Facebook World, sounds like a winner! Robert Heinlein could be the Great Deity....L Ron Hubbard's already taken

are we aware that he plans to give 99% of fb holdings away to charity... never said a specific charity besides some towards education system...

What is his wifes maiden name? like being at a time where groups as MGTOW are being formed due to the realization of women having the upper hand due to manipulation and a bias family court sytem..we should believe all women, especially during a time of privacy concerns relating to protection of ones data. we don't want to end up under the same social credit system as China. Atleast half of facebook shares belong to Mrs. Zuckerbeg, which may give us a better chance for all our data to stay within the hands of the U.S. seeing as how they refuse to agree in individual ownership over ones data and info.. all she has to say is #Metoo and shes set

True.

@govols, that's a good point. Humor and similar mechanisms often oil the machine of social engagement.

Also, short agreement posts like this one.

At another place I know a poster who must have recently learned about Socrates. She wound up being assigned the name The Vortex because of her constant leading questions trying to get you to contradict or disprove your on ideas. It fun to watch her get a hold on a new victim because she's pretty good at it if her victim is trying to honestly engage, but just like with Socrates, most people wound up eventually wanting her dead.

@govols I find myself doing the same thing, but not not make the person feel as though they are stupid or that their thoughts don't matter, but to help them make the decision on their own to look at a situation from a different angle. Although I try being as subtle as possible

@govols wait a min, i just recently posted quotes from Socrates, does that put me on the Vortex spectrum, does that mean people want me dead...am I going to DIE?!

Would but links requiring a file download, no offense but will pass. Unless you can share the source site?

@purdyday I don't understand why it requires a download because I didn't have to do that....I'll look into it.

@purdyday I edited my original post to include another article by the same researcher about ODE. Let me know if that one works.

@Halligan Thank you, that article provides a lot of material to ponder. The disinhibited/inhibition continuum....could even help me with understanding the basics such as, why text messaging seems to increasingly be the new norm over voice calls... when texting is harder work, imo

So I guess in my limited understanding of it is; are we more disposed to sharing who we truly are, are we less disposed to sharing who we truly are, or a combination of both where we try to work out our issues in comparitive safety of perceived anonymity, lol.....ok I have a headache now!

@purdyday I know, right? There's a lot to think about.

@purdyday pertaining to the text vs voice call comment, I would think the akward silence occuring when ones asked questions or when they want the call to be over, but don't know how to bring it to an end. once text messaging became a thing. it made social skills almost non exsistent. with the convenience of being able to pick and choose when to respond, to short simple conversations... makes people resort to using default responses when interacting in public.
Very benefical for the psychic community, they've almost been able to cut their tarot card decks all the way down to just a few cards

@DesireNoDesires Right! Am thinking of going into psychid readings myself, thats how good at mind reading I have become, lol

That is an undeniable incentive for some, but not everyone who joins a social media site is a part of the 'woke' culture. And there is no harm is pointing out potentially malicious behavior exhibited by some of those users either, to those engaging in good faith for the sake of honest debate

@purdyday
I’m in a discussion at the moment where the poster asked for advice concerning a paper on a VAT tax. I listed my reasoning for thinking it was a bad idea, and apparently it was insulting for me to disagree as the last statement claimed I “just want to argue”.
I have no problem with this type it f trolling, because anyone with a basic sense of third grade debate tactics can see that the person is pouting because I didn’t embrace their unicorn with open arms.
I believe these exchanges are very beneficial for the “audience” in exposing lofty poorly thought out ideas promulgated as “fix all’s” for perceived “injustice”.

I live for the troll. Until they become abusive, then I walk.
Those who stay on for the browbeating don’t garner much sympathy from me.
If you feel someone is being abusive, walk on.
Just my two cents.

@Cheetolini exactly and as you say walking is the best option, two cents well taken.

@Cheetolini I alot of times will argue against my personal views in an attempt to both challenge the solidness, while also showing that tey cannot assume for example, that a person isnt able to be bothe pro-gun and pro-choice. Also if possible make an example showing that there usually more than just the 2 options we are present to us when discussion takes place on certain issues

@DesireNoDesires
Indeed. I’m pro choice (politically, not personally) for the same reason I’m anti forced vaccination. Either the human body is sovereign or it’s not.
I reserve the right to call abortion barbaric disregard for human life, but I’m not going to force anyone else at the point of a gun (law) not to get one.
It is not necessary to compromise principles for a team pennant.
I don’t consider my principles in any form hypocritical. For it is someone else’s preconceived notions of what I should believe that are in question, not my principle.
What I find disturbing is the hypocrisy of principle. Watching those in the left give up basic pillars of “liberalism” for this new religion called “Progressivism”.
The belief that my skin color makes me an oppressor (immoral connotation), that the bedroom isn’t private but rather a portion of my identity that must be worn on my sleeve to garner sympathy and status points, that self preservation of one’s own life is the duty and sole right of the authority of government entities, that responsibility for correcting one’s bad choices is the commons and should be paid for by the rich, that responsibility for one’s own health should be paid for by the collective .......
Collective.
The party of the once unbending rugged individual has become the party of the collective hive with a cast system based on bigotry and victimhood.
I’m still a liberal. Liberalism is no longer liberal. They changed the definition, but then, that’s what the leftist “revolutionary” does. Change the meaning of words to sell what they otherwise couldn’t.
Put the word “Democratic” in front of socialism, so people don’t understand it is forced government control of the means of production and distribution. Add a unicorn, a rainbow, and a crapload of fluffy three word buzz phrases, and they will think it’s something new.

Awww that's so sad, you poor thing!