Krankschaft April Update

[Steve Pond]

Mary's right, they do want you to get hooked and use it like the
family in F 451, I tried to resist it, and in fact only joined about a
year ago. I was forced to because all the people I used to communicate
with via mailing lists or user groups were all now chatting on FB and
I was left out in the cold.  Morally superior, but left out.

Having joined it I do like the interactions with "friends I've never
met", but I'm suspicious of their motives re. data acquisition and I
dislike their walled garden approach.

Consequently, they don't know my address, real phone number or main
email address. 

Basically places like MySpace, and now Facebook allow people who would
never have got to grips with FTP, Newsgroups, Gopher, writing their
own HTML, text only mailing lists etc to upload photos & video to the
web, without any technical knowledge whatsoever.. and that sadly is
what drives their momentum, 500 million cat pictures.

Use it, but don't feed it.

-S.






On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:43:51 -0400, you sent through the ether:

>Hi Carl,
>Chris told me to never sign up for FB, so like an idiot, I tried it to see
>if I could use it, being blind.  Well, we tried to get off the site, and
>after the little survey where they ask why I wanted to leave we couldn't
>find anywhere to sign out, and I had someone who can see helping.  They want
>you to get hooked, and spend lots of time in there, like The Family in F.H.
>451. 
>
>Mary
>-----Original Message-----
>From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On
>Behalf Of Carl Edlund Anderson
>Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 10:29 AM
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>Subject: Re: Krankschaft April Update
>
>I couldn't even find it on your page (which, at least, I could find).  The
>mysteries of FB ....
>
>I'm gonna check again later on a different machine!
>
>Cheers,
>Carl
>
>On 01 Apr 2011, at 09:12 , Steve Pond wrote:
>
>> Works here Karl, I just tried it in a browser I never use that has no 
>> cache or logins stored and it went straight there.. I can't make it 
>> not go there even via links on non-friended peoples pages.. erk!
>> 
>> -S.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 09:05:20 -0500, you sent through the ether:
>> 
>>> On 01 Apr 2011, at 08:56 , Steve Pond wrote:
>>>> Oh! I almost forgot.. please "like" us on facebook
>>>> (http://www.facebook.com/krankschaft) When we try to get gigs 
>>>> promoters look there & see we only have 256 "likes" which leads them 
>>>> to assume nobody will come to see us!
>>> 
>>> I am struggling to get this link to work -- is the page there?  Mind you,
>I may well have already "Liked" Krankschaft, but I am having difficulty
>confirming it!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Carl
>>