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Re: 30 minutes with a stranger

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Post by gowld »

saberience wrote: post #68

I know it's supposed to be fancy and cool looking but this sort of website design where you have to scroll and then the whole screen animates really bothers me. It actually gives me a headache to try and follow it versus normal scrolling behaviour and text. As soon as I start scrolling down and I can't scroll normally and images and text start flying around I feel a disturbing feeling in my head and lose concentratio…

This one is especially worse because it's an incoherent mess that doesn't make any sense, not trying to show you anything relevant to the content.

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Post by jawilson2 »

koliber wrote: post #191
isoprophlex wrote: post #110

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Advertising is already rich people begging for your money. Not free exchange of information to allow value discovery. Don't conflate the two.

What about the ad for your kids' school fundraiser? Or the ad for a used car that your cousin would love. Or the poster for the concert at your local community hall.

> What about the ad for your kids' school fundraiser? My kids should come home with a flyer for it.

> Or the ad for a used car that your cousin would love. I will actively seek out and research a car.

> Or the poster for the concert at your local community hall. Presumably this physical paper poster doesn't give me malware/AIDS if I look at it or tear off a slip.

My overriding personal objective is to be able to exist without being expected to consume and spend constantly every moment, waking or otherwise. In an ideal world, I should have to give consent to be advertised to, and should be able to operate in public without being bombarded with companies trying to take my money.

Re: 30 minutes with a stranger

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Post by lossolo »

sentinelsignal wrote: post #183
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #180

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There's definitely an aspect of "dehumanization," when it comes to remote communication (not just the Internet, but I think store-and-forward leaches the most humanity, compared to realtime). It's the having time to consider responses, that I think actually makes it more difficult to accept the person on the other end as "human," more than the physical separation. You can see this in formal debates, where the emotion…

The dehumanisation of online dialogue is interesting. Is it because of 'anonymity' or is there more at play?

A long time ago, you would only interact with humans from your own tribe. Most of your actions had direct consequences for you, and you interacted with these people every day. Your life and wellbeing depended on that group and your social status. Then came local communities, followed by the global village, with access to eight billion people you will never meet or know. You can say whatever you want to them and face no real consequences, you can simply block them if you wish.

Re: 30 minutes with a stranger

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Post by ngriffiths »

teiferer wrote: post #258

There is a huge selection bias there. People who are very disagreeable and hard to talk to tend to not participate in such a thing. Of course the average participant was open to talk to somebody and connect.

Fair, but it's still interesting that people underestimate how much they will enjoy the conversation, even if it's with a random person on a bus who did not volunteer for an experiment.

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Post by rkomorn »

arethuza wrote: post #170
rkomorn wrote: post #112

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One of the best examples of your second point is that tweet that went something like "I bought a toilet seat and now I'm getting ads for toilet seats everywhere I go". It's annoying and not even productive for the advertiser.

I seem to get a stream of ads for terrible products on YouTube on my phone (I get completely different ads when watching on an Apple TV) - by this point I'm convinced it is Google punishing me into signing up for YouTube Premium...

FWIW, YouTube premium is one of my most worthwhile family subscriptions.

Anytime I use YT on a browser/profile that I'm not logged into, it's so jarring that I immediately fix it.

Edit: I dumped Spotify for YT music. I thought I liked Spotify better, though, so I tried again recently, and it turns out I didn't, so now I get YT and music for not much more than just Spotify. Definitely worth it in that context.

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Post by rapnie »

subscribed wrote: post #194
sentinelsignal wrote: post #183

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The dehumanisation of online dialogue is interesting. Is it because of 'anonymity' or is there more at play?

No, I don't think it's anonymity. You can see absolutely rabid, hateful, unhinged things people post under their real names on Facebook, LinkedIn, nextdoor.

There is a kind of 'bubble effect' where people are wrapped in their own world. A similar effect can be seen once people drive a car and there's a behavior change towards other people on the road, and 'road rage' becoming a thing.
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