The Millennial Mishaps of Mya Midnight

[Mya Midnight]

Guys, gals, does the term "twitter" make you think of the song I'm Like a Bird by Nelly Furtado? Does "tumblr" remind you of the nick name you gave your best friend in high school when she drank one too many Mikes Hard Lemonades? I know I fall under the generational category of Millennial, but I have a hard time following these technological trends. Crowd sourcing the question, do you utilize these resources? Are they fun, informative, a hip new way to post naked pics of yourself on the interweb and more? Just signed myself up for an instagram and twitter account and wondering if the TOB masses also enjoy these new fangled features?

[Guest]

59 minutes ago, Mya Midnight said:

Just signed myself up for an instagram and twitter account and wondering if the TOB masses also enjoy these new fangled features?

 

Can't speak for the masses, but I have no use for social media. But then again, I am at a point in my life where I don't care about marketing myself to anyone or "brand building" or anything like that. My goal is to have as small a digital footprint as possible. Once we grasp that as far as entities like google, facebook, instagram, twitter, etc are concerned, we humans are not customers but the product to be tracked, categorized and sold to advertisers, the allure of their admittedly cool tech capabilities fades. I am not happy about being a product or being monetized and will resist where I can. I get that the privacy war is over and we lost and that in all likelihood, I too will be assimilated. But not willingly. 

[Guest]

F*c*b**k is the devil.  I don't have an account.  I never will.  Avoid at all costs.

Linkedin is the devil's pimp.  The creator of this supposedly helpful networking site could serve us all best by dying noisily in a grease fire.  Maybe someone could post photos of this event to Instagram.

Twitter is the devil's stepchild.  I DO have a twitter account that I only use to follow the random.....and very entertaining....thoughts of some of our TOB celebrities like Laci French or Lucy K.  It is linked to an otherwise useless email account, and I never post.

 

[geecue2]

Started using twitter more lately, the providers from Canada WOW. 

[Mya Midnight]

10 minutes ago, Raoul said:

 I am not happy about being a product or being monetized and will resist where I can. I get that the privacy war is over and we lost and that in all likelihood, I too will be assimilated. But not willingly. 

Thank you for acknowledging this point. In an attempt to keep this post light hearted, I didn't mention that one reason I am so averse to technology is the surveillance and marketing element. More than once, I've been having a conversation with friends and an advertisemtnt pertaining to the exact content of the conversation will pop up between songs on the pandora station we're listening to. Am I a wingnut wearing a tin foil hat who thinks that we are all being monitored or is that actually the case? Anyway, brb, gotta go take a selfie in my sexy new tin foil hat...

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Mya Midnight said:

Thank you for acknowledging this point. In an attempt to keep this post light hearted, I didn't mention that one reason I am so averse to technology is the surveillance and marketing element. More than once, I've been having a conversation with friends and an advertisemtnt pertaining to the exact content of the conversation will pop up between songs on the pandora station we're listening to. Am I a wingnut wearing a tin foil hat who thinks that we are all being monitored or is that actually the case? Anyway, brb, gotta go take a selfie in my sexy new tin foil hat...

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

[Mya Midnight]

Gotta love when these anti internet conversations happen on the internet...

[Mya Midnight]

13 minutes ago, geecue2 said:

Started using twitter more lately, the providers from Canada WOW. 

Officially intrigued...

[frankenthaler91]

1 hour ago, Laplace said:

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

 

Marvin Boggs.  Movie RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous)

[gr8owl]

 

I think.  I think I am. Therefore I am. I think

Of course you are my bright little star, 

I've miles and miles of files

Pretty files of your forefather's fruit

and now to suit

our great computer, you're magnetic ink.

Moody Blues, In the Beginning"

Not far off considering written in the 1960's

I guess I could get behind all of them, EXCEPT for the  aggressive data collecting and insidious invasion of privacy.  Oh, and that we used to use "twit" to mean dumb ass, so ..........  

[boink36]

9 hours ago, Mya Midnight said:

Guys, gals, does the term "twitter" make you think of the song I'm Like a Bird by Nelly Furtado? Does "tumblr" remind you of the nick name you gave your best friend in high school when she drank one too many Mikes Hard Lemonades? I know I fall under the generational category of Millennial, but I have a hard time following these technological trends. Crowd sourcing the question, do you utilize these resources? Are they fun, informative, a hip new way to post naked pics of yourself on the interweb and more? Just signed myself up for an instagram and twitter account and wondering if the TOB masses also enjoy these new fangled features?

 

I read about twitter once in the newspaper. there was an article on the page I used to cover the table while I spit shined my boots. I tweeted my thoughts at the bottom with a pen and tossed it in the trash when I finished. 

[pfunk]

I have a facebook account with less than 10 friends (mostly relatives). I post about 4 times a year. I read twitter sporadically (mostly escorts). I look at Tumblr pages if escorts link to them. 

Social media doesn't have a ton of value to me. I usually want to communicate one-on-one, so email, text, and phone calls, work well.

I do market my business on Yelp, Craigslist, and many "yellow pages" type websites. That's a bit different. Thanks for asking!

 

[Guest]

I'm a woman, I have every form of social media, I'm 30 but wouldn't categorize  myself as a millenial. I have maybe 100 friends on fb. All close, know them all lersonally, I have a twitter but only for big Brother.  And I'm an orginal myspacer. I enjoy social media since society has lost social etiquette. If it weren't for Facebook I wouldn't know my sisters fish had died or what she had for lunch.  

[Guest]

1 hour ago, SpiceInCo said:

I'm a woman, I have every form of social media, I'm 30 but wouldn't categorize  myself as a millenial. I have maybe 100 friends on fb. All close, know them all lersonally, I have a twitter but only for big Brother.  And I'm an orginal myspacer. I enjoy social media since society has lost social etiquette. If it weren't for Facebook I wouldn't know my sisters fish had died or what she had for lunch.  

The here's what I had for lunch posts are what made me withdraw from FB!

[Guest]

17 hours ago, Mya Midnight said:

Thank you for acknowledging this point. In an attempt to keep this post light hearted, I didn't mention that one reason I am so averse to technology is the surveillance and marketing element. More than once, I've been having a conversation with friends and an advertisemtnt pertaining to the exact content of the conversation will pop up between songs on the pandora station we're listening to. Am I a wingnut wearing a tin foil hat who thinks that we are all being monitored or is that actually the case? Anyway, brb, gotta go take a selfie in my sexy new tin foil hat...

You don't have to twit, post pictures of your beakfast or post pictures of your naked caboose to lose your privacy these days.  The company I work for was one of those victomized by the recent W2 phishing scam.  My name, address, social security number and annual earnings are now out there on the darknet forever...

[Mya Midnight]

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I'm a woman, I have every form of social media, I'm 30 but wouldn't categorize  myself as a millenial. I have maybe 100 friends on fb. All close, know them all lersonally, I have a twitter but only for big Brother.  And I'm an orginal myspacer. I enjoy social media since society has lost social etiquette. If it weren't for Facebook I wouldn't know my sisters fish had died or what she had for lunch.  

I hear you there. Anyone remember livejournal? Another huge problem with social media a the lack of empathy this mode of interaction perpetuates. This things people say when they can't be seen are atrocious. Also, I long for the days when you were hanging out with a few friends and only those friends. Everyone wasn't texting other people and collectively trying to figure out a hash tag for the event. Sigh. 

[Guest]

Honestly!! Shoot I can tell you my friends phone number from back in the landlines days.  When we would go out and run the town, and cell phones didn't exist.  I did have a pager though. Lol.  God I feel so much older than I am just by talking about these things.  To this day when I go fishing  or camping, I don't even bring a cell phone. I miss human interaction. 

[fishndude57]

5 minutes ago, SpiceInCo said:

Honestly!! Shoot I can tell you my friends phone number from back in the landlines days.  When we would go out and run the town, and cell phones didn't exist.  I did have a pager though. Lol.  God I feel so much older than I am just by talking about these things.  To this day when I go fishing  or camping, I don't even bring a cell phone. I miss human interaction. 

30 is not old. I twitter, Linkedin, no FB, am on a fishin forum that actually has produced many friends and high end sales in the industry I'm in. Landlines, hell I remember the rotary dial we had growin up. Do have to carry a cell wherever as ethically in my profession I'm to be available literally 24/7. In the content of this thread, I can understand why some might experience privacy issues. As a male, I don't experience that yet at all. Guess no stalkers for a 58yr old fishndude.

[Mya Midnight]

2 hours ago, Riggo said:

You don't have to twit, post pictures of your beakfast or post pictures of your naked caboose to lose your privacy these days.  The company I work for was one of those victomized by the recent W2 phishing scam.  My name, address, social security number and annual earnings are now out there on the darknet forever...

First of all I am so sorry that happened to you! Not much is safe anymore since the (western) world is being revamped in a way that makes it nearly possible for us to live without technology. A friend of mine was hacked and it is terrifyingly easy. The event definitely urged me to up my Internet privacy game.

Edited March 10, 2016 by Mya Midnight

[Guest]

See I had an issue years ago on fb but it was because I was an Internet troll, I had several facebook accounts and I wasn't the nicest person.  (Hard to admit that) it backfired.  But this was also before facebook had all the great privacy settings it does now.  I have my fb set up where unless we have mutual friends, you can't even find me.  I am not searchable by name, number, or email.  And even then we have to have mutual friends to send me a message or a friend  request.  

 

Now from eccie I was outed publicy  once, but that's also because I have a legit business that I make and sell tshirts, and someone was able to put it all together once they had several pieces of information, they posted copies of my ads on my Facebook business page, but being as though I am the owner of the page,  I caught it before they were actually  visible on the page. Now I even have the business fb page as a closed group,  you have to join the group  and be approved, and posts have to be approved. 

 

I think with anything you risk your info going out, but that's why I mainly stick to facebook, there are so many ways to protect yourself on there. 

 

In terms of Twitter I know a lot of providers who use social media specifically for hobbying.  A lot of providers get twitter and the gents have their hobby accounts and it's a good way to communicate outside of forums and what not.  I just personally never saw the appeal. 

[Johnboy#1]

21 hours ago, Laplace said:

F*c*b**k is the devil.  I don't have an account.  I never will.  Avoid at all costs.

What he said!

If a young lady has links to FB and Twitter on her page, and I'm interested,

I will click on them to learn more. (See BEM thread).

I don't think it's good marketing to have a twitter feed and then mark it restricted.

When that happens, I am no longer interested.

The more you know before a meeting, the higher the level of satisfaction.

(for both parties, I hope)

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[Guest]

58 minutes ago, SpiceInCo said:

Honestly!! Shoot I can tell you my friends phone number from back in the landlines days.  When we would go out and run the town, and cell phones didn't exist.  I did have a pager though. Lol.  God I feel so much older than I am just by talking about these things.  To this day when I go fishing  or camping, I don't even bring a cell phone. I miss human interaction. 

OK... Veering off topic here...

I still remember my phone number from when I was in grade school.

805-245-3825

I would think a provider would loved to have that number back in the day... Notice the word that you can spell out with 3825...

[Bit Banger]

1 hour ago, Riggo said:

OK... Veering off topic here...

I still remember my phone number from when I was in grade school.

...

Hell, I remember my grade school phone number 35240.  Yes, it was only 5 digits!

At that time my grandmother had even less.  crank, crank, "Mabel, would you please connect me with ..."

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, Bit Banger said:

Hell, I remember my grade school phone number 35240.  Yes, it was only 5 digits!

At that time my grandmother had even less.  crank, crank, "Mabel, would you please connect me with ..."

LOL... We had a party line on our street!  If you had an urgent call to make you had to pick up the phone and tell the gossipy neighbors to hang up!  

[Bit Banger]

An interesting item on rotary phones:

In college we had rotary phones connected to the college phone system.  You had to dial 9 to get an outside line, but most phones had a lock which prevented the dial turning that far.  But having been a radio/telegraph operator in the service, I could dial just about any number using the switch hook.  10pps was easy

[Guest]

The exponential acceleration of micro-processing power will make today's technology seem as quaint as party lines and rotary phones. As micro shrinks to nano and 4g gives way to 5g and wireless charging becomes a reality, our digital connections will be greater, faster, more all encompassing. What it will mean for our human connections and what it will mean to even be human, only time will tell.

[BadBoy]

I'm so old-school, my cell phone is a rotary-dial.  Tweeting is for twits.  And yet, it might be cool to be able to simply think: "Donna-babe, I am in the area, are you available?"  And a moment later she simply mentally replies, "Sure darlin, come on over."  I then think my reply, "OK, gotta duck out on this boring meeting, see you in 10," all the while smiling at the other members of the meeting.  Is that what you had in mind, Raoul?

[Guest]

37 minutes ago, Badboy said:

And yet, it might be cool to be able to simply think: "Donna-babe, I am in the area, are you available?"  And a moment later she simply mentally replies, "Sure darlin, come on over."  I then think my reply, "OK, gotta duck out on this boring meeting, see you in 10," all the while smiling at the other members of the meeting.  Is that what you had in mind, Raoul?

Those wild and crazy guys at DARPA are already on it..

"In January, DARPA announced it plans to spend up to $62 million on the project, which is part of its Neural Engineering System Design program.

The implant would be small -- no larger than one cubic centimeter, or roughly the size of two stacked nickels -- according to DARPA.

The implantable device aims to convert neurons in the brain into electronic signals and provide unprecedented "data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world," according to a DARPA statement announcing the new project."

[Guest]

OK.  Sorry for taking this off topic Mya and leading ot down the path of antiquated communication technologies!  I have a Facebook and Twitter account that O created for some reason and never check.  :-)

[Guest]

Oh gosh these are awesome memories.  I remember going to Radio shack and getting cheap walkie talkies, and when they first came out with portable landlines phones, you could sit in your neighbors yard and listen to their calls from your walkie talking.  

 

Or when *69 came out and pranking  your friends no longer worked as well.  Or 3 way calls, oh God I miss how simple and fun things were.  When we actually called our friends every night and fought over the landlines to access the Internet. That awful modem connect sound.