(Off) FB - was: Re: Krankschaft April Update

[Arjan Hulsebos]

Just as long as you treat FB and the likes as a sort-of online bar/pub, you're
OK. And, yeah, they're just as much interested in you as Google is.

Gr,

Arjan H

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   ... and that most dreaded rock concert spectacle — the drum solo


---------- Original Message -----------
From: Steve Pond <Steve at DOREMI.CO.UK>
To: Arjan Hulsebos <arjanh at WOLFPACK.NL>
Sent: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:55:46 +0100
Subject: Re: Krankschaft April Update

> 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
> >>
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