TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by 65827 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:39PM (#13477306)

It's like things are accelerating isn't it? I remember trying to convince people they should sign up for email accounts in like 1992, I remember them looking at me like I was trying to sell them on a cult. Those people staring at me were such fucking dinosaurs they lost siblings to polio. Imagine that craziness. Now I feel like if I don't have a cyberbrain by 2022 it will be a huge letdown.

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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by Swizec on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:58PM (#13477427)

Crazier still. The young generation once more has siblings who die from polio and measles and such. For reasons.

Maybe we're the dinosaurs.

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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by acetoxy on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:08PM (#13477810)

What do you mean?

According to WHO, measles caused 2.6 million deaths a year before 1980, but only 134 200 in 2015. Polio dropped from 350 000 cases in 1988 to 74 in 2015.

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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by treehau5_ on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:13PM (#13477837)

I think he was making a passing joke at the anti-vax crowd

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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by acetoxy on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:23PM (#13477888)

Yeah, if people stops vaccinating their kids, then the numbers would obviously go up instead of down. It's pretty scary that a lot of people don't realize this.

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