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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

[notyourutopian]

It's rather nice to know I'm not the only one who had this shoved onto their phone, at least.
And so far it hasn't stolen my bank account or opened any credit cards so. Winning, I guess?

Here's a picture of the stages of dog.



So what do we call it when we use this? I mean we tweet our...twits? and you post to facebook. And we ruin tumblr.
Retrospec retrospec
Speccing?
Are we speccing? Are we all speccing to retrospec right now?
No, that's terrible. Let's not call it that.

Anyway tell me what you guys think of this and maybe you'll wind up quoted in a high school newspaper.
Prestigious, I know.
Seriously though I need a filler article for Friday and this counts.

[burningblossoms]

Oh my goodness, that last dog! He looks so silly!

[notyourutopian]

Honestly.
He's probably 85% of the reason I went with that picture.

[burningblossoms]

Good choice!

What is speccing, anyway?

[youraffection]

speccing sounds wrong
and kinda dirty

also this is making you sound like 50 years old u know that right

[notyourutopian]

My internet persona is a 53 year old welsh woman so thank you.

It does sound kinda dirty though.
Oops?

[youraffection]

a lot of things suddenly make sense

u dont sound sad at all

[complementing]

retroing spectating? ...i've got nothing (๑◕︵◕๑)

[notyourutopian]

Spectating and retroing kind of already mean things.
Speccing might sound kinda dirty but I think I'm going to roll with it

[complementing]

retrospeccing? kinda rolls off the tongue for me but whatever people wanna say! nice to be speccing with you! ヾ(≧∇≦*)ゝ

[swordere]

"Hold up, I need to spec something really quick."

...Hm, yeah. I don't know if I like the ring of that. I don't intend to use the app for long enough for that to be an issue, though.

[notyourutopian]

To be fair.
'Hold up, I need to tweet something really quick.' sounds just as ridiculous.

You think they'll give up and let us delete it soon?

[swordere]

It sounds ridiculous in any context. But it can still work even when it's ridiculous. Or maybe it's something you just need to get used to, I don't know. I'm not an expert.

Who knows. It'd be nice, it's just taking up space. But I can always just stick it in a folder and ignore it.

[myboggartisthemoon]

Might I suggest an article on the wonders of science for the newspaper? ;)

[notyourutopian]

You might!
I mean, you suggest it a lot, sir.
Surely I'm bound to write one eventually, right?

[myboggartisthemoon]

I hope not, that would be a dreadfully boring article that no one would read.

[mercurio]

oh look at that... you're making me proud!
i'm tagging myself as the third dog from the right heh

[notyourutopian]

I like cute animal pictures too.

But really?
Not a blonde version of the scruffy little one?

[mercurio]

oh nooo i just saw it why is it so scruffy and tiny..
yes definitely that one!
i now want to meet a dog that is like that!

[appraiser]

that's a tough question...
you know what some papers do? you could post the question to your readers, and have them send in suggestions
as for friday, i'd be up to reading an article about the stages of dogs!

[notyourutopian]

I take it you've never tried to get high schoolers to voluntarily do stuff.
I am not even sure I have readers half the time.

[appraiser]

yep, never! i don't know what high school's like, but i like newspapers-- all this important and/or interesting information distilled into a handful of pages! then you have things like comics and ads. i think they're worth reading

[wordcarvings]

Those are very cute dogs.
Can't we simply call it posting to retrospec though?

[notyourutopian]

Aren't they? I want all of them.

Well we could but
That's awfully boring.

[wordcarvings]

Could you keep up with that many?
Maybe it’s boring but it would be easy to remember.