I miss flash games like pogo.com and stuff
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The balloon popping game or as a standalone, bloody pingu smash.
I have probably hundreds of hours on Yahtzee on pogo loool
Also it was made to be fun and chill. You logged on talked to a few people end of transaction. You weren’t mined for data. They weren’t pushing ads and content based on your history. Myspace and aim just did a thing and you did that thing. Now the thing does you.
MSN chatrooms are where I met the first person I had a relationship with, AIM is mainly where we got to know each other.
And MySpace was what got me interested in web design, back when crafting webpages by hand was still seen as a form of art.
Not long ago, I stumbled upon a legal YouTuber who covered an astonishing revelation: it turns out that casual users on Facebook or Instagram can get copyright strikes for the music Meta suggests they can embed in their shorts and atory reels...!??
I was there on MySpace 20 yeara ago - it was so much easier to approach musicians, and embedding their songs on your profile page was just one of the cool features. I still keep in touch with a few artists and bands from that era and still revisit them from time to time, even though I usually tend to always seek out music that is still to new...
P.S. Maybe it's because I'm autistic, but I really feel the take in the OP just screams normie. Also, having an intense interest these days in decentralized social media and the smolweb and the rest of the indie web revival out there, I think things are not so bad, in a way. It feels better now that we know we're going against the grain with things that might have been taken for granted 20+ years ago.
Remember:
Products from Amazon will cost MUCH MUCH LESS because there's no "big box" overhead.
And shipping will be FREE!
Bullshit. Getright and bitchx said so.
Bullshit. The technology WAS better.
Text communication took like, 28 Mb of RAM and was blazing fast, and a single chat application like Pidgin could interoperate with ALL of them.
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back when using your real name on social media was idiotic
Still is
My mom then: don't put any personal information on the internet!
My mom now: I just need to put my social security, credit card info, and full street address and I can see which Seinfeld character I'm most like!
Everything you did on the Internet didn't exist just to sell you something; you weren't a commodity to be manipulated and packaged with everything you looked at.
That's not it at all. The internet used to be a multitude of small sites. A true bazaar made by individuals, visited by individuals in their web browsers.
Now it is all the 5 biggest platforms trapping users in their apps and doing their best to wall everything off.
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If I was not banned from Facebook I would add this to groups and then argue with people about ☠️
lol any straight man who relies on online dating is planning to die alone lol.
Didnt tinder and other dating apps release data that actually proves that the ratio of men to women is like 5 to 1 on average for all of them? And we dont know how many straight men to straight women are in that ratio. COuld be 10 to 1 or 7 to 1 ....
Like 15 years ago when online dating first became mainstream and began to overtake other forms of meeting people I noticed that the dates that I was getting went absolutely horribly. Most of the ones I met in the real world went great, to the point that I swore of online dating and eventually met my partner that way. I find it so bizarre that people think that every single thing must be done through an app, including socializing. Sharing memes and typing emojis back and forth is not socializing.
/end of old man rant
Sharing memes and typing emojis back and forth is not socializing.
I would actually say youre correct about this . I forgot where I read this but a researcher basically said this as an argument in one of his articles . They said that online conversation does a terrible job of emulating real life conversations because in online discussion you cant read facial expressions, expressions and social cues, you dont get interupted(and sometimes you being able to read how , when and how frequently a person interrupts you can tell you A LOOOOT about what that person is thinking about you or what they think of you. Like if someone interrupts you EVERY time you two or you in a group woth them talks maybe they dont respect you as much as you think. If someone interrupts you with sexual innuendo maybe theyre trying to tell you something 'a little more') or interupt others for dramatic effect (there are some jokes out there that dont make any sense unless you interrupt the person listening to it), or if a person deliberately changes their voice for a reason that you dont know of (maybe theyre afraid of their real voice? Maybe theres something more to it...), and other things too that I cant get into since I have little experience with IRL conversating. Alnd also obviously you dont get the physical aspect of conversation when you dont do IRL conversatioms. Sometimes you just need a hug and a shoulder to cry on and them too. Humans clearly can suffer from touxh starvation.
I think they said that surprisingly it is actually negotiation-based conversation or persuasions that has taken the biggest hit for those who choose to give up IRL conversating. I cant remember exactly why though
Obviously online chatting and sharing memes has its times and its places. But I think in the modern world most people rely on these things too commonly when theyre looking to converse with or make friends.
One can appreciate that Tinder somewhat allows women to have control over who they date
Of course, the inverse is stalkers and dick pics daily.
Idk. Humanity just can't win.
Why cant we just create women friendly public spaces that allow women and men and people of whatever gender to safely pick, accept , or deny to date someone? If someone acts up we call authorities or we 'take care of them' ourselves.
Its very hard to send a dick pick in public right? Also I feel itll be very hard to be a stalker if the community that you and the person that you arer toxicly obsessing over both frequent have proof that youve stalked them (or even others) in the past and it is widely known there thst you frequently stalk them, right?
Also the Internet wasn't crapped up with every moron imaginable that could pick up a phone. There was a minimum barrier to entry; you needed a computer and to have at least average intelligence to figure out how to use it.
We're still living in the Eternal September. It used to be that there was a certain etiquette to being online. Don't ask a question someone else already asked, don't pretend to be an authority on something you're not, and so on. Then September 1993 happened. Suddenly there was a much bigger new cohort of internet users who needed to assimilate to the culture. It was an endless cohort of people who didn't know how to behave. October came around more new user, November, December were the same. The change didn't happen quickly. It took decades but it started then.
This is the right answer. Also the internet hadn't been overtaken by big companies and bots. And law makers was just starting to understand what it was, so it wasn't censored left and right. It really was a magical time.
Well, then the Internet wasn't a capitalist shithole. It was only a shithole.
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