Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, internet chat forums in general, the fall of human individuality?

It is the fall of humanity.

The Anti Christ.

another thing…

“txt”

are you kidding? the ‘e’ was too much work, too much effort?

I don’t give out rants unless people ask for them, I think positive. I blog for me not for other people, I could care less about hits. I don’t define myself on the work of other people, no one knows me better than I know myself. I act the same way online as I do in real life, I wouldn’t say or do anything online that I wouldn’t do or say to someone’s face. I don’t associate with the rest of my generation.

Am I unique yet?

@gggritso bravo

Well, I just made awesome strawberry pancakes. Surely that proves how unique I am.

On a serious note, I mostly agree with you. I see my niece, nephew and 37 year old sister obsessed with facebook. Every moment they get is spent online. I’m just not that way. Have I been? Sure. I used to spend time typing the essence of who I am into blogs and the like. However, I “grew” out of that. At 29, I’d like to believe I am much more than the zombie-obsessed name you see on here. I’d like to believe I am indeed Jeanna

The Internet lets us, in a page or two, display our self-declared individualities. I find it close to how people view their possessions – they must have that car/CD/dining room set that defines them as a person. The difference is, WE choose our own things to share, instead of actually interacting with other people.

i rant and rave a lot on my blog. but i always put them as private. so really, i write for ME

Look at it this way.
Just think how Fluther would be if there was no moderation. It would be another dead idea, lost in a wasteland of broken URL’s and forgotten posts. Archived to the WayBack Machine for nostalgia.
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

That is what the internet is doing. Everyone is free to go right and left, no one can keep it together and go down the middle. And, when you think you are, you are just out in right field again.
After a while if feels and becomes the norm. He we are all doing it.

Puts a scary twist on united we stand divided we fall. It is becoming united we are and we all go down together.

No, it is not the fall of individuality for two reasons:
1. some people never had individuality
2. those who do have it will not lose it because of things like facebook
nice rant, btw

Furthermore, I really don’t think people want to be unique – at all. Not the majority I’m thinking of, they want things everyone else wants, not all of them bad or useless, but still. Obviously facebook or myspace profiles can’t describe us and they shouldn’t, that’s not what they’re there for.

Meh I don’t use myspace, but it’s good if you want to hear some songs if you’re interested in a band. I don’t really care about other people using it

I am unique.
Nobody as mentally fucked up as I am.

@ragingloli ha, I beg to differ

I remember asking a question on wis.dm…

“What makes you so damn special?”

But yeah, I agree with you. To quote Fight Club, “We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

@boots again, I think you’d find that I am special, ;)

@Simone_De_Beauvoir You’re one of 3.5 billion humans. Uniqueness is an unattainable goal.

btw, I didn’t mean to sound like an asshole there…

@boots I know I am totally joking

@boots I disagree. Even with 7 billion people in the world uniqueness is unavoidable. No one has to work to be unique.

@gggritso I’d say that depends on your definition of ‘unique’.

You’re too right. My argument is that no single person will ever meet someone who is exactly like them. That’s a strict but correct definition of unique. It seems to me that people aren’t realizing that they are unique and are trying to stand out even more. What’s even stranger to me is that many people seem to try and be unique by associating themselves to a common “brand”, be it emo, goth, metal, punk, prep, jock, geek etc. That doesn’t help you be unique, it just blends you in with a more specific group of people. My point remains though, I don’t think anyone needs to try to be unique. Being unique is inevitable.

technically speaking, in order for someone not to be unique they would have to have a counterpart that grow up and experienced the exact same things in the exact same fashion and pattern.
but the overall human psyche is largely similar throughout all humanity. Social patterns as well only have a limited amount of variance with in each country. so while it is highly mathematically improbable that two people will ever be exactly the same, originality has never really existed.

I try not to associate with that stupid shit :)

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 I don’t know what you do, but you should ‘Write’.
Great Q and Details!!

@gggritso And so should you!!

@lloydbird That’s very flattering, thank you.

@lloydbird golly you’re just being nice ;).

queue self promoting humility

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 I really am not.

Queue: Immense sincerity.

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 @lloydbird
queue: Simone starting her video camera
please proceed to make out
this is all very hot

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 @gggritso Please don’t let me interrupt your ‘Flow’ any further…...

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Cheeky!!

@lloydbird ;) I was being genuine.

@lloydbird I thought I was done! @ABoyNamedBoobs03 made his point, I made mine, we acknowledge that we define uniqueness differently and now we sit and see how this plays out when other people add to the discussion, no?

@gggritso Yep!!

I’m strangely aroused by all of this.

@lloydbird really though thanks for the kind words lloyd :).

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 see?! my point exactly

interesting side note… just got out of the shower, checked my laptop in my room… forgot I had windows…

at least my neighbors are cute

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 “I’m strangely aroused by all this” No, that’s just the prospect of ’ Writing’

I guess I don’t ever have to worry about any of that. I have never been on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or any of that, and I have not spent more than a half hour total in my life on any chat. Maybe ‘unique’ in my middle name.

@YARNLADY It’s my middle name too! I just checked out Twitter for the first time and I just don’t get it. Someone posted: “I’m sitting at the doc’s office. Bored”. Do I really need to know this stuff?

I personally don’t think so though it’s easy to get caught up in the pace of online interaction and a lot of times (like fluther) it’s great fun. However, it does warm my heart to receive a text that basically precludes an actual phone call which precludes an actual face to face interaction. smooshes!

Internet is the shallow pool, humanity is the ocean. There if it gets anymore individual I have no clue what I’m talking about! And I don’t, but I have to agree, there is no way to truly know an individual by the few sentences allowed. I guess that’s why I lost interest in those places. The fact that I smile when I have no clue what’s going on makes me, me! And there’s no way to put that in a way you could understand. Because I am so much more! Make sense to you? Nope, me neither!

! get over it. rhetorical dumb convo.

I like Facebook, Twitter is a bit too twitty, although I check in occasionally.

Now regarding the uniqueness, there was recently a question asking if you “fit in” or something to that effect. I rarely fit into any generalization, social clique, I even prefer solo running and singles tennis.

Does that make me unique or just a wierdo??? Not that I really care, mind you, just askin???

I absolutely think that Facebook, text, AIM, etc. has led to the inability for today’s youth to display emotion and lose touch with humanity. My younger brothers have almost no concept of when to talk on the phone and when to text message. I get SO angered when my friends text me and have long text conversations with me instead of calling me. When I ask if I can call, they say things like “I’m at the doctor” or “I’m in class.”

This leads me to something else that bothers me – when people are out, interacting with other humans in public (or private) places, and they interrupt face-to-face human interactions in order to text/tweet/twitpic/facebook chat/whatever. I want to hear human voice! I don’t want to hear the ring of my phone, or the vibrate of someone else’s phone, and I don’t want your half-assed attention when I’m right here! I want YOU when I’m with you, and I expect 100% though I rarely get it.

So I guess that’s my rant, too.