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28237. arkymalarky - 9/28/2014 10:58:58 PM I want to be able to keep up with people I care about but don't get to see, but fb is just not worth it. I've been away from it almost two years, and there are things I still miss, but ello sounds like it might become a good alternative. 28239. judithathome - 9/28/2014 11:28:06 PM If I got on FB, all the assholes I went to high school with would jump on me and I have learned my lesson after serving on the reunion committee 3 years ago....high school NEVER ends.
It's still the same little cliques and pettiness...screw that. 28240. arkymalarky - 9/28/2014 11:44:07 PM You don't friend people you don't want to Facebook. 28241. arkymalarky - 9/28/2014 11:51:47 PM There are two things I don't like about Facebook. First, people I like, and even agree with, put their political and religious and other beliefs out there along with any other things they think about any given minute, so your newsfeed gets clogged up with stuff you just don't want to read, and second I don't like fb policies on advertising and privacy and a host of other things that they have changed to make it less private. 28242. judithathome - 9/29/2014 4:38:09 PM Well, just today they announced even more invasive "data mining" in order to please their sponsors...god forbid they miss one scrap of information about what you like to eat and drink and where you like to go and what you like to buy...
My point was, I don't even want people knowing they have the option for me to "friend" them...at all. They can look you up, regardless if you allow them in or not.
It really doesn't matter...I wouldn't go there on a bet. And, basically, I just don't like that little weasel Zukerman at all...I do think he stole the idea from the twins. Ha! 28243. arkymalarky - 9/29/2014 5:48:35 PM probably so. he seems to have no regard for what should belong to and be controlled by the individual. but I do have a use for a social network, so I think I'm going to give ello a look and if I like it I can invite the fam there. 28245. judithathome - 9/29/2014 8:57:47 PM Oh, I completely understand why people HAVE or are on FB...especially teachers...I would think it useful to be able to interact with and/or keep up with students/former students.
I guess I'm opposed to it more from the "social" aspects of it...like teenagers (or anyone, really) getting an inflated sense of their WORTH from it because they posted a sexy selfie that got 900+ hits...or being unable to shut it off because they might "miss" something when the thing they are missing is LIFE going on around them.
Whatever...I think it's just someone MY age seeing people become so enslaved to and "boosted by" this inflated sense of "friending". A true friend isn't someone sitting with you and checking their messages...ignoring the actual person sitting there to "read" what people one has never even met has to say about someone else one has never met. 28246. arkymalarky - 9/29/2014 10:40:03 PM really that kind of thing is more Snapchat or Instagram. unless you use it that way fb is pretty much like here but with people you know. My great aunt is 86 years old. Realistically, I will only see her alive at my dad's funeral or dead at hers. But she's on Facebook and I visited with her when I was on it. And Mose still does. Yes, she's a tea party Texan, but I love her and like knowing what she's up to. 28248. arkymalarky - 9/29/2014 11:42:47 PM aunt not great aunt. Dad's sister. 28250. arkymalarky - 9/29/2014 11:45:03 PM she can be or ally funny. she told her kids, "just leave me alone and let me be old." 28251. arkymalarky - 9/29/2014 11:45:22 PM really 28252. arkymalarky - 10/3/2014 2:33:11 AM You get through the weather alright Judith? It is hitting here right now. roughest in a long time. 28253. judithathome - 10/4/2014 11:16:11 PM Strangest thing...it blew right over...didn't even knock out the electricity. At least, here where we live...other parts of town were pummeled. 28254. alIstaIrcOnnOr - 10/7/2014 10:49:24 AM 
In a professional context, I'm pretty much a dweeb. Socially, more of a dork. It's only really in politics or associated intellectual pursuits that I achieve geekishness or nerditude.
28255. alIstaIrcOnnOr - 10/7/2014 11:24:35 AM Though socially, I'm improving with age. Partly mellowing, but mostly just knowing when to keep my mouth shut. I spent the weekend on a sailing boat in the bay of Saint Tropez, watching the classic boats racing (a lot of them more than 100 years old, quite a few 2 and 3-mast boats, very pretty to watch). Wonkers and Cap'n Dirty would have been right at home, both for the sailing and for the conversation -- we talked about sex a lot, to avoid talking about politics. The boat's owner, an 80 year old industrialist, friend of Madame's, is also a good friend of Jean-Marie Le Pen. But the real danger was his sidekick, a retired restaurateur who is a real passionate hardline FN. Having discovered that I was a leftist, of the hated ecolo sub-species, he kept trying to provoke me, in jocular fashion. But I laughed it off, Madame didn't even need to kick me under the table. And by the end of the weekend, we were firm friends. They even asked my opinion about shale gas.
My general impression of the rich people I have met in recent times is that, as well as being rabid right wingers, they are boring : not only uncultured, but even appallingly ignorant about obvious things. Yeah, I should hang out with a better class of rich people.
As Madame remarked (in undertones, in English, to calm me), it's all good background material for fiction. 28256. judithathome - 10/7/2014 6:40:18 PM You might even try coming down and hanging with the plebians once in awhile...we get to watch the races, too...just from the shore. ;-) 28257. arkymalarky - 10/8/2014 11:52:31 PM What is this ridiculous trend in United States commercials of using British accents to sell products? I will not purchase viagra, book a vacation with sandals, or research my family history on ancestry.com, and adding a British accent is not going to change my mind. Who are they trying to appeal to with this gimmick? If they're trying to annoy the hell out of people, they're certainly succeeding at that. 28259. iiibbb - 10/9/2014 2:47:39 PM TIVO.... DVR...
Ads could be in Swahili for all I know. 28260. arkymalarky - 10/9/2014 6:16:07 PM Yeah, mose does that, but I'm too impatient. If the show is on I want to see right then. 28262. arkymalarky - 10/9/2014 7:12:44 PM I usually pause and skip or hit the channel button, but I have to see to know what I don't like and otherwise I pretty much ignore.
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