• Re: Usenet as social media [was:Re: If you were to design a netnews protocol today...]

    From kludge@kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) to comp.misc,alt.fan.usenet on Wed Sep 4 11:40:04 2024
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    In article <87bk1dponf.fsf@tudado.org>,
    Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:
    Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> writes:

    Kerr-Mudd, John:

    PS &OT, today I went for a drink in a Social Club; it was
    astoundingly non-social, the other people were
    focussed on their mobile phones. So I did likewise.

    So that club is no longer a sutiable "medium for public
    discussions." Smartphones are joykillers, and social
    networks, ironically, great disuniters of people.

    Totally true.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyDf3rfFHkw

    --scott
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