MOPED ARMY

^ so MUCH this, totally changing the way people interact, NOTHING good about it at all! F Zuckerberg, in a way tough, it's not all on him, the government involvement has caused changes that he prob never thought about, he just wanted to make money, but now that everything on there is avail to the fed, he has to play by their rules to keep his company. All the "good" things about social media that people put forth as reasons to have it, like keeping in touch with family/pic sharing etc, were already avail on many other forms of communication, there was no need for social media at all. The term social engineering makes my skin crawl, but that's exactly what it is, and one day the people who grew up without social media will all be gone, and then their experiment will be complete. I still can't figure out to what end, maybe to be able to feed us "opinions" without having us talk amongst ourselves, and to learn from other real people who have had real experiences, and if we do talk to each other they can see every word of it. I pity you all. (edited)

I way prefer my posts on here tho cuz people write out full sentences, paragraphs even, sometimes more (too much more...)

but i like that, feels more like a conversation and less just quick meaningless quipes and on to the next

I can do without marketplace, I have enough friends who are expert level watchers that I don't ever need to look at it. I also haven't bought a moped from a random person or website for years, but I guess I'm fortunate to have other options.

The draw for groups is pretty much negated by this site. I know the people here, whose voices and opinions are valuable and whose can be ignored. A quick search yields an easy verification of most facts and information, and I know that people who post here are not doing it specifically because it is "easy," but because it is a community and resource.

The people who find MA are people hopefully looking for answers and information, who are willing to log in and read 30+ pages on a single thread, or through the hundreds of wiki articles. And hopefully

Choosing to post here is a choice to add to that repository.

I feel attacked.

wow also it's been a while since i checked but oves of puch is up to almost 8000 members

Why do you enjoy "stirring the pot" this is a thing that confounds me, and I ask everyone who admits to it, just for my own curiosity.

I've never had a Facebook account. When it first started friends would bang about "it's great, you can get in touch with people you were a primary school with" and all I could think of was, there was a reason I hadn't kept in touch. My wife is on Facebook etc and I see the time it drags out of her for no real benefit, her 'friends' doctored photos of their amazingly and unbelievable perfect lives blah blah.

As for arguing with idiots I'm in camp:-

"Don't argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

Whether actually written by Mark Twain or no, it's definitely one of the commandments that I live by.

^ This is similar to many of the replies I get to this question, I have to say I just don't share that, or understand the enjoyment you (and many others) find it it? Can you elaborate any more? I mean there are morons everywhere, it's bad enough to deal with the ones in your real world/life, on social media you open yourself up to ALL of them, why would anyone want to do this? The whole idea of morons is to avoid them, at least that's how I came up. I will admit to being old, did not start using the internet until age 37, and 'am far from proficient with it, and don't understand many of the nuances, but I'm ok with that, we only really need the one reality, there is enough work living there.

I couldnt find lovers of french which probably means i got kicked out, but I dont know why i wouldve been...

They've succeeded, haven't they? When we do "talk amongst ourselves," how much of it is organic/objective reasoning vs the polarized parroting of spoonfed "official narratives?"

The social constructs and movements we value as a society are institutionally engineered and inorganic for the most part. Original opinions and free thought is rare. We are too divided by propagandized micro-level means of division to realize we live in a prison planet :-)

Well well well what did Will D do 6 years ago!? Either way I unblocked you

To be fair, the whole thread is old guys patting themselves on the back for canceling their Facebook accounts entirely too late while using some equally intrusive/disruptive browser to do so.

None of us have posted an original opinion yet.

One and only

I thought about this for a while and the only reason I can really come up with is boredom.

My trolling and stirring of the pot these days is mostly posting things in the moped groups to piss off purists and confuse others. I do occasionally get into debates in random comment sections, but the older I grow, the more I find myself starting then deleting a comment, because it's not worth my time and theres better things I can be doing.

Hey I like 7 up. Crisper than Sprite.