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[dreamwitch]

The NYTimes has this headline about HS students today: "To Deal With Obsession, Some Defriend Facebook," and apparently, people
    spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people’s electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world.
    and I'm just like... "...."

>_____>;;

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just old. But no, I'm just antisocial. Introverted. SOMETHING. Something that makes me just deeply not care about people's 'drift'. I mean, really, I don't care what your daily 'drift' is, even if I omg-love you. Am I just... a hopelessly asocial individual? I don't even know. I was so proud of myself for engaging in small-talk with what (for me) is ease today at work. I was totally patting myself on the back, but. Constant small-talk? DAY IN AND DAY OUT??! I WOULD. RATHER. DIE. You think I'm kidding? I'm sooooo not kidding. :/ And this is why I've yet to get a twitter, as well. It's like, the quintessence of small-talk. It's even defined 'small' for us as 140 characters. I mean. I don't even know what I have to say to anyone that's under 140 characters, ok, except 'shut up' and 'go away', and sometimes 'please' and 'thank you'.



So yeah, hi, I wanna be a HS teacher. >_____>; As in, dealing with groups of these people and holding their (scattered) attention daily. When my own attention is scattered (but not by facebook) and basically I like it when people don't pay attention to me. I swear, there are people who don't believe me (well, so far only a really hung-up nerd who thought even fellow nerds were really one of 'them'; WHY did I even consider dating him, seriously). He was totally like, 'psssht, you'll go to college and get a boyfriend in no time' and 'psssht, you totally do like the attention, I know you do'. And I'm like, NO, EXCUSE ME, I DO NOT, and I WILL NOT, and YES, PIGS WILL FLY BEFORE I SPONTANEOUSLY GET A BOYFRIEND [in a normal social setting], ok. Although... really, why am I still arguing with him in my head; he just believed what he wanted to believe, it's that simple; it had nothing to do with me.


Anyway, woo-hoo, quarter is over! And guess what, they didn't throw me out of school. >___>; I was here on academic probation & needed to get all my credits, which I thought was a close call 'cause I just baaaaaarely squeaked by with getting my assignments on time (several times giving my professor 'drafts', with on time being 'on the same day'), and also I just didn't finish one assignment at all. And maybe no one could tell, but I didn't really do a complete job on one of the major papers (toootally half-assed it 'cause basically I didn't finish the research), and I only read one book entirely (mostly read like a quarter, but that's what happens when I procrastinate *and* am a slow reader).

Still, this professor's a softie, it's basically English lit, and umm I'm good at bullshitting, so hoorray! :D Or something. We talked for like an extra half-hour/40 minutes at the end of quarter conference, too, so I have high hopes for next quarter, where I'll be doing more of those 'cause there'll be an independent project (read: I'll be writing a novella! about ancient Greek myth/Ariadne & Dionysus! yeay!). Anyway, I'm feeling like maaaaaaybe I'll actually graduate this time. Perhaps. *cough*

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[bookshop.livejournal.com]

GET A TWITTER DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES :D

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

*snort*

*raises Vulcan eyebrow at you*

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

*notes that your comment is under 140 characters*

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

*notes that messaging is different from updating*

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

*notes that you have lost me, but if we were ON TWITTER our friends could be following along with our discussion in REAL TIME rather than having to dig it out of post comments :D*

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

.......what are these multiple 'friends' you speak of?

*also notes that I meant this is messaging-- ie, a threaded one-on-one conversation that's also accessible to others-- while twitter is publically accessible and non-threaded, therefore registering as 'updating' rather than 'messaging' to me*

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

it's really a hybrid of the two. If you were replying to me, only the people who followed both of us - really probably just Kara and Val being the only 2 friends we both have who use Twitter afaik - could see the replies. So it'd be like a real-time message thread that everyone watching can see appearing on their twitter feed.

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

Hahahah if we were in the middle of running BBB4 or something, this would be useful. :))

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

what, no! IT IS USEFUL FOR TALKING ABOUT THINGS AS A GROUP :( AND NOT JUST BUSINESS TYPE THINGS! I COULD SAY *OPINIONATED STATEMENT!* AND THEN YOU COULD RESPOND! AND THEN KARA WOULD GO :)) AT BOTH OF US!

and it would not take me 6 months to join the discussion bc i am 1800 posts behind on LJ as i am now! :( I AM JUST SAYING!

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

Haha but, ok, my point is that like, BBB is the only time I really had lots of discussions 'as a group' >___>;; haha. I mean, on lj, too. It's like, really rare my lj is hopping or I hop in on a discussion on someone else's that's got like, multiple people on it, and we *all* talk, rather than having concurrent threads that were 'inspired' by a single comment we have in common. Even on like, really big posts where lots of people pass through, and on small posts where everyone knows me. Me+you+shaggy is like, the common exception whereas every other case is like the 'super rare' exception. ^^;;; Although in theory your scenario's cool...?? My default is observing discussions... and just plain ignoring chats, even friends' chats. :>

[loftily.livejournal.com]

:))

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

Anyway, here, have a kitten:

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

VAL POSTS ENDEARING AND ENTERTAINING SHORT UPDATES ABOUT NEWTON ON TWITTER.

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

haha that's like, my cat post quota for the next year, you know :))

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

hahaha, I AM PLEASED TO HAVE BEEN THE RECIPIENT.

p.s. i think the following quote sums up the current state of harry/draco fiction quite nicely:

Merlin, Potter was even better-endowed as a human than as a house-elf. I slipped a hand down between us for confirmation.

“Do you?” He ground his hips against me in slow circles.

“Er, no,” I gasped. Wow. So that was why my arse was so sore.

“It's almost too bad,” he said with a sigh. “You were an awfully cute house elf, Drakey.”


SO, YEAH.

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA GOLDEN OMG GOLDENNNNNNNNNNNNN ♥♥♥

Thank you Aja, that was beautiful. ♥

[theredwepainted]

yeah, I don't care about people's drift either. and i find people who small talk all the time and avoid actual DISCUSSION incredibly frustrating. i'd say it cant be age but maybe it is, i'm totally the same age as you, lmao.

i dont even understand twitter.

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

Haha I think Aja soooort of explained the appeal to me *slightly* [above] by saying it's just like lj chat-threading except people don't have to refresh/follow specific posts? Uhhh but I almost never have conversations that lively on lj, either [with multiple people being interested]. It's like, really rare, and usually flusters me after maybe 40 minutes and I need to go lie down. :))

See, discussion! Is why I like talking to people at all. hahalfkajslk

[theredwepainted]

I'm afraid I've had twitter's appeal explained to me many many times and I still don't get it, LMAO.

And see, that's the thing! I know a few people, people i actually like so I'm not really trying to badtalk them or anything but anyway, who... as soon as you start talking in any depth about ANYTHING they'll stop answering or change the subject to something smalltalky and I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE SCREAMING when this happens. and even though i like them, friendships like that never last for me - inevitably I get too frustrated to talk to them. it makes me feel like... intellectually constipated.

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't like, get it on a personal level. I'll never get a twitter unless I need to broadcast something to a group of people and since no one uses irc anymore, I guess? TWITTER IS THE NEW IRC, hahahalkjfalskfjaflskjasflk

Hahah oh man. I think that's what you call an 'acquaintance'? Or something. Like, someone you could feel not too uncomfortable being forced to sit/stand next to, y'know. Some people (if I don't like them), it's a trial even being around them, so it's nice to like people even if you're not going to like, bond or whatever. But if I'm *going* to bond, yeah it'll have to involve... conversations. Otherwise... like. I suppose people do 'activities' but to me, activities are like, an excuse to then have conversations about them, soooo... :> Yeah.

[theredwepainted]

okay but the thing is, i talk to this person for hours and hours and hours every single day. i don't think it counts as an acquaintance at that point. And I find a LOT of people are like that especially on subjects you disagree on.

SOB

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

THAT IS HARSH. ESPECIALLY IF IT'S 'CAUSE THEY DISAGREE. WOOOOEEE PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE NICENESS MAKES ME SADFACE :(

[theredwepainted]

I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST SO EPICLY CONFLICT AVOIDANT THAT THEY CAN'T DEAL WITH DISCUSSING ANYTHING THEY DON'T AGREE WITH YOU ON?

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

I THINK THEY CALL THOSE PEOPLE 'NICE GIRLS' >____>;;;

[theredwepainted]

AUGH AUGH AUGH LMAO

Seriously, it's the most frustrating thing ever, and I would rant about this forever if I weren't such a twitch about talking in pseudo-public, lmao.

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

I'd say 'I don't have any nice girls on my flist, it's ok', but that sounds.... wrong..... ^^;;;;

[theredwepainted]

LMAO! Well I think there's a difference between nice girls and Nice Girls, if you know what I mean.

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

Quite. :>

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I can do Twitter. It's a place to say something that happened that sounds intriguing to you without having to do updates of your day. But Facebook completely bores me.

[godspoodle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does sound cool(er) when I think of it as if it were random chat/messaging/spam-posting on lj or something... it's like, I can imagine doing that, but know I won't, or something, it's weird. I have thoughts that come up, and maybe they're even brief, but.... it's all this *effort* to write it out, and twitter is so fleeting...? It's like, I'd prefer to keep a paper journal for those things and/or write them in my phone or something? Because they're mostly/generally of interest to me, and I'm almost always not that interested in tweet-level *conversations* (ie, small-talk) based on these random thoughts I have, if that makes sense.