Where is everybody??!

On Oct 10, 9:12*am, "Storrmmee" wrote:
many employeers are now doing extensive web searches before a final hire, as
an employeer i have really mixed feelings about it, i mean how you party is
none of my business, on the other hand, if you talk openly about a bheavior
that could end up in you needing quick cash i might be more reluctant to
hire in the first place as my business deals in cash,

Of course if you're stupid enough to openly annouce to all on FaceBook
that you do such things then you're probably too stupid for the job!
I'd be very peeved to put it mildly if that was done to me although
all you'd find out is I love cats, like a beer, going to live bands (2
gigs this weekend I go back to work tomorrow for the rest) love music,
watch "True Blood", do roleplaying games, like to cook at weekends,
keep a blog ,join groups against animal cruelty or one's for people
who used to attend certain venues and wish to keep in touch with each
other, read a lot

I don't mention my massive cocaine habit at all :-))))

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Adrian wrote:

Lesley Madigan wrote:
On Oct 9, 7:35 am, Adrian wrote:

j) It is possible to have a private conversation with a Facebook friend
if you wish.

I've chatted to Marina and Pam S on Facebook

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

PS Adrian- the important bit of this response is Whiskas grilled duck
was served 15 minutes ago so Dunzi is washing herself and Sarsi is
having a little patrol of the bedroom and by the sound of it whacking
a few greeblings

LOL, so you now have a duck filled fattypuss.

Speaking of "duck", I think you should be *ducking* after that!

Joyce


--
"Sentimentality" -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
-- Graham Greene

Adrian wrote:

I'm often surprised by the amount of information people make available
to anyone on Facebook, it is entirely under the users control.

To a point. What I've found is that, although I set my privacy settings
so that only friends could see my posts, I was forever having to *reset*
them that way, because Facebook kept making changes that undid my settings
(among other things). I'd log on only to discover that all my privacy
settings had been changed and my info was now available to anyone, and
I'd have to go back and reset them. No warning on this, and no notice of
it afterward, either.

And if I want to use any app (I don't play interactive games, but I am
a bit of a sucker for quizzes), it requires that I give them all my
information and all my friends' information. Sure, I could stop doing
quizzes or other apps that happen to appeal to me. And that's what I've
done, but it limits my participation.

Joyce

--
"Sentimentality" -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
-- Graham Greene

lol, but you would be shocked to see what people do post, one gal here in
the us didn't get a job because a friend posted a picture of her, using
first and last name, she was at the edge of the picture but there was on the
coffee table a bong or similar, potentail employeer saw and she didn't get
the job, Lee
"Lesley Madigan" wrote in message
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On Oct 10, 9:12 am, "Storrmmee" wrote:
many employeers are now doing extensive web searches before a final hire,
as
an employeer i have really mixed feelings about it, i mean how you party
is
none of my business, on the other hand, if you talk openly about a
bheavior
that could end up in you needing quick cash i might be more reluctant to
hire in the first place as my business deals in cash,

Of course if you're stupid enough to openly annouce to all on FaceBook
that you do such things then you're probably too stupid for the job!
I'd be very peeved to put it mildly if that was done to me although
all you'd find out is I love cats, like a beer, going to live bands (2
gigs this weekend I go back to work tomorrow for the rest) love music,
watch "True Blood", do roleplaying games, like to cook at weekends,
keep a blog ,join groups against animal cruelty or one's for people
who used to attend certain venues and wish to keep in touch with each
other, read a lot

I don't mention my massive cocaine habit at all :-))))

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

I'm still here, for almost 3 years now.
I don't deal with Facebook, any more, too busy, and it would make me insane
too
nor Twitter and hardly go to My Space any more either.
I just read and respond to three groups. Love, Kyla


after reading this thread, i have come to the conclusion that besides
being generally creeped out by the whole fb thing, i am too lazy to deal
with it, and back to threads, even when we do something off topic, here we
can just mark read/delete/ignore and go to the thread we want to read, not
having things grouped, which is what i guess fb does, would make me
insane, Lee

"Joy"
I agree with most of what you say here. I definitely like the "threads",
and have no interest in reading random comments. That's one reason I'll
never have anything to do with Twitter if I can help it.

--
Joy

Don't believe everything you think

"CatNipped" wrote in message
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Let's see if I can explain this...

I like the "threads" in Usenet - it makes it easier for the
feeble-minded folks like me to remember what I was talking about. Just
reading random thoughts, in no specific order, consisting of thousands
of important, dire observations such "I'm bored today" by people I don't
really know makes me aggravated.

My newsreader seems to me instantaneous (some people may take a while to
reply, but they do that on Facebook too) - I post something, hit
"refresh", and there's my post. Also, you can set Outlook Express to
automatically look for new headers in whatever timeframe you'd like.

Most days I find it hard to remember my own, given name - I will *never*
remember everyone else's and I would hate to "slight" anyone just
because of my poor memory and laziness. Plus there's the task of
sending a friend request to each one (and risking rejection - I had my
fill of that in high school).

I *like* the fact that a newsgroup is about one topic, that way I can
read and write only about the things that interest me (besides, when has
*this* group stuck strictly to the subject of cats - LOL).

I do like the ease of uploading pictures (the single reason I even have
a FB account) - but I have my own web site, so missing out on a photo
site wouldn't impact me personally. However, you can only see the
photos of "friends" which leads back to my.

The people I don't want to have anything to do with are in that list for
a reason. ;

I have a "smart phone", but it doesn't do much good when is has a stupid
user. I've had my Droid since last Christmas and still don't know how
to use it properly (it's become a joke for my friends and family, but
now they at least know that I'm not hanging up on them on purpose).
It's a constant source of aggravation for me. Also, the biggest problem
I have with my cell phone is the keyboard that seems to be created for
pixies to use, it certainly doesn't fit my fingers (and it doesn't have
a spell-checker and even with a spell-checker I manage to screw posts
up).

And, lastly, I *like* the fact that most people don't know anything
about Usenet - it makes it more intimate for those of us that do (I
don't think I would have as much of a relationship using Facebook as I
have the 15+ years I've been on this group.

Again, JMHO.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped
See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped

See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at:
http://www.professional-geek.com/rpcablog/

"Yowie" wrote in message
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On 9/10/2010 12:51 AM, CatNipped wrote:
I know I was away for a little while months and months ago, but after
leaving the mothership and rejoining the group I was surprised at how
*few*
posts there were to read (relatively compared with how many posts
there used
to be here). I know everybody has gotten on the Facebook train (I
just
can't get into that - it doesn't *feel* as intimate as the newsgroup
to
me)... and I'm *NOT* being sarcastic here, I really don't understand,
but is
buying imaginary things in "Farmville" as satisfying as sitting down
for a
chat with friends?

Facebook... I've heard that if Facebook were a country it would be one
of
the most populous nation on earth. I got very badly "burned" by
something
very innocuous that I posted there, and it was my fault because I
forgot
that I wasn't just talking to a few friends. Since then I've been
even more
circumspect - I only log on to see if friends or family are OK, and
because
it's *SO* easy to post pictures there directly from my cell phone.

Seriously, can someone explain to me the "draw" of Facebook and why so
many
people spend *SO* much time on it?


It is sorta kinda like Usenet but:

a) its utterly instantaneous and self updates. Everyone sees posts at
the same time

b) You are in total control of who you see and who sees you

c) There is no 'topic' nor many rules about posting. You have (almost)
complete freedom to say what you want, when you want to whom you want.
(Facebook may step in in extreme cases, but they have to be extreme)

d) You can post photos, videos and music, as well as share links. This
media appears in your feed, rather than having to put a link to it and
click away

e) Everyone gets their own photo album. I have yet to see a limit on
the number of photos (although I assume there is). If you click on a
person, and you have permission, you can look through all their photos
whenever you want. You don't have to keep asking them for a link.

f) Its a great way to stay in contact with people you otherwise
wouldn't have much to do with.

g) If you want subject specific groups, they are also there. They are
very easy to create and manage.

h)If you have a smart phone (like most young folks) you can both send
and receive updates from your phone so you are always in contact with
your friends. iPhones and other smart phones (although not mine) also
have apps that allow you to post to all the popular social media
networks easily.

i) most people have never heard of Usenet, let alone know how to access
it

HTH

Yowie

"Adrian" wrote in message
om...
Lesley Madigan wrote:
On Oct 9, 7:35 am, Adrian wrote:

j) It is possible to have a private conversation with a Facebook friend
if you wish.

I've chatted to Marina and Pam S on Facebook

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

PS Adrian- the important bit of this response is Whiskas grilled duck
was served 15 minutes ago so Dunzi is washing herself and Sarsi is
having a little patrol of the bedroom and by the sound of it whacking
a few greeblings

LOL, so you now have a duck filled fattypuss.

--
Adrian (Owned by Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

Groaannnn!!! ;-)

Joy

wrote:
Adrian wrote:

I'm often surprised by the amount of information people make available
to anyone on Facebook, it is entirely under the users control.

To a point. What I've found is that, although I set my privacy settings
so that only friends could see my posts, I was forever having to *reset*
them that way, because Facebook kept making changes that undid my settings
(among other things). I'd log on only to discover that all my privacy
settings had been changed and my info was now available to anyone, and
I'd have to go back and reset them. No warning on this, and no notice of
it afterward, either.

And if I want to use any app (I don't play interactive games, but I am
a bit of a sucker for quizzes), it requires that I give them all my
information and all my friends' information. Sure, I could stop doing
quizzes or other apps that happen to appeal to me. And that's what I've
done, but it limits my participation.

Joyce

Yes, I refuse to use any aps because they want too much information and
I'm not interested in games anyway.

--
Adrian (Owned by Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
Facebook is also very upbeat. There's absolutely no negativity
that I have seen.

Facebook has been a serious problem for some people on the UK folk
scene, with Nazis creating fake Facebook identities for them and
filling the fake pages with pro-fascist material, or otherwise trying
to create bogus associations between British folk music and fascist
causes. Facebook has not been very cooperative about getting that
crap removed.

A result of that was some of them got together to create a "Folk
Against Fascism" Facebook page, and the campaign has led to a recent
compilation CD release of the same title by the artists the Nazis
were trying to co-opt.

That's not just a Facebook problem, anyone can create a fake identity on
any part of the internet.

--
Adrian (Owned by Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

I've been searching so long for someone, besides myself, who does not like
computer games! I was beginning to think I was the only person on earth who
doesn't!!

A long, *LONG* time, I played a game (King's Quest, main character Rosella).
That was the only game I've ever seen where you didn't have to fight and
kill other "people". That version of King's Quest was purely an
intellectual puzzle - there wasn't even a pillow fight added. Rosella
traveled throughout her land searching for clues that would give her the
answers she was seeking. I haven't found a similar game in all the years
since . And while there are games now that include clues, even those have
fighting to get to the next level.

Any type of aggression will make me physically ill. I freeze like a deer in
headlights. Yes, I know it's just pixels on a monitor, still, just the
*idea* of violence disturbs me. And since when has violence become the
answer to all problems. I'd *MUCH* rather children learn how to use their
minds to get ahead instead of brutality. I never play those games. The
glimpse I had of Ben playing one - has people chopping off others' heads
with (HD) blood shooting from the neck where the head was severed.

From "transactions" that show up on my wall, I know the "Farmville" but I've
never incorporated computer games to my "agenda" and just don't have time on
my "agenda" for games.

JMHO.

--
Hugs,

CatNipped
See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped

See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at:
http://www.professional-geek.com/rpcablog/

"Adrian" wrote in message
om...
wrote:
Adrian wrote:

I'm often surprised by the amount of information people make available
to anyone on Facebook, it is entirely under the users control.

To a point. What I've found is that, although I set my privacy settings
so that only friends could see my posts, I was forever having to *reset*
them that way, because Facebook kept making changes that undid my
settings
(among other things). I'd log on only to discover that all my privacy
settings had been changed and my info was now available to anyone, and
I'd have to go back and reset them. No warning on this, and no notice of
it afterward, either.

And if I want to use any app (I don't play interactive games, but I am
a bit of a sucker for quizzes), it requires that I give them all my
information and all my friends' information. Sure, I could stop doing
quizzes or other apps that happen to appeal to me. And that's what I've
done, but it limits my participation.

Joyce

Yes, I refuse to use any aps because they want too much information and
I'm not interested in games anyway.

--
Adrian (Owned by Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk