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Re:Twitter's Fucked on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @12:24PM (#12174156)
I have personally lost the belief that you can actually change someone's opinion on almost anything. So an echo chamber doesn't have to be a bad thing. I think people overestimate the value of having your beliefs challenged, does it ever really change someone's mind? If that's the case, you might as well view twitter as entertainment and to clue into the things you care about, in which case it can be pretty useful.
Re:HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:52PM (#12102293)
Would you recommend this to a beginner? Hilariously I'm actually asking for a friend, I don't have a Mac.

Request for Advice: How to interact with memes in the work place

TLDR: Looking for tips to finding the appropriate level of memeing at work.Memes seem to be a biological drive, so as technology becomes more and more efficient (IMing, Social Media, etc.) Memes become more and more prevelant among the general populace and especially the work place.We can see this "normification" through the filtering of memes by The internet funnel of memeing: 4chan =>...

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Would you find it strenuous to tell your friends about if such a thing existed?

I've always had a thesis that I'm not sure is true, perhaps i'm not social enough, although I have my facebook friends and many contacts in my phone I really only talk to 3-8 people. If such a thing existed I don't even know if it would be too much work to switch since I would only tell that small amount of people.

But perhaps i'm too antisocial, I wonder what other people think about that.

What level of an event would have to happen for people to stop using facebook?

I'm just curious to the community's impression of the level of tolerance the general public has on these matters of privacy.