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[Deleted member 8987]

Those of you who use it for connections with folks might like to look....at 5PM, my FF window reverted to the older style, and at 5:20 the IE window reverted. No ticker, "Top News" and "Most Recent" back at the top.

 

[JodyFKerr]

Mine did as well, but then reverted.

I find it interesting. The more time I spend following here, the less I spend on FB.

On BCF posts are rarely as pointless and trivial as 90% of facebook posts.

 

[SilentUnicorn]

whats facebook?



m

 

[Guest]

On BCF posts are rarely as pointless and trivial as 90% of facebook posts.

I don't understand facebook. The people who are involved in my life, are.....and the ones I don't want involved, aren't.

From what I understand it sounds like virtual high school.

 

[bgbassplyr]

On BCF posts are rarely as pointless and trivial as 90% of facebook posts.

I don't understand facebook. The people who are involved in my life, are.....and the ones I don't want involved, aren't.

From what I understand it sounds like virtual high school.

BINGO!

 

[AngliaGT]

Facebook?What's that?

- Doug

 

[Deleted member 8987]

And at 5:30, it all went back to the new shXt.

 

[NutmegCT]

On BCF posts are rarely as pointless and trivial as 90% of facebook posts.

I don't understand facebook. The people who are involved in my life, are.....and the ones I don't want involved, aren't.

From what I understand it sounds like virtual high school.

BINGO!

x2

But now I have to race over to Facebook and share this with 1500 of my very closest Friends!

<sigh>
T.

 

[MikeP]

I have yet to come up with a reason why anyone would be at all interested in how I spend my days. Sometimes I'm not even interested...

 

[Scott_Hower]

On BCF posts are rarely as pointless and trivial as 90% of facebook posts.

I don't understand facebook. The people who are involved in my life, are.....and the ones I don't want involved, aren't.

From what I understand it sounds like virtual high school.

I find it very useful. It's only "virtual high school" if you choose to use it that way.

My employer has sent me all over the world for projects, China, Singapore, most of Europe, and a stint in Poland for about a year. I keep in touch with many of the friends I have made in my travels, most of which no longer work for the same company. FB is great for this.

I have about 4 friends from high school there, the same four I've always kept in touch with.

 

[aeronca65t]

I have a lot of relatives in Ireland, the UK, Canada, Australia, France and other places.
Facebook makes it real easy to communicate with them and keep up.
I also have two 30 something daughters and a bunch of younger siblings that prefer using Facebook to normal e-mail.
And some of my race club members seem to like it too.
I don't "friend" a lot of random people (or even casual acquaintances).....I just limit to people I really know.

I don't see any great burden using Facebook. It's just a tool for communication.

 

[AN5Sprite]

... It's just a tool for communication.

Or: It's the most diabolical marketing and monitoring device ever conceived...

I'm just sayin'

Fluoridated water anyone?

 

[NutmegCT]

It's obviously part of the <span style="font-style: italic">"international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."</span>

invisible tentacles stretching from who knows where, to the very core of our existence!



T.

 

[vagt6]

Aside from Facebook being a "diabolical" Marxist conspiracy tool, etc., I actually like it. :lol: It's allowed me to reacquaint myself with many childhood, high school and college friends, many of whom I'd probably never had contact with otherwise.

Over the years I've moved a few times from city to city, leaving behind dear friends. It's hard to maintain contact with most of them and Facebook bridges that gap very nicely. It's great to view photos of their families and lives, and to see how they've fared over the years, and in some cases, decades. I've actually met happily with a few of my old buddies, all because of Facebook. You can't put a price on that.

Used judiciously, Facebook and similar social media are great ways to maintain contact with friends who live far away. I don't use it for career or work purposes and I'm very careful about the people I take on as "friends". As such, it serves its purpose for my needs.

A friend is a good thing to have, and you can't make old friends. Using modern social medial to rekindle old friendships is a marvel, I think, modern technology at its best.

YMMV.

 

[Brooklands]

Facebook has helped me find many old friends from high school, college, and co-workers and colleagues who I had lost from my contact list when I retired, or after they retired. I also know more about what my grandchildren are doing sometimes than I hear from my children. I joined to see grandchildren photos that they never got around to sharing with the family. It can be a great mode of communication, and I am allowed to argue politics with Scott Hower there...
It is also a great marketing tool to share information about America On Wheels, Summer Harmony Men's Chorus, and other activities which I want to share to help these organizations. It is what you want it to be, and just like the BCF, some members are active, and others just read the posts.

 

[DrEntropy]

It can be a toy or a tool.

I've an account primarily for keeping up with family scattered across the planet. For most who use it, it's the lowest common denominator for communication. I don't <span style="font-style: italic">like</span> it but most of the peeps I've any real connection with have embraced it.

...beyond the few here. :wink:

 

[NutmegCT]

Doc - what is it that Facebook allows, that can't be done with emails or personal websites?

Tom

 

[DrEntropy]

A sense that you're "seeing" what the others are doing... ~I~ don't have a problem with e-mail or websites, it's the REST of the folks who seem to have accepted FBook. I consider it laziness. :wink:

 

[Brooklands]

Tom, I have a web site for our High School Class here on the BCF, but I have been able to find more classmates on Facebook and been able to help them into the loop of emails from the class. I find that some of my interests probably are not for the BCF, and when I want to let some friends know about something, it takes to long to find their email addresses. I use a Yahoo group to email about 100 members of the chorus I belong to (that website is hosted on BCF too) to avoid spam filters, but the FB page allows members, spouses, and fans to share photos and videos of the group in performance.
When I ran my first slot car weekend with racing and vendors, I was able to get the word about it to many more people on Facebook than I could have any other way. I use email, Yahoo groups, iChat, Skype, and Facebook to stay in touch with different groups of people. I have been able to see photos of my son in Japan that his friends post on his page while he is serving in the Air Force. It is another tool that does some things better than the others. I find that I don't use forums too often as the format means that I need to search too many topics to bump into something that may be interesting to me.
That is my story, and I am sticking with it.

 

[Guest]

most of the peeps

You're definatly spending too much time there. :wink:



Oh, I see now. You gotta have friends for it to be useful. I only have three so count me out. One lives here, the other I talk to every day and the other guy once every month or so whether I need to or not.