The Bandwagon

[Skunkle]

Most of my friends didn't care for Vista, but I only refused to switch because I HATE changes. If I'm forced to use a new, even semi-different version of a program, it's like dumping a box of wrenches into my gears. I get all fouled up and I'm utterly lost for quite a while, even if I read the help stuff and figure out where everything is. Doesn't matter if I know whewre all the tools are, or even if I know how to use them - it's DIFFERENT.

[jackfaire]

Most of my friends didn't care for Vista, but I only refused to switch because I HATE changes.

Honestly not a huge fan of changes either a couple of major ones made life really interesting, in the curse you to have an interesting life sort of way, and now I like being boring at least for now.

However I had a moment where I had a bit of extra cash and had never owned a brand new computer that no one else had owned before and wanted to experience that. Vista was part of it and wow I loved it. I understand not everyone does and that's awesome if everyone liked what I liked I would have nothing to look at them and judge them silently for

[I8DaCookie]

I hate the specialized bandwagons - for example, I study theatre, so I must love Glee right? Wrong. I've never seen it, and I don't really care to.

I get this one all the time from my students. "Ms. Cookie! How can you call yourself a theatre geek and not like Glee?"

Well one, I don't have TV. I don't even get DTV reception (which is a whole different rant). Two, didn't watch it when it first came on and just wasn't interested and while it's on hulu, it's on season 2. Three, the small amount I did watch when I was at my parent's house for Thanksgiving made me want to drive a pencil into my ears. The songs were too professionally dubbed and the lip synch was horrible, it was just too damned unrealistic.

[linguist]

Two, didn't watch it when it first came on and just wasn't interested and while it's on hulu, it's on season 2.

while your other reasons are valid enough, i'm not quite sure where you're getting this from; the show is right in the middle of its first season. a quick check of hulu shows that every full episode is listed as season 1 as well.

[Slytovhand]

I completely agree!

What are we talking about??

I've tried Vista, but since I'm not used to it, can't really say. All I could say was sort of taken from my mates... who just happened to be in the IT industry, or used PC's a lot (when not using Linux). So, I'd say that sort of counts...

People became more and more needing of groups and societies, and it used to be that being ousted from a group was a virtual death sentence - you couldn't survive on your own. Now, I'd say that we still have that group mentality built into us (like many other things that are still built into us), and in fear of being ostracised from the group (and thus, 'dying'), we just go along with it as a survival mechanism.

[jackfaire]

Now, I'd say that we still have that group mentality built into us (like many other things that are still built into us), and in fear of being ostracised from the group (and thus, 'dying'), we just go along with it as a survival mechanism.

I think it's more taught than built in. From earliest childhood I was told I would have to work in groups. The problem for me was two fold. 1) I would tend to be smarter than my peers. 2) They wouldn't listen to me.

They teachers would always quote, "We are teaching you the value of teamwork" To this end they would not accept group assignments unless all your answers matched. Since I was the only wanting to put down the right answers and everyone else was sure their answers were right I would have to change mine to the wrong answers and my grade would suffer accordingly.

I understand working in groups on an art project or grading the kids on the teamwork and not the correctness of answers but when your grading the kids on whether their answers were right but making them adhere to the wrong answers if that is what the group wants is a dangerous precedent.

[MadMike]

I never understood the whole bandwagon mentality myself, liking or hating something for no other reason than "everyone else does."

Don't get me wrong, if there's a lot of hype over something, that might compel me to try it. But if I try it and find I don't like it, I'm not going to pretend to like it because everyone else is doing it.