How else you gon promote ur music?

and now the KG B know it.

we were buggin...it's gay as fuck and lame but it's just a website, you can use it for what you want and ignore everything else...I guess it just bothers me how sheepish it makes everyone, so it's not really that I dislike Facebook, it's more that I dislike what I see out of people on Facebook...

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OK so I've been thinking about this too much, so if it sounds like bullshit then call me out here:

Social networking is pushing the human mind in new ways, ways that until only super recently were totally impossible.

Think about it: until roughly 10,000 years ago all of humanity was nomadic & hunter-gatherer. In groups of up to 50 people. At a guess that would mean that in the average lifespan (at that stage, being 40 meant being OLD), you expect to meet an absolute maximum of 200 people. Ever.

Then in the fertile crescent (modern day Iraq, Turkey, Syria etc) farming took off as a supplement to hunter-gathering. Groups of people became towns of up to 200 people. Everything's still super-isolated. The only times people would break from these towns is when it was the only option left.

As time goes on, the farming techniques get better & animal domestication takes off. Towns grow into cities. Things get really interesting from there (which is not to say human pre-history isn't interesting).

Even in cities of millions, people still keep to small groups (generally split into families, workplaces and social groups). Try to consider a million people- that's FIVE THOUSAND groups of TWO HUNDRED people. Nobody could or would associate that widely. Instead we more or less kept to groups of 200 or so people.

I wish I could remember the name of the study that pointed out that humans can only recall 200 faces and the related personalities to those faces. But that's roughly all we're capable of handling.

The good thing is: we're a friendly & sociable species, capable of sympathising with others we don't know personally. Without that, everything we know and are involved with would be almost impossible.

Now add social media outlets like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc. These allow everyone to potentially get in contact with everyone else. There's over six billion people alive today. Six degrees of separation be damned. How many people here have Facebook accounts with more than 200 'friends'? Chances are quite a few (I've got about 100 & struggle to remember who they all are).

How will social networking and mass media connectivity affect humanity and its development/evolution? Who knows? And is it worth getting theoretical about? Probably not.

We may be the masters of our own destiny, but knowing that destiny makes it boring.

Think about this: homo sapiens haven't changed in roughly 100,000 years. The average person back then is capable of we are right now (and vice versa). Also, the average duration of a mammalian species is roughly 2 million years. We've got a long time to play this development out.

Evolution is slow and unavoidable. The internet and all that it brings is here to stay, as an extension of humanity (just like controlling fire & electricity). It'll be fascinating for future generations to look back upon this time of change.

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OK, I'm done now. Time to make some beats.

Honestly I expect unless enlightened alien beings save us from our oppressive leadership, the internet will be a subscription based service within 20 years, and there will be no anonymity/freedom..

Even if they have to broadcast signal jamming noise on all frequencies except 'official' wireless transmissions.. I do not have much hope for the world at the moment because people are already ridiculed by the masses when they complain about losing their freedoms.. which means most minds are already controlled

it IS a huge experiment

Watch this video and think of how this technology may one day REPLACE human interaction... scares the fuck outta me (skip to :30)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkz15wAc6Ew


I can't get into facebook. when i was on it, it felt like i was standing in the middle of a giant trap that could close around me at any moment, can't explain it. before the internet came out i was a much more stable person for sure. not hating on facebook peeps, just sayin, email and sp-forums is enough for me

That's some real talk right there, unfolding machines!


I've registered to a german social network for some weeks in 2004 or so but didn't like it. I think it's really strange how most people use these networks without much thought. Like when they meet new folks outside, the first thing they do when they get home is searching for those people on facebook to see what's going on in their lives. That is so alien to me. I'm fine with ICQ, eveyone who wants to contact me can write me a message or call me and if I've got some photos to share I'll send them to the people that should see them without having to worry if any other guys that I barely know can see them. Thinking of it, I might generally have a problem with keeping contact with my close friends just over the internet. Just doesn't do it for me :/

Basically it's a good thing but people tend to overuse it and get caught up in it. 10 years back people told me not to spend too much time on the computer, now I'm programming and designing websites and stuff (of course I do play games every now and then but I almost don't have time for that anymore) and everyone else spends two hours a day on facebook...

I have it but I don't really use it. I'm pretty low key in real life so it's only natural that I'm the same way. I only go on it if I get an email that someone was trying to get at me or if I want to share some beat tape or video I found or something like that.

I never really put much thought about it on why not to use it. With it I can learn about parties my friends are throwing and get invited to them, learn about new gear that I didn't know about, keep in touch with family members I only see once a year(if at all), found 2 people I used to go to high school with, and met some people I don't think I would have met at all from different parts of the globe.

If it's too important to you to not be on it so you can get more music made, I understand that. If you don't like what people say, you don't have to read it, and you can choose to remove them from your friends list. I don't like how they learn what you enjoy every time you hit a "Like" button, and before you know it, they're out to sell you stuff because they think they know what you're into and why you're a potential customer. That part is lame, but it is what it is. If you don't want to get into social media networks, you can live life as your own little island, but I don't try to read every message I receive from it. Just from the ones I know, or care enough about.

Like it or not though, I think it's a tool you can use and abuse. (If you're on it all day)