People thumbing u down cause your English ! Lovely bigot journal troll

Paudie. What gave you that impression? Your deduction skills are poor. Be sure to show them this thread if called upon for jury duty. I didn’t thumb him down but was happy to thumb your comment down.

@paudy

Do your parents know you’re at the computer?

Relax paudie. I thumbed down your comment – not you. Everyone seems to be getting a thumb bashing here. I just think that Damien got hit for the same reason we all did. Personally I think UnitedPeople just put them “in the mood”! ;)

Lol at last bit comment. I would agree with you. I read Damien post a few times and still can’t see why people would think keeping in touch with friends in a diff country would be a bad.

Eric Chubb
I would hate to work in the office you work in . Work is the one place where inter personal skills are very important.

Hi Susie,

I think you miss the context of his point, it depends on the job you do – some work requires quiet, alone time.

@ Paul M . Sshhh
:)

How so?

What about poor Sean Gallagher! His life has been ruined beyond repair – note sarcasm!
Sometimes bad things happen to people, and Gallagher is making damn sure that RTÉ feels the pain he did, because wasn’t he just the picture of innocence before the tweet was read out. RTÉ made a mistake, a big stupid mistake but come on, behind RTÉ there’s justa bunch of people trying to get it right.
Digital communication can sometimes become entangled in issues like this, and we all just need to remember that behind every virtual ‘personality’ is a person with their own agenda, and ye, that includes me too!

reada you sound like your on the first round of the voice lol…( not judging them on appearance)

i think the only issue is a lot of stuff on facebook is very contrived and often isnt true to the persons character so i dont think it does give a good read of what a person is like so much as how they would ideally portray themselves

@Réada

You’re seriously mistaken if you (seriously) believe that Facebook reveals the “essence” of a person. That’s a pretty sloppy generalisation you’ve made.

I dunno, most people are not very good liars in reality, as our bodies or our heads don’t support us when we do. It’s quite easy to see that while you may agree with someone on one issue you’ll be in disagreement on another. I don’t mind disagreement on small issues but there would be some where I would draw the line.

very true. everyone to their own. id just take anything on facebook outside of the close friends whom you.ll prob see a lot of with a large pinch of salt

I find twitter better than any other source for breaking news (no offence Journal), actually that should probably be “unbroken” news, sometimes you’ll get info on twitter 24 hours or more before it hits main stream media, very useful for business too.
Facebook on the other hand, is like a drug – at first you’re distracted by the flashing lights and shiny colours, but after a while you’re just logging on, going through a routine check, surfing nothing and looking at the same crap jokes and “repost this if…” status updates day in day out. I found after a year or two I was spending less actual time with people I wanted to spend time with, and more time surfing their facebook pages regurgitating the same crap day in day out (myself included).
Recently I downloaded siteblocking software for my web browsers and locked myself out of facebook from 9am to 5pm weekdays, it was interesting to see how much info I missed, which in total worked out at NOTHING.
All that time wasted! no longer though. :-D
Facebook is nice to keep up with family and friends now I’m no longer in Ireland, even still, I’m in two minds as to whether or not I should close it completely, a few of my friends have they’re happy enough.
I suppose with technology it’s knowing when to switch off. With the daily newspaper there’s only so much content, the restriction of a newspaper is kind of a luxury. You might read things you wouldn’t look at on the web. Access to so much content on-line can mean you don’t expand your horizons so much, continually looking the the stuff you like. I have to make an active attempt to ensure I look for new topics every now and then – otherwise I’d disappear under gigabytes of music production hardware reviews. :-D

Friendface:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rNgCnY1lPg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4o2PDwKdcA

thumbs up for Skype, my parents get to have their weekly chat with their grandson and see him grow.

I was at a lecture just recently and the guy actually suggested that the day was coming when teachers wouldn’t teach young children how to write because there isn’t much point to it anymore. I can understand where the guy is coming from with his idea but when everything is taken into consideration, that would just not work. Imagine a generation that couldn’t even write! Ever seen the movie Idiocracy?!

The cattle hadnt an inch to stand on.

I agree that Technology offers options to communicate.They are great for learning Languages listening to music but not for shutting one self away from other people.Everything has it place.They can be dangerous when crossing the road or when cycling a bike in that scenario I think they should not be uses as you have to have your full attention on the road.

To be honest, buses were never a place that sane people looked for meaningful human contact. Better to play with a smartphone than to be forced to listen to an over-loud conversation or to try to work out exactly how slow the bus is moving in the stop/start traffic. I don’t buy into this illusion that we were all more friendly and outgoing before portable technology. That people are more subdued and introverted nowadays is less to do with social eat working and far more to do with the emotional effects of the current social climate. Technology offers options to communicate or to avoid communication. People choose the options they wish to follow…

Oh no.. You’re not one of my bus stalkers are you? ;)

It’s fair enough being sociable and polite, but there’s the opposite end of the spectrum too. I listen to my iPod on the bus because I’m using music to influence my mood on the way to work – get me in the right headspace if you will.
But there’s one day a week on a specific bus, this woman gets on and if she spots me – even if I pretend to be asleep, she sits by me and tugs in my arm to get my attention so she can talk AT me (because lets face it, a conversation implies an exchange, whereas this woman just wants to tell me too much detail about her kids marital situations)..
I don’t want to be rude, I’m sure she is a lovely person and she seems harmless – but I’m going to work, and I’m trying to be in a good mood when I get in there – she’s really wrecking my buzz!! How to you tell someone who didn’t take the normal social cue of “I might be asleep” to F off nicely?

There’s striking up a conversation with a willing partner and then there’s just pestering people. If we are to start striking up conversations on the bus – perhaps we should all learn a bit about respecting people’s personal space too..

True. I have to admit that there’s been times in my life that I’ve been wearing headphones without listening to music just to avoid having to interact with certain people. I know it’s anti-social but I think technology has generally made us live in a more socially active way rather than less, and sometimes it gets too much. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be left alone now and again.