SandRider wrote:I used the Facebook a little recently, in regards to an upcoming reunion, and I'd say your friend has a good point, GP. It is a one-stop, quick interaction site. Makes sense to me.
That's pretty much the attraction. FB is one-stop shopping for my college buddies, some high school buddies, former co-workers, a few exes ("all my exes are in Texas," right, SR? ), and some online pals. It's just a convenient package that can be used or ignored, as needed.
"Anything I write will be remembered and listed in bibliographies on Dune for several hundred years ..." — some delusional halfwit troll.
SandRider wrote:I used the Facebook a little recently, in regards to an upcoming reunion, and I'd say your friend has a good point, GP. It is a one-stop, quick interaction site. Makes sense to me.
That's pretty much the attraction. FB is one-stop shopping for my college buddies, some high school buddies, former co-workers, a few exes ("all my exes are in Texas," right, SR? ), and some online pals. It's just a convenient package that can be used or ignored, as needed.
Family too.
(Yeah, it's nice to see how fat and grey your old girlfriends have gotten )
Paul of Dune was so bad it gave me a seizure that dislocated both of my shoulders and prolapsed my anus. ~Pink Snowman
It's okay, but even though I "feel" online constantly, I'm often only at the computer for brief periods. So a chat wouldn't do me much good. I'm not opposed to the idea, I'm just not sure I'll use it all that much. Maybe today might be an exception, since it's so damn dead at work
"They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out."
I'm not heavily pro- or anti-chat, just for the record. But I did think that a lot of today's goofiness could just have easily been covered in a chat area, which is what made me remember this thread.
Then again, today is a perfect storm: KJA apologist toady here at the same time as some of the heavy hitters.
"Anything I write will be remembered and listed in bibliographies on Dune for several hundred years ..." — some delusional halfwit troll.
Well y'all know I'm all for a chat room. I don't think it would distract from the on-topic posts, it might take away some of the 0ff-topic posts, but I know I use the chat-room over at Worm's to talk to a friend mainly about silly stuff or sometimes to ask a quick question about a post that we are working on together for the story thread.
I don't think a chat room would hurt this board any.
What fear is there in the night?
Nothing, but that which is in our own imaginations.
I doubt the chat would be used for serious Dune discussion. If you go with an irc chat, like the one you can get for free from Mibbit.com, then someone can create a chatbot to record everything.
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hypatia approaches one.
), and some online pals. It's just a convenient package that can be used or ignored, as needed.
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