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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. 28263. arkymalarky - 10/9/2014 7:12:48 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. 28265. judithathome - 10/9/2014 8:38:53 PM The Viagra ad is especially egregious. That chick is deliberately flaunting, if not her accent, her very "sexiness" to temp this poor "victim" of a natural aging process and allegedly giving him hope that, though he could never do so when a hard-on was a sure thing, he can NOW have a hot chick with a British accent jump into bed with him because he can maintain a 5 hour erection.
It's no different than showing young sexy hot chicks in before and after ads for Nutri-System, Weight Watchers, and myriad anti-fat pills displaying their new sexy bodies that were attained with little or no effort...and the pathetic face-lift ladies who are trying to defy nature with attempts to look "younger" than they actually are.
And I won't even address the "vagina rejuvenation" purveyors...
28266. judithathome - 10/9/2014 8:40:48 PM I skip ads but I also watch some of them because I am fascinated by the "art" of advertising and how it can sway opinion and purchasing power...AND political power. 28267. Ms. No - 10/10/2014 12:58:23 AM I know a great process for vaginal rejuvenation: put a better dick in it. 28268. judithathome - 10/10/2014 4:05:04 PM ....and THAT post would rate TEN, MsNo...huzzahs!
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