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Posted by Deneb on May 7, 2008, at 1:48:20
After that Internet and Psychiatry thing, I went to this symposium on personality disorders. For the most part it was kind of boring. Most of it was on different ways to categorize them. The only part I liked was that lecture on endophenotypes.
I took some notes, but they went really fast with some of the slides so my notes aren't that great. Plus I didn't understand a lot of what they were talking about.
I think for the most part, the more biological side of psychiatry interests me. I know we can't really separate the biological from the psychological tho.
Posted by Dr. Bob on May 7, 2008, at 3:10:31
In reply to Hey Dr. Bob, u wanna know about what I saw at APA?, posted by Deneb on May 7, 2008, at 1:48:20
Posted by Deneb on May 10, 2008, at 13:10:24
In reply to Hey Dr. Bob, u wanna know about what I saw at APA?, posted by Deneb on May 7, 2008, at 1:48:20
That presentation on pro-suicide web sites got me thinking about what happened to someone on facebook. Anyways, there is this application called the bathroom wall. You can post anonymous messages to this board.
One girl wrote that she felt depressed and then a bunch of people told her to kill herself.
The bathroom wall is really uncivil.
Posted by ClearSkies on May 10, 2008, at 15:42:00
In reply to Re: Something bad about facebook, posted by Deneb on May 10, 2008, at 13:10:24
Wow - that's so cruel. I guess you have to be pretty careful there.
CS
Posted by Molybdenum on May 28, 2008, at 18:31:04
In reply to Re: Something bad about facebook, posted by Deneb on May 10, 2008, at 13:10:24
I think these people who like being awful exist everywhere & at all times in history.
Re facebook, it's the relative anonymity of the net and the knowledge that they would not get punished that makes them feel "now I can do what I LIKE".
There were a lot of "ordinary citizens" that were complicit during the atrocities in Europe during WW2. I postulate that these people exist here & now but they know that society will punish them if they express their feelings too openly.
So how to prevent this in Babble? Well, I think Bob's "Be Civil" signs everywhere do not have an equivalent at facebook. There's is buried deep within the disclaimer nobody reads. So there's no way someone could say such things here & then claim "I didn't know".
Remember when you joined up here? It was the first site I saw that actually tested me before I got a login.! I thought it was a great idea. Maybe if we all got re-tested occasionally, it would keep the rules fresh in our minds.
Plus if some of the cool, new additions to the site require a greater level of trust, then maybe he could restrict posting access to these sections to Babblers who've had an account over x months & posted y times & not been blocked z times, etc.
Just my 2c worth.
M.
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