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Old 10-12-2015, 08:53   #46
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Whoa! I'm beginning to see what you mean. On the one hand a serious attempt to objectively digitilize (apologies to your editor wife) an inherently subjective human trait. On the other hand a bit spooky. Didn't know about the little green squares, and in my case I'm afraid to even look.
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Thank goodness I only have two boxes. I will have to sling my opinion around just a bit more and maybe I can get it down to zero....
You guys are entertaining. The people I look up to most are prophets. And they tended to get killed or hide in caves due to their popularity.
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Having always been a non-conformist and somewhat an outsider, I have never been tempted to have a Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin or other social media account. I also don't play golf or went in for the martini lunches so popular in my younger days.

Lancoombe "At age 59 I can't calculate how much time I have left, but I have calculated to the second the amount of time I'll devote to worrying about my popularity" SPOT ON!!

Of course at 70, I should be a real conformist, (generational thing). Oh well missed that train as well
Wow, I could have said exactly that myself!!

and + 1: At 63 I have never subscribed to the house with the white picket fence, a station wagon....


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My wife is a professional word nerd and makes a living as an editor so I source all my word definitions from Merriam Webster.

Social Media : forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking or microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)

This sounds a lot like Cruisers Forum to me. Most other definitions you will find will tend to agree.

I know shocking right? I was horrified to learn I was a social media user too. I always considered myself an outsider and figured as long as I wasn't on Facebook I was in the clear.
Internet Forum - straight from the group updated Weirdpedia:

"An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived."

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"websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking."

The common denominator is the Web, but the intentions are a bit different, do you conform?
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Yesterday the New York Times published an article by critically acclaimed author Bret Easton Ellis that examines how groupthink in social media and the "Cult of Likability" marginalizes individuality and nonconformist thinking to the detriment of the diversity of our culture for the benefit of corporations.

Because Cuisers Forum is a form of social media where nonconformists are routinely and heavily discouraged, despite the fact that cruisers are by their nature a fringe group that chooses to live outside the norms of conventional society, I thought it might be of interest to some.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/08...ikability.html
Not sure if you meant "likeability", or "lickability". It seems that "likable" is an accepted alternative spelling, but it looks really wrong to me.
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Not sure if you meant "likeability", or "lickability". It seems that "likable" is an accepted alternative spelling, but it looks really wrong to me.
You should write the New York Times and share your nonconformist way of spelling Likabilty. Be advised that likability is the spelling recognized by Merriam Webster.
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Not sure if you meant "likeability", or "lickability". It seems that "likable" is an accepted alternative spelling, but it looks really wrong to me.
True, but both seem to work for advancing the OP's point.
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Green squares for sale! Green squares for sale! Get yer green squares, right here. Mastercard and Visa accepted.
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Funny to find such a large group of unique non-conformists here. Kinda like attending a meeting of anarchists .

BTW, I like you all ... except for you. YOU know who you are .
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Funny to find such a large group of unique non-conformists here. Kinda like attending a meeting of anarchists .

BTW, I like you all ... except for you. YOU know who you are .
I figured there'd be a few conforming non-confirmists in the crowd you wouldn't like.
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What do you expect from people who use composting toilets and Porta Botes?
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You should write the New York Times and share your nonconformist way of spelling Likabilty. Be advised that likability is the spelling recognized by Merriam Webster.
And FWIW; Likeability by the OED & American Heritage dictionaries.
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you WILL conform to the spelling police or pay the consequences, you know. This could even find it's way into your permanent file.

It's worse than the brits sticking an extra "i" in aluminum just so they can get away with mispronouncing it.
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Am I being subject to group think when I worry about my keel falling off? If my keel does fall off will I suffer a sudden and irreversible loss of popularity and reputation?
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And FWIW; Likeability by the OED & American Heritage dictionaries.
Clearly some non-conformity b'twn. the dictionaries. Or is it nonconformity?
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Am I being subject to group think when I worry about my keel falling off? If my keel does fall off will I suffer a sudden and irreversible loss of popularity and reputation?
Sounds to me like the only fringe benefit of an otherwise catastrophic event.
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