gotname

StumbleUpon is not what it used to be (it changed again recently, look at the date). Once, it was a search engine with an option to make comments for other users. That was nice, even though SU has always been badly designed, but it worked years ago.

People used the option to post comments in various ways, mostly in pictures, unfortunately. It was a nice environment for some social networking, depending on so many uncountable things.

Now (look at the date above), it's nothing nice any more, and the page design went from bad to worse. Now, whatever you say is open to anybody on the Net, and so called "your page" is full of crap you haven't put there. It's so confusing, and so rudely "commercialized" by the new owner: eBay (not longer any more).

SU, as it is now, is not a place where I want to be any more. I did meet some nice people here, and I even invited some to join SU. My sincere apologies to them all.

I'll stay here a bit longer just to give enough time so that people can contact me before I clear "my" page. I believe we can do better without what we can find here.

What about the SU search? No idea. At the moment StumbleUpon looks worse than Facebook, even though "you" still have no wall people can piss on. Coming up soon, it seems.

(It seems things changed since SU was bought back by the people who created it, so I hear. Let's see what happens here.)

This s a historical document. I guess we should know where we are, and how it happened...

--> "Social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace are unlikely to help users build close new friendships, a British researcher said Tuesday."

<-- Bogus networking websites don't work, as some would want them to. Hummm... Bogus research confirms it... Interesting. Not that anything is clear about the 'research,' like the objectives, methods or whatever, but the conclusions do resemble the Internet experience held and shared by numerous newbies who usually become IT experts soon after they get connected the first time.

In case some of them have some formal education and a position to abuse, they'll do it with yet another inane research, to support their comrades in stupidity, aimed to prove some of their popular beliefs, fears or whatever related to majority's inability to actually enjoy, develop or explore some bad new technological development.

As it were years ago when they wasted enormous amounts of money trying to prove how computer screens were causing headaches, damaging eyesight, or worse, now the same people and/or their children don't have headaches any more, but they do have new problems with the same technology. How surprising!

(to be continued...)

--> "Welcome Gotname... Likes 679 pages, 12 videos, 38 photos, 14 fans, Received 2 reviews "

<-- Wow, what information! Stumbleupon has changed since I came here last time. Wysiwyg is one thing you can't get here, and whatever you get is a surprise of a sort. How I missed saying 'hi' to some rather pretty girls that seem to like 'this stumbler' is a mystery, but it wouldn't be a mystery to my young Swedish friend. For some reason, she does not expect me to behave like other men, or even have a relevant opinion about the issue.

The truth is, regardless of what I think, that too many men are making it hard for too many women to feel comfortable online. This has recently become an important usual topic in chat rooms we frequent. Some categories of women seem to be affected more than others, especially in voice chat environments, even Skype. Is the stumbleupon community safer and friendlier than others remains to be seen. Tell me, tell me...

--> "Considerable evidence has amassed showing that humans don't like to think."
<-- Considerable evidence has amassed showing that MOST humans are quite incapable of thinking. The psychologist here proves it. His inability to think is so obvious that he doesn't need any proof. Assuming that he and many others like him represent everybody is wrong, however. So, his statement above is just an erroneous generalization.

--> "This error is not confined solely to waiters; you may say "you too" when an usher tells you to enjoy the film, when an airline employee tells you to enjoy your trip, or even when a friend says "happy birthday." The "you too" is one of the most common errors in human discourse."

<-- Human discourse? The author is not aware that there are other languages spoken by humans? Maybe he thinks all languages are the same. Maybe he doesn't think. Is it something cultural? What is it? Is it an evolutionary error?

I love cats. These little ultimate predators are so much more than most people think, way beyond their elegance and beauty. They definitely know how to play the evolutionary game, too. They are wonderful companions, but only if you can earn their respect. You can't train them, but they can be told, and they can learn things. They are often funny, and entertaining...