Where Did All The Nice People Go?

[surlygirly]

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Yay. I love it when our state is portrayed in such an awesome light. I'm just shocked no one in hair curlers and a bathrobe with a horrific accent was interviewed to give it that extra Texas feel. Oh, but there wasn't a tornado. Never mind.

[cezanne]

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I'm still here! Have a nice day!!

[Frankie's Market]

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The highway trouper did what he had to do. Sad to say in this day and age, law enforcement officers cannot automatically assume that a belligerent acting senior citizen is harmless. Just a couple days after this story about the 72 year old getting tasered appeared on the Today show, a grisly shooting involving this 88 year old man occurred at the Holocaust Museum, taking the life of a security guard.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_w...um_guard_.html

[tutusue]

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Thanks for your input, Jim. I saw the video on The Today Show yesterday. Last night I saw edited versions of the video on the news, 2 separate stations...can't remember which ones. The video was edited in favor of the grandmother. It contained nothing leading up to her getting out of her car. Possibly the edits had to do with time constraints. Still, it showed the cop in a really bad light when, in fact, the grandmother started out acting like a royal a$$. By the end of The Today Show piece I was thinking the belligerent, testy grandma deserved what she got.

[Jim75]

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She was doing 80 in a 45. Then she started playing footsie over the ticket on the side of a busy highway. People get hit and killed on the sides of highways. It's a dangerous situation. Her games end up causing the cop to bring her outside of her vehicle. Now that she'd played her game, she wanted to capitulate and go on her way. She should have thought of that before she forced the situation further. Now they're outside of the vehicle and he is responsible for her safety and his saftey. You can't say he knew she was not intoxicated. Her behavior suggested something was out of order. Maybe he planned to give her a breathalizer. If she had been drunk and then drove off and killed someone else, he would also be responsible for that outcome, at that point. I've been called to hospital ER's in the middle of the night to do crisis mental health evals. I've seen people who for all intents and purposes appeared mostly sober. Blood testing revealed alcohol levels 3 times over the legal limit. Persons who are addicted can have amazing tolerance and still walk around and talk when a casual drinker would be tossing cookies or passed out with the same amount of alcohol in their system. She might have bolted out and been hit by a passing car and killed. Then her family would have sued the police force. She had multiple opportunities to surrender and it was her responsibility to surrender. Could he have restrained her physically. I imagine so. I also imagine the police force he works for has instituted a policy about how to manage people who resist. I imagine she was the recipient of a policy decision made long before that day. She could have been high on meth for all he knew. It's disturbing to see an elderly woman stunned to the ground, but it was entirely within her control from start to finish. She elected to be tazed and was tazed as a result. I'd hate to be a cop.

[Walkoff Balk]

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Those two people might have been nice for all of their lives. But, they will be known for having road rage that's documented when being caught on tape. It's like being on this board and being nice with all of your posts, until you disagree with another poster, Then, you get all habut, and do back and forth posting beefs.

[Walkoff Balk]

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http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapi...sered_72y.html

I think the nice people might have gone here.

[cynsaligia]

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Perhaps as examples I should have cited Friendster, SixDegrees and Jaiku.

we should also keep in mind that certain social networks are more popular than others in different regions of the world. when i visited family in the philippines, not one of my cousins had a myspace or facebook page. however, they are all on friendster.

as i said earlier, i don't twitter nor do i facebook. i do have a myspace page but i started that before my career in healthcare (and also while i was single). if i didn't have a myspace page now, i wouldn't start one, mostly because of my desire for online privacy and also because it's part of newscorp.

[Leo Lakio]

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Anyway, you made me curious about the longevity of the 3 sites you mentioned. Here's what I found:
MySpace was launched in 2003
Facebook's public launch was in 2006
Twitter was created in 2006.

Perhaps as examples I should have cited Friendster, SixDegrees and Jaiku.

[Leo Lakio]

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http://comics.com/cow&boy/2009-05-31/

[mel]

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I use MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.

From the 3 I like Twitter the best because it is the simplest to use and manage... though the friends requests can sometimes get out of hand, especially when a lot of them are spammers or firms just wanting to push their news to you.... Facebook allows your Twitter posts to automatically be posted to Facebook, so with that you can hit 2 things at the same time.

As for Facebook I was on it since I think 2006 but never got active with it until last year when the Stop Rail Now thing took off. The thing I like about Facebook is that I have found several conservative friends and groups that I know about there, as well as my niece, a few relatives and a couple of friends from my school days of years gone by. It seems like Facebook skews better with the older crowd than MySpace... though there are a ton of young people there too.

MySpace I was on the longest but it is the worst of the social networks in so far as interface goes... however it is one of the better ones to find out about new music and new music artists as well as current ones. The interface again is horrible and many people customize their pages so much that they take forever to load with flash applications and whatever. Needless to say, while I still have a presence there, I don't visit or update my page there very often.

BTW I don't care if people like these services or not. I don't own them, but since they are free, I'll use them. The day they start charging us for using them is the day I and many others will abandon them like rats jumping off the Titanic.

[tutusue]

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Just to be clear - this wasn't meant as a slam against any of you who use these services. They are all just tools, and in many cases, they fit your lifestyle and serve great functions for you - and that's sweet.

Speaking for myself only, I didn't take it as a slam at all, Leo. I'm not sure, tho', if "sweet" is the most appropriate adjective!

I just get tired of people proselytizing me about signing up for all the hot new things, many of which just wouldn't fit with who I am, and when many of them fade away after a year or two.

The proselytizing got to me, too. I honestly am not interested in social networking sites as I'm busy enough in email and HT! Then, lo and behold, last January a good friend posted the pictures of his newborn on Facebook. That was the only way I could see this baby I'd waited 9 months to see. So, I acquiesced, signed up, viewed the photos and by the time I was finished doing that I had 5 friend requests! I didn't even know what the heck that was!!! One thing led to another which led to finding 2 classmates I'd wondered about for 47 years. Outta the blue, a cousin's 3 kids found me, as mentioned previously. Well, you get the picture! Finding and staying in touch with these folks is what made me a convert!!! That said, one social networking site is more than enough for me. I honestly don't understand where people find enough time in the day to participate in more than one. Maybe I'm just a poor time manager.

Anyway, you made me curious about the longevity of the 3 sites you mentioned. Here's what I found:
MySpace was launched in 2003
Facebook's public launch was in 2006
Twitter was created in 2006.

[Leo Lakio]

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(I just ain't the type to get caught up in Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or whatever the "trend-of-the-year" happens to be. Too busy irl.)

Just to be clear - this wasn't meant as a slam against any of you who use these services. They are all just tools, and in many cases, they fit your lifestyle and serve great functions for you - and that's sweet.

I just get tired of people proselytizing me about signing up for all the hot new things, many of which just wouldn't fit with who I am, and when many of them fade away after a year or two.

[Kaonohi]

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turtlegirl, I'm glad you convinced Ryan to keep this thread open.
It has been eye-opening, enlightening and has served to get me to know about people I otherwise would have missed.

[Barry]

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Vanguard you can allow people onto your list who you trust. Ignore the others until you get to know their posts. FB can be lively and a lot of HT'ers have gone over to it.
Good to have a choice ?

Can just say about Nice People ? There are so many still on HT.