Comments on: Breaking up…

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Wed, 13 Feb 2024 13:57:31 +0000

Is that it? Wow.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Wed, 13 Feb 2024 13:55:44 +0000

I dunno… maybe a typo in your authentication mish-mash? I wondered too.

By: Charles Follymacher

Charles Follymacher — Wed, 13 Feb 2024 13:54:54 +0000

is it cuz i said ~~obama~~? ~~paranoid~~? ~~nubbin~~? crack*? ahh... CREDIT CARD

By: Charles Follymacher

Charles Follymacher — Wed, 13 Feb 2024 13:52:36 +0000

“dood, why’m i ‘a-waitin’ moderation,” Follymacher sniffed.

By: Charles Follymacher

Charles Follymacher — Wed, 13 Feb 2024 13:50:06 +0000

there's a long, thick swath of crackbookers who are young ("young" = under 40, in obama parlance) and/or compulsively cool and/or hucksters of some breed or another. then there's them, like me, with deflated expectations and a desire to play a little chess with a few old frienimies. i don't have ego enough to think 'the great eye' is looking out for me, specifically, and i do try hard each time i stroke the login nubbin to remember not to put my social insurance and credit card numbers in the profile (so far so good), but for the more ~~paranoid~~ careful and cautious i think there is something to the idea that these networks are in the end a huuge lab for marketing scientists. facebook/myjoint is the apogee of these private pits of passionate proles and promoters. the bolt is loaded tho. marketeers hurry up an tweak your cheese recipies.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 12 Feb 2024 23:25:58 +0000

There you have it, Alan. Too many users of the Facebook, like AOL customers, seem happy in the feedlot behind the barbed wire. Gathering these herds encourages a retrograde phenomenon, a “set-top box” mindset that is moving people back into the manageable markets of mass consumerism. Low grade interactivity with a TeeVee set might be all these people expect from netTech.

By: alan herrell - the head lemur

alan herrell - the head lemur — Tue, 12 Feb 2024 22:54:27 +0000

Ning is another sharecropper network too. Read the T&C’s. A little more ‘control’, but at the end of the day your ass is being shopped to anybody with checkbook.

Facebook’s data retention should come as no surprise.
It is a numbers game: “We Have Grown By 1000%!!!!”
AOL still has a bazillion screen names, despite the fact that it is such a dog they are trying to unload it on anybody who still has 3 modems. by not having to subtract, the weather is always sunny in Socialnetland.

Besides, do you really want 5000 ‘friends’ whose demonstrated internet skills have peaked at the mouse click?

By: madame l.

madame l. — Tue, 12 Feb 2024 16:02:28 +0000

yeah, well i've replaced my scrabble habit with FreeRice. i don't know if it's legit and there's not the interaction with other humans that scrabbulous afforded, but it's fun. although i do miss you, meskill and rangaswami kickin' my ass in scrabble... that's about the only thing FB was for me. that, and mike arrington flirting with one of my imaginary characters by FB email and furrier starting an argument and eventually threatening my elder male character... watching the way the same people interacted so differently with my male character and my female character (who were far more popular than i ever was) was fascinating and instructive.

By: Dick

Dick — Tue, 12 Feb 2024 13:36:30 +0000

There was a big Facebook feature on a BBC whistleblower programme recently that confirmed all of this & more. Once Facebook gets inside your clothes it’s there for keeps – stickier than AOL. Sadly, interviewees continued to extol the virtues of F’book as a bona fide community even after the interviewer had blown his whistle at full lung power! Parasites who have located a need & are now dining royally.

Er…yes, I have Facebook, but my profile is down to the bone.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 12 Feb 2024 04:31:53 +0000

Winston, I agree. The Facebook is indeed something silly and sophomoric, perhaps with something darker underneath. Jon, I agree with you too. Specific purpose, limited scope, interpersonal and community networking with personal control promises a brighter day.

Ning looks like a good path to follow for those who have a social networking purpose.