I'll get back to everyone who posted in my previous thread, but I need
to know if you all think Usenet is social media?
Or Social Media? Which?
And would you answer the same for Reddit?
They're social because they involve people, but people don't make
friends on any of them, normally. And people don't talk about little
or even big things that happen in their personal lives much, and when
once in a while I do, most people are bored and ignore them in any
replies they make.
To me that means it's not social.
But if some webpage that matters to me asks how I heard about it, and I
say "internet" but NOT through social media, they will likely think its
a page with good or bad informative text but no way for readers to
reply. That Usenet and Reddit do allow replies, depend on replies, sort
of makes them *social* media.
So all in all, in your opinion, are Usenet and Reddit social media?
I'll get back to everyone who posted in my previous thread, but I needCoPilot say:
to know if you all think Usenet is social media?
Or Social Media? Which?
And would you answer the same for Reddit?
They're social because they involve people, but people don't make
friends on any of them, normally. And people don't talk about little
or even big things that happen in their personal lives much, and when
once in a while I do, most people are bored and ignore them in any
replies they make.
To me that means it's not social.
But if some webpage that matters to me asks how I heard about it, and I
say "internet" but NOT through social media, they will likely think its
a page with good or bad informative text but no way for readers to
reply. That Usenet and Reddit do allow replies, depend on replies, sort
of makes them *social* media.
So all in all, in your opinion, are Usenet and Reddit social media?
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:22:28 -0600, sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
On 12/16/2024 1:46 PM, micky wrote:
Why do you insist on posting off-topic junk to otherwise usable groups
It's not off-topic. The topic was usenet.
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:22:28 -0600, sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
On 12/16/2024 1:46 PM, micky wrote:
Why do you insist on posting off-topic junk to otherwise usable groups
It's not off-topic. The topic was usenet.
Usenet is not considered traditional social media, but it does share
some characteristics with it. Usenet is a worldwide distributed
discussion system that dates back to the early days of the internet.
It's more like a collection of newsgroups where users can post messages
and read others' posts on various topics.
Anonymity: Usenet users can post messages without revealing their real identities, while social media platforms often encourage users to create profiles with personal information.
I'll get back to everyone who posted in my previous thread, but I need
to know if you all think Usenet is social media?
Or Social Media? Which?
And would you answer the same for Reddit?
They're social because they involve people, but people don't make
friends on any of them, normally. And people don't talk about little
or even big things that happen in their personal lives much, and when
once in a while I do, most people are bored and ignore them in any
replies they make.
To me that means it's not social.
But if some webpage that matters to me asks how I heard about it, and I
say "internet" but NOT through social media, they will likely think its
a page with good or bad informative text but no way for readers to
reply. That Usenet and Reddit do allow replies, depend on replies, sort
of makes them *social* media.
So all in all, in your opinion, are Usenet and Reddit social media?
In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:22:28 -0600, sticks ><wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
On 12/16/2024 1:46 PM, micky wrote:
Why do you insist on posting off-topic junk to otherwise usable groups
It's not off-topic. The topic was usenet.
I'll get back to everyone who posted in my previous thread, but I need
to know if you all think Usenet is social media?
Or Social Media? Which?
And would you answer the same for Reddit?
They're social because they involve people, but people don't make
friends on any of them, normally. And people don't talk about little
or even big things that happen in their personal lives much, and when
once in a while I do, most people are bored and ignore them in any
replies they make.
To me that means it's not social.
But if some webpage that matters to me asks how I heard about it, and I
say "internet" but NOT through social media, they will likely think its
a page with good or bad informative text but no way for readers to
reply. That Usenet and Reddit do allow replies, depend on replies, sort
of makes them *social* media.
So all in all, in your opinion, are Usenet and Reddit social media?
I'll get back to everyone who posted in my previous thread, but I need
to know if you all think Usenet is social media?
Or Social Media? Which?
And would you answer the same for Reddit?
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:20:45 +0200, Steve
Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:12:08 -0500, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:
It's not off-topic. The topic was usenet.
But Windows 10 is not Usenet.
Try news.groups
and news.groups.questions
Thanks, not a bad suggestion and clearly an attempt to be helpful, but I don't read those groups and don't want to start for one question. I
don't know the people in them and don't know whose judgment to respect.
I was going to set more appropriate follow-ups, but want' allowed to,
so sorry to all the inappropriate groups.
This subthread reminds of when there was a newly formed moderated forum
on, say, Of Mice and Men, and the new moderators were ridiculously over- strict, and people tried to post polite questions and complaints and the
mods rejected them all saying moderation was off-topic. We all thought
it was, say, an on-topic meta-topic, by definition. I think the same
thing here.
On 12/16/2024 2:46 PM, micky wrote:
I'll get back to everyone who posted in my previous thread, but I need
to know if you all think Usenet is social media?
Or Social Media? Which?
And would you answer the same for Reddit?
To my mind, usenet is not really social. Socializing is
"off topic". It happens around the edges, in the form of lonely
old men asking frivolous questions or bickering.... or even just
adding provocative "signatures" without ever taking responsibility
for their outbursts. (See John Hall's post, scorning those who
don't work out as wastrels. :)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.home.repair,comp.mobile.android,alt.comp.software.firefox
What a round about way of saying you're too dumb and lazy to try to do >>things properly and you just don't care.
You don't know me better than I know myself. Those were my real
reasons and don't involve laziness, and you are going by your idea of
what is proper, and I know longer care what you think but I do care
about this ng and all the others. ......
You didn't seem to notice that my question got several good answers,
Very, very intesting post. I don't disagree with any of the parts I know about I don't know about Facebook and Twitter, for example, but you've enhanced my desire to stay away from them. It would take me an hour
just to reply to the important parts, and it's already 11:30. But I
really enjoyed your remarks. (And don't worry, I've forgotten what you
said about John Hall.)
On 12/18/2024 11:35 PM, micky wrote:
Very, very intesting post. I don't disagree with any of the parts I know
about˙˙ I don't know about Facebook and Twitter, for example, but you've
enhanced my desire to stay away from them.˙˙˙ It would take me an hour
just to reply to the important parts, and it's already 11:30.˙ But I
really enjoyed your remarks.˙˙ (And don't worry, I've forgotten what you
said about John Hall.)
˙ It's become a very real threat to democracy. In the last election
˙˙˙ Not so long ago, the presidency was decided
˙˙ With Trump, the electoral college has done just
˙ There's a movie about Brexit, showing how Cambridge Analytica
˙ In the 2016 election, Eric Shmidt tried to sell Hillary on a plan to
˙ So now we have a populace that's almost all informed... in some manner.
˙ I suspect that social media has also had a big role in cancel culture.
In comp.mobile.android, on Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:21:12 -0600, sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
On 12/17/2024 5:33 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:20:45 +0200, Steve
Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:12:08 -0500, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:
It's not off-topic. The topic was usenet.
But Windows 10 is not Usenet.
Try news.groups
and news.groups.questions
Thanks, not a bad suggestion and clearly an attempt to be helpful, but I >>> don't read those groups and don't want to start for one question. I
don't know the people in them and don't know whose judgment to respect.
What a round about way of saying you're too dumb and lazy to try to do
things properly and you just don't care.
You don't know me better than I know myself. Those were my real
reasons and don't involve laziness, and you are going by your idea of
what is proper, and I know longer care what you think but I do care
about this ng and all the others. ......
I was going to set more appropriate follow-ups, but want' allowed to,
so sorry to all the inappropriate groups.
This subthread reminds of when there was a newly formed moderated forum
on, say, Of Mice and Men, and the new moderators were ridiculously over- >>> strict, and people tried to post polite questions and complaints and the >>> mods rejected them all saying moderation was off-topic. We all thought
it was, say, an on-topic meta-topic, by definition. I think the same
thing here.
no you don't.
You definitely don't know what I think. Why do you imagine you know
what someone else thinks? That's sort of dumb, isn't it?
you just don't care that you fill these groups with all
your off-topic posts.
Once every 2 or 3 months or less, by your standards. That's not filling anything. And you have the opportunity to stop reading after the first
half of the first post, but no, you're still at it. You can even filter
me out. Feel free. I don't remember you ever answering one of my
technical questions, so I have nothing to lose.
You'll prove me right by continuing to do similar
things soon enough.
It won't prove a thing.
You didn't seem to notice that my question got several good answers,
from people who either didn't think it is was off topic, or are not so hide-bound to an on-topic rule, which did not come down from Sinai.
And BTW, the fewest number of replies were in AHR and none were from the intruder/political spammers from other invading groups, probably because
they don't read AHR directly, they only cross-post to it.
On Wed, 12/18/2024 11:23 PM, micky wrote:
You didn't seem to notice that my question got several good answers,
USENET has a history and it has a rule set.
And it is NOT social media.
That's an example of the history of the place.
On 12/19/2024 2:50 AM, Paul wrote:
On Wed, 12/18/2024 11:23 PM, micky wrote:
You didn't seem to notice that my question got several good answers,
USENET has a history and it has a rule set.
And it is NOT social media.
---snip great stuff---
That's an example of the history of the place.
What some fail to understand or don't care about, is that if everyone
did what micky and yana2 do these groups would be unusable.
But...they're special.
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