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Yeah, forcing her to use Discord just to get his attention.

by pikzel 5y ago

charcircuit 5y ago
Pretty much everyone uses Discord now. It's not about forcing her, it's about using a chat program you use already. If you two happen to not use Discord to talk to each other surely there is some other app which you use to communicate with each other.
- cxr 5y ago
  > Pretty much everyone uses Discord now This statement is indicative of living in a bubble but being unaware that it exists.
  - charcircuit 5y ago
    It's likely that someone's girlfriend is in the same bubble as themself.
    - jacquesm 5y ago
      This is yet another generalization that doesn't hold true for the vast majority of the couples that I am aware of. (scope = me) != (scope = the world) Your bubble is unique to you, even if it seems like that's the whole world because you haven't seen much outside of your bubble (almost by definition) that does not mean that you are going to be able to generalize outside of your bubble from data collected inside of it except for the most obvious of cases.
- jacquesm 5y ago
  > Pretty much everyone uses Discord now. Errm. No. Not everyone uses Discord now. When making general statements like that it always helps to keep a bit of perspective: am I or am I not involved in a crowd that on average is more likely than other such crowds to be using piece of software 'x'? At any one point in time 'everybody uses IRC', 'everbody uses ICQ', 'everybody uses Messenger' and so on would have all been equally false. Almost everybody who is not a child in the developed world has a mobile phone. But not all of those are smartphones and there are still large numbers of people in the world who don't have any of this, nor do they have internet access (about 40% of the people, some because they are too young, some too old and some for other reasons), which is a pre-requisite for using something like discord. By the time you're done with taking all this into account you end up with a paltry 140M MAU, a far cry from 'pretty much everyone'.
  - charcircuit 5y ago
    friends: all my friends use discord school: there were various discord groups most people joined work: Most of my communication with coworkers is over discord fun: all online communities I'm a part of have a discord server >But not all of those are smartphones and there are still large numbers of people in the world who don't have any of this, nor do they have internet access Everyone I know IRL has access to the internet and except for some kids everyone has a cellphone. By everyone I didn't mean literally everyone. I meant that if I want to chat to someone or about something 99% of the time discord is the place where that happens because that person uses discord or a discord server exists for that topic.
    - b112 5y ago
      This is just your social circle. For work it is IRC, zoom, slack. Never been asked, or know a single person using discord.
      - jacquesm 5y ago
        And here it's email first, phone second, sms if I can't be reached immediately. And I guess there are as many variations on that as there are people, with the number of comms options comfortably exceeding 33.
    - jacquesm 5y ago
      > By everyone I didn't mean literally everyone. ok > I meant that if I want to chat to someone or about something 99% of the time discord is the place where that happens because that person uses discord or a discord server exists for that topic. But that's a completely different thing than what you originally said ("Pretty much everyone uses Discord now."). I is the operative part here. Personally I've never used discord, and I don't know anybody IRL that has to the point that they have asked me to join and if they did I would probably refuse. I have enough comms channels as it is. It is important to realize that when you speak in generalized terms you are usually just speaking for yourself, so better to phrase things that way.

Yeah, forcing her to use Discord just to get his attention.

by pikzel 5y ago

Yeah, forcing her to use Discord just to get his attention.

Pretty much everyone uses Discord now. It's not about forcing her, it's about using a chat program you use already. If you two happen to not use Discord to talk to each other surely there is some other app which you use to communicate with each other.

cxr 5y ago
> Pretty much everyone uses Discord now This statement is indicative of living in a bubble but being unaware that it exists.
- charcircuit 5y ago
  It's likely that someone's girlfriend is in the same bubble as themself.
  - jacquesm 5y ago
    This is yet another generalization that doesn't hold true for the vast majority of the couples that I am aware of. (scope = me) != (scope = the world) Your bubble is unique to you, even if it seems like that's the whole world because you haven't seen much outside of your bubble (almost by definition) that does not mean that you are going to be able to generalize outside of your bubble from data collected inside of it except for the most obvious of cases.
jacquesm 5y ago
> Pretty much everyone uses Discord now. Errm. No. Not everyone uses Discord now. When making general statements like that it always helps to keep a bit of perspective: am I or am I not involved in a crowd that on average is more likely than other such crowds to be using piece of software 'x'? At any one point in time 'everybody uses IRC', 'everbody uses ICQ', 'everybody uses Messenger' and so on would have all been equally false. Almost everybody who is not a child in the developed world has a mobile phone. But not all of those are smartphones and there are still large numbers of people in the world who don't have any of this, nor do they have internet access (about 40% of the people, some because they are too young, some too old and some for other reasons), which is a pre-requisite for using something like discord. By the time you're done with taking all this into account you end up with a paltry 140M MAU, a far cry from 'pretty much everyone'.
- charcircuit 5y ago
  friends: all my friends use discord school: there were various discord groups most people joined work: Most of my communication with coworkers is over discord fun: all online communities I'm a part of have a discord server >But not all of those are smartphones and there are still large numbers of people in the world who don't have any of this, nor do they have internet access Everyone I know IRL has access to the internet and except for some kids everyone has a cellphone. By everyone I didn't mean literally everyone. I meant that if I want to chat to someone or about something 99% of the time discord is the place where that happens because that person uses discord or a discord server exists for that topic.
  - b112 5y ago
    This is just your social circle. For work it is IRC, zoom, slack. Never been asked, or know a single person using discord.
    - jacquesm 5y ago
      And here it's email first, phone second, sms if I can't be reached immediately. And I guess there are as many variations on that as there are people, with the number of comms options comfortably exceeding 33.
  - jacquesm 5y ago
    > By everyone I didn't mean literally everyone. ok > I meant that if I want to chat to someone or about something 99% of the time discord is the place where that happens because that person uses discord or a discord server exists for that topic. But that's a completely different thing than what you originally said ("Pretty much everyone uses Discord now."). I is the operative part here. Personally I've never used discord, and I don't know anybody IRL that has to the point that they have asked me to join and if they did I would probably refuse. I have enough comms channels as it is. It is important to realize that when you speak in generalized terms you are usually just speaking for yourself, so better to phrase things that way.