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Not to mention all the information Facebook collects on you.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Rick Troth wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/23/2015 01:27 PM, Steve
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<pre wrap="">Wouldn't help me much. I'm not Facebooked, Linked-in, or Twittered.</pre>
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And that's okay ... even *recommended*. (see below) Just that,
those of us who *are* on LI should take advantage of it. (And I
suspect, but cannot prove, that using it will drive reduction of
spam in that space.) But I would keep most conversational
interactions here in this forum. <br>
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About Facebook, LI, Twitter, G+, especially FB: <br>
If you haven't signed up for Facebook, don't! It's a terrible
lock-in. One could fairly describe it as an internet black hole. <br>
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It's not like FB is some inherently evil thing. It's just that
once you get involved it becomes difficult to extract yourself
from it. The culture on FB is broad, which would be a good thing
except that FB does not provide the means for normalizing
interaction. Example: Sally and Sara both know Susan, but haven't
been in touch for years. Susan posts a status, Sara comments, and
then in the resulting thread Sally says "Hi Sara! Where have you
been and how are you? I miss you so much!". <br>
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This doesn't even mention the mis-directed drama. <br>
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Technically, Facebook re-invents common internet services in its
own image. (Presumably so it can reap ad revenue.) Some examples
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<li>IM: <br>
We had plenty of IM services, and FB could have joined in.
Instead they chose to implement their own "chat" which cannot
(reliably) be accessed outside of their engine. Sure, there's
a Pidgin plug-in. It sucks. <br>
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<li>EMail: <br>
It's the 21st century. One can reasonably send
"correspondence" to/from thousands (millions) of autonomous
installations. But not FB. They chose to implement their own
messaging service which must run in their user experience
engine. </li>
<li>Calendar: <br>
It's really handy, especially when you think of *social*
media, to share and organize events. As with email, one could
very reliably send and receive invitations and related
notices. But FB chose to handle "events" internally. </li>
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Back to the drama thing, one close relative grew tired of the
noise and emotional roller-coaster. She "unfriended" many and
almost closed her account. But she stopped just short of that. Too
many others are in that space. I'm feeling the same way, would
love to turn down the volume, but it's really really difficult to
take the step of shutting it completely off. <br>
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Don't get FB. <br>
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This probably puts me *out* of the race for a job with Facebook.
Possibly not so great for me at this juncture, but I gotta be
honest. <br>
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Also, FB is doing some *good* things with PHP and related tech. (a
coin always has two sides) <br>
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-- R; <><<br>
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