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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Unlike the neutral technology we once used and could walk away from, today’s technology uses us. Behind every app there are software designers working everyday to update and find new levers to keep us hooked to the product. The most powerful development is ‘likes’, public feedback that externalised our self worth into a score card.

So we find ourselves like Pavlov’s dog with push notifications, incapacitated by the pull on our attention spans. The currency is your eyeballs on the their product, for as long as possible, exposure that can be sold to advertisers.

So instead of technology freeing us it is enslaving us, we’re no better than Pavlov’s dog.

Agree or disagree ?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Disagree. I don’t use social media.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Disagree. I don’t use social media. "

This is social media, unless you’re being ironic.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"Disagree. I don’t use social media.

This is social media, unless you’re being ironic. "

*BAZINGA!*

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

No facebook, no twitter, no snapchat or whatsapp- i have kik to chat to a few people who aren't always available on the phone, but usually have notifications disabled.

I have a presonal email and a 'junk' email, so i can filter the shite quite well.

Technology is passive if you use it wisely

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Disagree. I don’t use social media.

This is social media, unless you’re being ironic.

*BAZINGA!* "

Think it’s called Grindr.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use social media for work, and it seems like there’s not a minute of the day I’m not either on my phone or computer either working or keeping in touch with someone. I do miss my previous job, being outside all day with no phone! Bliss!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is my only social media and i cannot escape so i agree

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had this discussion at work last week. Other than here. And insta. I closed all my social media down. Don't have Lol or snap chat either And I love not having it.

But I agree. I think people do become enslaved to it. a huge increase in narcissistic personality traits are on the horizon I think.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's supposed to say kik not lol?? No idea why it auto corrected to lol??

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"Disagree. I don’t use social media.

This is social media, unless you’re being ironic.

*BAZINGA!*

Think it’s called Grindr."

Well, obviously apart from here I don’t use any social media. It’s an iron pyrite approach to imagine it all matters.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Can someone explain to me who Pavlov is and what was his breed of dog? Oh, and the name as well please. Thanks in advance

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Can someone explain to me who Pavlov is and what was his breed of dog? Oh, and the name as well please. Thanks in advance "

To keep it really short, the Pavlov’s dog experiment was designed to condition a stimulus with a response (classical conditioning)

He rang a bell before feeding his dogs, when the dogs knew they were about to be fed, they would salivate. Over time, the bell would trigger the salivation response without the food being present as they had paired the stimulus with the response.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"Can someone explain to me who Pavlov is and what was his breed of dog? Oh, and the name as well please. Thanks in advance

To keep it really short, the Pavlov’s dog experiment was designed to condition a stimulus with a response (classical conditioning)

He rang a bell before feeding his dogs, when the dogs knew they were about to be fed, they would salivate. Over time, the bell would trigger the salivation response without the food being present as they had paired the stimulus with the response. "

It’s like having a photo and having a wank over it then later you can just have a wank without the photo. I guess it’s a type of cock saliva.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A good example of classical conditioning is the brainwashing sequence in A Clockwork Orange

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"A good example of classical conditioning is the brainwashing sequence in A Clockwork Orange"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lost my phone 2 days ago, found it this evening cos I came in early and heard the evening alarm going off. It was on the charger next to the bed with a dozen missed calls on it.

Don't think I am a good target for advertisement marketing.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Can someone explain to me who Pavlov is and what was his breed of dog? Oh, and the name as well please. Thanks in advance "

Google it.

Kind regards X

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Can someone explain to me who Pavlov is and what was his breed of dog? Oh, and the name as well please. Thanks in advance

To keep it really short, the Pavlov’s dog experiment was designed to condition a stimulus with a response (classical conditioning)

He rang a bell before feeding his dogs, when the dogs knew they were about to be fed, they would salivate. Over time, the bell would trigger the salivation response without the food being present as they had paired the stimulus with the response. "

Did he ever get to meet Schrödinger's cat?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Can someone explain to me who Pavlov is and what was his breed of dog? Oh, and the name as well please. Thanks in advance

To keep it really short, the Pavlov’s dog experiment was designed to condition a stimulus with a response (classical conditioning)

He rang a bell before feeding his dogs, when the dogs knew they were about to be fed, they would salivate. Over time, the bell would trigger the salivation response without the food being present as they had paired the stimulus with the response.

Did he ever get to meet Schrödinger's cat? "

Yes and no.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

disagree...

I don't have facebook and only use twatter and instagram for business purposes when i can be bothered ...the push notifications for them are disabled...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Can someone explain to me who Pavlov is and what was his breed of dog? Oh, and the name as well please. Thanks in advance

To keep it really short, the Pavlov’s dog experiment was designed to condition a stimulus with a response (classical conditioning)

He rang a bell before feeding his dogs, when the dogs knew they were about to be fed, they would salivate. Over time, the bell would trigger the salivation response without the food being present as they had paired the stimulus with the response.

Did he ever get to meet Schrödinger's cat?

Yes and no."

(Until you ask him)

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By *eelouWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow


"Unlike the neutral technology we once used and could walk away from, today’s technology uses us. Behind every app there are software designers working everyday to update and find new levers to keep us hooked to the product. The most powerful development is ‘likes’, public feedback that externalised our self worth into a score card.

So we find ourselves like Pavlov’s dog with push notifications, incapacitated by the pull on our attention spans. The currency is your eyeballs on the their product, for as long as possible, exposure that can be sold to advertisers.

So instead of technology freeing us it is enslaving us, we’re no better than Pavlov’s dog.

Agree or disagree ?

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Yea I'd say I agree. Personally I've made an effort to turn off things like push notifications for nearly all sites as you're right, they did distract me a lot and take my attention from more productive things.

Say to my son all the time that it was definitely much better when I was his age without all this overbearing tech.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I think if you took the Fabs and Fabbing on this site away, the traffic would decrease rapidly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think if you took the Fabs and Fabbing on this site away, the traffic would decrease rapidly. "

I don’t think I’ve ever fabbed a single picture in all my time on here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think if you took the Fabs and Fabbing on this site away, the traffic would decrease rapidly. "

Never been fabbed seldom fab others it's only the forums I spend time on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

disagree

social media feeds me information for the better or worse..

fanny or food..yup..I salivate at that

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I think if you took the Fabs and Fabbing on this site away, the traffic would decrease rapidly.

I don’t think I’ve ever fabbed a single picture in all my time on here"

I do tactical Fabbing, I only Fab those to get their attention without messaging. Never fucking works. I’ll just Fab your tits again.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"disagree

social media feeds me information for the better or worse..

fanny or food..yup..I salivate at that"

I’ve never salivated at a fanny, just get a twitch in my cock.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


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Technology is passive if you use it wisely "

I would say that - and I use social media a lot in a way that's useful to me, not for meaningless 'approval' or popularity, but as an information conduit and social diary (for gigs and dances).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking round.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking flat."

Rather a strange comment but hey ho.....

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking round."

Step away from the keyboard and have a lie down mate.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"Disagree. I don’t use social media. "

This for us too.

Never have and never will.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking round."

I know what you’re getting at, it’s called confirmation bias. If someone believes something, they will find and cling to even the weakest arguments to support their beliefs and even the greatest scientific minds in the world couldn’t convince them otherwise. Or even showing them, in front of their own face.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Finally a thread where I can be my true self

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's enslaving some.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Finally a thread where I can be my true self "

He’s thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Finally a thread where I can be my true self "

#Geek

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Finally a thread where I can be my true self

He’s thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done ? "

Fray Bentos

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Finally a thread where I can be my true self

He’s thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done ?

Fray Bentos"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Finally a thread where I can be my true self

#Geek"

Psychology graduate problems

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Finally a thread where I can be my true self

He’s thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done ?

Fray Bentos"

Was he the Cuban leader who’s been in power since 1959 ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Finally a thread where I can be my true self

He’s thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done ?

Fray Bentos

Was he the Cuban leader who’s been in power since 1959 ?"

Yes

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking flat.

Rather a strange comment but hey ho....."

I've met Paddy, maybe that has something to do with it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Disagree. I don’t use social media.

This is social media, unless you’re being ironic. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's one of the reasons I'm winding down on Fab. It's addictive and cyclical. It's like w*ed. Fun. But you don't get much done with your life

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking round."

So I am unsure but I think you may possibly be hinting, that you slightly disagree with alternative shaped earth theories?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking flat.

Rather a strange comment but hey ho....."

it was a valid social media comment: people want to lynch paedophiles etc etc..they then use hearsay and gleamed facts to make it all socially justifiable to confront(mostly violently) the non-evidence...

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

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"It's one of the reasons I'm winding down on Fab. It's addictive and cyclical. It's like w*ed. Fun. But you don't get much done with your life "

I'm pretty much the same here, but as is life, there will always be some idiot to replace you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking round.

Step away from the keyboard and have a lie down mate. "

when your niece(17) says, she believes this shit...i dont step away...I dont need a lie down lol..but thanks for thinking of me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking flat.

Rather a strange comment but hey ho.....

I've met Paddy, maybe that has something to do with it? "

dick lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking round.

So I am unsure but I think you may possibly be hinting, that you slightly disagree with alternative shaped earth theories? "

do the math, sociologically,mathematically and hey....let's not talk about how we are able to talk via the internet lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'll add I fucking hate my youtube..social media breeding fucktards..sorry if people take offence:-

when grown men and women, take science and cherry pick out scientific results to suit their flattrad(ok i'll be nice, idiot brain), I really wonder. Every comment you will see is "water is always flat, I see no motion,I see no curve"...explain it to them a few million times and they still come out with "well..nasa lied"............regardless of the basic fucking facts nasa has fuck all to do with the science behind knowing the world is fucking round.

I know what you’re getting at, it’s called confirmation bias. If someone believes something, they will find and cling to even the weakest arguments to support their beliefs and even the greatest scientific minds in the world couldn’t convince them otherwise. Or even showing them, in front of their own face. "

its not the greatest scientific minds that need them convincing...even with a telescope I can see the ISS, with my naked eye I can see other satellites..I'll admit my eyes are pish lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"It's one of the reasons I'm winding down on Fab. It's addictive and cyclical. It's like w*ed. Fun. But you don't get much done with your life "

I thought you were leaving cause you couldn’t take another one of my threads ?!

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

I've been with social media since the early days (faceparty, Friends Reunited, MySpace, numerous forums) but think I peaked on it a few years ago and have slowly started posting less and interacting less on it. I'll always use it but if I don't check Facebook or whatever for days I'm not bothered anymore.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

It's the modern media version of the CB radio.

Sadly it's lasted longer than that did.

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