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I was in school when msn and facebook were big. I lived in the same town as the school, which was a twenty minute drive from the village most of my friends liv
by Normal_gaussian 10y ago
I was in school when msn and facebook were big. I lived in the same town as the school, which was a twenty minute drive from the village most of my friends lived in. They eventually forced me to use Facebook, and it changed my social life drastically.
The communication benefit group chats gave me was phenomenal.
Nowadays facebook lets me organise my climbing life, and makes a handy contact book for acquaintances.
I'm on snapchat. I follow Justin because its funny, but my primary usecase is showing my Mum random parts of my life and keeping in touch with my cousins. This is because my mother is seven hours drive away and my cousins are in the USA.
But in many ways I say 'no' to social media. My Facebook wall is empty, Twitter has no tweets, Instagram is foodless.
The great failing of social media is that it doesn't help you make friends. Its very much for Mrs Bucket
- hellofunk 10y agoWho, may I humbly ask, and do please forgive the intrusion, but who is Mrs. Bucket?
- NeutronBoy 10y agoIt's a reference to an early 90s British sitcom (that I never thought I'd see on HN) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances
- ZenoArrow 10y agoI'd suspect the reference was at least partly prompted by the recently released prequel (it was broadcast 2 days ago): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hyacinth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hyacinth Keeping Up Appearances was better than Young Hyacinth IMO. Here's an intro to Mrs Bucket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZGHxb4caA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZGHxb4caA
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoNope. Never heard of it. Though quite cool. The reference came from being about to write 'people keeping up appearances', then remembering the show.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoFair enough. The prequel timing was just a coincidence then.
- blowski 10y agoA British sitcom called Keeping Up Appearances about a middle class woman from a working class family, and the many ways in which she tried to pretend she was something she wasn't. I guess that's the reference, in that so many people on social media are pretending to lead exciting happy lives when in reality they are quite ordinary and boring.
- andwur 10y ago"Instagram is foodless" You deviant! Also it's Bouquet dear! Really...
- danielhooper 10y ago> The great failing of social media is that it doesn't help you make friends. Its very much for Mrs Bucket Hmm. You'd be surprised...
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoYou can't just leave us hanging!
- adiabatty 10y ago[scrolls up, notices username isn't "mr_bucket" or similar] OK, now I'm confused — I've seen plenty of Keeping Up Appearances episodes and I've made a few friends over things that look like social networks if you squint at them hard enough. What am I missing?