[kj] Is Facebook Slowly Killing The Gathering...?

[sade1]

> ..social ineptitude might be more descriptive.


Bingo! there's the worst of it: more and more info coming out about the upcoming generation's social immaturity and ineptitude, affecting social and workplace abilities to lead (others or even themselves), and getting things done. 


... .... ... ... ... ... 

[looking at the current state of things..]
 
'Save me...
  save me from Tomorrow..
    I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...'   





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From: folk devil <folk.devil at hotmail.com>
To: gathering at misera.net
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:45:19 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] Is Facebook Slowly Killing The Gathering...?

A side issue to this is that younger people are developing learning problems, particularly with language, when it comes to texting etc.
 
Kids now speak in acronyms, lol! ;)
 
Also, have you seen their writing?! It's crap. Probably because they're pushing with their digits, and not using the muscles provided. These arguments lead us into memetics etc, though.
 
Most of what you say I can go with, but not with the anti-social behaviour that seems to develop. Actually, social ineptitude might be more descriptive.
 
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From: jagargal at lycos.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:16:23 -0400
Subject: Re: [kj] Is Facebook Slowly Killing The Gathering...?

...or very joyful, who knows!? 

This thing, The Gathering is the perfect example of an online community. Is it better because we use e-mail instead of other resources? i don't think so. 
If we were younger i'm almost sure we would find this mailing-list system pretty boring and we would move to Facebook, Twitter right now! But we are or not so young (because we're not old, yet, right?!?) 

I could bet some people thought years ago this e-mail thing was sad too because we would loose that warmness of writing by hand, licking stamps... go to the mail office. But actually it's a blessing! 

The geeks have always exist at different levels. >From the guy that barely goes out because is reading book after book to the woman that loves online communities and spend the whole day on the internet, and the one that never stands from the couch because he's playing XBox Live in Mexico with another guy in Argentina. 

The problem isn't really those internet communication resources/applications. The problem is the obsessed people. 

We, the ones with kids, should pay attention to their common daily practices, and analize with a cold mind if it's really wrong what they're doing or is just that the future has reached us and now those "strange to us practices" are part of the natural/normal routine of the "modern times". 


... and no, i don't think The Gathering is dying, i've been here since 1997/98 and there have always been waves of calm (which i used to like) and tsunamis of e-mails from time to time. 

My dos pesos 

Javier 
mexico city 








 
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