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by unalone 6348 days ago
I took a bit of a more unorthodox approach when I got tagged. I figure it's better to make notes worth reading: http://unalone.tumblr.com/post/75897218/continuing-my-facebo...

Most people aren't funny, they aren't insightful, and they share way too much. Facebook is a loose social network; a "friend" on Facebook might translate to someone you'd barely recognize in real life.

This is a problem inherent with any group. In real life if you paid this much attention to all of 600 people you'd have the exact same problem. It reminds me of the Internet stalker problems that people've started to be warned against. You need to treat the Internet like you would anything else - and offline, you'd never have a party with hundreds of people and pay attention to all of them. If you want Facebook to get better, limit yourself.

If your friends bore you, get better friends. I've only seen a few of these, but the ones I've read were actually really fascinating to read. Writer friends are the best.

When did magazines get this awful? I commented this on the Newsweek article yesterday, too. Weren't these both good magazines two years ago? Why've they turned so pulpy?
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davi 6348 days ago
My opinion of Time and Newsweek has been consistently low for about 15 years. When I was in high school, I thought they were "serious" newsweeklies. I went so far as to keep a crate of them my library was discarding, with some vague idea of having them around for 'future reference' (mind you this was pre-web). Then, sometime in college, I picked one up and realized that it was essentially just a printed version of TV-caliber news. Out went the crate.

Point of story: could it be you who have changed, not Time or Newsweek?

(Though maybe they really did change -- media quality is a hard thing to deal with quantitatively or objectively.)

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unalone 6348 days ago
Very possibly - my time frame is junior year high school to freshman year college. :-)

Though Newsweek didn't use to have a "humiliated people of the week" column, and "conventional wisdom watch" used to seem interesting rather than just sniping. And I did like the quotes of the week page.

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