Technology/The Internet/Communications

AtLast · 06-03-2010, 11:54 PM

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Mine is a mix of real life friends, work related people/friends, family, people I have known for years online and a few people I don't know at all who added me because we have mutual friends (probably hoping for a farmtown buddy!)

Mine is like this, too and I enjoy FB interaction. I block the apps, however. Yes, have had a lot of mutual friend introductions, but that has been OK.

have to say that as I became so disenchanted with the old B-F site, FB became a good way for me to stay in touch with members as I just stopped wanting to post there.

Sometimes, I get a wild hair and I want to purge, but I also don't want to hurt anyones feelings! And besides, it can feel shitty (or not) when people use Social Media as a weapon to "unfriend" others for one reason or another. I have had people unfriend me because of who I was friends with, and I found it kind of funny, actually. I have also had people unfriend me because I told the truth... (also found that funny).

Oh the social-media unfriending crap! I went through some stuff with this when a person that I do know in real-time was spreading gossip about me and a few FB friends that were mutual in real-time dropped me from their friend list. I figure, these were not really friends anyway and not people I want to associate with. It was interesting, however, to get some FB messages from honorable folks that let me know she was doing this. But, it was a sequence of a friend ... of a friend.... of a friend thing, too. Some pretty wild stories- you know how things get twisted as they go from one person to another. But those that made it clear that they were not going to engage in gossip, were aware of the person's instability. Very weird (and infantile) situation!

I like to use it for local friends when we have gatherings, it's a great way to get the word out and also, I love seeing pictures of peoples animals and children and keeping up with projects they are working on, or happenings in their lives.

Me, too!

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Linus · 08-27-2010, 08:03 PM

My uncle sent me this video of security specialist Bruce Scheier talking about we are the product, not the customer. It's very interesting and does highlight, particularly in the US, this phenomenon.

My uncle ended up posting the following comment on Scheier's blog:

Quote:

Chomsky, in a similar vein, has been reminding us for years that the readership is a newspaper's (tv newscast's/whatever's) product.

If you keep this in mind while reading/watching/retching-at the news; the meta- level of modern corporate news media's incoherent offerings starts to become coherent: The news media job is not to inform, but to deliver this product, the audience, to the advertisers

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AtLast Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Woman Preferred Pronoun?: HER - SHE Relationship Status: Relating Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: CA & AZ I'm a Snowbird Posts: 5,408 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,826 Thanked 10,827 Times in 3,199 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	[QUOTE=June;121547] Mine is a mix of real life friends, work related people/friends, family, people I have known for years online and a few people I don't know at all who added me because we have mutual friends (probably hoping for a farmtown buddy!) Mine is like this, too and I enjoy FB interaction. I block the apps, however. Yes, have had a lot of mutual friend introductions, but that has been OK. have to say that as I became so disenchanted with the old B-F site, FB became a good way for me to stay in touch with members as I just stopped wanting to post there. Sometimes, I get a wild hair and I want to purge, but I also don't want to hurt anyones feelings! And besides, it can feel shitty (or not) when people use Social Media as a weapon to "unfriend" others for one reason or another. I have had people unfriend me because of who I was friends with, and I found it kind of funny, actually. I have also had people unfriend me because I told the truth... (also found that funny). Oh the social-media unfriending crap! I went through some stuff with this when a person that I do know in real-time was spreading gossip about me and a few FB friends that were mutual in real-time dropped me from their friend list. I figure, these were not really friends anyway and not people I want to associate with. It was interesting, however, to get some FB messages from honorable folks that let me know she was doing this. But, it was a sequence of a friend ... of a friend.... of a friend thing, too. Some pretty wild stories- you know how things get twisted as they go from one person to another. But those that made it clear that they were not going to engage in gossip, were aware of the person's instability. Very weird (and infantile) situation! I like to use it for local friends when we have gatherings, it's a great way to get the word out and also, I love seeing pictures of peoples animals and children and keeping up with projects they are working on, or happenings in their lives. Me, too! QUOTE]