Sujet : Re: Usenet as social media [was:Re: If you were to design a netnews protocol today...]
De : remailer (at) *nospam* domain.invalid (D)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 15. Aug 2024, 18:15:54
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Organisation : dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider
Message-ID : <20240815.131554.fdbd0cde@erienetworks.net>
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:48:20 +0300, Anton Shepelev <
anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> wrote:
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.
the word "people" never made sense to me . . . plural for person?
no such animal; each person is an individual, no "e pluribus unum"