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Topic: Live is the new Internet?

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turtlelink

Raylax wrote:

Magi wrote:

Your examples have not convinced me that people are equating "Live" with "Internet". The first two are from people who are using "Live" just as it should be used. Example 3 just doesn't make sense at all.

People with less of a grasp of what the internet is, how it works, and etc, will use the most frequently associated name to describe it. If Live is the word they see most commonly when they use the internet, then that is what they'll assume it to be called.
Another example, once someone wrote a blog about Facebook, and was astounded when hundreds of comments piled into his blog from people who thought his blog was Facebook. They wanted to know why it had changed, and why they couldn't log in, and where had all their friend's profiles gone. For those people, the internet IS Facebook. They don't open their web browser because they're going to visit the website www.facebook.com, they double-click the little picture on their screen that makes Facebook appear.
The same thing could well be happening with Live.

Yea, so do you understand what that means now Magi?

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MrWout

turtlelink wrote:

Raylax wrote:

Magi wrote:

Your examples have not convinced me that people are equating "Live" with "Internet". The first two are from people who are using "Live" just as it should be used. Example 3 just doesn't make sense at all.

People with less of a grasp of what the internet is, how it works, and etc, will use the most frequently associated name to describe it. If Live is the word they see most commonly when they use the internet, then that is what they'll assume it to be called.
Another example, once someone wrote a blog about Facebook, and was astounded when hundreds of comments piled into his blog from people who thought his blog was Facebook. They wanted to know why it had changed, and why they couldn't log in, and where had all their friend's profiles gone. For those people, the internet IS Facebook. They don't open their web browser because they're going to visit the website www.facebook.com, they double-click the little picture on their screen that makes Facebook appear.
The same thing could well be happening with Live.

Yea, so do you understand what that means now Magi?

I see where you are going with this but the thing is the the users you are talking about are a rather small and marginal group so their way of using facebook or live to mean internet won't really catch on, and the examples you used actually illustrate this. Indeed playstation used to be the synonym for a home console an Gameboy for a handheld. But nowadays consoles and handhelds are becoming more known and mainstream as a whole, so people know there aren't only gameboy's and playstantions. Atleast that's how I see it

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