hrm. I'm trying to replace the word "God" in that sentence with something less incoherent but containing the same sense of emphasis, and coming up blank. I blame Monday. Suggestions, anyone?
Cute Kittens I hope that continues.
(Emphasize the kittens like it's a curse word, or it will sound ridiculous. You are not trying to avoid cursing, you are trying to introduce it. Also it will sound ridiculous anyways.)
This is interesting because I somehow managed to not recognize that I was trying to curse. I swear all the time in real life and most places online, but not here. It's not because I'm thinking "I shouldn't swear because it's LW," either; I just don't even think about swearing because it's so dramatically out of place, like using a cell phone during a live theater performance.
At LW London last week, someone mentioned the possibility of a Google Glass app doing face recognition on people. If you've met someone before, it tells you their name, how you know them, etc. Someone else mentioned that this could reduce the social capital of people who are already good at this.
A third person said that something similar happened when Facebook started telling everyone when everyone else's birthday was. Previously he got points by making an effort to remember, but those points are no longer available.
Are there other social skills that technology has made obsolete? And the reverse question that it only just occured to me to ask, are there social skills that are only useful because of technology?
I'm not really sure what sorts of things I'm looking for here. "Ability to ask for directions" seems like one example, but it feels kind of noncentral to me, I don't know why. But I'm mostly just curious.