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Jason McCandless <jasmcc>


Fuck Bebo. Find me on facebook instead.

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Jason McCandless's URL
http://www.bebo.com/jasmcc
Member Since
January 2006

Music
MC Escher, Boards of Canada, Ladytron, Sigur Rós, Air, DJ Shadow, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Weezer, Jack Johnson, Radiohead, The Beta Band, Interpol, Simon & Garfunkel, Buck 65, The Cure, I am Kloot, Tom Waits, Incubus, Mozart, Gustav Holst, Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie, The Cure, Audioslave, Sufjan Stevens, Dave Matthews Band, Lost Prophets, The Beatles, Kate Bush, Rage Against the Machine, The Guess Who, Talking Heads, Morissey, Coldplay (sometimes), The Prodigy, U2, System of a Down, Moby, Huey Lewis & the news, Led Zepplin, Van Halen, Beastie Boys, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Soviet union National Anthem + MORE
Films
The Truman Show, Memento, Back to the Future, The Matrix, The Bourne Identity, The Departed, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Goodbye Lenin!, Anchorman, Oldboy, The Butterfly Effect, Lost in translation, City of God, The Pianist, A Beautiful Mind, The Constant Gardener, Pi
Sports
Prof. Chomsky - Take, say, sports - that's another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it offers people something to pay attention to that's of no importance. That keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it's striking to see the intelligence that's used by ordinary people in discussions of sports as opposed to political and social issues. I mean, you listen to radio stations where people call in -- they have the most exotic information and understanding about all kind of arcane issues. And the press undoubtedly does a lot with this. You know, I remember in high school, already I was pretty old. I suddenly asked myself at one point, why do I care if my high school team wins the football game? It doesn't make sense. But, it does make sense: it's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group coh
Scared Of
North Korea! Near-Earth asteroid impact, the oncoming ice-age, nuclear and biological war, economic recession, genocide, pandemic, climate change, ozone layer depletion, supervolcano, milky way and andromeda collision, stellar evolution of the sun, entropy predicted by the second law of thermodynamics. And a few others.
Happiest When
Laying rhymes
Hate
I like to roll with the gangsters, although it's apparant I'm too white and nerdy.
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Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.

 

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Hélas !
To drift with every passion till my soul
Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,
Is it for this that I have given away
Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control ?
Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll
Scrawled over some boyish holiday
With idle songs for pipe and virelay,
Which do but mar the secret of the whole.
Surely there was a time I might have trod
The sunlight heights, and from life's dissonance
Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God :
Is that time dead ? lo ! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance -
And must I lose a soul's inheritance ?
0 Comments 484 days ago
Why Do We Bebo?
Lets just be clear from the outset. Bebo, the social networking phenomena that has swept Irish colleges in the past few months, addicting a majority of the student population like a wild vampiric contagion, is a wholly unoriginal idea. The site, although managing to cleverly balance its mixture of advertising, content and functionality, and featuring personalisation options like a selection of ‘skins’ and a space for co-opted (and uniformly copyright infringing) flash content, adds nothing truly original to the mix of bulletin board, interest groups, photo hosting and social resume that has existed since rival site Friendster launched in 2003.

Social networks are hub sites. Alternatives to the generic search, email, and news aggregation of portals like Yahoo, they offer a home for users to post mini biographies, lists of their interests, photos of nights out, quizzes, polls and the like. Most importantly, through ‘buddy’, ‘contact’ or ‘friend’ functionality, they connect users in networks of acquaintance – relying on the ‘small world’ or ‘six degrees of separation’ phenomena to build user bases exponentially. These networks (more than ten of which have currently managed to attract over 5 million subscribers), offer a variety of connection models, from the invite only exclusivity of Google owned ‘Orkut’, to the college delimited privacy of ‘Face Book’; yet all share a dependence for their success on their ability to attract large groups of socially interconnected users.

That Bebo is unoriginal, or is in many ways less powerful and elegant than rival ‘Face Book’, matters little to its legion of fans. For most of Bebo’s growing throng of Irish users, the site represents their first encounter with social networking and blogging, and provides a space for the maintenance of an electronic identity. Where Bebo has found success is in, as much through fortune as cunning, attracting the ‘opinion formers’ of Ogra Eireann’s increasingly socially homogeneous cultural milieu. In a time when college attendees resemble more than ever before, drunker versions of second level students; both in their adherence to O.C dedicated fashions, and their general apathy toward both the political process and traditional avenues of post adolescent rebellion, getting key students on board has been enough to sway the ship.
Bebo takes advantage of what the journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell, in his book ‘The Tipping Point’ describes as ‘Super Connectors’. Such individuals, the party boys and girls who grace the pages of ego rags like Dublin’s ‘Bash’, represent their colleges in intervarsity sports, and organise club nights like the uber trendy ‘Hospital’, have rapidly drawn in their wake the bulk of Irish third level students. It is in succeeding to attract such hip and flighty Celtic cubs, that Bebo inc. has managed to cast its net far wider than MySpace, Face Book, Orkut and the rest of its progenitors combined.

No elegantly original combination of design and ease of use seems to underlie the sites popularity, although Bebo (however garish) is less visually dull than Face Book, less advertising infected and downright ugly than MySpace, and both more intuitive and less exclusive than Orkut. Most likely, its success in signing up bright young things lies in both the growing technological familiarity of the laptop and iPod owning college students of Ireland, and the spam like method by which the site encourages new users to add friends – by importing their entire email contact lists. Thus a host of flattering invitations sent by the glitterati of UCD and TCD student life have tipped the boat, ultimately inducing a critical mass of students, primarily female, to post online their photos, diaries and potentially valuable – should Bebo inc. manage to monetarise them in a more targeted fashion than its current crudely impersonal advertising – social network maps. Other colleges hav
2 Comments 891 days ago
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My website is at http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~jason
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Comments

Nayeli Lovey
Re: hang Parkin This hot chick with huge tits is showing on cam! Hit up jane81red@live.com on msn messenger before she gets off. Shes crazy!
4 weeks ago via Mobile
Alanna McCandless
hey..how was italy?i hear u may be coming to london soon? job's going good...working in capital planning dept.actually have made friends with a load of IT guys..so if you come over I can introduce you n you all can have long conversationsa about computers!xo
6 weeks ago
Alanna McCandless
Hey big bro! hows life? so wat u up t 4 d summer? mum was sayin sumting bout u headin t summer school in italy soon? im leavin 4 london 16th june, not long now, gettin excited! was over there on tuesday sortin out an apartment, its 3 bed in north greenwich,near d 02 arena n 1 tube stop away 4rm work which is handy! prob b goin out 4 family meal weekend b4 i head away, itd b gr8 if u cud make it, if not not t worry cos i no u wer up ere onli few weeks ago. hear u ended up in d lovely trasna! chats soon
13 weeks ago
Sarah Fortune
Man, that video of how not to get kicked out of Doyles is pretty funny, did you record it?
I thought the end was building up to something though...
20 weeks ago
The Nyggle
jason..55 wpm! sigh.

practice more, you must!
20 weeks ago
Gareth Appointment with Doom
Yeah, great singer song writer (oxymoronic as that seems!). Playing here very soon too I think.
47 weeks ago
Mark Kelly
Jason,

i woke up this morning and decided to ave an eld banter on bebo. I went from page to page trying to decide who will i give my so called "luv" to. Then i came to your page and felt it was my duty to give you a small token of my luv, in a friendly non-sexual way (I know that you wanted more but this is all i can give you).

Well here it is, make it count number 2, use it wisely and keep on truckin'.

Kind Regards,

Mark
48 weeks ago
The Nyggle
oooh you look so serious inthe photos hahaha
49 weeks ago
Marc Hanlon
Oh sorry "Mr. I'm too good for Bebo"!
49 weeks ago
Andrew Collins
"Fuck Bebo"?!?! Fuck YOU! And bebo.
51 weeks ago
Steve Wozniak
Yeah, Eno does touch upon genius at times. Still without internet connection, so have to make do with sitting in the park, drinking beer, that kinda stuff. very lo-tech. you working or anything? who the hell is this loser below me? Lighten up captain planet!
56 weeks ago
Steve
Hi Jason , Global Warming is not a myth .
Did you know that it would take 500 trees to absorb the carbon emitted by the use of a PC that's been left on every day for a year !
We can all help in our own small way ,
Steve ,
www.EnergyAssessor.info
60 weeks ago
Andrew Collins
4 years, shmore shmears; that's my motto. It's a mouthful and can't be used very often, and i made it up just there. I suppose it's not so much a motto as a thing i just said.
63 weeks ago
The Nyggle
higgs boson bye bye super big linear accelerator across 3 countries!
63 weeks ago
Ruth Hallinan
Yello! And the list of Friends grows... Good luck with the exams!
67 weeks ago
Ruth Hallinan
Yeah, it was a good night, wasn't it? It was great going home amongst all the productive early-morning work people. They only wish they could wear tuxes and dresses at half seven in the morning. Oh yeah.
68 weeks ago
Conor Kelly
Jason!

Whopper sesh last night wha?! I was hoping to find you there, I was also hoping you'd have snuck in a shoulder o' Russia's finest like two years ago!

It wasn't meant to be however. Ash, CSS and Director were all class so they were. Good times.
68 weeks ago
The Nyggle
dude whats going on, greece was amazing man you defo will like it, though u'll burn like in perhentian hahahaha!

had so much good food i tells you!we gotta meet up soon dude, im off back home in july! when u done with exams?
69 weeks ago
Andrew Collins
Nobody can rap in O(logn) time. Implement it.
69 weeks ago
Steve Wozniak
Son of a bee-sting! That is all...
72 weeks ago
 
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