[Gem Windcaster]

Aptorian, on 22 June 2019 - 07:11 PM, said:

Like this whole forum, this thread is an artifact, from the time before social media was a proper thing. Used to be there weren't any places to share pictures, videos, books, daily life outside forums.

I like our little watering hole that survives away from Web 2.0

Yes, I was just pondering that fact. It's kinda cute ngl. But not cute enough for me to bother with pics here. Edit: but I love the fact that this actually exists.

This post has been edited by Gem Windcaster: 22 June 2019 - 08:00 PM

[Blend]

I honestly just don't use Instagram. Durned kids.

[Macros]

I like the fact that this is separate from the world of social media.
Cause social media is shit

[Gem Windcaster]

Macros, on 23 June 2019 - 01:43 AM, said:

I like the fact that this is separate from the world of social media.
Cause social media is shit

I can understand that, it can be so weird at times, and people behave really strangely. I think for some people it's not good at all, while for me for example it's a good thing because I have a natural aversion against a lot of it. If that makes sense?

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[Macros]

It's a useful tool to keep in touch.
But it encourages narcissism in a Hella bad way and is proven to be hugely addictive, especially in kids/teen-agers. Which leads to a whole raft of insecurities and other mental well being issues.

[Gem Windcaster]

Macros, on 23 June 2019 - 09:00 AM, said:

It's a useful tool to keep in touch.
But it encourages narcissism in a Hella bad way and is proven to be hugely addictive, especially in kids/teen-agers. Which leads to a whole raft of insecurities and other mental well being issues.

Yes, kids definitely needs help dealing with it, but I think that's true for most of the internet though. And a lot of adults seem to have problems with most of the internet aswell. Self awareness and self management is a beautiful thing.

[Mentalist]

Frankly, social media is too much work.

I went through a phase of "Facebbok addiction" back when it originally took off ( in 1st year uni we got those accounts we had to link to our uni emails. This was before I everyone was allowed onto FB, back when it was still a new and exciting tech), and I lost interest in social media just before the twittergrams took off.

That, and I've never been a photo person, I don't care if other people want to take pics/tag me in photos, but I can rarely be bothered to do that myself.

[Gem Windcaster]

Mentalist, on 28 June 2019 - 09:52 PM, said:

Frankly, social media is too much work.

I went through a phase of "Facebbok addiction" back when it originally took off ( in 1st year uni we got those accounts we had to link to our uni emails. This was before I everyone was allowed onto FB, back when it was still a new and exciting tech), and I lost interest in social media just before the twittergrams took off.

That, and I've never been a photo person, I don't care if other people want to take pics/tag me in photos, but I can rarely be bothered to do that myself.

Yeah, I can relate to a certain extent, I think social media can feel very weird for people that aren't super extroverts. But I'm not sure that's it either. For me, the context of sharing something is a major factor. On Instagram it's only people I know that see my posts, and essentially I like that my sisters, that both live in other countries, can see my pictures. It really took a lot of 'practice' to get comfortable with sharing selfies for instance. I still feel uncomfortable doing that on other places, like twitter for instance. So for me there's a major difference between different social contexts. On facebook for instance I rarely post anything at all, but I'm active in groups more.

[Tiste Simeon]

Me, about 4 miles into the 13 on Sunday...

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this is where I asked the ladyhawk to marry me, and she said yes. naturally the ring looked gargantuan in my tiny little hands

[Tsundoku]

Is that red thing a second head?

[Macros]

its a hood

[Morgoth]

A hood for your second head?

[Grumble]

Hi everyone, hope your all well and staying safe !

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[Tiste Simeon]

Miss you Grumble!

[Traveller]

Witness!

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(I'm a long way from my archaeology now dammit)

This isn't about the ppe, it's more about how I don't mind now posting a pic of me online for some reason.

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[Whisperzzzzzzz]

There's a lamp coming out of your head!

[Traveller]

Yeah we all have those.

[Jump Around]

Tapper, on 18 April 2017 - 06:22 AM, said:

It was that day, the 22nd of march.

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Congratulations!!

(A few years late)

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