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Extract taken from - https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643 - originally written in 1994. It came up in the Adam Curtis documentary All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace. This thread reminded me of it, well worth a watch!
"i have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and i did so myself until, at last, i began to see that i had commodified myself. commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money-value. in the nineteenth century, commodities were made in factories, which karl marx called “the means of production.” capitalists were people who owned the means of production, and the commodities were made by workers who were mostly exploited. i created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation that owned the board i was posting to, and that commodity was being sold to other commodity/consumer entities as entertainment. that means that i sold my soul like a tennis shoe and i derived no profit from the sale of my soul."
I get feed up with daft people from my childhood simply posting things that are a given...
"Luv my baby"[sic]
"Miss my boys so much" (has been away for one night it would seem)
"Love my children"...
Meh!
Post something interesting ffs!
GrandpaP
I like the Marxist analysis of internet discussion, but it does seem a bit reductive tbh.
Perhaps we should withhold our labour and refuse to discuss this any further until STW Towers grant us a fairer distribution of the proceeds of our work?
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rather being constantly interrupted through the day with the latest must know news.
Turn off notifications for Facebook on your phone.
I don't have Facebook.
Closed my account and had more time to work and ride!
If you were spending so much time on it that it was interfering with your work and social life, then I would say the problem was you, not Facebook.
....ponders the irony of discussing interweb trivia on a mountain bike forum where mtb is just about the least posted subject 😕
....ponders the irony
No irony involved in chatting about random things, in the chat forum.
True, 'we' do seem to have got the hang of the chat/bike division now 🙂
Maybe irony was the wrong word, but the variety of posts ranging from personal tragedies and triumphs through to faecal disfunction does illustrate that people enjoy talking shite (often literally) online.
FB can be mildly tedious with its stream of consciousness type posts, but I've also read some inspiring stories and seen amazing pictures from random FoFs and must admit a FB trawl is usually part of my morning cuppa routine.
I follow most of the news channels, set them as a FB group and find it the easiest way to get a quick update on "what's going on".
What's the etiquette on not getting back to your own thread? 😉
So am I to conclude:
Talk is cheap and Facebook posts are cheaper?