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[recollecters]

Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Less than two hundred invitations have gone out, and membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. As a reminder, everything besides uploading a profile picture and information was locked until this post. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. Oddly, profile pictures still cannot be swapped out at this time, so hopefully you took a good one.

Comments

[standalonehuman]

Next time I see you. It's got to be in person.

This whole thing is fascinating. All social media is, really. It all comes out of the need for connectedness. The idea that something doesn't quite exist unless someone else sees it. Objectively, we know that to be false, but here we are communicating anyway.

[wordcarvings]

Alright, I'll simply have to be surprised then.

Do you mean that in the sense of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"?

It is useful to stay connected. Even the people that don't like talking to people in person can make use of it to meet others and make friends, and that's a good thing. Being lonely isn't a good feeling, even if some alone time can be nice. Though being alone and being lonely are completely different things.

[standalonehuman]

Exactly. I can sort of understand how that concept applies to an idea. That it isn't quite real until it is shared with someone else. But social media almost tries to extend it to the individual. Like YOU don't quite exist unless you're connected to someone else.

It's silly, on the face of it, but that's the idea I feel like it's selling.

[wordcarvings]

[ "pics or it didn't happen," don't a lot of people say that? ]

Even though so many things exist without being shared among people. It's nice to share things though, but nicer if it is in person. It feels more tangible.

[standalonehuman]

I whole-heartedly agree. There are some people who probably get some sense of tangibility from this, though. But it's better not to lose actual physical connectedness.

Which leads into the obvious question: you free after Founder's Day to go get a drink? See, this platform is good for one thing.

[wordcarvings]

As long as people are satisfied and don't feel alienated or lonely.

The day after? I believe so, yes. And apparently it is, though sending a normal text message works as well. =)