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Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Re: Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Post by freeflight »

josmar wrote: post #196
crucialfelix wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is one in Berlin named Funkloch. Literally translates as radio hole, meaning an area where you can't get a signal. There's a pun in there too in that Lokal means pub, so you can read it as Funk Pub.

Where in town is that? I'm getting a few different results when searching. Would love to go and check it out!

Most likely this one: https://www.yelp.de/biz/funkloch-berlin

This tweet confirms there's a bar with smartphone ban in Weißensee: https://twitter.com/ennopark/status/567272387293761537

Only other "Funkloch" I found in Berlin is a youth center, so the above result is very likely the right one.

Re: Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Post by ben_w »

baby wrote: post #116
ben_w wrote: post #98

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Nothing, except your time. Your time, and the crude attempt to model what you consider to be worthy of your time, so that people with money can waste it in just the right way to make you do what they want you to do — watch an ad, buy a product, vote for a policy.

> Nothing, except your time. For the benefits that it gives you, I don't see that as a waste. I can keep in touch with all my friends around the world, and I can organize trips, parties, dinners, get invited to weddings, see the new baby of a friend, etc... I'm tired of only reading the bad side of this story.

If that's all you use it for, you are a rarity.

Of course, every example you just gave can also be done with email, and email doesn't hide things from you just because seeing them means you spend less time using email.

Re: Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Post by josmar »

freeflight wrote: post #211
josmar wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where in town is that? I'm getting a few different results when searching. Would love to go and check it out!

Most likely this one: https://www.yelp.de/biz/funkloch-berlin This tweet confirms there's a bar with smartphone ban in Weißensee: https://twitter.com/ennopark/status/567272387293761537 Only other "Funkloch" I found in Berlin is a youth center, so the above result is very likely the right one.

I also found this: https://www.facebook.com/Funkloch-684514891598702/ which is why I was wondering which of the locations it is.

Re: Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Post by freeflight »

josmar wrote: post #213
freeflight wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most likely this one: https://www.yelp.de/biz/funkloch-berlin This tweet confirms there's a bar with smartphone ban in Weißensee: https://twitter.com/ennopark/status/567272387293761537 Only other "Funkloch" I found in Berlin is a youth center, so the above result is very likely the right one.

I also found this: https://www.facebook.com/Funkloch-684514891598702/ which is why I was wondering which of the locations it is.

Guess that looks legit too. Tho I like the other one because they lack any social media presence, which would fit with the theme ;)

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Post by crucialfelix »

freeflight wrote: post #211
josmar wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where in town is that? I'm getting a few different results when searching. Would love to go and check it out!

Most likely this one: https://www.yelp.de/biz/funkloch-berlin This tweet confirms there's a bar with smartphone ban in Weißensee: https://twitter.com/ennopark/status/567272387293761537 Only other "Funkloch" I found in Berlin is a youth center, so the above result is very likely the right one.

it's the Weißensee one that I've seen. I didn't go there, just drove past. The other place in Treptow shows up on google more. But you would hope and expect a place that bans cell phones to not give a f*%# about their SERPs.

Re: Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Post by crucialfelix »

josmar wrote: post #196
crucialfelix wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is one in Berlin named Funkloch. Literally translates as radio hole, meaning an area where you can't get a signal. There's a pun in there too in that Lokal means pub, so you can read it as Funk Pub.

Where in town is that? I'm getting a few different results when searching. Would love to go and check it out!

The Weisenßee one. I've never been, just zoomed past it while going to the lake.

Re: Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Post by bryansum »

ghurtado wrote: post #93
Nightshaxx wrote: post #72

I think that the basic idea of the article is frighteningly true; social media is becoming that thing I use when I feel sick, bored, or just want to escape reality. The problem is smoking feels the same wiether 1 person is doing it or 1 million people do it; social media only really works when everyone you know does it. This makes it even scarier when you realize this will make it exponentially harder for we as a soc…

> The problem is smoking feels the same wiether 1 person is doing it or 1 million people do it Smoking also requires millions of people doing it to work. You need enough consumers so that the manufacture of cigarettes is viable, and both acquiring the habit and continuing it are highly dependent on the number of smokers that you surround yourself with. It would be very difficult to be the only smoker in a large enoug…

Not to mention smoking is often a social activity -- the "smoke break."

Re: Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Post by baby »

thinkfurther wrote: post #202
baby wrote: post #92

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> It's like tattoos Come on! It takes literally nothing to create a Facebook account. You can even use a fake mail and name (it might be against the ToS but you still can). The only thing it will take from you is time. (No it won't make your life worst, just use messenger.com and not the main API with the newsfeed so that people can contact you.) I would compare that to having a phone back then, when it was kind of t…

Anything but the actual point of comparison between two compared things is usually very different. It seems you pretend to not understand how a comparison works until you make one yourself, let me demonstrate: > I would compare that to having a phone back then, when it was kind of the only way to contact you. Come on! It's just a set of credentials and bytes in databases, not a bunch of plastic and metal. And don't y…

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Re: Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Post by baby »

ben_w wrote: post #212
baby wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nothing, except your time. For the benefits that it gives you, I don't see that as a waste. I can keep in touch with all my friends around the world, and I can organize trips, parties, dinners, get invited to weddings, see the new baby of a friend, etc... I'm tired of only reading the bad side of this story.

If that's all you use it for, you are a rarity. Of course, every example you just gave can also be done with email, and email doesn't hide things from you just because seeing them means you spend less time using email.

> If that's all you use it for, you are a rarity.

Yeah it can be used for much more. These are just good examples.

> Of course, every example you just gave can also be done with email

It's not practical. That's the point.

Re: Social Media Is the New Smoking

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Post by thinkfurther »

baby wrote: post #218
thinkfurther wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything but the actual point of comparison between two compared things is usually very different. It seems you pretend to not understand how a comparison works until you make one yourself, let me demonstrate: > I would compare that to having a phone back then, when it was kind of the only way to contact you. Come on! It's just a set of credentials and bytes in databases, not a bunch of plastic and metal. And don't y…

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Like don't understand a comment at all, even say because it's "barely English" - but then say someone else is correctly summarizing it? If you're not even making the slightest attempt to understand, then you not understanding isn't even a data point. Reread until you do or have an actual question or criticism.
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