Comments | decibel45: Very good read

decibel45

Very good read

Jan 14, 2008 19:11

http://lnk.nu/cracked.com/i3d.html

I'm lucky that I do have a great group of friends here in Austin, and in Chicago.

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snaxxx January 15 2008, 01:33:10 UTC

"You have so much more control in Instant Messenger, or on a forum, or in World of Warcraft."

That reminds me of something a co-worker said the other day. He's lived in Austin about 4 months -

"I can find my way around THREE continents in WoW, get lost, and still find my way around. In Austin, I take one wrong turn and I'm screwed."

One more thing snaxxx January 15 2008, 01:35:21 UTC

you can trust me with your life, but please don't ever, ever, EVER subject me to pictures of The Catfish. Seeing stickcow spank your bare bottom at a NYE party was scarring enough. :P

*hugs*

Re: One more thing decibel45 January 15 2008, 04:24:16 UTC

You're lucky that your camera is busted...

Re: One more thing snaxxx January 15 2008, 04:36:08 UTC

Don't even THINK about it! What a coinky dink considering I had to call you 30 minutes later to go pick it up for me :P

reanimated January 15 2008, 02:21:38 UTC

hehe, i totally understand the parts about a lowered tolerance for annoyance.

kevinblanchard January 15 2008, 16:42:44 UTC

Based on your posts I'd say you are exposed to annoying people all the time, you'd think you would have built up a tolerance to it by now ;-)

reanimated January 15 2008, 22:36:15 UTC

yeah, you'd think. doesn't seem to be working that way.

_fool January 15 2008, 07:47:04 UTC

thanks, that was a good read!

and it makes me happy that my default emotion is "happy" so i filter all of my noncontextual received communicades through that vision and probably annoy people by taking what they said in too positive a light...and i'm fine with that =)

also, yay for friends that i do spend meat-time with, and yay for meeting the nutjobs that keep me from feeling too insane.

kevinblanchard January 15 2008, 16:40:45 UTC

That was a good read. I'm going to have to steal it. I find much of the article a double edged sword. For the named photo test. It's not always a good metric because it's a reflection of who we trust but I am a VERY independent person. So where as I have 4-5 REALLY close friends, in life I tend to shoulder my own burden unless I HAVE TO involve others. For me, online and text is my preferred method of communication because of my life and schedule or my communication with most people would drop 80%. So where as it's no replacement for in person communication, it's far better then no communication which would happen with many of my friends, even the close ones 80% of my week, month,year,etc.

reanimated January 15 2008, 22:38:10 UTC

i'm with you there. i don't like involving people too much. i vent a lot online, but i hate needing help with anything. and i prefer either text or in person...i HATE talking on the phone. i can't pay attention unless i can SEE something.

decibel45 January 17 2008, 17:10:57 UTC

Yeah, I think there's definitely parts of this that are easily wrong in some situations. If it wasn't for online relationships I built in the late 90s, I wouldn't be here in Austin.

But I think that on average, the piece is pretty accurate.

kevinblanchard January 17 2008, 17:15:05 UTC

agreed.