? What real advantage does Predator give or have over humans with greater thinking capabilities and the ability to be creative in problem solving?

They don't have families that will bother the government when they die in combat. Wars could probably be sustained for a much longer time if they were just costly in terms of money rather then life.

Mr. T wrote:

Wanderer wrote: Am I missing something here? What real advantage does Predator give or have over humans with greater thinking capabilities and the ability to be creative in problem solving?

They don't have families that will bother the government when they die in combat. Wars could probably be sustained for a much longer time if they were just costly in terms of money rather then life.

To what real effect if any?

Daytime soap operas. Why? Why do people watch this shit??!

muse wrote:Daytime soap operas. Why? Why do people watch this shit??!

I'll second that brother.