why the modern obsession with posting your picture on the internet?
 

i am not sure i understand the need to do it al the time. once or twice sure, every day why?

In theory I share your despair; in actuality, I suspect it's slightly more benign than the need to share your thoughts on some bollocks or other on the internet. Something which you may have noticed I do quite a bit.

why not?

unless you're ugly, of course

Tough to argue against that one. It's a shame you weren't around at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War could've been finished twenty years earlier.

in real life people have to put up with my face and my comments all the time.

also to display your need to be real not just a smartass net persona.

so we can see each other as real human beings. and blah blah.

I usually wait until I've made about 6 months worth of comments on other's photos before posting one. it's usually deleted within a few hours and only done to lessen the creep-factor of talking about others without a photo of my own.

I have no interest in humanizing myself.

I've met some people from here. They'll verify I have a face. I'd have a face whether they verified it or not.

My proper answer would be that it's really up to the person. Some people don't mind other people looking at them; some get off on it; some people have very visual minds; some people tend to like to live in words. Horses/ courses etc.

Plus, you have quite a punchable face.

some people like to show off their large record collections, some people like to show off their extensive vocabularies, some people like to show off their good bone structure. it's all the same in the end.

in real life people haven't got much choice.

quote of the week

yr mother wasn't nearly as unkind.

I would like to some rear end pictures myself instead of all these boring face shots.

People are lonely.

dead air: quick, what's the best henlein book? i'm running out of timelein.

eh, i dont know, it's a stupid habit of mine.

glice is hideous.

do you know the population proportion of hideous to beautiful?

the evidence supporting this statement surrounds me every time i leave my house

But the Upper West Side side if full of beautiful botoxed faces.

they're especially hideous

when i want to see beautiful people i walk over to strawberry fields and watch the bums.


or go look in a mirror.

A cop drove into strawberry fields the other day!

He parked with wheels on top of the Imagine sign!

I cannot make that up! I was kinda offended!

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, of course.

i saw it when i was going to the subway and i yelled WHAT THE FUCK really loud

i like where this thread is going...

what's the best asimov?

SAYIN!

A Cop parked in my mind today, of course I said hey?

but she wasn't looking for me (of course & sad face) she wanted to know what I knew about mountebanks.

no way can i say what is best. the robot series is kinda good. rob influenza gators might be able to answer this better.

also please note: the flu pun in my post was not to say that rob the butt slapmastigator is a harblingor of the flahahauhizzle; rather it is aimed towards the fact that the number 1 ranked ncaa college football team florida gators has a bit of the sahahawinne flu. rob's name was just an innocent bystander, i'll make it up to him, if i haven't already by going to him as a source of sci-fi fluency.
Fluency.

I think it's because the Internet can feel unreal. Putting one's photo online is an attempt to link it to something real.

man that's the biggest laugh I have had all day. genius mad thanks.

frankly the best Asimov for me is the short story collections, of which there are many many, since he wrote many sci fi as well as historical and detective stories.
the Foundation Series is very influential and a touchstone for any sci fi involvement you may want to have.

my fave fave asimov is the non fiction stuff he did in his last 20 years. genius stuff, written in plain english. then again, I love reference books.
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare


Asimov's Guide to the Bible


this one is my fave. Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology.

re: gmku

i can see why'd you'd say that because i can see my hands typing. but if you aren't ready to take responsibility for online actions because it existed in some 'sonic earth' then you best check aboard the next mayflower and chart a course to planet Klorklostringinham. Go to this land and all will be well. While the dresscode may be strict and conscription mandatory (unless yr smarter than yr tester) it will be a place where giant fucking mosquitoes can just fucking slam their suckers right into the jugulars of all species. EVOLUTION FOR ALL! SNIFF MY TAINT AFTER I BATHE IT IN RASPBERRY LEMON CLONED & DICED MALAYSIAN

How would you know someone was posting a picture of themselves every day unless YOU were checking them out every day?

Either that or I'm so beautiful I don't need the affirmation of skinny white indie kids.

I will say, however, that I really need to sort my hair out.

didn't you tell me you have "great cunting holes" or "great cunting caps" in your teeth or something to that effect? when i said i could open a beer with my teeth.


figures.



get a haircut you fucking hippie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWNjQD7FNXQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYb86neG2N0

i dont. i am talking in a generl way. when i look at facebook every now and again i see that many people have thousands of pictures of themselves, many of which are practically the same pose. i guess its the same here. i rarely come here nowadays so rarely check the pictures but a quick glance through will suffice.

I can't think of a single person that posts their picture on here every single day.