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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
digital scrapbooking
Does anyone here use Pinterest? I have several friends who are already totally addicted.
I've got reservations about how pictures get taken out of their original context and away from their maker (and potentially in violation of copyright, although I don't know the finer points of how that works). There is an source attribution in there but it can take several clicks to find. -
One thing that I wish I could control in FB is how I get all the feeds I’ve “liked” totally overwhelming my friends’ updates and posts. Why oh why are they all together? It would be so easy for FB to put them in a separate tab. I don’t want to block or unlike the feeds I’m getting, but they’re not the reason I’m on FB! Friends should be first, or they should be separate.
And this “top story” business makes the whole thing look like scrambled eggs. At least reverse chronological order was predictable and consistent. I don’t mind complexity if there’s a reason for it, but this is just a muddle.
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Faust Book Fiends
Ian, you are wonderful. Just so you know.
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Does anyone here remember Community Zero? Before FB, I used CZ with a bunch of close friends who were widely separated geographically, so we’d all stay in touch. Each community was private. CZ started out with the basic package being free, and then they introduced charging for page impressions. We were happy to pay initially but the charges kept going up and we eventually decided we’d abandon privacy for a free shared blog. But we then we used the blog a lot less because it wasn’t private. And then along came FB, with all it’s complexity and semi-privacy. None of these solutions is perfect, but I feel nostalgic for CZ, where we paid our money and felt that we were in control.
Of course a private community doesn’t allow networking and all the other extras that FB does.
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to James Butler,
Facebook also has the audacity to want to show it to your FRIENDS AND FAMILY OMG OMG OMG!!!1!!!eleven!!
:-)
FB’s always had odd notions about what its users want. Does it not occur to them to ask us?
I understand that the $1billion annual profit derived indirectly from 750 million users makes us individually not worth a hell of a lot, but surely they could try not to piss us all off? -
Good lord I can't believe that FB has added MORE settings in there for privacy etc. I'm not sure I'm smart enough for all this; but thanks for the heads-up. Looks like using a second browser just for FB makes the cookie situation simpler. I can manage that.
I love some of the connections I've made and people I've rediscovered through FB, but the scale and power of the thing does freak me out. Especially as leaving it becomes a bigger deal the more universally it's adopted.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Islander,
I like the idea of your being heard all over town :-)
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Islander,
Ah, I wish I could sing in tune. I can follow someone else tolerably well if they sing loudly and confidently but I can't do it by myself ;-)
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I’d suggest Dan Carter’s groin would probably be a good place to start looking.
I had to quickly check this wasn't Emma's column I was reading.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Islander,
Thanks for the stories, Islander :-)
How awesome for a family to be able to sit around singing and drinking together.
I first heard My Handy Man on someone else's compilation tape in a shared studio. I remember not really paying attention until one night working late I suddenly noticed the words, and had to stop what I was doing and have a good long blush.
I love the way Jazz songs can carry any sort of words or emotions in a light, nonchalant way. If you're not paying attention you may miss the feeling tone or content entirely.