Get off my lawn!
(Wait, can I say that when I’m only 44 years old, or do I have to wait until I’m at least 50?)
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You might wanna see a doc.
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Damn punks!
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I’ve been saying it since I was about 16, so I’ll give you a pass.
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Social media is stealin’ our freedoms!!!
Is what I hear you saying. I’m sure that’s not what you mean… or is it?
Um…prehaps I haven’t really been all that clear on social media. I’m a terrible writer in all of this! What I was meaning is that social media in itself isn’t a bad thing it is when social media is done badly (aka facebook) that’s when it is doing bad stuff such as spying and tracking. I quite agree with people who have spoken out or conduct lecures - for example - Prof. eben moglen who refers to facebook as one gigantic MITM (Man in the middle) attack.
Projects like freedombox are attempts to do things including social media properly without all the centralisation/spying/tracking an’ stuff.
Well, I’d still wait for a table so I must not be too far gone. 
An open source open forum where no one records everything we say, and doesn’t share my entire social networks private information with anyone I buy something from… That would be amazing.
You’re never too young to start practicing proper lawn care.
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“Former” punk rockers are going to be the crankiest, orneriest old people ever.
off my lawn you fuck 
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Do you value it enough to define it?
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Oh look at mister fancy pants poser with his lawn
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Punk’s not dead, it’s just sitting around grumbling about kids these days.
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Sitting on that Punk Sofa?
Story time: years back when I lived near Harajuku there was a “punk shop” that sold pre studded, pre painted, pre logos of 80s hardcore bands leather jackets for well over US$1,000
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“Social media” existed long before commercial sites commoditised it and started using the term.
In 1997 I was trying to get local groups to make use of the internet. One said “it’s too technical”. My reply, and I can’t remember if I said it or just thought it was “no, it’s social”. It was intimate, it was immediate and a radical change from the past where access to a large readership was through a filtered medium.
All those online forums on BBSs and the commercial services like AOL, were about the discussion. I suppose the commercial services were about making money, but the money came from the users paying for the service. Arpanet mailing lists came early, Usenet that has no ownership started in 1979. What they didn’t have was “local”, since until the nineties came around, density in all but a few locations was too small to be “local”, hence the alignment along topic line rather than regional.
When iNet '96 happened, there seemed to be two themes, creating spaces that weren’t commercial (which at the time seemed a bit off since commerce hadn’t been part of the mix previously) and a concern for the local, now that access was increasing so there could be a sense of local.
But the revolution was soon lost. The commercial sites came along, took the decades of practical experience with online communication from Usenet and the like, and made it a commercial product, something to steal the users from the competition. Previously, a “new service” had been a protocol, for anyone to use (or reject), as commerce took over it was about being different from the competition.
Sadly, the biggest surge to come online came at the time of the rise of things like myspace and facebook , and maybe those were the lure. A “safe space to talk the mundane to people you already knew” rather than “a place to talk ideas with people you didn’t know”. Since so many came late, they never knew the non-commercial internet, had none of that to filter the new.
The internet doesn’t need new, it needs a reversion to the days of old.
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So many of my older freaky/punk/goth friends complain endlessly about “youth fashions” now!
Hilarious! (Also, I find it ironic, that these people in their 40s who are still going out to shows and bars complaining about the “kids” were also, when young, complaining about the “old folks” going out to bars and shows back in the day… the irony, it buuuuurns!)
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Absolutely, and I first got online back in 1996! So some of it I remember; I didn’t get online pre '96 because before that I couldn’t afford to(!) and (I’m from the UK) much before this the internet didn’t exist in the UK (I’m not from the US) or at least not avaliable to the public at large.
You’re right about needing to go back though – we need to go back to the idea of the internet being about lots of computers being connected together being equal, rather than today’s idea of it being centralised and we just look in from the outside to this big thing in the centre. Though we need something new to make sure it dosen’t happen again. Social networking is fine, it just has to be done properly and not in the way facebook (and others) do.
I do recall though something about back in the late '90s about ISPs banning “servers” though prehaps that all helped what we have to day arise?
EDIT: Actually you reminded me of this quote from this person - Carmen Hermosillo/Humdog(1994), reused later by documentary film maker adam curtis in 2011;
“It is fashionable to suggest that cyberspace is some kind of island of the blessed where people are free to indulge and express their Individuality…this is not true…I have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and I did so myself until…I began to see that i had commodified myself.”
“Commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money-value. In the nineteenth century, commodities were made in factories…by workers who were mostly exploited…I created my interior thoughts as a means of production for the corporation that owned the board I was posting to…and that commodity was being sold to other commodity/consumer entities as entertainment… [Cyberspace] is a black hole. It absorbs energy and personality and then re-presents it as an emotional spectacle.”
That’s pretty much facebook in a nutshell.
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I remember printing off every IP address that was active on the internet back in the day…
It was like 50 pages… Off a dot matrix printer.
I could not believe how many computers they had linked up. It was fascinating…
And soon I found it was populated with the finest of weirdos…
That was before the bad times… When everyone else showed up 
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I have noticed that millennials like to give hugs more than other generations.
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back in the early 60s, humor writer Jean Shepherd (more known for his movie “A Christmas Story”) on one of his episodes on WOR radio made a comment basically saying, it doesn’t matter what generation you are, the previous generation will always lament how bad they had it, and will complain how easy the next generation has it.
now… if i can actually find the radio episode… lol
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This is true!! I’ve had lots of business meetings with millennial entrepreneurs and they all end with a round of hugs! Its quite delightful! 
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