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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Oct 16, 2013 - 04:41am PT
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Facebook=data goldmine. Marketing data galore, and the state, feds and internationals all use it to bust stupid people all the time!
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Oct 16, 2013 - 04:41am PT
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One might say the person who wrote that whole analysis is using their analytical skills as a tool to distinguish themselves from all those lowly people who do those annoying things. "Aloof" is a pattern to cloak loneliness and insecurity. I feel qualified to comment on it because I'm even doing it right now! I'm even more aloofer than that aloof dude who is aloofer than everyone else. We all have our foibles. But I've found the most rewarding way of dealing with people is to look past the layer of coping mechanisms (if you can do it without going nuts or getting hurt) and see who is there beneath it.
That doesn't stop me from blacklisting some people on facebook so I don't see their spammy updates or what cake they bought or farm they did something with or what mafia lieutenant they became.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Oct 16, 2013 - 06:58am PT
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FB is a pointless exercise in vanity
I use status updates to complain, rant, hate and say whatever the f*#k I want. if people are offended/annoyed, they can "unfriend" me, and they have.
similarly, people who do nothing but post pics of their awful children and other lameness, like how amazing they are because they ate at this restaurant, or because they bought some shoes, or because they went apple picking, or those inspirational bullshit daily quotes, I usually hide/block/unfriend.
this is pretty funny, and spot on:
http://www.generalforum.com/general-discussion/21-really-annoying-facebook-friends-we-all-have-106532.html
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Oct 16, 2013 - 08:09am PT
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Where have you been? Self-absorption is SOP.
Perhaps bad luck, but more than a few of the new partners I've climbed with in the past few years - these people spend the entire day talking about themselves. Not a glimmer of interest in anything else.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Bungwater Hollow, Ida-ho
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Oct 16, 2013 - 09:05am PT
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What is this "Facebook" everyone speaks of?
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susan peplow
climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2013 - 12:24pm PT
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Some of these responses are pretty funny. Specifically Reilly and The Larry - classic and made me "LOL".
For the record, I did not write the article rather just found it incredibly amusing and probably the best thing I've seen on Facebook all of 2013. Thank you Gal as I had shared it from her page.
I find myself categorizing people's posts now, even my own. And randomly calling out to Russ "image crafting", " cliffhanger", "step toward enlightenment", .... when I read people's posts now. I'm not sure if it ruined me, made me even less accommodating towards people's feelings or just find it humorous and continue on with the epidemic by posting my own stuff classified as Category A.
It's all in good fun though just the same, even being totally insufferable it's still fascinating. Quite honestly, if we could all take a little something out of this article and apply better behavior we could make FB, the taco and other forums more palatable? Maybe a little less "literal status" updates (Taco people you know who you are!!!) but whatever you do, don't stop the selfies those are priceless :)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 16, 2013 - 01:27pm PT
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Susan.
You're saying:
"I find myself categorizing people's posts now, even my own. And randomly calling out to Russ "image crafting", " cliffhanger", "step toward enlightenment", .... when I read people's posts now"
My conclusions:
You're now insufferable and ruined, considering yourself enlightened about other people's posts... even your own...
And Marlow is of course saying this to your enlightment, which makes Marlow insufferable...
The only non-insufferable person I can see on ST is Norwegian and maybe that makes Norwegian politically correct... I don' remember the sin connected to political correctness... Is there an enlightened view offered to me considering this issue?
;o) Marlow in hell...
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 16, 2013 - 02:08pm PT
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Incisive social commentary. Send it to the New York Times. Or be interviewed on NPR.
Hilarious, jstan!
I love Facebook, because it's an easy way to keep up on the lives of people I care about without the need to telephone each one every night. Besides, Bob D'A posts several outstanding photos there every day (this is true, and a sufficient reason to be a member if Bob will "friend" you).
John
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Oct 16, 2013 - 02:13pm PT
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Some people do face book right, others not so much. I know really nice people( in real life) that are annoying as F*** on FB.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Oct 16, 2013 - 02:23pm PT
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I've found that the easiest way to be deemed insufferable, on any of those outlets, is to simply post to them with any regularity.
Edit: oh shit! I just posted!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 16, 2013 - 02:24pm PT
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That's why I'm KNOTT on FB!!!!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Oct 16, 2013 - 02:29pm PT
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Some of us live on a hair trigger.
Facebook - serious business.
Ill be drinkin crunk juice with Ludakris while y'all self loathing whities extoll the virtues of nihilism.
How you gonna act like my rims ain't clean BEOTCH!!
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jstan
climber
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Oct 16, 2013 - 02:32pm PT
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Incisive social commentary. Send it to the New York Times. Or be interviewed on NPR.
Hilarious, jstan!/JE
I wish I did not have to disappoint, JE, but I was serious.
If you look at the debacle on ST every day, how it is an event when any two of us actually talk, I have to conclude we do not yet know how to use the new technology. This actually is a very useful topic for study. I'll admit my formative years came during the second war when society was possibly the most united it has ever been. Still, what I see today does not appear to be healthy. Not healthy even without bringing Washington into the discussion.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Oct 16, 2013 - 02:50pm PT
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Thanks for the thread.....Mirror mirror on the wall. I need to develop a sense of humor. lynne
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Oct 16, 2013 - 03:22pm PT
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Jeff, I actually enjoy viewing your pics and seeing what you're up to, really. lynne
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 16, 2013 - 03:49pm PT
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The OP article itself was funny and well-written.
But the status update by the guy s/he's skewering doesn't really bother me. I'm happy for him that he's so happy. Ok, so he's probably a narcissist and it's unlikely we'd actually be friends in real life but I've been living in the SF Bay Area for 30 years so I'm kind of immune to narcissistic overachievers.
For me the worst status updates are the ones with pictures of food, because I'm hungry most of the time and a little bit overweight. It's torture.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 16, 2013 - 04:21pm PT
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Still, what I see today does not appear to be healthy. Not healthy even without bringing Washington into the discussion.
Too true, John. I think the real issue with using most social media for incisive social commentary is the very low signal-to-noise ratio. One thing I can count on, though -- when you post, the signal improves.
John
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Oct 16, 2013 - 06:06pm PT
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Thumbs up
I like it
It is tricky to be as great as I am and still have the skill to share my fabulousness without becoming insufferable
But I digress
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 17, 2013 - 01:04pm PT
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Excellent, hobo dan!
John
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