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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 ly3xqhl8g9 »

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.

And how did your parents became Mr. and Mrs. Smith? In all the countries the "family" name for the hoi polloi was mandated once the state consolidated. Before, your father's grand^x-father, who was a blacksmith, was simply known, for the Dunbar's number of people who knew him, as 'John, the blacksmith', maybe 'John, Mary's son' if there were two Johns around. Look at how most of the Scandinavian "family" names end in "sen" or "datter" meaning, well, son and daughter.

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

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Post by jacooper »

buildsjets wrote: post #15

"All my friends are online. Will people forget about me if I am not on the internet?" Yes. But they really weren't your friends to begin with, so it doesn't matter.

I see this a lot, but is it actually true?

Friendships are built on a shared interest / shared activities, and frequent contact.

When you stop using the communication medium your friends use, then you just added friction to reach you, which stops frequent contact.

you slowly go from a friend to an old friend or a distant old friend.

There is a reason that when you move, its a lot harder to keep up with your old neighbors.

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

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Post by wahnfrieden »

reneherse wrote: post #47
emptyfile wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

people are also prismatic in identity and adaptation. though, playing against type is also commonly performative. you're both suggesting a kind of simplistic human form

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

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Post by jacooper »

mnky9800n wrote: post #5
FeistySkink wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you avoid being doxxed based on your writing style?

I have a terminal application that i wrote that rewrites all text that i plan to write to have a neutral tone. so i type the comment, put it into the terminal application, it rewrites the comment, and then i post that instead.

Is it open source?

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

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Post by mway »

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.

You're missing the point; the hyperbole is used to illustrate how "person of Domain A" and "person of Domain B" may not have even basic levels of overlap within a given domain.

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

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Post by ly3xqhl8g9 »

throwaway4aday wrote: post #46
reaperducer wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Yes, corrected to "state-issued".

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

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Post by gwbas1c »

I was very active in my local dial-up BBS scene in the mid-late 1990s, when I was a teenager. I even ran a dial-up BBS. Outside of school, I estimate that I probably spent more time online than socializing with my friends IRL. (In real life.)

BUT: I have much more vivid memories, and better bonds, with my friends. This is partially because we spent a lot of time together in school, and because we actually bonded.

Although I had online friends, and I took the time to meet some other BBS people IRL, I never developed any real bonds with them. One of my very active BBS users attended the same college as me. We met a few times, but never rekindled our online bond.

This made me realize that my online bonds are more like a hobby than a real lifelong friendship; much like at-work friendships that fizzle out after a job change.

Needless to say, a few years ago I generally dropped out of Facebook; the hobby (Facebook) was getting in the way of my relationships. The people I care about either don't post on Facebook, or Facebook seems to make me angry at them.

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

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Post by throwaway4aday »

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'm intentionally using extreme examples of people who are highly committed to the scene they have embedded themselves in just like TFA interviewed the most extreme members of "internet people" they could find. Take a minute to think before immediately reacting with your anti-bias bias.

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

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Post by waboremo »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #54
reneherse wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

people are also prismatic in identity and adaptation. though, playing against type is also commonly performative. you're both suggesting a kind of simplistic human form

You're right, instead of using hyperbole to emphasize their point they should have just highlighted how every human being is complex and nuanced instead. Surely that would have done it.
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