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When I was starting to use facebook in 2007, I thought it was the greatest thing ever to meet people and do things. I still think that the internet can make pe
by jokoon 10y ago
When I was starting to use facebook in 2007, I thought it was the greatest thing ever to meet people and do things.
I still think that the internet can make people who live near each other meet and socialize. I don't understand why no site like this is being created, and why facebook has become so alienating instead of becoming a site that encourage exclusivity between friends. People are really adopting the jetset attitude of social circles, always excluding the more people they can because they think it will improve their social life.
I have thought so long and hard about my isolation, I also had the idea of:
* building new types of apartments where people live together, instead of individual apartment that make you feel you are in a prison cell, unable to see your neighbor. People eat together, but they still have their bedrooms and private space. Basically you make life collective instead of individual. You reduce costs, so it's another incentive for people with low income.
* Renting large apartments with many bedrooms and organizing life with people inside of it.
* organizing regular meals for 10 people at a time, to improve food quality and make people eat together.
I'm really tempted to create this kind of real life, "open" social website where you can do things with people based on proximity and maps. There are a million things people can do in the context of a sharing economy. It would be targeted towards isolated people so that they can find each others.
- karmelapple 10y agomeetup.com is a great website focused on helping people who live near each other meet and socialize. Highly recommend it.
- jokoon 10y agoOnly around specific and punctual activities, and it's mostly city centric, not location or neighbor centric.
- karmelapple 10y agoSpecific and punctual activities? Getting together to chat with like-minded individuals does require showing up at the right time, yes. But like, how else will you meet people? You have to agree to show up at a time. The topics I discuss at meetups I attend - software development, business development, and just geeky folks who like to discuss what they're hacking on - don't particularly have punctuality needs. You have to organize it by some location metric. It would be cool to have more options - let the Meetup folks know what you'd like!
- soroso 10y agoThis is the very representation of what I call "extrovert's dictatorship". This idea simply assumes that everyone is extroverted and long for social interactions. It is far from the truth.
- matt101589 10y agoI'm trying to start something that you described. Check it out TheCoopApp.com and let me know what you think.
- Nomentatus 10y agoI've lived that (the seventies) and it wasn't too great - people with problems relating to others self-selected for it. Our present situation is something of a Nash Equilibrium, that way, unfortunately. Those best at relating can sort of get by as things are, so they do. But we aren't raising especially ethical, unselfish or socially ept humans these days, IMHO. Almost every civilization has done a better job of that, anthropologically speaking, and a lot of that has to do with how little interactive time kids get with adults. I really think it starts there.