Is Yage still possible?

[€uroMeinke]

So Forgive me in advance for any invocation of the "general you" - but recent events found me reading a tweet about yaging from a message board - and so I started to wonder with today's multi-channel social networks is it really possible to yage anymore? Can one really leave a "community" if many of the community are also connected by other means - Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LiveJournal, linked-in, Bright kite, yahoo, AIM, etc.

There are very few people who I interact with in only one place, If I wanted to "exit" I would probably have to spend a day editing friend lists, buddy lists, followers, fans, etc. Far too much work to bother with it seems as I have a hard enough time weeding through redundant replicated status messages.

So I wonder, are we too connected to disconnect?

[Alex]

For me it would be mostly possible. When I think about it I realize that even though I participate on several message boards, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Twitter, there isn't really a whole lot of widescale overlap.

Some, but I could do a pretty clean job of severing part of the whole.

[BarTopDancer]

If you really want to do it, it's possible. However, as YAGE has come to imply, a YAGEer normally returns, the cycle repeats and they are gone again.

[Alex]

Oh, though I don't really know if you can YAGE from one forum in another forum. I'm assuming I am correctly inferring what you're referencing, but it happened completely outside the sphere of what I can see.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Alex

Oh, though I don't really know if you can YAGE from one forum in another forum. I'm assuming I am correctly inferring what you're referencing, but it happened completely outside the sphere of what I can see.

You know, I'm not sure - I learned of the Yage, or potential yage from a different channel, but that doesn't mean it started there. But I guess to my point, it doesn't seem to matter what with the interconnectedness and all.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

You know, I'm not sure - I learned of the Yage, or potential yage from a different channel, but that doesn't mean it started there. But I guess to my point, it doesn't seem to matter what with the interconnectedness and all.

But the whole point of a YAGE is to dramatically storm off in front of the people you're YAGE-ing, otherwise it is just a HWDSASG?IJRHOSHBPL. And while some of the people on the message board may see such declarations elsewhere it is by no means guaranteed and assuming that I'm right about the YAGE I don't believe any such thing was done.

My point is, I feel left out.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Alex

HWDSASG?IJRHOSHBPL

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[Alex]

Originally Posted by JWBear

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Hey, where did so and so go? I just realized he or she hasn't been posting lately.

[Gn2Dlnd]

If there's no YAGE statement on the board being YAGEd from, I don't think it qualifies. By using exploratory language in other forums, one retains plausible deniability and puts people "on notice," and reserves the right to storm back into the room whenever one wants.

So, to answer Chris's question, yes, I think I could YAGE from a particular board and keep my overlapping social networks open. I could ban the meanies from my other networks, but it's not very effective. And if I don't actually YAGE from a specific place, I haven't successfully YAGEd. Putting people on ignore is not a YAGE.

Unsuccessful YAGEr unsuccessfully YAGEs.

[Not Afraid]

I just usually remove the offending YAGEr from my various networks solving the problem for them.