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October 2013 February Siggy Challenge: Valentine's Day Fail
EDD 10/3/13
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Just curious...
(and also I need a mild distraction from writing - as always)
Yesterday's vaccine discussion got people pretty involved. I largely stayed out of it for a lot of reasons. One of them was that I often find internet debates of that kind somewhat pointless because my perception is that people continue to voice their own opinion but are rarely influenced by anyone else's opinion (this is true IRL as well, but I feel like it's heightened on the internet). (There are other reasons I think it's pointless, but that's tangential to the current discussion. Can you tell I've been thesisizing?)
So, without getting into the debate again, I'm just curious if anyone's opinion was in any way altered by yesterday's discussion?
October 2013 February Siggy Challenge: Valentine's Day Fail
EDD 10/3/13
Re: Just curious...
Yesterday's discussion? No.
That said, I have read debates on Knot/Nest/Bump forums before that have brought up points that I didn't previously consider or know about thus changing my opinion on the issue. So I wouldn't say that internet discussions are less likely to influence opinion. I much prefer them since you have the opportunity to link articles and information which back up your claims during the discussion. You don't have the entire world wide web at your fingertips when having a similar debate say, over dinner with your in laws.
You make good points. There are times when it would be nice to just hand someone some background information during dinner. So maybe I was just bothered by yesterday's discussion and not by internet discussions in general since yesterday's discussion touched on some things that I'm fairly passionate about. (AND you changed my opinion on it!)
Although, I was happy that yesterday's debate didn't deteriorate into a stupid war ending in someone GBCNing. The Full House theme music was a better way to go.
October 2013 February Siggy Challenge: Valentine's Day Fail
EDD 10/3/13
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
I hold my opinions because I believe they're right. If I thought they were wrong, I would change my opinion. For this reason, I like to hear the opinions of people who totally disagree with me, to see why they feel that way and to get their explanation. In some cases, I like to think hearing the opposite side would get me to change (or at least clarify) my opinion.
When it comes to vaccines, though, I feel like I know a lot and have a lot to offer. There's a lot of misinformation out there, so I always try to chime in and share what I know in the hopes that it will save someone some pain or trouble.
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I think debates are pretty pointless as well, even though I like to join in if I have something to say. But I like to comment on people's debating tactics - I do this to my husband (ie, YOU CALLING THEM NAMES = THEM NOT TAKING YOU SERIOUSLY ANYMORE {he gets pretty mean}). IE, it annoys me when people use studies funded by a company/individual with an agenda.
This happened in aprevious post about tanning -s omeone posted "guidelines" that said something along the lines of "Tanning is safe everybody! Don't worry!". The guidelines were from the American Society of Tanning Beds or something like that.