Re: Pokemon Go

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Pokemon Go
Date	2016-07-15 10:29 -0400
Organization	National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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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

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