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no. technology cannot alienate people. it's like guns. guns don't kill people. people kill people. even with our advanced technology, people still have choices. technology as nothing to do with what choices people make. influence people? yes.....but the choices people make still come first so don't be blaming technology when we still have our choices

oh that is just LAZY and insecure and it's getting the best of ya! you are a good poster for the most part as i pay attention to those things. and if you can't speak english too well.....well.....maybe people like me will give ya crap....but in a good way. home language is a good thing too but you know a little english for a reason so might as well be determined to learn more and this place is a great place to practice. you are also GREAT at welcoming new members. we get new members every day and we need you to to log in every day to welcome them

i don't agree with that at all. technology is always changing to make people more lazy and unconfrontationable(if i just made up that word, good for me! hahaha) first there was person to person contact then there was the telegraph then there was phones then there were fax machines then there was computers then there were emails then there were cell phones then there were text messaging on cell phones. ummmm am i the only idiot that recognizes a pattern here? just looking at the history, i can think of 1 or two more ways to make people more lazy and without the responsibilities of actually going out of the house and communicating. it's getting bad. and not just with communication. look how much time difference there was between the telegraph and phones being invented. then compare that to computers and text messaging. best form of communication is in person or on the phone but we don't want to be bothered by any of that in general because we have the technology to talk to 100 people at a time all across the world. yea....lets get all the kiddies on the bandwagon because that's our future. but when it comes to communicating the old fashioned way, they will just be lost in a void wondering how time flies and they really didn't accomplish anything. well, it's sad. that's all i have to say....because i see the history and from the history, i can predict the future of communication. and the need to respond to a message that is a language of it's own. i'm not saying technology is bad. what i AM saying is that people use it like they NEED it. they use it excessively and will never know the benefits of being more personable because they only see technology. they don't see life. if edison was here today, he'd be flipping the light switch up and down....fascinated by what he accomplished but not really understanding anything at all. we have people in their 60's and 70's that don't even know how to set the timer on a vcr or dvd player. forget about setting a record time. they used to go out in public and watch a flick at the move theatre or instead of watching t.v. by themselves while eating a meal, they were inviting friends over to watch it with them. yea, technology makes use of more interaction.....but less personal. we can live and die not knowing the faces or the voice to a message on a screen you know what my theory is? the more people text, the less friends they have and don't want to be bothered by a phone call or a face to face meeting. it would be just too much out of their own day to give so much time to a friend. that's what technology does. i for one would rather spend time personally with friends rather than text 100 times a day to acquaintances. and if i was any of your parents, i would be throwing your phone in the trash and make you go outside and not come back until it was dark. you youngins who take advantage of technology don't even know what you're missin'. all forms of communication comes from within closed doors now and all you will really end up being is vampires.....after being told to go to bed, only to pretend and text one more message......

not me. i have no life yea, members loggin' in have slowed down about a month ago. not two weeks ago. it was slowing down before the name change so whoever thinks it was because of the name change is mistaken(as far as members logging in). i'm not really sure about the guest stats. today especially has been one of the slower days though with less than 50 unique members logging in so far before the end of the day. so i have a theory about this. it either means less members are getting hosted and leaving, or it means too many mycents are being given out where people don't feel they NEED to post or be here. although there has been some long term members that have been logging in less and less as well. if you look at the top 20 posters, half don't even log on anymore so it's a new generation of posters like ashbash and sky who who are some of the regulars now but warned several times and suspended for a week or two. only opaque knows if the hosting account #'s are the same. if so, then too many mycents are being given out. if this is true, then this is an easy fix while still paying back to members in other ways. i have made several suggestions to benefit this place. i'm blue in the face now so i just have to wait and see. even the mods don't log in and post as much. but one last things here, this forum, like everything else goes in cycles. it has it's ups and down times. always had but looking at the last 3 years, it has gradually been going down and down. i have a theory about this too. every since the social networking sites came on the scene, it has been the new age of communication. i have predicted the downfall of the typical forums for a while now and i don't think this place is the only one suffering. the best the members can do right now besides staying active is to advertise Xisto on you websites, blogs, and social networks. if you are a regualr member, you should be doing this because the more active members, the more to post about. the more to post about, the more mycents will be handed out to the active members for free domain names and hosting. so if people are noticing the desert like experience here and posting about it, do something about it and advertise to your friends and your websites. i do it. so should you! i don't just complain and do nothing about it so i challenge people to advertise if you like this place and it benefits you in any way. if it does you, it might just benefit your visitors and friends!

that's a very good point. internet communication used to be the exact same way and still is today. for some people it's hard to pick up those little gestures of sarcasm or teasing that they'd get if it were face to face or even on the phone. the communication is limited.

actually, those you know very little about pc's wont delete their cookies since they don't even know what a cookie is. and even if they did, they don't know how to delete them. people who know about pc's may delete their cookies. me though, i never delete all my cookies. i may however delete specific ones if i go to specific websites....

ohhhhh no no no. very degrading to a website. if you are planning to do it though, make sure you offer something free if you sign up to the newsletter. that is a MUST if you're going to use a pop up. make the annoying popup worth their while. also, use cooking to track who has already came to your site so that the popup doesn't always pop up. especially if someone already subscribed. i am against popups of any kind though.

that's what you get for staying away for so long well, Xisto.com is still active. it's just parked now. opaque changed the name about a month ago. the forums are pretty much the same as you remember, but with the new name change to Xisto.com, the home page changed a long with it

i've had cell phones, but i never texted before. do the figures included incoming and outgoing?i've tried to text on someone elses phone before. took me a minute to write one line of text. it's worse than typing on a keyboard haha

how can you say that's not all you do. 15,000 a month? that's 1 text ever 3 minutes and that included texting in your sleep. if we say you get 6 hours sleep, a day, then basically you text once ever two minutes. when someone spends you spend more time texting than you do sleeping or any other 1 activity. sorry, but that is just WAY too much and it is controlling your life. when i heard 10,000 a month from someone, that seemed excessive. and the 1 every two minutes doesn't account for school or sports. when all is said and done, you really only have about 10 hours a day where you can actually text. that accounts for 1 every minute and 10 seconds approximately. so lets say it takes half that time to read and send messages. basically, you have about 30 second break time in between sends for 10 hours every day. i am sorry. that seems like an addiction to me. granted...the weekends are different...but boy oh boy!

sorry. this will be a one line post. "WELL SAID!" i agree 100%

VERY good topic, WD. i know that i have been jealous before in my life and yes, it had to do with trust and loyalty. what can also be said is that is someone you know doing something that is causing mistrust and unloyalty?jealousy is bad all around even if it's in competition in getting better grades or doing better in sports, etc....everyone is different and not everyone can be the best and people should ultimately be proud of who they are and what they are capable of and their own potential in other areas rather than be jealous that someone is better than them in a certain area. maybe they are, but they are weak in other areas where the so-called jealous person is stronger in other areas. no need to be jealous when everyone is different and has their own strong and weak points. just be happy with who you are.now husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend is tricky because not only should one not be jealous, but people who love eachother should not make the other feel jealous and that is equally as bad when two people love eachother.you have created a topic i can talk a lot about and have experienced first hand. partly my fault, partly the fault of others. it is BAD. jealousy is BAD no matter how you look at it. jealousy is for the most part an insecurity. but it can also mean that you are just hanging around the wrong people to feel the way you do. that's why this topic is VERY tricky and means different things to different people. i hope people comment on this thread because it's a good one! it requires some thought to human nature...... because i feel we ALL have been jealous at least once in our lives.some have learned and some haven't.....jealousy is controlling no matter how you look at it....and it's always a bad thing.....

actually adsense is the EASIEST way. not the best way. if someone is promoting a certain niche on their website, the best way to go is CPA or another affiliate program that will pay more than .10 a click

actually, i think opa is in one of his moods because he usually NEVER spams. i usually love his deep thoughts. i like it even more that he has a sense of humor! hahaha! now if he can just show more of that side while still keeping his dignity, i will be impressed

woa. where did that come from. believe me, i have been around. i also grew up in los angeles california and it's not even half as bad as you described it. if patience were as dead as you are explaining, the freeway intersection 405/101 or 405/10 in losangeles between 4-7pm would have a lot more honking involved. also, i do believe it depends on where you are at. there is a big difference between a big city and smaller towns. smaller town are more laid back and i do have to say there is much patience depending on where you are. and down south, there is a LOT of patience. i like fishing myself. down south, the crab fish with the aligators. they throw their line out the women read while the men smoke a cigarette and drink a beer for 15 minutes before pulling the line back in. that is patience buddy....and then making sure the aligators don't eat their catch before they pull in their line. that's their meal for the night btw so they are out their trying to catch for their whole family. so i don't think the original poster really described patience very well. but what i have experienced, the busier the city or town, the less patience people have. i mean, i can sit outside for a couple hours alone doing nothing but trying to clear my head and notice those little things people pass on by without even a glance. in los angeles, that's almost unheard of. but in small towns, it's more common than you think. now that is only one example of patience. my dad(still living in los angeles) was a stock broker all his life. he had one of the most hectic up and down jobs there were. he's retired now and i see him tying flies for when he goes flyfishing. ever seen anyone tie a fly? it requires patience. another example. i saw pateince all around me in the big city, but that isn't to say there is also a lot of impatience.....but not as you had described it to me, impatience revolves around stress related issue. issues that cause stress, which in turn causes impatience. so when people say patience is dead, what they are really saying, if you dig deeper to find out where the impatience is actually coming from, is that nobody is stress free. impatience does not come before stress. but just because you have stress, doesn't mean you are impatient. everyone has stress in their lives. i don't care WHO you are. so the ones who can control their stress are the ones who has the greater chance of being patient. the most impatient people in the world are those that are who are trying to move faster than life will allow them so opaque is right in a sense when quoting Gandhiji. i'm sure it can mean different things, but to me, it means to do those things that are most important to you and master those things as if there was no time limit. time limits definately create impatience if people set time limits on themselves. but why don't we hear as much honking on the busiest freeways in the world where i grew up? because people grow accustomed to having the correct mind set. sure, they would rather there be no traffic. but at the same time, they have all learned patience and how to deal with stress when wanting to be home sooner after work. i certainly don't think patience is dead, but we have all grown accustomed to being more lazy and those things that technology has offered and we all take for granted. like the big city where i was born and raised. you can find anything you want within a 5 mile radius. if someone needs a gallon of milk and the store is 5 blocks away. what do we do? we DRIVE. we don't walk haha. although this situation doesn't describe patience as it does laziness but patience is certainly involved when we think we have time limits. but maybe that could just be usefull time budgeting and not impatience or laziness. after all, no matter what Gandhiji said, there are still only 24 hours in each day and we just MIGHT die tomorrow.....

READY.............................SET.................................Let the spamming begin!

what the @(#*$&@!...you gotta be kidding me! Hahahaha! that will be 5 bucks please.....hahaha i can't stop laughin' man! that is too funny! i'm gonna get you for that! hahaha!

did i ruin the song for you? showin' the brown eye while playing brown eyed girl. i think it's appropriate.

i charge for anyone who wants to use my picture... haven't had any takers yet. don't know why....

hey there. yes. besides posting some good quality content, you have to link your account with Xisto - Support and use the same email address there as you used to sign up here. from there, after you get 5 or so posts, your mycents system will kick in and you will be able to know what you have earned so far. once your mycents reaches 100, $1 will be credited to your xisto account to be used for hosting services. a domain costs $10 so that is equal to 1,000 mycents that get converted to credits. or popular hosting package is only $2 so that is 200 mycents. you can get your hosting right away without a domain name if you want to use one of our sub domains, but i like to advise people to wait until they have enough for at least a domain name. also, if you buy the logic plan for a year at a time, the price drops down to $1.60 or something. to see how much credits you have accumulated, you either need to visit your profile page or log in to Xisto - Support. as far as the bandwidth, it varies depending on which package you choose. the logic plan has 10gigs. usually more than enough. you can check out the plans at Xisto - Web Hosting.com to get a better understanding of what we have to offer.all this stuff is really explained on the left hand side of the main forum page under "free web hosting".

it's not an average of 300 a day. it's an average of more like 325 a day. if each one takes 20 seconds to send, you are spending almost 2 hours of texting a day.well, at first it seems excessive(it actually is excessive), but you know what? as long as it's not interfering with school and any chores you may have to do, i don't see a problem with it. if i were your parents though, i would be getting annoyed at all the sounds your phone makes when a text comes in though. i don't know if your stats on how much you use your phone is right though. you may sleep 6 hours, kids are usually in school for another 8 hours so that's 10 hours where you actually have an opportunity to text including the weekends.it's a new generation evidently and all it really is is another form of communication. i really do hope it's not interfering with other parts of your life though but that isn't really up for me to judge. i thought 100 a day was a lot......but 325? if you maxed out at 12,000 one month, that's an average of 400 a day ;)let me ask you something. are you the only one sending out that many messages? because if you had to reply to 325 messages a day, i could see how it would take double the amount of time to read each message and reply. so instead of 2 hours of texting a day, that would be 4 hours of texting a day. that would explain better your stats of 1 message every 4 minutes for 18 hours straight on average. i really have a hard time seeing how this doesn't interfere with other daily activities and responsibilities. so now i now why sotw was delayed. you were TEXTING haha

WOW! i never saw that option before. that's a neat little tool in cpanel. you are able to create and edit a and c name records. and i was always going in to my domain control panel at Xisto - Domains! that's a lot easier for me to edit from cpanel. i don't know how i missed that option!

you actually bring up some good points i would like to respond to. when using curse words in politcal protest, it doesn't demean the message, it is actually SENDING a message. some people i guess don't know how to use curse words to make a point. but i'm sure that within any political protest, it's SENDING a message. not demeaning any message if curse words weren't chosen to send a message. now i want to explain something about stubbing your toes and someone who doesn't curse at all, decided to curse when they find themselves in a very painfull environment. what does this tell us? even the people who don't like cursing has those curse words stuck in their head to use in special occassions. they don't think, they just CURSE. curse words coming out of someones mouth who never uses them and despises others who use them. it says a lot about certain people if they do in fact have that reaction. i call these types of people FAKE. fake for whatever reason but mostly to just be accepted by a certain type of society. so cursing is NATURAL. that is proven by the fact that even those who despise it will use curse words without thinking when they stub bump their toe in the dark. a sudden burst of pain will create an envornment that they will say something that was always in the back of their minds and unwilling to admit. so i really hate fake people and i don't understand how we can be taught by society that everyone should speak the same way. but, people will have their preferences. that's why it's always important that if you want to be fake, hang around all the fakers out their that try to portray themselves as perfect people. it's actually those people i dislike hanging around the most. i don't understand why people have to hide themselves and then turn out to be hypocrites when they bump their toe.

well, i never said you weren't honest, WD. please use quotes when you are referring to a statement i made so i can better explain if you aren't understanding. i have that affect on some people where they don't understand me at times ;)what i can say is that you may be a bit innocent and naive if you say you have never met someone who is bi and i think EVERYONE would agree that you probably have despite disagreeing with me about everything else.but what so bad about agreeing with me. i don't get it. you're a woman. you should know women more than men do. women like to talk about everything under the sun. you can never get them to stop gossiping. and just because you don't know the truth doesn't make it not the truth. true? maybe where you are from, the customs are different and many people are in hiding in who they really are because they don't want to be shunned. here in the states, homosexuality or bisexuality wasn't talked about much until about the time when aids was becoming more well known in the late 70's/early 80's. now there is much more awareness than 30 years ago. much more. that's why i had to laugh inside when you had to google it.and let me make one things clear right now. there is nothing wrong with being evil. i think it's embedded in dna or something. it's just that women are definately more evil than guys are. also, there is nothing wrong with being bisexual or even homosexual. there will be the haters or the hard core religious that will state it's unnatural and look down on those people but for some it's not a choice. they were born a certain way just like the rest of us. and painting the toe nails was an example i like to give when pointing out a woman's insecurity. nothing wrong with insecurity we are ALL insecure one way or another. so i want to set the record straight that i am not downing women in any way.what i did state are things that i have researched by asking many women directly. it's a fun question and answer game i like to play sometimes to get peoples opinions when the normal conversations seem to get old really quick and it's a good way to converse and have fun doing it. what i have found is that some conversations in society are looked down upon. society in general sort of limits people in getting to peoples true nature which in effect causes most people to be blind by the people who surrounds them. i'm no howard stern. but i will go out of my way sometimes to do or say things that other people aren't willing so when i bring up conversations like these in public, it really is to get some real honest answers and if i feel they aren't being totally honest, i like to dig deeper. it is sorta out of my natural character because i am kinda shy, but i love people and i love watching them and noticing those small things that other people just don't notice. it's like when i sit outside at night looking at the moon or stars and hearing the crickets or the frogs and other little creatures people don't notice what is around them because they are sleeping or indoors watching the t.v.so a long time ago, i came up with some theories. the three i mentioned are not my only ones but my favorite ones to discuss and hear input. especially from evil women who can't be completely honest or even agree SLIGHTLY.but those things aren't the only things i like to do when i am out in public. i have been known to moon the band i know back home whenever they play brown eyed girl. it's just all about having fun and trying to figure people out and getting people to loosen up so they ARE willing to talk to you about certain thing and be more truthfull than they would have been and being able to mirror the environment you are in so people can trust you. again, i have talked to MANY people on this subject over the years and had absolutely nothing to do with any past relationships. in fact, i came up with these three theories when i was 17. i never entered in to any kind of relationship until i was in my 20's.and what i have found over the years when talking to people about personal things or things they normally wouldn't talk about. to get them to talk, i learned that telling them someone peronal or embarrassing about myself first and having a laugh at my own expense. it works too i can't count how many times that women have hidden things when answering some of my questions but when i tell them something personal or embarrassing about my own self, they will contradict what they said before and be more truthfull and honest. it's amazing how human nature works and the things people can do to actually get to know people better and find out things that you would have never known before.so that's a little more history about me and my research and trying my best to get the truth out of people. in this case, women. a very complicated species to say the least and when you think you have them all figured out, you find out you DONT haha

old thread, but still a good one. i really don't find anything wrong with cursing. everyone has their own behaviors and society in general should not be allowed to dictate how some acts or what they say or do. i've never heard of someone not making friends because they don't curse though. that's a new one in my book. i curse, i have friends who curse, and i have friends who don't curse. do we need to use proper english all the time? that would be boring. let's take it a bit further and eliminate slang as well. the most funniest comedians in the world use curse words in their dialogue.what i hated is that my mother thought "shut up" was a bad word so us kids would get fined every time we said that or any other curse word. i do thing people need to have balance in their lives though. cursing every other word in a sentence is just too much in my opinion.also, we as people have choices. if you don't like people who curse, stay the heck away from them. it's that simple. and anyone who doesn't like cursing and is complaining about how they can't make certain friends because they don't curse are hypocrites. you don't like cursing but want to make friends with people who do? that just doesn't make any logical sense unless you are too desperate to have friends and have to resort to those who curse.anyway, stop judging people and don't hang around those that you feel you have to look down on because if we go over your life, i'm sure we can come up with things that we don't like about you too!