M64
Social Media and the loss of human interaction...
May 26 2013
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Paradisepair
12 years ago
Who will have issues with real life socialising.
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RHP User
12 years ago
When we had candles we read.When we had electricity we listened to the radio.When we had transistors we watched colour TV.When we had computers we started again to socialise again.Happy to socialize face to face but web cams are dull. LOL
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RHP User
12 years ago
SMA. Set used to hearing it as it is real and will be a huge problem in the near future. I've seen it 1st hand. It used to be just a bit of FOMO (Fear of missing out) but now it is the irressitable urge to constantly see evry update, every second. Life is for living - not for needing to know what someone had for lunch 2 secs later.
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RHP User
12 years ago
sometimes I sit here with my flat mate, me on my iphone or computer , her on hers and tv going at the same time. that is why I make sure I leave the house every day, go walking on beach or do some artwork its addictive at times. and its a lazy persons game what is worse is that people are sitting at home, tracky dacks, brickies crack, getting fatter and fatter and more inept with social graces. The art of conversation without talking about sex, looking after themselves, some guys that turn up to meet are worse than an unmade bed. or when a woman comes to meet them,dirty house, dishes in the sink, smoke around them, drink way to much all the things that scream social isolation. Being part of your community and going out takes a bit of give,but here we are sitting on our bums living a fairy tale internet life,where we shop on line for a cock or cunt do we want lies with that as well? on the up side when I have taken online to offline, I have made a few friends along the way but most just get to my bed and not every into my life.
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Smilingwithfun
12 years ago
For me, the saddest thing it can be used for is faceless comment. You don't have to back up what is said. It can be used as a threatening tool. I'm in the accommodation industry & had a bloke come in after the office opened & wanted a refund. No reason just said if we dont't then he will hop on every travel website & bag us. Gotta love CCTV camera's that record such things. It just allows the faceless to damage peoples lives.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Good topic, Jay_Me. I saw that segment too. It does make you think - in this computer age, it is so easy to be at home with your family but all are on phones or laptops or tablets at the same time. It does make you think that, as the future approaches us, the art of a face-to-face conversation may become lost in the tech-age of social media. Still, at the same time, we all are doing the same thing in here too......chatting and sending msgs to people all over the country, from the comfort of our phones or computers. I guess, it is up to each individual to know the right combination of both and when to use them. Cheers
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RHP User
12 years ago
We have not watched commercial Television for over a decade. So to us these paranoia driven deliveries of speculative data designed to cause worry and concern about the Human Race..Simply do not reach us anymore..Lets go to a heavily breasted beer commercial break...
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RHP User
12 years ago
Are there really people out there that never come face to face with anyone? Does it really matter if communication is text, speech, and visual? Better then those that disappear in books, or endless hours in front of the TV. I feel a sorrow for those that live alone and have only the net as a window to human contact. Not all can get out for what ever reason, but they have more opportunity for human contact now than ever in the past.I do not like that there is such a general, down the nose look, at social media. Bring it on, its good for society. So many more are now communicating with fellow humans then ever before. We can befriend people for such diversity it is well worth the technology for that reason alone. Never heard that having pen friends was bad, so why when its instant must it be put down.Oh but I understand, you saw it on TV. I am trying not to be cynical about thinking that TV is begging via inappropriate memes to turn us back to their anti social brain fry. Forgive them they know not what they do and the game is lost.
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RHP User
12 years ago
you lot over there should be more concerned about poker machines than Facebook and ilk.They are communication tools, subject to addiction sure but there are far worse things to worry about.And for many people isolated in suburbia with no family or transport, fifo workers etc they are a salvation.
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chevtrek
12 years ago
seems the smarter man gets he does more stupid things look at the kids in my childhood i built bikes go karts forts and had 100 or more friends to lick a footy or play combat now they sit in front of a game consel and put on kilos... so sad to watch---oh have you seen the cartoon wal-e it made me think...
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RHP User
12 years ago
I have facebook...but I only joined as a means of messaging everyone in my family at the same time, prior to our wedding...now, 4 years later, I still use it, and my friends list is still only those who are considered family. don't want hundreds of people knowing my/our business..... that's much too intrusive.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I so hear you... Being a brutally honest and black and white personality. I like to pick up the phone and talk and meet with people in the real world. Social media and technology makes it so much easier to keep in contact, I'd just prefer to talk on the phone and see in the flesh. It's so easy for people to hide who they really are behind the dark walls of social media and technology.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Yep. I think there are quite a few people on RHP whose only real social outlet is the forum and the chatrooms. Sad but true.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I notice when I've spent a bit too much time on the net or with gadgets I become a little more fidgety or impulsive, and if someone sends me a website link compared to a paper sheet I tend to flick through the dense text sections. I even notice the difference when reading an article on the computer and one I've printed out, I'll treat the computer one with less interest (even if it's the same piece)I'm not on facebook so I just stare blankly at people when they mention farmville, lol cats, or candy crush (and what's the point of instagram and twitter? Has anything important even been said on twitter?)
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RHP User
12 years ago
Elderly Cits we love our snappy chat...just like a pianola really.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Your my fave auntie, I know I should call you more but belated thanks for the birthday card and the 10 dollars. PS. Stop forwarding strange chain emails to my account
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rc_80
12 years ago
We would like to thank you for using television, and social media (RHP is sexbook) for raising our awareness of the dangers of social media and television.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'mikeandshel' I have facebook... and my friends list is still only those who are considered family. don't want hundreds of people knowing my/our business..... that's much too intrusive. I have around 40 Facebook friends, and will only accept requests from people who I'd allow to sleep on my couch for a month. Same as on here, really.
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RHP User
12 years ago
the sky is falling!! Geez, some people have issues with socialising... so what...the rest of us just use social media to keep in touch with people between actually catching up. It's good, it's healthy, it saved my sanity when my kids were babies and it was difficult to get out. Most of us have a bit of a structure to our lives and we fit our social media addictions in where they fit, for me it replaces television. And to those who worry about the kids, most of us mean parents really do maintain a say over our kids media use. To those who don't...be the grown up!!
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RHP User
12 years ago
Over the last 10 years or so, I have virtually stopped watching t.v. I now use my computer to watch programmes I am interested in, mostly because I want to watch the at the time I wish to watch rather than the scheduled time of the channel broadcasting. Plus it's minus ADS! So yes, my arse is spreading a bit because I am sitting at my p.c. more often, by myself choosing to do what I want to do. Not to mention I am totally addicted to backgammon and play 24/7 if I choose to. Where are all the people who like to play live? Come out and play with me! As for Facebook, my friends badgered me until I opened an account, it now drives me mad because its full of drivel that I couldn't care less about. I don't want all and sundry knowing everything I do or where I go, that's my business. Just what is so compelling that you have to take a picture of every meal you eat in a restaurant and post it for the world to see? Geez, give me a break!
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'rockercouple80' We would like to thank you for using television, and social media (RHP is sexbook) for raising our awareness of the dangers of social media and television. LOL. Had to pay that one.. : ) Might even post that on my facebook page. ; ) Quoting 'meeka' Yep. I think there are quite a few people on RHP whose only real social outlet is the forum and the chatrooms. Sad but true. Yes, I suspect so too. : P
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RHP User
12 years ago
Social media consists of 3 different types of people (the three S's): 1. Show ponies; 2. Shit talkers; and 3. Stalkers.Yea yea, I know, i know, it's great for keeping in contact with friends and people overseas.... one would wonder how we ever did it before social media! In all seriousness, it's killing society. Can't even watch TV these days without hash-tags and whatnot jumping out left, right and center.My 2 cents :D
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RHP User
11 years ago
It's changing the way our brains work, how we process information eg our ability to focus for a long time on dense or complex text. Amazing to think about all the ways - not just socially - social media will change us.
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rc_80
11 years ago
Social media is fucking awesome. Effective use of it has doubled my income.
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RHP User
11 years ago
interesting fact.Ever since the introduction of facebook into peoples lives - the size of the part of the brain that helps with communicating and socialising has increased substantially in those who are developing.So is it making us less social, or changing the way we socialise?None the less, I am under the firm belief people are far too obsessed with social media. Its making this world self obsessed!
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DonnaBrett
11 years ago
Things like Facebook are great if you use it the right way. We use it to enhance our social lives in the "real world" both in general & in the swinging scene. Any FB friends we have wherever possible we have a made the point of trying to meet them in the real world too no matter what country they're from and as a result we have had met some of the most awesome people. If you have the type of personality where you enjoy getting out and interacting with real people in real settings everything is fine. However if you're a boring loser who just wants to sit at home in front of a computer 24/7 playing games and having cyber hook ups with other pretenders cos you're too weird to go outside & experience life, well these people deserve the sorry life they live!
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rc_80
11 years ago
Quoting 'DonnaBrett' Things like Facebook are great if you use it the right way. We use it to enhance our social lives in the "real world" both in general & in the swinging scene. Any FB friends we have wherever possible we have a made the point of trying to meet them in the real world too no matter what country they're from and as a result we have had met some of the most awesome people. If you have the type of personality where you enjoy getting out and interacting with real people in real settings everything is fine. However if you're a boring loser who just wants to sit at home in front of a computer 24/7 playing games and having cyber hook ups with other pretenders cos you're too weird to go outside & experience life, well these people deserve the sorry life they live! WORD!
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freebird65
11 years ago
its an interesting subject and one that i have also noticed creeping into my house hold and my work place where communication is paramount. The teens of today have very little if any social skills, and the phone is an extension of themselves. 6 months ago i found myself at home with my ex partner and her children with no one to talk to ,, everyone was busy on their mobile or computer devise.After half a bottle of scotch i made my way to the kitchen where the wireless modem was installed , found my favorite knife and stabbed the modem . within 10 seconds , complaints that the net was down was resonated around the house ,,,, but the next day ,,there was a strange thing coming back ,,"conversation".The biggest problem or habit i have noticed is that parents will give their children access to these socially destroying toys and are so very frightened to take them away.. do what i did ,, stab it , put it in the bin ,, problem solved in 3.2 seconds.But as adults , we should also remember manners ,, when at a dinner or a date ,, put it away ,, check it from time to time to make sure the kids are fine ,, but having it going off all night ,,is a teenage joke and simply embarrassing and very very bad manners.
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RHP User
11 years ago
the computer age and that of social media has enhanced my life considerably and I think the pros outweigh the cons for me. I have always been a very good communicator face to face and that hasn't changed for me at all, but, all of my family live over 2000 km away so it has proven to be an invaluable tool for keeping regular contact, especially considering we have growing children and ageing parents.Also it makes the impossible, well.....possible! About fifteen years ago I sought the assistance of an adoption/mediation body in WA, (which I won't specifically name), to search for my sisters, which I knew were in Australia but, I couldn't find. That search came up with nothing and I dropped the search for another 10 years. However, enter the phenomenon of social media and things became an entirely different ball game and me, being a natural born detective, who won't leave things alone, took it on myself to open up the search just one last time. Now, I am not talking months here... I'm talking one account, one person and approximately two weeks! Two weeks and there they were. Both girls! We met in January and finding them has been, probably, the best thing I have ever done.Also saw a similar use of technology, but on a much larger scale, on 60 mins (23rd June) where Indian born, Saroo Brierly, had become lost, as a 5yr old, in the sea of people that is Calcutta. After being adopted by Australian parents from an orphanage and 26yrs later, he decided to use the search engine, Google Maps street view, on the 'sliver' of a chance that he may be able to locate a memory, he had, of the street he lived on as a small boy......what do you think happened next? That is why I love the technology available now and that you no longer have to be a 'cop' to use it.In the end it is down to the people using it. You determine whether it is for good or ill, not social media or the technology alone.
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RHP User
11 years ago
Yes there are obviously issues associated with the rise of social media and the way it is changing communication styles, and it's all very well to call people who rely on it "losers", but let's also think about all the people for whom this type of communication has provided a sense of belonging that they would otherwise probably not have. We take for granted our ability to hop in the car, or onto public transport, to go and meet friends or see family. But there are many, many people who cannot easily do this, for a number of reasons (disability or illness being just a couple). As a result a vicious cycle develops and these people are often left socially isolated. However, if they are able to use social media, this can give them a social outlet; a way to communicate and interact with others and provide them with some sense of belonging. In the case of people with a disability or illness, it can also provide a way for them to talk to and receive support from others with the same problems and issues, even if those people are on the other side of the planet. One of my friends has a serious illness and is not able to go out much, and hence he relies a lot on social media, and is also active in online groups and campaigns dedicated to his condition. Without those online communication and support options, he would have very little social contact which would no doubt even further increase the psychological and physical impacts of his illness.
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madotara69
11 years ago
In a lot of cases we get on the computer, look at you fine lot and end up having sex, SEXERCISE is the outcome, yes sexercise.Everytime we go out it costs 100 bucks, but it only costs a couple of bucks to have a good old root with all you fine cyber sex bombs.Cyber sexercise, it is the way of the future.It's not what you have got, it is how you use it.Be there or be square! Just keep the music playing, just do it and do it good.Mado
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RHP User
11 years ago
They are the friends you have that you don't have to meet or talk too.Once upon a time I'd ring someone to say hello and they'd pick up the phone and say "hey man I can't chat now.. I'll call you back". Now with some of the people I know, I have to txt first and ask if it's ok to call.How fucking depressing!!
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RHP User
11 years ago
Yeah, there are problems with "some" people using social media. So like everything we'll go demonise "all" of social media. A football stadium sells mid strength piss to everyone because some cant handle their drink. There are so many benefits to social media that you can find without having to try too hard. You can network with people of similar social or sporting interests, you can network with business and academics, you can keep up to date on world events faster. You can learn new things by following people who you wouldn't normally be friends with. And, much like RHP, if you get off your arse you can actually meet some of these people. What's more social than that? Social media is only a tool, just like the mobile phone, the game consoles & the television. Social media isn't to blame for the lack of people being sociable. It's generation after generation of letting kids be owned by these tools and not the other way around. End rant. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
11 years ago
Quoting 'DonnaBrett' ...If you have the type of personality where you enjoy getting out and interacting with real people in real settings everything is fine. However if you're a boring loser who just wants to sit at home in front of a computer 24/7 playing games and having cyber hook ups with other pretenders cos you're too weird to go outside & experience life, well these people deserve the sorry life they live! Oh shit.Excuse me, I'll just be weeping into my news feed.
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RHP User
11 years ago
Physical interaction will always happen you have to physically interact to work/learn/eat etc these are pretty normal interactions what virtual ones do is kinda like 'the voice' show is breaks that initial first instinct based on looks (this site doesn't count cause we show off our pics unless you don't like being replied to) :P So I agree with the above people that interaction is changing but at the same time its still working. I speak to my family more now through facebook etc its not deep, its not intruding and they don't have to individually inform each person, they put their status update and we all know and can share our thoughts if we desire. This is not a loss of interaction its just an alteration. Kids still interact as school/sport and in social circles, while there are some that are introverted and don't, they have always existed its just with online they now have at least one place they can communicate which I think is awesome! Its not the solution as physical interaction is generally considered superior (especially if you want to have sex!) ;) So as someone said above, sky isn't falling, its just changing colour!
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