How the Dating Game has Changed

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neardc is offline neardc Post #91  November 3,2008, 7:23am
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Sidebar query: Anybody else having the erratic 'problem' of posting but not having the post 'register' on the board? The post comes up in the thread, but does not register on the board ... I've contacted eHa about it to see if it's particular to me, or if it's just another techno-glitch ... Anyone else?
I'm not sure what you mean by a post "registering" on the board. I have had the problem of my post not appearing at all, and no message that the post is being moderated -- it is just gone; perhaps that is a related issue. I reported it several days ago, but have had it happen again since then.
 
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neardc,320539 wrote :

pinz,320426 wrote :


Sidebar query: Anybody else having the erratic 'problem' of posting but not having the post 'register' on the board? The post comes up in the thread, but does not register on the board ... I've contacted eHa about it to see if it's particular to me, or if it's just another techno-glitch ... Anyone else?


I'm not sure what you mean by a post "registering" on the board. I have had the problem of my post not appearing at all, and no message that the post is being moderated -- it is just gone; perhaps that is a related issue. I reported it several days ago, but have had it happen again since then.
Hi Neardc, The 'glitch' I was/am experience seems very erratic. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. I've let eHa know about it now and hopefully they'll look into it. My posts were posting, but the post was not registering on the 'main board', meaning, I was not 'registering' as the final poster on the thread ... Whatever. eHa blues. I'll 'test' it here again ....


Btw, any thoughts about the 'time' thingy I mentioned ? Just wondering ...
 
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pinz,322182 wrote :

neardc,320539 wrote :


pinz,320426 wrote :


Sidebar query: Anybody else having the erratic 'problem' of posting but not having the post 'register' on the board? The post comes up in the thread, but does not register on the board ... I've contacted eHa about it to see if it's particular to me, or if it's just another techno-glitch ... Anyone else?


I'm not sure what you mean by a post "registering" on the board. I have had the problem of my post not appearing at all, and no message that the post is being moderated -- it is just gone; perhaps that is a related issue. I reported it several days ago, but have had it happen again since then.


Hi Neardc, The 'glitch' I was/am experience seems very erratic. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. I've let eHa know about it now and hopefully they'll look into it. My posts were posting, but the post was not registering on the 'main board', meaning, I was not 'registering' as the final poster on the thread ... Whatever. eHa blues. I'll 'test' it here again ....


Btw, any thoughts about the 'time' thingy I mentioned ? Just wondering ...
See? Didn't work. 10 minutes have elapsed and it hasn't popped 'up',yet but it is HERE, even though you are listed as the last poster on the board .... It does seem to EVENTUALLY get up, but by then I'm usually off the thread, so, any response/dialogue is potentially 'lost' ... arg, a tad frustratin' to be sure. Catchya later.
 
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Ok, bumpin' this thread again for 2 reasons. One reason is serious, the other ireason s funny (but kinda weird serious too...).


Reason One.) Canadians have been following the tragic story of the run-away youth, Brandon Crisp over the past few weeks. The 15 year old ran away from home mid October after his parents argued with him about his increasing 'addiction' to the XBox game, 'Call of Duty:4'. He was discovered a few days ago, dead in the bush, alone. Apparently he fell from a tree.
There are a few elements in this story worth noting:
1) The video game Brandon was an on-line player with was 'rated' "M" by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, indicating that it's not suitable for children under the age of 17 ...
2) Microsoft became involved in ther 'cyber' rescue search, and offered $50G for news of Brandon's whereabouts. Because it is an on-line gaming 'community', there was a possibility that Brandon would have 'hooked up' with a felllow gamer. (Microsoft owns/sells the Xbox gaming systems and are likely terrified of the 'lawsuit' fall-out from parents with addicted gaming children ... )


3) Chris, Rowan, a pediatric occupational therapist with expertise in child technology addictions, wrote in the Globe & Mail over the weekend , " Elementary-school children use an average 6.5 hours per day of technology (TV, video games, Internet), excluding school use. This excess has resulted in physical, mental and behavioural problems that health and education systems are just beginning to detect, much less understand. Developmental delay, conflict disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, sleep impairment, and learning disability are but a few of the common diagnoses assigned to the 21st-century child. Prescription of psychotropic medication for children is on the rise.... "



Relative to this thread, I would say that boys and girls who grow into adults with a background of this kind of heavy 'media' use are less likely to feel comfortable or 'engaged' in a 'normal' social environment, like sitting around a diningroom table and sharing a meal with family or friends. THis 'anti-social' behaviour quickly compounds and becomes an intergenerational thing that further isolates and re-directs or forces 'human interaction' THRU technology, not face to face. Everything becomes 'fractured' and all want to become 'Masters/Mistresses' of their own little 'techno-connected' Universe. This can not be good, can it?


Apply this to the 'dating scene', and what do you get? Alot of 'yuck', from my p.o.v.


Second Reason) There is another story that made 'headline news' recently. A Japanese man is seeking to make an amendment to Japanese law to allow him to marry a 2D cartoon character. He reasons that he 'lives' in the 2D world, and is not happy in the 3D world. He is petitioning to 'change the law' to include 2D 'beings' .... No joke. For real. This story is not only 'funny', but sad, and also sort of pathetic and sick, from my p.o.v.


We are 'losing' our Selves, becoming increasingly 'cyborg'ized, and fractured. We are giving up our OWN imaginations, becoming increasingly isolated and alienated from each other. We are being not only deluded but seduced into thinking we CAN 'master the universe' through our 'media machines' .... hmmmmm ...


Has the Dating Game 'changed'? You betcha.


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... bumpin' this topic again, it's coming up again on the main 'dating board' ...


.... hope it might help the wondering ...
 
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... bumping this up again ... there's gotta be someone else THINKING about this stuff 'out there' ...
 
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... bumping again ...I've been noticing that some are raising the SAME questions/issues on the main dating board ...
 
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