One of my biggest concerns re: coming back online has to do with all of the aforementioned aspects to online interaction. I know that Tone, Topics, Role-Playing, & Activism all may seem pretty broad, but bear with me ( Read more... )

Someone recently told me that "LJ is dead."* I know it's had its problems in the past with mass migrations and whatnot, and although I know I've asked this before (about every couple of years, actually), where do people go to? I refuse to do any of that Twitter nonsense, and MySpace and Facebook are far too annoying for me to deal with, IMHO ( Read more... )

I know this is how the media disseminates Science, but this is also a pretty good representation of how all "news" works. This is also one of my many, biggest problems with the "news":


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It pisses me off to no end that people who speak Spanish are given preferential treatment in job hunting. I know I want to work with the public, but if you live in the U.S.of A. and can't speak Engrish, tough shit. You get no love, let alone any services that I may be able to supply you. Particularly when so many of these jobs are in the social ( Read more... )

If you post those stoopid fucking "tweets" on your lj, you're off my f-list. Nothing personal, I've just had it. Every time I see a twitter post, I'm unfriending the OP. Post them to twitter like you're supposed to, not lj ( Read more... )

I can't stand Twitter. I dislike everything about the idea, particularly the part where people spam their LJ accts and my f-list with their daily inanities via their daily "Tweets." If you want to share your random inanities with us, then type out a blog post like I do when I wanna share my inanities, lazy butt. Or better yet, focus on living ( Read more... )

I want to seriously slap the bitch that invented this horribly inefficient method of communicating. You sacrifice a small gain in speed for the writer only to have the reader wonder WTF language it's in. I see about 9 different consonants and 3 different vowels, is this in Hawaiian or something ( Read more... )

I'm just finishing an excellently thorough (and thus, long) article on InterPersonal Commune-I-cation. Although it's officially called a Guide to Flirting, it's really much more about being able to commune with others (or sever such) and being able to read them. It could just as easily be called "Social Skills 101," something that I sorely lacked ( Read more... )

Communication that cannot be conveyed via text = 93%*

No wonder I suck so much at writing, and rule so much more via verbal (e.g, phone), and even more when in person (e.g., when giving presentations). And little wonder I use that (fortunately) dying breed of internet communication, the smileys. The only one that should stay around is the ( Read more... )

I've recently been reminded of a tendency of some to try and seek out their Totem Animal. They will often seek this out under the phrasing "My Totem", which tends to imply a Singular Entity that has always been, and will always be, with the individual in question, often to the exclusion of other "lesser" Totemic Spirits. To be fair, this sort of ( Read more... )