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Anyone else seem to suffer from this?

There used to be a day when the internet didn't really come into RL, it pretty much used to be a totally separate thing.

Things that made me wtf recently are.
  • Gangam style on the charts - This would have just been a good ol chuckle for internet geeks 10 years ago.
  • BBC promoting Twitter and Facebook pages on TV
  • Google adverts on the TV and billboards - This made me think WTH. (I probbably watch TV for about 10 hours a year, if that so I'm probbably not upto speed)

Or am I just a wierdo?
 
I really don't get the 'Gangam Style' fascination. I mentioned in another thread that I think it's similar to the Crazy Frog craze, yet seemingly decent and educated people are fans of Gangam Style whereas Crazy Frog was typically for scumbags.
Can someone please explain the appeal!?
 
Ahleckz said:
Can someone please explain the appeal!?
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The BBC's Charter says it should be completely impartial and not promote anything in any shape or form. I'm quite surprised that Google/Microsoft with their 'Legal' firepower have not brought the Beeb to book over it's complete and utter swooning over Facebook and Twitter every chance it gets. Quite sickening the 'Free' promotion a US Corporation gets from a Publicly Funded UK Institution. If I was a Licence Fee Payer I'd be furious! :D
 
i was thinking the other day about this. more so how its become much more acceptable to be a bit of a geek and like computer games. before you would have been slated for playing pc games and alike but now every ones at it. and when you here people saying lol , rofl and epic ... sort of annoys me a bit :/
 
doofer said:
The BBC's Charter says it should be completely impartial and not promote anything in any shape or form. I'm quite surprised that Google/Microsoft with their 'Legal' firepower have not brought the Beeb to book over it's complete and utter swooning over Facebook and Twitter every chance it gets. Quite sickening the 'Free' promotion a US Corporation gets from a Publicly Funded UK Institution. If I was a Licence Fee Payer I'd be furious! :D
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Sliding off topic but the only criticism I have regarding the BBC Breakfast show is that once they've done the news runthrough they'll move on to something I recently discovered they've nicknamed "The bridge", a section that segues the news into the morning shows, and you can guarantee they'll be hawking something for someone in there somewhere.
I've seen books, films and music tours being promoted in that section.
Then there was the the rash of apple equipment that popped up in shows everywhere, BBC Four most noticably.

Back on-topic: now that computers are infinitely more easier to use, have pretty much lost their geek factor, the proliferation of internet capable mobile phones and the fact that going online these days doesn't tie up the family landline means that anyone can get online anywhere at any time and not have to pay by the minute for it.

It's a commodity now, the human ecosystem has absorbed the internet in a very short space of time.
Way back when being a troll was akin to being the scum of the earth, now it is something you do when bored.

Remember the word "netiquette"?
 
zhx said:
i was thinking the other day about this. more so how its become much more acceptable to be a bit of a geek and like computer games. before you would have been slated for playing pc games and alike but now every ones at it. and when you here people saying lol , rofl and epic ... sort of annoys me a bit :/
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It depends who you keep company with.

99% of people I know don't have a clue what Starcraft is, yet still spend inordinate amounts of time on Facebook and Twitter.
 
Ahleckz said:
I really don't get the 'Gangam Style' fascination. I mentioned in another thread that I think it's similar to the Crazy Frog craze, yet seemingly decent and educated people are fans of Gangam Style whereas Crazy Frog was typically for scumbags.
Can someone please explain the appeal!?
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I think the difference is that while Crazy Frog is intentionally irritating, Gangnam Style is just tongue-in-cheek.
 
zhx said:
i was thinking the other day about this. more so how its become much more acceptable to be a bit of a geek and like computer games. before you would have been slated for playing pc games and alike but now every ones at it. and when you here people saying lol , rofl and epic ... sort of annoys me a bit :/
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I've always been a very stereotypical geek but I've always been comfortable with who i am. It's just now i am in fashion! It won't last through :D
 
It's probably zuckerberg and gates who have changed the perception of geeks. It's pretty obvious that it has definetly become more popular, there are loads of science vlogs on youtube that have massive subscriber bases. Same with minecraft and other games.
 
I have watched a few episodes of Big Bang Theory and they talk about lolcats and I haz cheezburger.

Mind Blown.
 
Whether you like it or not, the physical web is only going to cross the line between human life and online life more and more.

Companies pouring money into social media feeds and mobile applications means more systems are talking to each other than ever before so once what is real and what is on the web starts to overlap more and more then you'll really notice it.

If you get a chance, eBook `smart customers, stupid companies is worth a read! :-)
 
Ahleckz said:
I really don't get the 'Gangam Style' fascination. I mentioned in another thread that I think it's similar to the Crazy Frog craze, yet seemingly decent and educated people are fans of Gangam Style whereas Crazy Frog was typically for scumbags.
Can someone please explain the appeal!?
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Funny video + Silly dance = success. However, even that doesn't fully account for the size of the success this song has had. It is, surely, the pinnacle of internet viral success.
 
I have been with my OH for about 5 & a 1/2 years now.

When we met, she barely knew how to use a computer as she spent most of her school life, not being at school. Bloody chavs!

But, she has acclimatised to it now, uses it quite often for the social aspect, goes on various sites, slowly starting to do more shopping online & general use.

She has even started playing a few little games online, mainly browser based ones.

When we met, she always said I was a geek, and wasting my time on the PC, but now, she is on it almost as much as I am. So yeah, overall it is just becoming more and more acceptable now. Whereas I was the only one in my family using the 56k dial up connection as a youngster, all members of the family now have broadband connections in their homes, and my nephews & nieces are all little gamers too!

It is just socially acceptable now, it was almost frowned upon not too long ago!
 
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