5 Signs You're On GAG Too Much

[chintita]

1. GAG is the first thing to come up when you type the letter g in the search bar.

I'm guilty.

2. You know the perfect reaction gif for every GAG conversation.

A ton of us are gif hoarders ;P including me.

3. You think of GAG throughout the day and even dream about it.

About making questions, arguments you had on here, gag friends etc.

4. Your friends and family ask what you're doing on your phone/computer/tablet all the time.

I just say I'm on social media XD

5. You've made good friends on here

That's obviously not a bad thing <3

So, are you on Gag too much?

[Spiorad_Aisce]

I failed on number 1 and am a bit disappointed - I have had 3 back to back accounts here and number 2 to 5 have happened to me especially on the first account - I remember the question about dreaming about GaG came up before and the usual people answered fairly quickly "Everybody dreams about GaG, it's normal", well in fact it isn't only a small number of super active people seemed to do it as the rest of the answers rolled in.

[ieshaahmed786]

I am on gag too much... Just unsure about the fifth point. I just like some GAGers here. Such as @SweetHomicidalQueen @This_is_my_username @ginny_weasley @LittleSally @BeeNee and others whom I follow. But I never texted them.

[ieshaahmed786]

Second point too... I know which gif to use... Just don't know how to include it in a question, opinion or comment

[ginny_weasley]

Thanks!

[ieshaahmed786]

@ginny_weasley welcome

[LittleSally]

Awww, thank you. =)

[ieshaahmed786]

@LittleSally ur welcome

[BeeNee]

thanks :)

[This_is_my_username]

OH MAH gawddddd!!! i was mentioned!!! thank you very much!!! <3 you're also a very kind and pleasant GAGger to interact with! actually all the gaggers you mentioned are great people!

[ieshaahmed786]

@This_is_my_username ur welcome 😄😄😄

[YourFutureEx]

a.disquscdn.com/get

[chintita]

lmfao

[AmethystAngel]

www.google.co.in/search

[AmethystAngel]

Oh the hell! Why cellphone why!!

[chintita]

lmaoo i get the message

[CheerGirl38139]

LOL. I thought I was on way too much... until I realized that it took me almost 2 years to get to Xper9 and some people are making Guru in 6 months.

So... maybe, maybe not. I think I read more than I post probably.

[redeyemindtricks]

Google starts with "g", so, #1 seems pretty extreme?

[chintita]

you need to search google. com in the search bar? i just type anything and it automatically googles it for me since it's the default search engine

[redeyemindtricks]

Ah
I have duckduckgo set as my default search engine.

[chintita]

can't say i heard of it XD nice name tho. i'm guessing it's for security reasons?

[redeyemindtricks]

Kinda.
I mean...
https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
It's sort of scary to think of what the wrong people could do with ALL those data, that's all. (If "the wrong people" wanted yr data they could probably get it anyway, but, at least they should have to work for it)

[chintita]

tht's a lot of info o. o but what could someone do with food recipe google searchs?

[redeyemindtricks]

I mean... this was back in 2007, when the tech was basically stone age compared to now...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../...r-Facebook-friends.html

Honestly, there are probably 10,000,000,000 statistical correlations you'd never guess. The specific recipes you google might tell someone, someday, about yr sexual proclivities... who the fuck knows.
The issue is, if those data ever end up under the control of a government that decides "people with preference X are enemies of the state".

It's kinda paranoid, but, it's kinda not, actually.

[redeyemindtricks]

Also, I think @Tarvold was telling me, they found these weirdly strong correlations between pedophiles with child porn on their hard drives, and having stuff about trains/railroads on those hard drives.

In *that* case, Big Data was a big win for forensic science -- but, the point is, you never know how some malicious government entity might decide to misappropriate data someday.

[chintita]

:o yikes... it sounds paranoid but at the same time, better safe than sorry. i remember reading ur opinion on tht "what's ur wifi password" quesetion. maybe i should take notes cuz mines is ridiculously simple.

it makes me question whether i should care about my privacy, i'm not doing anything wrong yet tht doesn't stop some people.

[redeyemindtricks]

Yah, "better safe than sorry" is the name of the game.

For passwords, first you have to see whether the system accepts accented characters, ascii characters, and/or characters from different alphabets. The iphone accepts all of these -- and you can switch keyboards during password entry -- so, it's perfectly possible to have an unlock code that includes, say, roman characters + Thai characters + Japanese kanji LOL.

The one "security" thing that I think is pretty funny, is Touch ID on iphones. Like, really guys? A FINGERPRINT lock, on a device with a touch screen? 😂😂😂😂 OMG
(... not to mention there's already been at least one jurisdiction that has ruled that police can demand that you use touch ID to open a phone, but they CAN'T demand that you use an unlock code / password)

[Tarvold]

Oh, I didn't get that correlation from big data related sources. I got it from a friend who works in digital forensics to hunt down/prosecute pedophiles. He says that within the pedophile catching community, if they come across someone with pics of trains, they're pretty sure they'll find pics of child porn.

[redeyemindtricks]

@Tarvold But, the point stands -- you never know what yr data will say about you (or, more importantly, what other people think it will say about you).

[Tarvold]

What data says about a person is one thing. What's really scary is what data can be collected transparently, and how that data is being used. I'm not even talking about NSA phone tapping stuff. Businesses have long been mining data on it's customers and potential customers for way to "influence" their purchasing decisions.

Even back in 2006, there were Havard case studies taught at business schools about how certain Walmart orders more strawberry pop tarts a week before hurricanes arrive because it just knows that's what the people in the area likes to buy. I, too, am guilty of contributing to the problem - 5 years ago I built a startup whose core technology was transparently tracking the movement of people in indoor spaces for the purposes of optimizing shop layout designs. There are many studies on how colors and smells can be used to influence human behavior - and this technology is already being deployed on an international scale.

[Tarvold]

Interestingly, I just came across this quote on my tweetdeck -

What Orwell failed to predict was that we'd BUY the cameras ourselves and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching. -Anon

[redeyemindtricks]

@Tarvold oh, yeah, they've been studying *that* stuff since the 1920's with the Hawthorne experiments.
Fast-food chains have also, interestingly enough, tried to make the interiors of their restaurants as UNpleasant as possible -- so that customers won't linger, lmao.

Ehh. They're surprisingly good at some things, and surprisingly bad at others. For instance, Influenster still thinks I'm, like, 14 years old, judging from the stuff they send me ahahha

[YourFutureEx]

Wait! You use duckduckgo for security reasons, but you use it to search Google? Ultimately you're using Google.

[redeyemindtricks]

@YourFutureEx Lol no. If I type a search into the default search bar, it goes to duckduckgo. If I want to use google, I type "g" into the address bar (not the search bar) and google. com shows up, and then I go there.

If I am *seriously* searching for something -- like, something I'm researching for a client, etc -- I'll actually use at least 5 or 6 different search engines, just to get a greater diversity of search hits.

Also, I have at least fifteen different throwaway Gmail addresses -- and I'm not usually logged into Google when I use its search functions anyway -- so, my google search history mostly isn't available, and what little *is* available is in lots and lots of small pieces anyway. (:

[YourFutureEx]

I think you can manage the things what they can store according to your preferences. And they say they don't sell anything.

[ThisDudeHere]

Quite literally every single thing here applies to me. Dunno if that's good or bad xD

[chintita]

lmfaooo u and me both :P

[Cosytoasty]

4 & most def 5 <3

The day my RL friends find out about this is the day i deactivate.

[chintita]

gon get flamed, huh XD

[Cosytoasty]

Yep i would get lit the fuqk up! Sports forum remember xD

[abundantlyrich]

6. Telling people they are gamers and how girls are bitches and coonts and how they will die sexless and harassing others in here.

Um no one fucking cares who you are.

[reixun]

I only get number 1 and 4. 😂 I don't know how to post gifs yet.

[chintita]

it's easy, just paste the URL into your opinion/reply

[reixun]

66.media.tumblr.com/.../...e_n541bfZhjd1qgt12i.gif
Let's hope it works.

[chintita]

haha it did ;P

[Puppylove94]

Lol so accurate... And I actually have a keyboard for gifs

[chintita]

really? tht's awesome

[Puppylove94]

yup its called the gif keyboard in the app store :)

[martyfellow]

Never made any real friends here, but that wasn't the purpose, a least not when I joined! In fact just made enemies,...

[martyfellow]

It's almost a relief that I;m going on a 20 day break, see profile

[DandelionGirl]

Uh oh! 😱 We all need an intervention! Must... step... away... from... computer!!

🙈🙈🙈🙈

[JSmuve]

1) check
2) check
3) nope, I'm on too often to be away
4) lol, check (I lie or don't answer)
5) eh.

[Prof_Don]

I'm on GaG a lot, but I do have a life outside of this place! :-P

[NotTheFBI]

2. is definitely me lol.
But I'm not on that much... am I? :v

[BrownBoyBrownies]

None of them are me... And when I type G, it's porn related 😕.
Yes I'm not a GAG addict!😄

... Oh Shit! I'm a porn addict 😖😫😩😩

[YourFutureEx]

Hmm... gangbang much?

[BrownBoyBrownies]

@YourFutureEx Granny porn bro... Granny porn

[YourFutureEx]

Oh shut up, fella, stop lying.
i3.kym-cdn.com/.../a46.jpg

[YourFutureEx]

by the way don't take offence I was kiddin' #BrosB4Hoes

[BrownBoyBrownies]

@YourFutureEx lol but i wasn't offended

[DaniaMQ]

Yaaaaaay I'm not addicted to GAG (YET :P )

[chintita]

keyword: yet ; )

[DaniaMQ]

Hahahaa that keyword is frightening 😂

[Anonymous]

Only first one applies to me but lately I've been spending a lot of time here.

[Anonymous]

Oh good thing I'm not on this site too much. Wouldn't want any of this to happen to me.

[lovelywiz]

Gag is making me insane.
I swear i have psychosis and insomnia

[Letmedo]

That is why i love gag even it is about gag it is promoted.