The totally off-topic thread

[blackcat20]

[h=1]social media[/h]




noun plural but singular or plural in construction

[h=2]Definition of SOCIAL MEDIA[/h] : forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)

Ergo, AFF is social media. It's a definition, not an opinion. You might like to consider that you "don't do social media" but you do.

 

[Pushka]

Here's something mildly interesting (to me). I'm currently at the nearest point on land which is the anti-pole (or antipode)to where I live:

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Anyone been to the actual antipode location to where they live? (Kiwis have a better chance than Aussies!)

A transatlantic on QM2 (bucket list) should see me right.

 

[medhead]

I have the opinion that I can fly, without the aid of mechanical means, as gravity is just a figment of all your imaginations that I refuse to allow impact me.

 

[RooFlyer]

Ergo, AFF is social media. It's a definition, not an opinion. You might like to consider that you "don't do social media" but you do.

Oh, tut-tut blackcat20! Who's "definition"? Humpty Dumpty's?

I have the opinion that I can fly, without the aid of mechanical means, as gravity is just a figment of all your imaginations that I refuse to allow impact me.

Whatever floats your boat! :shock: (ps do gliders fly? Are their wings 'mechanical'? Do Sugar Gliders fly? Are my flapping arms 'mechanical'?)

 

[blackcat20]

Oh, tut-tut blackcat20! Who's "definition"? Humpty Dumpty's?

A reputable source known as a dictionary.

 

[SeatBackForward]

I have the opinion that I can fly, without the aid of mechanical means, as gravity is just a figment of all your imaginations that I refuse to allow impact me.

In my opinion, you're just falling, but avoiding the ground, and because its my opinion, its a fact.

 

[rainbowgirl]

Sometimes I do paid online surveys and there are often questions about whether I participate in social media. I usually say yes to social media but no to every website which the survey lists as social media. Occasionally I say no to the social media question, it depends on which survey I am doing. I see AFF as social media but in a different sub category to where facebook and twitter sit.

 

[Princess Fiona]

If you are following the discussion it all started with the number 1 thing that makes men happy

"Lots of followers on social media"

Couldn't be further from the truth. Couldn't care less about popularity. I don't do social media. Why is that so difficult to comprehend?

Why do we all have to agree with stupid definitions?

I'm certainly following the discussion, that's why I participated in it. You can agree or disagree with what you like. You cannot change a fact ie. AFF is a form of social media, if you participate here you "do social media".

 

[Princess Fiona]

Myspace was one of the first big social networking sites, until the rise of Facebook overtook it. It still exists, but is now owned by Murdoch's Limited News.

Hence the "" in my post

 

[RooFlyer]

A reputable source known as a dictionary.

Brewster's dictionary of phrase and fable?

dictionary.com?

Funk and Wagnells?

Webster's?

Oxford English?

Urban dictionary of design slang?

Samuel Johnson's?

Macquarie?


Point being that dictionaries aren't cast in stone - they differ in their definitions, pronunciations and meanings, and one nor the another is the absolute authority.


Its no biggie - I have in my mind what constitutes social media and having the entire Oxford English Dictionary shoved down my throat won't alter that.

There was a saying in the '80s: "Caxton - every man a writer. Xerox - everyone a publisher." Perhaps we can now add: Internet: "Every person an authority."

 

[blackcat20]

Brewster's dictionary of phrase and fable?

dictionary.com?

Funk and Wagnells?

Webster's?

Oxford English?

Urban dictionary of design slang?

Samuel Johnson's?

Macquarie?


Point being that dictionaries aren't cast in stone - they differ in their definitions, pronunciations and meanings, and one nor the another is the absolute authority.


Its no biggie - I have in my mind what constitutes social media and having the entire Oxford English Dictionary shoved down my throat won't alter that.

There was a saying in the '80s: "Caxton - every man a writer. Xerox - everyone a publisher." Perhaps we can now add: Internet: "Every person an authority."

Merriam Wwebster, however there are numerous dictionaries with the same or similar definition. Regardless, web forums are social media. ie a form of media used to socialise.

 

[straitman]

This discussion is getting dangerously close to being ON Topic :!:

 

[TheRealTMA]

This discussion is getting dangerously close to being ON Topic :!:

Don’t get flappity!

 

[Hvr]

Breaker, breaker let's bring back CB radio, now that was social media.

 

[anat0l]

Breaker, breaker let's bring back CB radio, now that was social media.

Was that the thing where people scanned random radio frequencies picking up whoever and whatever was being discussed, and maybe joined in?

Hey, that would be a form of social media!

 

[Hvr]

Was that the thing where people scanned random radio frequencies picking up whoever and whatever was being discussed, and maybe joined in?

Hey, that would be a form of social media!

Yes, a Wiki quote addresses this:

Similar to internet chat rooms a quarter-century later, CB allowed people to get to know one another in a quasi-anonymous manner. As with the internet, CB radio usage sometimes encouraged the worst characteristics of anonymity.

 

[JessicaTam]

Was that the thing where people scanned random radio frequencies picking up whoever and whatever was being discussed, and maybe joined in?

Hey, that would be a form of social media!

And it was especially good with the SSB* AM CB, because the signal could travel halfway across the country.

*single side band

 

[RooFlyer]

I'd suggest a dictionary definition is not an opinion... I'm all for opinions, but some things are fact.

Sounds like doublethink to me. What would Winston Smith say?

ps About dictionaries and opinion and fact. Remember when Macquarie Dictionary rushed out a new definition of misogyny after a certain politician's speech? One day the dictionary said one thing about the word. The next week it had changed! Did the facts change suddenly, or Macquarie's opinion about the word?

The meanings of words are never fixed; English is a living language. I'd suggest there are accepted customs and norms, but dictionaries reflect usage, not 'fact'.

 

[Hvr]

And it was especially good with the SSB* AM CB, because the signal could travel halfway across the country.

*single side band

Remembering that there is upper and lower SSB with protocols of which was used on specific channels.

 

[drron]

This discussion is getting dangerously close to being ON Topic :!:

By whose definition?