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From: Woody on 22 Apr 2010 03:10 Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)sarlet.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)sarlet.com> wrote: > > > > > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > > > Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)sarlet.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Everything I read about Twitter makes it sound like a magnificent > > > > > > > contribution to civilisation's achievements. > > > > > > > > > > > > Oh yes. Deffo. > > > > > > > > > > > > But sometimes I do wonder what happens on there. Not enough to > > > > > > try it, mind you. But then Facebook makes me feel queasy too. > > > > > > > > > > chose your friends wisely, facebook is quite horrid. luckly only a few > > > > > friends are exlusivly on that. > > > > > > > > Has someone been having a go at you on fbook? I find v little > > > > horridness, because the person or their comment(s) would just be deleted > > > > immediately. Irritations, yes. > > > > > > no far from it, but I do find it hard work, twitter is more like irc and > > > is much simpler I don't get 5 million do i want to be some ones > > > mobsters/vampiere such crud upon logging in. > > > > I don't get that either - I don't join those games, and have pretty well > > all the games etc hidden from my newsfeed. > > I just don't want to have jump though the hoops to do that or the load > of old crud messages etc. Hoops? you click the hide button by the side of the message! -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Woody on 22 Apr 2010 03:13 Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > I find v little > > > horridness, because the person or their comment(s) would just be deleted > > > immediately. Irritations, yes. > > > > Horridness isn't what I see in Facebook. I only got started on it > > because some friends were easiest to contact that way- but very few of > > them, maybe two or three, and I cared about them. Normally I'd use > > email, and that's still very much what I prefer- in fact I guess it'll > > stay that way. > > > > But it's not those real friends there that bother me, obviously not. > > It's the surroundings. The neediness. The rain of friend requests... I > > mean, how many meaningful relationships can you have? [...] > > But I think most people know they're not 'friends' in the real sense. > And don't forget people use Fbook as a marketing tool. Luckily I avoid that! I do know a couple of people with two accounts though, like a public and private. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Roger Merriman on 22 Apr 2010 03:40 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)sarlet.com> wrote: > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)sarlet.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)sarlet.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Everything I read about Twitter makes it sound like a > > > > > > > > magnificent contribution to civilisation's achievements. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Oh yes. Deffo. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But sometimes I do wonder what happens on there. Not enough to > > > > > > > try it, mind you. But then Facebook makes me feel queasy too. > > > > > > > > > > > > chose your friends wisely, facebook is quite horrid. luckly only > > > > > > a few friends are exlusivly on that. > > > > > > > > > > Has someone been having a go at you on fbook? I find v little > > > > > horridness, because the person or their comment(s) would just be > > > > > deleted immediately. Irritations, yes. > > > > > > > > no far from it, but I do find it hard work, twitter is more like irc and > > > > is much simpler I don't get 5 million do i want to be some ones > > > > mobsters/vampiere such crud upon logging in. > > > > > > I don't get that either - I don't join those games, and have pretty well > > > all the games etc hidden from my newsfeed. > > > > I just don't want to have jump though the hoops to do that or the load > > of old crud messages etc. > > Hoops? you click the hide button by the side of the message! more the left colum full of apps games etc, the right full of requests etc, I simply have no intrest in either, almost allways there is a new request or what not, when I login. It's all fluff which I've no time or intrest in. I don't like being hasselled by suggestions/requests and such. hence my infrequent visits to facebook. roger -- www.rogermerriman.com
From: Pd on 22 Apr 2010 03:58 Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > I am seriously considering making a private account for real friends only, > to carry on having good chats online, and leaving the other one open for > (nearly) everyone, readers and interested parties etc. I think that was the point of lists, so you can have your inner circle, general buddies, vague acquaintances and whothehellareyous, and allocate visibilities of things you say and share to various groups. It's not something I've used though. I tend to think of anything I put on Facebook as public knowledge, since anyone you share anything with can re-share it to the world. -- Pd
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Apr 2010 04:10
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > i am sure we can all agree that it is better than google wave! What the hell is that? -- Peter |