I hope you realize that arachne is archived and everything you say on this site is available to the internet searcher. Devon In a message dated 11/2/2011 5:14:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
I am in total agreement here with Lorelie regarding how important arachne is as a resource, forum and place of refuge. What we are forgetting here is that social networking is an unsecure place. Many people will simply not use it. The ability to loose personal details through such sites and to have people data mining on them to gain personal information is rife. I am continually aghast at the personal information that colleagues and friends happily put onto facebook. As someone who has worked in hr for many years I am also really worried that people put info onto such sites that can be easily found when you are looking up someone who has applied for a job. More worrying is that fact that facebook is able to look at a picture placed on one site and identify the person in the photo from their site and place their name on the first site. I think its amazing that government organisations can't run facial recognition on port entry but facebook can find your face on your mate's page and put your name on it. Something is upside down here. I know that I need to use social media for our company but I really don't trust it and don't want to use it - when I do, I will take every opportunity to make myself as unknown as possible. Kind Regards Liz Baker [email protected] My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ ________________________________ From: Lorelei Halley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 23:27 Subject: [lace] arachne and photos Nicky For myself, I want arachne to go on existing forever. It is the most valuable general lace discussion group on the internet, as far as I can see, and I belong to several. The discussions about ning, facebook, bobbinlace at google, bobbinlace at yahoo are all about the capability to insert photos into comments. This would make arachne a site for real teaching, as well as discussion. Some of us are a little frustrated that giving detailed help to beginners is very awkward because we don't have that photo capability right in the software for this group. I personally find the community webshots account that arachne has is clumsy and slow. There is just too much advertizing and pop-ups. It slows down page loading way too much. Ning is a host for social networks which has created their own software, and it is wonderful in what it can do. All the platforms (I think that's the word) I mentioned in the 2nd paragraph have photo capability right in the site. But they all work differently and have different strong points and weaknesses. Don't panic, we're just talking about this. I don't want to replace arachne. I just wish it could do more. Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
