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   Scott Dorsey to jfairchild@tudado.org   
   Re: Usenet as social media [was:Re: If y   
   04 Sep 24 11:40:04   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article <87bk1dponf.fsf@tudado.org>,   
   Johanne Fairchild   wrote:   
   >Anton Shepelev  writes:   
   >   
   >> Kerr-Mudd, John:   
   >>   
   >>> PS &OT, today I went for a drink in a Social Club; it was   
   >>>    astoundingly non-social, the other people were   
   >>>    focussed on their mobile phones. So I did likewise.   
   >>   
   >> So that club is no longer a sutiable "medium for public   
   >> discussions."  Smartphones are joykillers, and social   
   >> networks, ironically, great disuniters of people.   
   >   
   >Totally true.   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyDf3rfFHkw   
      
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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