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Old 08-08-2012, 10:40 PM
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Another vote for 'what a load of BS'
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Old 08-08-2012, 10:57 PM
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It's absolutely true because its in the Daily Mail.
thanks to Robin Manford for the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT...layer_embedded
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Old 08-08-2012, 11:06 PM
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When I get mad, I don't get angry; I get stabby.

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Aah, that takes me back to online gaming days playing Counter-Strike
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Old 09-08-2012, 08:04 AM
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There must be something in it.

Most of you are probably aware of Jim Penman of Jim's mowing fame.
When Jim was doing his PhD in history, his thesis was based more on psychology.

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Penman has given $500,000 in initial funding to a team of researchers in the school of psychological science at La Trobe University. Their aim is to determine whether behaviour can be influenced by environmental factors that in turn alter hormone levels and the structure and activity of the brain.
I was one of his test subjects. Evidently my score was so striking JIm claimed he bagged his first psychopath.

I don't use Facebook even though I have an account..... I only agreed to Facebook under pressure from my niece.

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Old 09-08-2012, 09:42 AM
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I guess I am a Psychopath with a capital "P"

I see people joining social media "forums" as coming from from two social groups. The low mentality and self esteem group and the smart group who seek to exploit them.

Us psychopaths belong to neither!

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PS I do have a face book registration but never go there. Perhaps there is something there that would upset me.
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Old 09-08-2012, 09:48 AM
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I opened a FB account about 4-5 years ago to see what it was all about, got bored with it within a week. Egocentric idiots mainly, same twaddle for twitter and the various clones. My mobile has links to all of them on screen, never use any. In fact I rarely use the mobile and I've got two (work requirements).
My wife uses LinkedIn but that is business oriented and it has been very valuable in that area for her career. Just shows you that used correctly for the right purpose it can be an asset.
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Old 09-08-2012, 11:06 AM
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There may actually be some merit to the article.

Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin and Pol Pot all abstained from using Face Book!

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Old 09-08-2012, 11:07 AM
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There may actually be some merit to the article.

Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin and Pol Pot all abstained from using Face Book!

Michael.
hee hee hee
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Old 09-08-2012, 11:08 AM
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Mike-the flaw with that argument is that they all predated Facebook
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Old 09-08-2012, 11:24 AM
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Old 09-08-2012, 11:32 AM
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Personally I wouldn't trust anything in the Mail - not even the sport's results. I'm just glad the hard copy isn't made of glossy paper - then it would have no uses what so ever :-)
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Old 09-08-2012, 11:32 AM
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I don't have an account, to me having a Facebook account means you are a psychopath.

A colleague at work was playing hacky sack out the back of the office yesterday, the hacky sack got stuck up near the roof on a metal beam and he took a photo of it on his iPhone 4 and uploaded it straight to Facebook.
WT?
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Old 09-08-2012, 11:35 AM
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I'm just glad the hard copy isn't made of glossy paper - then it would have no uses what so ever :-)
Subtle.

@Troy: Like that signature Q&A. Groan!
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Old 09-08-2012, 12:00 PM
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Subtle.

@Troy: Like that signature Q&A. Groan!
neither is the printing ink

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Old 09-08-2012, 12:01 PM
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All from a website that concerns themselves with top stories like Lindsay Lohan having a bad fake tan job ....20+ pictures.....riveting!
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Old 09-08-2012, 12:45 PM
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Yeah, was just thinking that. Were we all psychopaths before spacebook came along?

I, for one, revel in my psychopathy!

When spacebook's privacy features were weak 3-5 years ago, it was common practise for recruitment agents to look you up and see what kind of riff raff you hung around with on the weekend. What you got up to in your private life influenced whether you got a job or not. I've seen other reports now saying that employers are requesting spacebook profiles in job interviews. It is more prevalent in the US, but, hang on, what? Why? That just seems really, really wrong to me. Why should one company's product rule everyone's life the same way? Doesn't that seem odd to people?

I am not one of those people who is resistant to change. I have absolutely no problem with moving along with the times, and keeping up with technology, and adjusting with and to societal norms. I have thought long and hard about opening a spacebook page to advertise my photography business and share my art. But, why should I? Just because squillions of people are on there? How does that make it an authoritative source for everything?

I have a very small Internet footprint. IceInSpace is my most-used social networking site. DP Review is another (been on there for several years and have under 500 posts). 419eater is another, but, I don't have time for it anymore. I post my photography to two art/photography web sites, one of which just has 4-5 images on there. Perhaps I am missing out on making millions of dollars and gaining loads and loads of exposure by sharing my artistic vision with the world. But, to be truthfully honest -- I don't care.

Maybe I might change my mind one day after having an epiphany. But, for now, I'm quite happy to live in bland (Internet) anonymity and do things the old fashioned way.

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Old 09-08-2012, 12:55 PM
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Face Book ... Twitter ....My Space ... who cares ... I couldn't give a ' Rat's A## s for any of them.

On a scale of 1 to 10 on my ' I don't give a Toss Meter ' .... about 0.

Psychopath ... who...me .... never

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Old 09-08-2012, 12:57 PM
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I was pretty much branded weird and anti-social throughout high school because I prefered to explore the universe and play Starcraft rather than waste my time socialising to people i already see at school. I come home to take a break from seeing people at school. How people come home and spend hours on FB after they've just seen their friends, i'll never know
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Old 09-08-2012, 12:57 PM
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I think I joined Myspace some years back, but never Facebook, nor Twitter. Don't have an intelligent phone.

No, not a psychopath, rather just a sad case, mowed down in the "advance" of technology.....
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Old 09-08-2012, 02:50 PM
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This topic must be doing the rounds everywhere at the moment- yesterday it was a topic on Sunrise as well as the Morning Show that followed it, wow and now the newspaper article...

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LOL It all depends on how you use it. If you're networking with other astro/science geeks, it means your getting all the latest news and info from all the big Obs and Space facilities across the globe, posted by the researchers themselves, not by some half wit news journalist.
Very nicely said Nettie. I also enjoy all those feeds.

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Yes you do Colin...Mars Rover Curiosity is on Twitter...Tweets quite regularly.

http://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity
Mars Curiosity is on facebook too! I'm enjoying all the updates.

I've learned lots on fb, but there are those crazy times I've found myself fb'ing between my daughter- apparently a flight of stairs is a struggle when you're comfy. Oh come on... admit some of you'll don't text each other in the same house.
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