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Being a social being you would assume one would prefer the intimate one to one physical, stimulation presence of another human: to talk to and to be with instead of a computer screen. So I have started this Thread in a hypocritical fashion for us to have a so******ed debate as humans around the point of:
Do some humans prefer to talk to a friend/partner face-to-face or FaceBook/Skype/whatever-FaceBook/Skype/whateve?
Please discuss.
people here use skype and stuffs because either
a. people are too far away to see each other in rl unless they make a trip out of it
b. people dont want to meet the other in rl (skirata)
now as far as rl goes, its sometimes better to send certain things over a computer screen and people feel more secure.
im just guessing thats why. and also you cant use awesomesauce emoticons in a real life convo ;)
kbai
THIS is the closest I have to facebook or any of that other crap; I don't even know what Skype actually is.
Hmm...it has to do with the distance, and the trust, like crip pointed out. Personally, I like the upfront interaction more, but considering the economy and everything, there's just no way that I'd ever be able to talk to everyone without Skype...or forums.
I have autism, and therefore don't do much social interaction, tbh I have more friends here than in RL....
So.....
Nope, not at all.Quote:
Being a social being you would assume one would prefer the intimate one to one physical, stimulation presence of another human: to talk to and to be with instead of a computer screen
I have 0 friend in facebook and myspace
i dont have a myspace, facebook or skype
but i hate alot of my friends in rl so i come here
i dont hate them they jus **** me off
I lold a little....Quote:
Originally Posted by criplockin
How can we debate if something has taken away humanity if we don't already have humanity defined?
I have no friends in what you call real life, nor any friends here in cyberspace. Some think they are my friends here in cyberspace, but truth be told they could die and no tear would I shed.
The advantage of cyberspace is that none of us here are real, merely abstract personaes. One can choose what personality one wishes, one can change one's identity at will, in fact none of you have any way of knowing if a single profile is really controlled by a single person. First impressions are irrelevant and consequences are non-existent. Reactions are all planned in advance.
So in essence nobody on cyberspace is real. And the deal clincher is the fact your brain doesn't know that so it rewards positive interaction the same as it would out there making cyberspace a low risk high reward social atmosphere.
What does that mean in regards to our humanity? It doesn't mean anything except perhaps less ability in actual offline conversations and lower social drives.
I think it will actually be advantageous, we will adapt to be less social, which means more independence and independence is always better then dependency in my book.
wow real life what is that lol . in real life peeps lie cheet steal and kill, what more do you want then evony lol we can do it all here and sleep lol, and if we want we can do it all the time just like ( snott ) has done all the time :D:D:cheer::cheer::cheer::rofl::flame:
Cyberspace in general hasn't really taken away our 'humanity' (at least for most people) but it has certainly taken away our ability to use correct spelling and grammar.
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While amusing at first, this picture is actually completely correct when you think about it.
I know this may hurt but its probably true. Most people come here because they don't have many friends IRL and wanted to make some here. thats why I came here and thats also the reason I'm a very sporadic poster these days. You see its the best when you go out into town with a couple of mates, boys and girls, and have a real laugh. I got my bloody facepainted rambo style by the army and it was only fun because my friends were there. Facebook could take over but trust me, RL is much better.
WHat? I cant understand woody's scot accent even on the forums...
P.S. WHat ever you do never accept a call from woody on skype!
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Originally Posted by Asmo
Here shut it you all love me to bits, apart from Ghost, he couldn't hear me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Asmo
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^^^^^^^That is true >,> couldnt hear a single word.Quote:
Originally Posted by woody513
Well concerning Real Life, I have plenty of friends I hang out with on the weekends during school year, I do several sports a year and involved in Boys Scouts. So, even though I have facebook and Skype, Humanity is still left in me... somewhat :devil:
I do all the socializing I need to do during French class in RL.
On a serious note.
I believe that partially, it is, but it's only that we're surrounded by people like that around here.. In real life, only 70% of my friends have Facebook, and only 10% of them spend more than an hour on it a day.
Face to face because it is more realistic first of all.. and you can smell the other person's breath if they come to close.. or feel their spit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Professor X
Thank you, I never want to talk to another human being again. Well, less so then before at least.Quote:
Face to face because it is more realistic first of all.. and you can smell the other person's breath if they come to close.. or feel their spit.
i talk to ppl via webcam
Sometimes I lurk on people's web cam streams until they put their shoe on their head.
I believe humanity needs face to face contact with other people, so you need to spend more time in RL, and not playing around on the net. Have you ever noticed that the evil villians in almost every story have been cut off from society for one reason or another. This even happens in RL.
However I it is socalizing, and definds us in RL. I have noticed that I have become more spontaneous in what I say to people since I started talking on the forums.
I wish I knew people who had similar interests to me in real life...
But I don't. So that's what internetz is for.
If so, then I have been living a lie.
Dude I also like swords! I like the sharp and pointy ones. Was going to put the winking smiley here then I realized how weird that would have been.Quote:
Originally Posted by Holeypaladin
That's awesome! You like swords too!
But I don't know you in real life... which proved my point...
I see what you did there.Quote:
Originally Posted by rasterbee
I'd like to point out her example is fictional characters. SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHQuote:
Originally Posted by Kaminarii
I would like to say Hilter Is one I would put in that category, who knows what would have happened if he had been accepted into the art school he wanted to go into. He got cut off of a society he wanted to be part of, he joined the military soon after that. He used his place in WWII, to steal many pieces of art work across Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skirata
The military lacks human contact?
There's human contact in the military. Unfortunately, a lot of it involves sharp, pointy things or things that go bang/boom/splat. It isn't the most pleasant human contact.
In fact, many soldiers, tiring of human contact, retreat from their comrades-in-arms and go log into skype or facebook. :)
Nearly all the old war veterans say that they were closer to their comrades in arms then any friend they have made before or hence, many said they were closer to them then they were with their wives emotionally.
Need creates friendships more then anything.
Nothing brings people together more than blood and sweat. You can't not be close to someone when you've been through war together. Even people who have nothing in common will latch together in situations like the military because they have both been through the same experiences.
I prefer Face to Face. But if you cant see eachother, skype.
And yea skype facebook and more like that stuff are taking ''What it Means to Be Human'' away
Like our DNA?Quote:
And yea skype facebook and more like that stuff are taking ''What it Means to Be Human'' away