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sycogrim said:
Ag alright thanks mate just very very busy... but otherwise and good :) and yourself?? I believe ur on holiday atm?? hows that treating you?
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Good to hear. Ah it's been ok, noisy as hell because of construction at my house, but got some good gaming time in regardless :)
Going back to the hamster wheel tomorrow though! Other than that, duidelik :p
 
Murph said:
Good to hear. Ah it's been ok, noisy as hell because of construction at my house, but got some good gaming time in regardless :)
Going back to the hamster wheel tomorrow though! Other than that, duidelik :p
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lucky bastid :p... I havnt gotten in much gaming time this weekend due to rAge :o
 
I wrote a scary essay last night about just how much a company can tell about your personality through Facebook. Extroversion, emotional stability, conscientiousness, openness to experience.... all that they can tell with your stupid profile. Kinda scary.
 
powderbucket said:
I wrote a scary essay last night about just how much a company can tell about your personality through Facebook. Extroversion, emotional stability, conscientiousness, openness to experience.... all that they can tell with your stupid profile. Kinda scary.
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Social networking... its a scary thing...

I am playing around with a Social networking 2.0 in my novel, kinda secondlife meets facebook....
 
OmegaFenix22 said:
Social networking... its a scary thing...

I am playing around with a Social networking 2.0 in my novel, kinda secondlife meets facebook....
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Secondlife worries me.... the whole virtual ideal self compared to the real self. Very philosophical if that's your kinda thing. I find it fascinating the way human beings try to create different identities to make up for what they really are.
 
powderbucket said:
Secondlife worries me.... the whole virtual ideal self compared to the real self. Very philosophical if that's your kinda thing. I find it fascinating the way human beings try to create different identities to make up for what they really are.
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It is a very deep subject. As the net becomes a bigger and bigger part of society's dailie lives we are beginning to see a fusion. Where as before a person may have been John Doe in the phycial world and have been AvarageJoe21 online, people are now becoming 1. This forum is a good example, I know several of the people on here reasonably well, I know that their virual and phycial selfs are very similar or differnt depending on the person. I myself am OmegaFenix alot more than I am Ernst Vorndran. I think this is due mostly to social networking, as often our online persona no longer offer that total anonamy (spelling).

In my novel the net is an even bigger part of society and as a result some people live more as their online persona's while other excist soley in the "real" world.
 
OmegaFenix22 said:
It is a very deep subject. As the net becomes a bigger and bigger part of society's dailie lives we are beginning to see a fusion. Where as before a person may have been John Doe in the phycial world and have been AvarageJoe21 online, people are now becoming 1. This forum is a good example, I know several of the people on here reasonably well, I know that their virual and phycial selfs are very similar or differnt depending on the person. I myself am OmegaFenix alot more than I am Ernst Vorndran. I think this is due mostly to social networking, as often our online persona no longer offer that total anonamy (spelling).

In my novel the net is an even bigger part of society and as a result some people live more as their online persona's while other excist soley in the "real" world.
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I remember watching Carte Blanche when they looked at the whole Second Life thing and I started thinking, "OMG, what happens if that just becomes a person's life and they forget about reality?" As for the whole anonymity thing, that's equally as scary because what happens to privacy? Just think about the days before Facebook and how much more privacy people had. Now people can tell almost everything about just from a silly Facebook profile. People can keep track of your actions as well, making surveillance a very easy, but very dangerous, thing. The book 1984 comes to mind....
 
powderbucket said:
I remember watching Carte Blanche when they looked at the whole Second Life thing and I started thinking, "OMG, what happens if that just becomes a person's life and they forget about reality?" As for the whole anonymity thing, that's equally as scary because what happens to privacy? Just think about the days before Facebook and how much more privacy people had. Now people can tell almost everything about just from a silly Facebook profile. People can keep track of your actions as well, making surveillance a very easy, but very dangerous, thing. The book 1984 comes to mind....
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I have the "group" of people in the novel called "Tweakers" they are basically addicts who use stuff like speed and other energy boosting drugs to remain awake. They are basically addicted to being online. One of my main characters is a recovering tweaker, who now almost shuns the online world, where as the other character lives almost entirly online but does not "tweak".

It is scary but also exciting. The net and even virtual space is still in its infancy. When it went live nobody had any sort of idea how it would evolve and develope. That is why alot if this is so scary, its been pasted together to work but not designed from the outset to do so. In the novel i use what I call personal IP's. Each person has their own IP and this bracelet they wear broadcasts it. Everything about the "host" is connected to the IP. All of it hyper encrypted to combat identity theft. For all the dangours of such a system think of the added benifits, no need to carry id, drivers, passport, atm card, cash anything. Also if your in an accident all your medical data is there for the EMS people.

I think as everyday people become more and more use to the virtual world these privacy concerns will diminish as poeple will have grown up with the tech, be intamitly familiar with it. Remember when spam mail was first let loose on the world, how many people fell, and still fall, for those scams. However those who are use to the tech know not to fall for such things, are on guard against suck scams. We live our online lives smarted. Its simply the next evolutionary step. People where just as afraid of cellphones when they came out.
 
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“Hiya Omega, haven’t seen you in lightyears.” A bubblegum pink haired waitress chirped as he walked in the door, pulling a single ear piece out and letting the jumbled chaos of the packed pub wash partially over him.
“Distance not time Trix…” He shot in passing, having already spotted the table in a quieter corner where OC’s AR avatar slowly rotated. The TK had a great many AR Elements, non of them overly intrusive, most interesting was the window floating above the head of every patron displaying an alias and avatar, two dimensional picture of the users choice, which had its roots, like the name of the pup, in the online Forums.
Omega made his way through the crowd noticing the ghostly, almost cartoonish, “people” sitting at a few tables, these where the avatars of people in Cyberspace interacting with the patrons of the physical bar.
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