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I don’t want to be an internet person

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Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by emptyfile »

throwaway4aday wrote: post #38

I'm pretty sure this generalizes to everything. People who cultivate a persona in any sub-culture or domain seem to be a fish out of water when confronted in a different context. Take someone from the rave scene and plop them down in a microbrewery bar and everyone will gawk at the brightly colored fidgety person that has no idea what to order. Take a polished SV entrepreneur and deposit them in an Idaho roadhouse an…

I'm sorry, are you making some sort of offensive joke or do you really think the world works in such stereotypes and prejudices?

Rave people are "brightly colored and fidgety" ?? A polished entrepreneur is incapable of ordering in a low class bar?

Jesus F Christ.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by jacooper »

> You hear it all the time—“the internet is horrible, but.” But I can learn so much. I need it for work. All my friends are online

But these are not the Internet's problem, rather edge forums/social media problems, however I recognize that for many people, the internet is just social media at this point.

A true internet person should be one who uses it frequently, that would probably be a software developer, yet most of the time they aren't as crazy as these people.

> He slouched in his chair and told me, unprompted, that he doesn’t have many friends

Wow.

These people are just mentally ill at this point, its impressive that they were able to attract girls to this shitshow.

Also how do they make money? Do they all just sell NFTs ?

> I don’t want to be anything like these people. I don’t want to be an internet person.

Amen.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by shanebellone »

reaperducer wrote: post #36
ly3xqhl8g9 wrote: post #25

"I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person" "Ginevra Davis studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford and now works in art and design. She writes about technology and youth culture." One step would be to stop using your state-issued name on the internet. "Cr4zyBoy4eva" is a bit better than the Facebook/LinkedIn-mandated "real name", but rather childish, hence why an arbitrary UUID string might be a better fit. "There are no gi…

stop using your state-given name on the internet. I'm what country does the state decide what your name is? I thought that was always the province of someone's parents.

It's a phrase describing the name found on your state identification.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by shanebellone »

throwaway346434 wrote: post #40
hacym wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re weirdly trying to attack the author. Why is that?

The author did exactly what the subject of the critical opinion piece did, but did a worse job of it and was entirely unself critical.

Good morning, Charlie.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by throwaway4aday »

reaperducer wrote: post #36
ly3xqhl8g9 wrote: post #25

"I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person" "Ginevra Davis studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford and now works in art and design. She writes about technology and youth culture." One step would be to stop using your state-issued name on the internet. "Cr4zyBoy4eva" is a bit better than the Facebook/LinkedIn-mandated "real name", but rather childish, hence why an arbitrary UUID string might be a better fit. "There are no gi…

stop using your state-given name on the internet. I'm what country does the state decide what your name is? I thought that was always the province of someone's parents.

While you're technically correct that the state does not pick the specific name you are given, in many cases they restrict which names you can register. Germany has restrictions on both given names and surnames. State-given name is a misnomer for the concept though, they should have said state-registered name.

https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/04-FamilyMatters/name...

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by reneherse »

emptyfile wrote: post #41
throwaway4aday wrote: post #38

I'm pretty sure this generalizes to everything. People who cultivate a persona in any sub-culture or domain seem to be a fish out of water when confronted in a different context. Take someone from the rave scene and plop them down in a microbrewery bar and everyone will gawk at the brightly colored fidgety person that has no idea what to order. Take a polished SV entrepreneur and deposit them in an Idaho roadhouse an…

I'm sorry, are you making some sort of offensive joke or do you really think the world works in such stereotypes and prejudices? Rave people are "brightly colored and fidgety" ?? A polished entrepreneur is incapable of ordering in a low class bar? Jesus F Christ.

I think you need to get in more. These types of characters certainly exist, and incongruous juxtapositions are often entertaining and sometimes enlightening.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by throwaway346434 »

boredumb wrote: post #39

The pattern here is not the internet but these people being severely autistic and so they are probably forced to thrive online where they aren't having to deal with eye contact or other social queues that they can't really process. Not even sure what this was meant to be, but it should probably be rewritten to "I don't want to be an autistic person" and it would have read the exact same way. Even down to the preferre…

I found the author's pointed lack of bothering to ask about pronouns when the subject of their investigation posts under different ly gendered pseudonyms; use of the words "normal people" and infiltrating a group only to neg them to be more problematic than anything. The subject of the article might be a real shitheel. But the author doesnt do us any favours by cloaking themselves in being a Voice of the Normal while being themselves a shitheel.
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