'cause facebook is ass.

Mr. Sofie has a Facebook.

I am not mature enough for a Facebook. Many of my former colleagues and college friends have encouraged me to get one.

I think it (and Twitter) suck(s).

Fnord, you've done a very colorful job. Thank you...I just thought we'd be cool if we did facebook too.



http://explore.twitter.com/fnordfanny/status/1634107842

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fnord wrote:

I see we haven't Tweeted recently.

Was any-body a-side from Taint ever able to post?  I know that I sure couldn't (Which is probably for the best).

choad wrote:

The three store-bought toys meant most to me 50 years ago . . .

The one toy that I wish that I still had from my youth would be Bing Bang Boing - A point-less yet awe-some game.

A Buncha Queers wrote:

Facebook...Myspace...Twitter

Jesus tits people.

Scotty wrote:

A Buncha Queers wrote:

Facebook...Myspace...Twitter

Jesus tits people.

In retrospect, I'm kinda relieved High-Street wasn't around during the heyday of Angelfire and Geocities.

George Orr wrote:

In retrospect, I'm kinda relieved High-Street wasn't around during the heyday of Angelfire and Geocities.

Yuh, same deal. Websites for Trainables.

Scotty wrote:

George Orr wrote:

Scotty wrote:

Jesus tits people.

In retrospect, I'm kinda relieved High-Street wasn't around during the heyday of Angelfire and Geocities.

And why is that?  Because this place has gone so soft as to possibly have a page from one of those two places? 

Cruel used to shred Angelfire and Geocities pages.  Myselfabsorption and FaceMEFaceMEFaceMEbook are the normal progression of the chilluns that poured their hearts and souls into WYSIWYG editors on Geocities growing up into "What flavor of popcorn are you?" fucking quizzes.

Holee fuck I need to restart my meds.

You should get a MySpace for professional purposes. I'm friends with my plastic surgeon, my printer, etc...

And my favorite accoutrements of childhood  were the old comic books of superman from the fifties my uncle offloaded to  me when I was about seven. With Lois Lane and Jimmy the boy reporter and all that. I read those and the old mad magazines from the same era again and again.

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Oh, and choad...my thing is Pez dispensers.

And I'm not even a real fan of the candy. Just the dispenser.

I would prefer that noobs, if they should feel it, are required to do the minimal work required to find my secret identity. If there is an HS facebook group, I shall not join it. Sorry, I would prefer to keep the slight, albeit illusory, sense of anonymity here that I currently enjoy.

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Scotty, you fucking Luddite, I didn't say we needed to start a goddamn crafter's blog, just that since the powers that be decided somehow, somewhere, that maybe it might be helpful to have a myspace for our little twisted online burg, that because facebook now is even more popular than myspace and has probably fewer incarcerated child molester/cannibal/vacumn cleaner attachments-inserted-up-ass members (judging from the threads here where every one of them seems to be a friend of Tom or whoever the fuck the myspace guy is) and thus like, still own computers instead of having to borrow the warden's whenever they come into the office to blow him,  I thought..simply considered...that maybe, just maybe, it might be a good idea to have a high street entry as well on the site.

How this got twisted into some ringing endorsement of mass market schlocko culture ... let alone how Fnord could think I would ever criticise his efforts...is simply beyond me! As if!!! (swings hair, adjusts lipgloss)

Now I'm a mother, so I know I'm right, so shut the fuck up, rub one out and then return to the keyboard when you've calmed down a little. Screamin' Jeebus..

http://i41.tinypic.com/258b1hz.jpg

Toe... I can't tell you how much your rants effect me.....

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Dusty, thank you, I think... But what's the diff, Orange and Tojo, between a Myspace and a facebook page? Do any of us have to join up with either? Is there some advantage to a myspace and not a facebook?

No advantage in either.  I have a Myspace page which I stay away from due to the cootie factor, and a facebook page that I connect with customers, friends etc.

Taint wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Dusty, thank you, I think... But what's the diff, Orange and Tojo, between a Myspace and a facebook page? Do any of us have to join up with either? Is there some advantage to a myspace and not a facebook?

No advantage in either.  I have a Myspace page which I stay away from due to the cootie factor, and a facebook page that I connect with customers, friends etc.

If I were to ascribe a difference to either, I'd say Facebook is the more "grown up" of the two, although the volume of alarmingly stupid quizzes is certainly enough to make you think you're back in high school again ("Who's your celebrity boyfriend?"). On the other hand, you can ignore the quizzes and I find it easy to follow. It's a nice way to keep up with friends. It put me back in touch with a lot of old professional colleagues from the various newspapers at which I've worked, as well. Myspace is too cluttered and busy for my tastes, but Sofie gets a great deal of enjoyment out of it. She can probably give you a good list of reasons for her preferences.

I do have a LinkedIn. I forgot I am kind of a grown-up.

It's not that I prefer MySpace. It's just I'm a goof-off. I didn't even intend to go obtain one. But now that I have one, it's not like I'm going to go get a Facebook.

It's all stupid. But now that I have put all my IRL friends on it, I'm not gonna dis it because something similar (but more pretentious) is available.

sofaking wrote:

Taint wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

No advantage in either.  I have a Myspace page which I stay away from due to the cootie factor, and a facebook page that I connect with customers, friends etc.

If I were to ascribe a difference to either, I'd say Facebook is the more "grown up" of the two, although the volume of alarmingly stupid quizzes is certainly enough to make you think you're back in high school again ("Who's your celebrity boyfriend?"). On the other hand, you can ignore the quizzes and I find it easy to follow. It's a nice way to keep up with friends. It put me back in touch with a lot of old professional colleagues from the various newspapers at which I've worked, as well. Myspace is too cluttered and busy for my tastes, but Sofie gets a great deal of enjoyment out of it. She can probably give you a good list of reasons for her preferences.

I do have a LinkedIn. I forgot I am kind of a grown-up.

It's not that I prefer MySpace. It's just I'm a goof-off. I didn't even intend to go obtain one. But now that I have one, it's not like I'm going to go get a Facebook.

It's all stupid. But now that I have put all my IRL friends on it, I'm not gonna dis it because something similar (but more pretentious) is available.

I am not pretentious. I'm just, um, better.

Taint wrote:

Actually, I do the LinkedIn thing, too. I have several friends who have found it very useful professionally, but I haven't done enough with it to make it really useful.

Me, either.

I just have one to remind myself that I accomplished some shit a long time ago.

This is actually been sort of helpful to me in understanding the diffs between the three sites-thank you all. What I'm basically hearing is that noone here would ever admit to the high street thing on any kind of site that our friends and family visited. Which makes this place the cyber equivalent of the fat, old prostitute with a heart of gold who gets tons of customers but noone would ever admit to liking her. High Street=Sally Kirkland.

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Would ANYONE here actually friend a HS facebook page (or however it works) without making a fictitious account first?

I knew a guy who conducted an entirely separate account for his "promotional networking," as he was the writer of gay graphic novels and didn't want it associated with his day job or visible to his [other] friends and family. This remained in existence until it was unceremoniously deleted by FB for what had probably become too 'risqué' in content.

If someone here were to do the same thing, there'd be little way it could be constructed the way our MySpace page is. One could also establish a Group or a Fan Page for HS, but there's little way of directing people to it unless there's already an identity associated with the page. Mocking up a complete 'history' for this sock puppet would also be a challenge.

All this aside, HS looks so low tech by comparison to these better established and polished looking sites. Most new arrivals we drive to our door, if they are accustomed to nearly any other type of foruming software, would probably turn up their nose at such a stripped down appearance. They generally LIKE eye candy and graphic features, all of which are suppressed here 'cause we still seem to be stuck on a hybridized linksite in the manner of the old Cruel. The place really needs a facelift before we Facebook.

As much as I am averse to saying it, we really need more than banners.

Scotty wrote:

GAYVATARS!

Gay or not, I really don't see why so many remain averse to merging suppressed board features with the current mode. Have you no other reason than that you don't want it to look like other forums? How dumbed down do you want it, exactly? The argument gets weaker every day. Our traffic and excellent SEO justify a greater percentage of new joins, but they are not seeing what they expect to see; ergo, they are not signing up. The sheeple/fodder WANT some flash and pizzazz. It's not 'gaying up the place.' It's giving people more means for personal expression that doesn't require reading a five page treatise on the economy.

Let's say, for example, that someone manages to find us through Google SERPs. They click on some perverse link because they're curious, and they're confronted with this text-heavy bunch of committed misfits. If I weren't already entrenched, I'd read what I needed and move along to something else. I think we have a false sense of our own attraction.

That aside, this is--by choice--a difficult crowd to please and fit into. We drive off n00bz like kicking puppies. Who comes to a place to be abused, especially when it seems--off the top--to be just a pile of vids culled from YouTube/LiveLeak, recycled sites from other linkdumps, and political topics that almost immediately devolve into the same canned responses from other threads? We'll get Fark trolls, Rotten.com debauchers, and quasi-masochists who clearly aren't well versed in the selection of other forums handling similar material. We need to BE and APPEAR competitive. The type of 'uniqueness' we seem to dish out ain't all that thrilling, and all sites have, on average, about 5.6 seconds to impress or be dismissed.

I've said it before, and I'll reiterate for this purpose: I spent two years as a paid reviewer of forum sites. I know, intrinsically, what draws members, improves retention, and makes a board more accessible. Most of my recommendations were key to monetization, which permitted the sites to be self sufficient. These may be alterations repellent to the current roster, but I count only 15-20 'core posters,' and even though we have some devoted lurkers, this adds up to FAIL.

Sigh. What's the point?

pALEPHx wrote:

Sigh. What's the point?

Precisely!

There is no point.

It's pointless. Like life.

And that's what makes it make us happy.

Try not to overthink it.

It could be worse, Little Queenie.

Last edited by MSG Tripps (2009-05-13 23:31:11)

pALEPHx wrote:

Scotty wrote:

GAYVATARS!

Gay or not, I really don't see why so many remain averse to merging suppressed board features with the current mode. Have you no other reason than that you don't want it to look like other forums? How dumbed down do you want it, exactly? The argument gets weaker every day. Our traffic and excellent SEO justify a greater percentage of new joins, but they are not seeing what they expect to see; ergo, they are not signing up. The sheeple/fodder WANT some flash and pizzazz. It's not 'gaying up the place.' It's giving people more means for personal expression that doesn't require reading a five page treatise on the economy.

Let's say, for example, that someone manages to find us through Google SERPs. They click on some perverse link because they're curious, and they're confronted with this text-heavy bunch of committed misfits. If I weren't already entrenched, I'd read what I needed and move along to something else. I think we have a false sense of our own attraction.

That aside, this is--by choice--a difficult crowd to please and fit into. We drive off n00bz like kicking puppies. Who comes to a place to be abused, especially when it seems--off the top--to be just a pile of vids culled from YouTube/LiveLeak, recycled sites from other linkdumps, and political topics that almost immediately devolve into the same canned responses from other threads? We'll get Fark trolls, Rotten.com debauchers, and quasi-masochists who clearly aren't well versed in the selection of other forums handling similar material. We need to BE and APPEAR competitive. The type of 'uniqueness' we seem to dish out ain't all that thrilling, and all sites have, on average, about 5.6 seconds to impress or be dismissed.

I've said it before, and I'll reiterate for this purpose: I spent two years as a paid reviewer of forum sites. I know, intrinsically, what draws members, improves retention, and makes a board more accessible. Most of my recommendations were key to monetization, which permitted the sites to be self sufficient. These may be alterations repellent to the current roster, but I count only 15-20 'core posters,' and even though we have some devoted lurkers, this adds up to FAIL.

When you're right, you're right, sir.

I've read this thread, giggling to myself how "mainstream" the folks of cruel have become.

It is kind of sad. Sorta like watching my mom go from this hip "with-it" mom I grew up with, to getting "old" and obsessing about the guy down the street who parks 3 inches past the yellow painting on the curb and therefore a sticker must be placed on his windshield threatening to to tow him at his expense (she's the Prez of her condo association). Like that 3 inches somehow affects her or anyone else, for that matter. As far as I'm concerned, that yellow paint is about 15 feet too long (maybe for the very reason that it allows her and her cronies to slap more stickers on cars, who knows?)...

It's funny how avatars are taboo but let's sure get signed up for whatever latest social networking site is most popular, toot sweet! hahahaha

In my 80's perspective, this place has gone from being The Sex Pistols to The Thompson Twins. Congrats! We've gone from being the guy your mom warned you about to being the people who point and laugh at pictures of the guy your mom warned you about (as long as we don't have to get too close to take them, god forbid!).

I guess a better and more accurate analogy is that this place has gone from South Park to The Simpsons. I really shouldn't complain. I don't post nearly enough amputee porn to keep the I Can haz Cheeseburgers-folk in check.

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It does warm my heart to see the soul of HS (Choad, Scotty, G.O.) all seem to have the same perspective on this that I do.

For all our differences, at least the hardcore, entrenched old-cruellers (said like, "old-schooler") seem to get-it.

I don't find myself often saying this, but as I read you 3's posts, I found myself saying, "yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing". Especially what George said about, "good thing we weren't around during the geoshitties days".

Sad but true.

Keep on keepin' on, ya'll.

icangetyouatoe wrote:

Oh, for chrissakes. Everyone needs to quit fucking whining. Hate to break it to you, "kids", but 1974 has come and gone. Sorry. Deal with it. But please, go right ahead and post whatever you want, as it has always been, and hopefully always will. This whole mournful "look what we've become" tone is just so....so...so easy. Not to mention, the suspicious rejection out of hand of anything new or different in music, webpage design, social online networking sites..even the fucking noobs on here marks you as TOTAL old farts. Do something different once in a while.  Think outside the box.  Try sex standing up once every six months instead of the goddamn missionary position in your california-king-dust mited protected-orthopedic shoe wearing-handlebar in the bathtub-don't-get spooge-on-the-bedspread-because-then-we'll-have-to dryclean-it-fucking lives.

Pale, I personally don't give a shit, change the whole fucking thing, or don't, it really doesn't matter to me. As long as I get to read everybody's posts.

Ptah, South Park has been on the air now, what, 8, 9 years? Shepherded into being by the cutting edge artist...George Fucking Clooney!! Matt Stone and Trey Parker, recognized by every stay at home mom in the nation!  Woooooo! That's counterculture for sure!!! Snort....

I fucking love you, Bitch!

You made me LOL.