William Shatner Takes On Social Networking 294
nut writes "Everybody's favourite actor, author and starship captain is bringing some new ideas to the world of social networking. Myouterspace.com is, in the Captain's own words, '...a Sci Fi Social Network for those with a passion for the arts.' Facebook and Myspace should be worried. Sign up now. Go on, you know you want to."
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Re:Not social networking... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:It is logical (Score:3, Interesting)
give it time (Score:4, Interesting)
Far be it from me to equate my experience to yours, but bear with me. Twenty years ago, I was ecstatic to get out, get away, and shrug off the ties that held me down. All four in our group felt like that, and all four of us went out and made our marks on our corners of the world (mixed results, but mostly good). We each did things that the other three didn't; mine was waving a red cloth in front of a bull. Google "shakabuku" for an idea of what that's like.
At our twentieth reunion, between 1/3 and 1/2 of our class was there--sadly, only one other from our group of four--and there wasn't a single frown in the bunch. Everyone had grown up, and everyone was happy to see one another. I even have a picture of myself with the two women who were the biggest elitist snobs of the class. Back then, I was the last person they would have posed with.
I don't know how old you are, or how fresh the pains of high school are, so the only real bit I can pass to you is in the subject line. I certainly won't extol the virtues of FB; I'm too security-conscious for that. But I can promise you, after you give yourself time, you'll breathe easier at the prospect of dealing with your classmates once again. I'm living proof of it.
And never mind the above comment about carrying HS grudges past 20. That's far too soon; 30 is more reasonable. I would have modded it down, but my mod points are fresh, so I'll comment instead.
Re:How? Could we. turn. down. Such! an offer? (Score:3, Interesting)
How can you make fun of a man whose career is notable for its gravitas [youtube.com] and dignity [youtube.com]?
Re:Not social networking... (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't generally friend people on Facebook who I don't know. People who I knew a long time ago and had unpleasant experiences with are slightly below them in my priority order - the known data suggests I don't want to friend them! So it seems fair enough to me. Also, "doing life wrong" isn't very fair in this context. Bearing a grudge to the extent that you seek out people and try to revenge yourself on them, that would not be the best choice. Having bad memories of people from a formative part of your life - par for the course, I'd say. Part of being human, although the ability to forgive / forget / let go can also be important.
Re:Not social networking... (Score:2, Interesting)
Hah! Indeed.
I hold no grudges and may even make small conversation should I run into anyone on the street that I knew from high school.
This does not necessarily mean I wish to have them know details about my current life or continue communicating with them in any way.
In many ways you could have called me the "cool" nerd. I knew how to do things that were useful and interesting, and I was fun to hang out with for the most part because I could carry a conversation about most anything. I was a social pariah by choice.
I just wasn't interested in what most of these people had to say and didn't feel it necessary to subject either myself to their babble or them to my false niceties on a regular basis.
Nothing against those people, and I'm not saying I'm better than them, but our interests were in vastly opposite directions. Most people would talk about sports etc... I have yet to sit through an entire game of anything in my entire life, except for a couple of times I went to a game live.
Me and my friends that I actually kept in touch with on the other hand, we built a life-size scorpion out of solid steel, using a 5/8 leaf spring for the bow and a 20 ton winch to draw it.
See? Most would look at me like a madman, or at the very least, slightly looney for doing something like that. We on the other hand just liked making things, we all liked the roman era, and wanted to see if we could embed a rebar bolt into a cliff face with it.