Is Yage still possible?

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

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

See, but that's just another example of the inability to yage, since to really work, it requires non-yagers to take action if the exit is really to be an exit.

[wendybeth]

I think it's possible to YAGE completely, but requires far more thought and energy than I'm willing to commit. It would just be easier to not pay the utility, phone and internet bills- that would pretty much guarantee a successful YAGE.

[lashbear]

I love Tweeting too !!


lashbear

"Quite a fun discussion of YAGEs on the LoT. I love those guys."

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by €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.

I believe Alex and others have said the same thing, but I I think these are two different things:

1. YAGE-ing (the act act of making a flamboyant exit for the purpose of being an attention whore)
2. disconnecting socially

One can still YAGE quite successfully, but it takes a true effort to disconnect completely



And for those who don't know, YAGE is an acronym for Yet Another Grand Exit.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I believe Alex and others have said the same thing, but I I think these are two different things:

1. YAGE-ing (the act act of making a flamboyant exit for the purpose of being an attention whore)
2. disconnecting socially

Yes, but YAGE carries the image of being at a party, throwing your hands up in exasperation, declaring your contempt, and storming out of the room in a huff. And then no one sees you until you, and everyone, calms down and you come skulking back in the room.

Now if you try that, you're throwing your your hands up in exasperation, declaring your contempt, and...storming to another corner of the room where there are still some people, and you kinda grumble to yourself and them, then you kinda talk to those people while the party is still going on, you just don't go to the dance floor for a while. It's just not the same.

[lindyhop]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

And for those who don't know, YAGE is an acronym for Yet Another Grand Exit.

Thanks, Kevy. I'm acronym-impaired.

[Mousey Girl]

The key letter in YAGE is A.

To me, that means that the person in question is once again YAGEing. I always put the emphasis on Another.

[€uroMeinke]

But is that a personal "another" or an "another" of the community? If that later what is one's "first" YAGE called?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I think it's more that Grand Exits are a predictable device in internet communities in general, so that even when it's the first time a certain person has stormed of in a puff of drama, it's still Yet Another in the grand scheme of things.

[Mousey Girl]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I think it's more that Grand Exits are a predictable device in internet communities in general, so that even when it's the first time a certain person has stormed of in a puff of drama, it's still Yet Another in the grand scheme of things.

This is more of what I meant.

The other part is that as often as I have seen YAGEing (not a hiatus), the person ends up returning. Even if they no longer post, they are still checking to see what has been said about them.