Re: Pokemon Go

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Pokemon Go
Date	2016-08-06 21:31 -0400
Organization	solani.org
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On 2016-08-06, British Rocket Group <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> 
>>> I just don't get it. What is the fascination with this game?
>>> 
>>> 
>> This is the sad part about the Internet Age, it's all become quite dumbed 
>> down. So the things that get the highest travel are the most mundane 
>> things. "So and so broke their arm", but that only means something if you 
>> already know who so and so is. And since anyone can now speak, instead of 
>> writing about how it is to be homeless or a native, everyone yammers about 
>> the latest thing, so it's hard to tell the actual value of something.  Is 
>> it actually something of value, or something everyone is talking about?
>> 
>> Even old media covers "viral" stories.  But I have no idea if they got 
>> good travel before landing in old media, or if old media is a vector for 
>> that high travel.
>> 
>>   Michael
>> 
>> 
>
> The Internet has changed from a Usenet style experience where you don't
> know people, to friending people you know and communicating within your own
> peer group.
>
> It's just the way things went.
>

Maybe not universally?  Check out hacker news (http://news.ycombinator.com). 
Everyone has a handle, like Slashdot, and the quality of conversation is
high because mods wipe the snarky stuff right off the map.  It's people who
don't know each other conversing about a topic of common interest.

I think there is still room on the 'net for smart people to find each other
and converse about smart things.  Yeah, Facebook is there too for those
other types.  There's still room for all the different models, if you look
for them.

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