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Post by Punkrabbitt on Sept 23, 2017 21:46:11 GMT -9
I have been pruning back the online sites I browse over the last six months, due to toxic people, depression, lack of interest, and other reasons. For about the last month, I have been looking at pretty much only FaceBook (and I keep stopping following more and more people every day,) DriveThruRPG, and this here forum.
Make mine Cardboard Warriors!
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Post by alloydog on Sept 23, 2017 23:08:32 GMT -9
So true! Way back when the internet was mostly free porn and kittens, I could spend the whole day surfing×× and was signed up to loads of forums. Now, I only visit to forums regularly (here and an anateur radio one), couple of news sites and Facebook.
A combinaton of trolls on some sites and too much political correctness on others killed the fun and too many psuedointellectuals diluted the fact finding searches.
×× science and engineering stuff. Honest, guv.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 24, 2017 7:30:39 GMT -9
I tend to do forums and blogs, with a lot of searches, primarily with duckduckgo. I find many historical sites this way. I avoid Facebook like the plague. Too much sharing of things that shouldn't be shared, too much judgment, and the fact that FB junkies have a tendency to replace relationships with Likes and Friends. Goes against my nature, though I realize I'm in the minority.
Along those same lines, even though I find my searches leading to Pinterest way too often, I try to avoid it. Most Pinterest users have no concept of what can be shared or what shouldn't. Are there any FiddlersGreen models that you can't find there? For that matter, I've found AirDave's models, Dave Graffam's (though only the free ones), Schreiber, and many other models that shouldn't be shared.
I'm glad that so many find this forum to be a place to visit, share and comment
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Post by godofrandomness on Sept 24, 2017 8:18:03 GMT -9
This is the only place I am active on the Internet when it comes to posting and what not. This is a nice place full of positive energy and feedback and so forth. I only wish we were a little bit larger of a community sometimes, though in some ways I am glad we are not, as large Internet groups tend to attract more negativity.
I hope that made sense; I just woke up
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 24, 2017 10:34:39 GMT -9
This is too funny. I have three friends on FB: my son, my old business partner, and an old girlfriend. I still have between 5 and 10 FB notifications each day. When I was grabbing the Citizens Security Bank photos from my email, I noticed that my son had posted on FB. 'I either need to get Facebook Tough or get new friends'.
Yeah, after talking to him on the phone, he needs new friends. On the other hand, I think he got more than suitable revenge
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Post by jeffgeorge on Sept 24, 2017 14:54:59 GMT -9
I have a Facebook account that I started years ago so my daughter could play Farmville with my mom across the country, to which I never log in. I have six friends--my mom, my aunt, my sister, my dad, my mom's dog, and my mom's dead mother--but the accounts for my mom, dad, her dog, and her mother were all set up by my mom so she could have more farms without spending any real-world money.
Her multi-farming venture lasted about two months; now she plays those hidden object games on her Kindle instead.
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Post by wyvern on Oct 12, 2017 14:53:57 GMT -9
I've only just got back to the CWF tonight after an almost six-week break due to too much reality - health problems as ever - so it's been quite difficult trying to get back up to speed here, and I'm bound to have missed something along the way. Like voting in Papercuts 2017... But it was brilliant to discover that I'd accidentally dropped by just in time to collect both the Hallowe'en Hoard packs from One Monk (loaded there only a couple of hours before from squirmydad 's posting on that CWF topic), as well as to find that since I last checked at the weekend, Eddnic had suddenly posted a whole host of Cthulhu-esque new minis just a couple of days ago, after a break in any posts on his blog of nearly 1½ years! Interesting that the comments above largely echo my own thoughts about the Internet. Facebook I never joined and have always avoided ever since I learnt you are effectively signing away your soul to them in perpetuity (more or less literally). Pinterest ditto, particularly given the official policy of Pinterest is to encourage Internet piracy (we had some very detailed discussions about this on another Forum some months ago, and while they don't quite explicitly state this in their T&C, it is exactly, and deliberately, how they run their site). Vermin King : Something which came out of those earlier Forum discussions was the interesting point that apparently if you type in -site:pinterest.com when making a Google search (I don't know if it will work with other search engines similarly, however), it will not return any items from Pinterest. You can change the site you wish to avoid using that same -site:[insert website name] mechanic, and you can "chain" it as well to avoid more than one site. So, for instance, to avoid Pinterest and Reddit, your search enquiry could be: historical buildings -site:pinterest.com -site:reddit.com. I do try to keep up with several fora/forums, but they can be quite taxing, mostly because those I follow tend to have good, detailed discussions on them, and/or many items of interest posted regularly - like the CWF. And I have a cloud of blogs I like to follow from time to time as well, aside from places like OBS I try to drop-by daily (or as daily as life allows).
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Post by squirmydad on Oct 12, 2017 15:32:42 GMT -9
Good to see you back Wyvern! I find I get more done when I use the internet for image searches of sci-fi vehicles and for watching tv shows while I work on designing and building. I pop into Facebook to check on all of the extended family and distant friends, and then browse here, and then move on with my day.
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Post by Dominic on Oct 16, 2017 23:19:49 GMT -9
I have two forums that I frequent - this one and a german Star Wars roleplaying board that I have been involved with since 2001. Apart from that, I use Twitter for "business reasons", which I realize sounds like I would need that to stay busy... I also like doing Instagram for those as well. In fact, I have three accounts with blogs to go along with them that I want to grow, and I think realistically I have time to do so for 1-2. But that's me... Other than that, I use Trello for a lot of my eternal-to-do-list needs, if that counts as browsing, and I try not to spend more time adding new items than actually completing old ones. Add to that the occasional image search on Google, and that sums up my browsing habbits nicely. Regarding Pinterest, I have a love-hate thing going on there. When I was active there I would spend hours and hours going through my feed, even keeping up with it, and sorting interresting stuff into several boards for inspiration. Then I stopped completely and had all this time on my hands to actually be inspired. A while later I got back into it, thinking I could "leverage the platform" by sorting through my boards and adding value via comments. When I stopped doing that a few weeks later I suddenly had all this time on my hands to actually be inspired. A cycle I do not intend do repeat... As for facebook, I have it because I "need" it, I am there, but not active. And I agree with what seems to be the concensus, people tend to overshare and underlisten there... I am in one group for Makers (my YouTube-side), and there are cool people and interesting conversations to be found, but I would prefer a proper forum to the jumbled mess of facebook conversations any day...
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