On Dec 27, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> does that mean that in Facebook you can only communicate with other people >> in Facebook? That sounds like a dumb thing to get locked into - are you sure >> you want to know people that dumb? Are you really, really sure? Press No, >> Cancel or Delete. Are you sure you're sure? If you're unsure, click OK, No >> to Cancel your subscription. I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. > > The people I know are far flung and from many very different > disciplines. Many of them think FB is the coolest thing on earth and > love it. They're not stupid, they just have that opinion. Who am I to > judge? I just despise it on almost every level, but if it allows me to > stay in contact with friends, I'll keep a minimal presence there. > >> I'm not in Facebook, as you might gather. It reminds me of Compuserve, which >> was a primitive way of getting sort of internetty before www if you didn't >> know what you were doing, and was absurdly restrictive. > > I had been on the internet (such as it was ... ARPAnet and MILnet ...) > for a while when Compu$erve started up. Never got interested enough to > have an account there, all of my far-flung friends who were online at > the time were on the ARPAnet. Compu$erve was the biggest "social > media" thing around at the time. Always hated the idea. > I was on MAUG -- micro networked apple users group -- which later became Compuserve, so I ended up there by default. (Not sure how that all happened. But one day I was on MAUG, next day something called Compuserve). In any case, I stuck around, since there were groups within Compuserve that were small and friendly. One in particular was Racing Information Service, which reported from the site of auto races and entertained comments from the peanut gallery. Sort of like a bunch of folks watching the race together on their computers. It was fun and novel for the time. I promote my business on Facebook, and that has worked out well for me. I also use it socially, and it has reunited me with lots of people who were long ago lost in the mire of time and multiple moves. I dodge the bullets, like apps and pages that want to use my personal information, and haven't had any problems with it. Paul > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
