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“I think that Facebook (like most other tools) enhances traits that were already there.
I don’t think Facebook leads to narcissism, but it certainly makes it “easier.”â€
Yeah, I guess it doesn’t lead to the narcissism but it does make it easier to indulge. To me, it’s like having a fridge full of food – I’m gonna eat it it’s there so I don’t bring it into the house.
And Arkady, I think it’s different from a teen phone line in that you can see the pages of people you know and it has this whole additional voyeur element that I imagine gets addictive.
The teenagers and 20 somethings in my family/life all have a lot of fun on Facebook. They are my ‘friends’ so I get to see what they are doing and it looks like fun, posting lots of stuff, videos, music, thousands of photographs….theyre funny. The only issue is when do you turn it off? You don’t want to have people sitting in a room with one another and all looking down at a PDA and not talking to one another.
I’ve heard that heroin is big again because oxycontin, which apparently provides the same type of high, is way too expensive. So they move on to what they can afford, which is the heroin.
Lechacal is absolutely correct. What China has started doing, since all the mobile operators are State Owned Enterprises, is implementing a system of tracking people via their cell phones. If certain “undesirebales” all start congregating they send out the police.
You guys don’t think that (the) Facebook leads to the kind of narcissism that’s gonna land a good majority of today’s youth face down in the pond?
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What are you kidding? With reality shows, YouTube, and our country’s long-established “me first” culture you’re worried FACEBOOK will make kids more narcissistic? In the end, it’s just another communications tool, that’s all.
Dona – good point. I guess I am typical of my sign – I am two minded. I love the internet and what it offers in terms of research and tips but then my old school brain is hard-wired in the constant question -“what would my grandma have done”?
Ah – we are having a boy!
how is it at work today? are you leaving today??
Online social networking is the most powerful democratizing force that exists right now.
Or to say it another way the loss by governments of the ability to control the flow of information and ideas is the most powerful democratizing force that exists right now.
“I think that Facebook (like most other tools) enhances traits that were already there.
I don’t think Facebook leads to narcissism, but it certainly makes it “easier.”â€
Yeah, I guess it doesn’t lead to the narcissism but it does make it easier to indulge. To me, it’s like having a fridge full of food – I’m gonna eat it it’s there so I don’t bring it into the house.
And Arkady, I think it’s different from a teen phone line in that you can see the pages of people you know and it has this whole additional voyeur element that I imagine gets addictive.
The teenagers and 20 somethings in my family/life all have a lot of fun on Facebook. They are my ‘friends’ so I get to see what they are doing and it looks like fun, posting lots of stuff, videos, music, thousands of photographs….theyre funny. The only issue is when do you turn it off? You don’t want to have people sitting in a room with one another and all looking down at a PDA and not talking to one another.
I’ve heard that heroin is big again because oxycontin, which apparently provides the same type of high, is way too expensive. So they move on to what they can afford, which is the heroin.
Lechacal is absolutely correct. What China has started doing, since all the mobile operators are State Owned Enterprises, is implementing a system of tracking people via their cell phones. If certain “undesirebales” all start congregating they send out the police.
You guys don’t think that (the) Facebook leads to the kind of narcissism that’s gonna land a good majority of today’s youth face down in the pond?
**
What are you kidding? With reality shows, YouTube, and our country’s long-established “me first” culture you’re worried FACEBOOK will make kids more narcissistic? In the end, it’s just another communications tool, that’s all.
I still don’t have a Facebook account.
Dona – good point. I guess I am typical of my sign – I am two minded. I love the internet and what it offers in terms of research and tips but then my old school brain is hard-wired in the constant question -“what would my grandma have done”?
Ah – we are having a boy!
how is it at work today? are you leaving today??
The kids I mentor -ages 15 to 20- say that heroin is making a big come-back.
Online social networking is the most powerful democratizing force that exists right now.
Or to say it another way the loss by governments of the ability to control the flow of information and ideas is the most powerful democratizing force that exists right now.