Actually, the extracts someone (sorry, it's been snipped who, by this
point in the thread) came from Twitter, not FB, but IKWYM.
Post by John AshbyPost by MikePost by Jenny M BensonPost by MikeThat’s rather too close by an extremely long chalk on a pole to my way of
thinking - there be dragons...
That is very much my attitude to FB, however I fear that that was
probably very much the attitude of many people - especially those of my
current age - when telephones were a relatively new thing. I don't like
to think of myself as an old stick-in-the-mud trying to live in the past
so I have to keep wondering if I ought to make more effort to overcome
my aversion to FB.
You have my thoughts exactly. (I. e., I wonder if I ought to.) Though my
having mostly held back is partly just a fear it would swallow up all my
time, as well as the technical matter below, and _not_ the actual
_aversion_ I detect among many non-users: I can see it brings a lot of
enjoyment to a lot of people, and I _don't_ have anything against that.
(All the general snootiness about social media, I dismiss: I'm sure it
_is_ what you make of it. Like newsgroups.)
[I say I've _mostly_ held back: I do have a Facebook "account" (is that
the right word?), because I once wanted to post in a "group" (ditto?)
there, and it seemed I had to get one to do so.]
Post by John AshbyPost by MikeSometimes, aversions are based on good, solid and sensible
reasons...
And where's Sebastian when you need him to remind you what they are?
john
Yes, I miss Sebastian for lots of reasons; his expertise on many
computing matters, I'm a Germanophile (and he is from "my" part of
Germany or not far from it), and just generally a nice guy.
[If someone knows he's alive and well and living on Facebook, please
don't say (-:!]
The technical problem I have with Facebook: I just can't grasp how it
_works_ on a PC (and haven't tried on a 'phone); my mind likes to work
in a fairly linked or branching manner, and the typical Facebook page -
when I've looked at one - seems to go all over the place. (Oh, and keeps
loading for ever.) It's not just the top-posting (latest at the top)
aspect - I've learnt to live with that on Twitter (though would love not
to); it seems a lot more chaotic.
(I joined Twitter originally, about February last year I think, under
the impression it might help my petition [it didn't, though probably
partly because I didn't know how, and hadn't got followers]. I've stayed
with it, though. And it has the ability to swallow all my time, hence my
concern over FB.)
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