I see there is a thread about who does Facebook. I didn’t want to post a negative response on that thread so I decided to place this on Sound Off as a new thread.
I do not do Facebook nor Twitter nor Yahoo ‘friends’ or whatever they call it. I just do email if I want to communicate and naturally I do FAOL.
Something that really irritates me about Facebook is that they send out unsolicited messages saying so and so has asked to be your friend.
Well some of those people are in fact my friends so I have contacted them, both by phone and by email, and told them why I was not doing Facebook, hence I would not sign up as a friend.
They were all surprised at my having received that notice because they had not sent out any requests for friends. But, they had also received messages saying the same thing.
Just last week Yahoo joined in the group of unsolicited messages. I received an email from Yahoo saying Henry Hoffman wanted me to join him as a friend. Well I am friends with Henry so I sent him an email saying I don’t do that, I just do email. He wrote back saying he never sent out any requests for ‘friends’ on Yahoo.
I don’t like being scammed and they are scamming us just to try to build up their list of people so they can sell more advertising space. That really irritates me.
I dont blame you Larry. I dont do any of that garbage either. People plaster their personal info all over the internet than act surprised when someone steals their ID…etc. Geeze!
If anyone wants to talk to me…they can email me or call me on the telephone…or let me know and I’ll call THEM on the telephone ( unlimited long distance free)
This is a result of folks using their address book when they first sign up for one of these social networking sites to get started with adding friends or contacts.
Moral of the story? Add folks one by one so you don’t irritate folks with the mass friend requests.
This happens because they upload their address book to Facebook. In response, it looks for all friends with email addresses in their address book. If they aren’t on Facebook, they then send out the email. If they are on FB, they send a friend request.
I understand why many don’t use it. On the other hand, I have found it to make it much easier for me to keep in contact with friends and family in far away places. (like back in Ohio).
i do facebook and find it rather interesting. i choose people i friend not the other way around. Firefox and 2 addons control the ads, (NoScript and Adblock+). only java scripts and java that i allow run and no ads run. facebook settings control what notifications i recieve in facebook and email. only i can see my personal details. facebook settings are easy to use and very effective. if facebook were to change to the point that there’s no control i’d leave. there’s plenty of web sites to learn the facebook settings and if anyone decides to use this phenomenom i’d strongly suggest to read before joining. And use firefox and the 2 addons i mentioned above. one thing is for sure. if someone wants your data they’ll get it, the best we can do and still manage fairly free use of the internet is to read, understand and use security best practices. ok off soapbox.
I have a friend at work that keeps bugging me to join face book with her. I have told her repeatedly I do not do that kind of stuff. I don’t hold with a lot of the views people post on their face book sites so in the interest of keeping them as friends I just don’t go there.
I don’t tweet or twitter either though my tail feathers are starting to droop a bit. Put me in something that flings it’s wings and I will take you on the flight of your life though.
John facebook is a way of keeping in touch with friends and family all over the world. In my case my kids live in eastern idaho and washington and my family members are in utah, idaho, washington, cali, neveda, and canada. I don’t have to call them and they can keep in touch with me through facebook with short messages.
I dont have any of that tweeter twitter text stuff either. i own a cell phone and know how to place a call and thats it. I don’t know where all this tech is leading but i am headed the other way as fast as i can. Get this , our local “shop” (5 locations and dont forget it) is on twitter.
A # of flyshops “local” (within 150 miles) are on Facebook and Twitter for me.
North Platte Flyshop is probably my most favorite. They post fishing reports, and have a weekly fly tying video on how to tie up a fly that is used regularly on the North Platte.
I understand using twitter,tweet , facebook, messenger etc.
What I really don’t understand is the Phone.
Before phones we had to send telegrams to announce only the most important messages, deaths, births, War , peace , Important stuff only. It cost your weeks wage to send one. The guy used an old typewriter and noisily typed it onto a form then sent it to the recipient using morse code.
Thank god those days are behind us.
Your phone used to be bolted to the wall usually in the kitchen you didn’t even own the darn thing it was rented from the phone company. You had to have a chair and table nearby because the cord was only two feet long. Then they came out with the longer extension cords so we could now stray all around the kitchen as we chatted with people. Next they had shoebox sized portable phones that you could use all over the house and even in your car but they were bulky and weighed a ton. Using one made you look like you were on the battlefield with a combat radio. Finally they got them down to purse and pocket size a huge bonus.
Then for some unknown reason they started putting keyboards on them, people stopped talking on them. They began texting. How dumb is that?
Some of the best Inventors and scientists on the planet have spent the last 50 or 60 years improving a machine from the typewriter stage all the way to Having audio and video capabilities with a built in computer and now the younger generation scraps all that so they can pick out inane messages one letter at a time.
I may be a Dinosaur but I know dumb when I see dumb. :mrgreen:
I had to read “Ethan Frome” in high school, which pretty much guaranteed I would never do anything that involved twittering.
And yes, I know there are four English majors who got that joke, and the rest of you didn’t, which should force you to read “Ethan Frome” at some point in your life. I suggest it as an alternative to being eaten alive by weasels, but nothing less.
Anyway, I am one of those dinosaurs who refuses to stay on the cutting edge of social networking because, frankly, I am an antisocial kind of guy. I have this thing called a phone by which I can communicate with people. And email for those days I feel technologically inclined. I cannot imagine plastering my life all over Facebook or MySpace so people can see what I had for lunch today and that. If someone needs to find me, they can do it here, and if they don’t know enough to look here or a few other places, then I probably did not need to talk to them anyway.
And for John Scott: Think of Facebook as your mother hauling out the scrap book of your childhood and going through it with that girl you finally got up the nerve to ask out, just so every embarrassing moment of your life was known to her. Facebook is the 2010 version of that.
Actually once you start texting you will find it a great way of communication. Short messages sent any time you wish, even in areas where you SHOULDN’T be using your cell phone to talk to people(LIKE IN MY WAITING ROOM!! )
We all can only hope the ‘loud talkers’ learn how to text!!
