http://now.msn.com/now/0516-australia-school-expel-facebook.aspx?ocid=todnow11
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Moran
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School threatens to expel kids who won't quit Facebook
The Freedom Fighter
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NeoMetalSonic
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WEll good for them
Tire of all the melodrama and the dumbing down
Tire of all the melodrama and the dumbing down
Moran- :
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Yes! Yes, little Australian school! Fight the good fight against the retarding of the human social superstructure! You can do it! *cheers*
The Freedom Fighter
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You say that now, but then they'll go after TSC next.
Moran- :
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Yes, they'll go after TSC, with all ~15 of its active members and its utter lack of noteworthiness. Yeah, Tescia is sooo screwed. *rolls his eyes* Shut up.
Facebook deserves to die, and in order for it to die, everyone willing and able to do so should take every shot at it they can, in any and all forms, until it, being the tumultuous lump upon social sanity that it is, dies an agonizing death and thereby getting humanity that much closer to being cured of its collective sickness.
TSC, meanwhile, is nothing in the bigger picture. We're so insignificant on the large scale that we could probably willingly harbor child porn and pirated games and nobody would really notice or care if they did notice. We're like a deep hinterland town of the 'net: Do what you want and what the other people here will let you get by with. Nobody else's alleged authority matters, because they don't care about us and we don't care about them.
Even if this place were filled with the most vile idiots around -- Which I've personally done a big part to ensure hasn't happened, mind. -- there would be 5-30 of those vile idiots at any given time. As compared to Facebook, which has, what, fifty million? Logged in every waking moment?
Facebook deserves to die, and in order for it to die, everyone willing and able to do so should take every shot at it they can, in any and all forms, until it, being the tumultuous lump upon social sanity that it is, dies an agonizing death and thereby getting humanity that much closer to being cured of its collective sickness.
TSC, meanwhile, is nothing in the bigger picture. We're so insignificant on the large scale that we could probably willingly harbor child porn and pirated games and nobody would really notice or care if they did notice. We're like a deep hinterland town of the 'net: Do what you want and what the other people here will let you get by with. Nobody else's alleged authority matters, because they don't care about us and we don't care about them.
Even if this place were filled with the most vile idiots around -- Which I've personally done a big part to ensure hasn't happened, mind. -- there would be 5-30 of those vile idiots at any given time. As compared to Facebook, which has, what, fifty million? Logged in every waking moment?
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dis is stuped, facebook don't make u dum
The Freedom Fighter
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I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Moran- :
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Oh, I have faith, Lan. But, no matter the endeavor, faith for a good future is powerless when the sane and wise lack the good will to do right.
And frankly, Lan, I find your lack of testicles far more disturbing.
And frankly, Lan, I find your lack of testicles far more disturbing.
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Master Mly Hushimo wrote:Yes, they'll go after TSC, with all ~15 of its active members and its utter lack of noteworthiness. Yeah, Tescia is sooo screwed. *rolls his eyes* Shut up.
Facebook deserves to die, and in order for it to die, everyone willing and able to do so should take every shot at it they can, in any and all forms, until it, being the tumultuous lump upon social sanity that it is, dies an agonizing death and thereby getting humanity that much closer to being cured of its collective sickness.
TSC, meanwhile, is nothing in the bigger picture. We're so insignificant on the large scale that we could probably willingly harbor child porn and pirated games and nobody would really notice or care if they did notice. We're like a deep hinterland town of the 'net: Do what you want and what the other people here will let you get by with. Nobody else's alleged authority matters, because they don't care about us and we don't care about them.
Even if this place were filled with the most vile idiots around -- Which I've personally done a big part to ensure hasn't happened, mind. -- there would be 5-30 of those vile idiots at any given time. As compared to Facebook, which has, what, fifty million? Logged in every waking moment?
Considering Tescia's recent ascension into the top 10, your argument loses some of its strength, but I agree with all of your points moreover, just not the attitude of Tescia never becoming anything significant.
As of now what you say holds true but I'm hoping it'll be proven false in the future is what I'm saying.
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I was ready to come into here and say they have all right to. If they're so phrased that they can't quit, and it's damaging them (sounds like an addiction! No?) The school should step in, because the parents clearly aren't. And school should step up and be the parents if the actual parents aren't.
But I see this is an Australian school, and I know nothing about how their government or educational system function. So nevermind.
But I see this is an Australian school, and I know nothing about how their government or educational system function. So nevermind.
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Eh, it's tricky getting the school involved.
Guys, at its core, Facebook is a really helpful tool. It was designed for college age students and older, and since I joined about six years ago, I have used it for networking purposes. I don't play games, I don't take IQ tests and post them everywhere, I don't pay to play even more worthless games. But I use it casually, and socially.
I understand that it has severely diminished in quality since they let high schoolers on, and since middle schoolers, but at its core, it's still useful. I am on the top privacy settings and am only friends with real life friends, so I get to escape any stupid little children.
But Facebook isn't the problem, and truthfully, it's quite an elitist and isolationist view that it makes people more stupid or whatever weak argument you have. The main problem lies in society, and in parents not teaching their kids how to be good people, and socialization takes place and that idiocy spreads to others whose parents weren't the best. That is the problem, not Facebook or Twitter or MySpace or whatever.
Guys, at its core, Facebook is a really helpful tool. It was designed for college age students and older, and since I joined about six years ago, I have used it for networking purposes. I don't play games, I don't take IQ tests and post them everywhere, I don't pay to play even more worthless games. But I use it casually, and socially.
I understand that it has severely diminished in quality since they let high schoolers on, and since middle schoolers, but at its core, it's still useful. I am on the top privacy settings and am only friends with real life friends, so I get to escape any stupid little children.
But Facebook isn't the problem, and truthfully, it's quite an elitist and isolationist view that it makes people more stupid or whatever weak argument you have. The main problem lies in society, and in parents not teaching their kids how to be good people, and socialization takes place and that idiocy spreads to others whose parents weren't the best. That is the problem, not Facebook or Twitter or MySpace or whatever.
Zez
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It's only as bad as we make it.
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