Guys, with all due respect, you are missing part of the point of
facebook.
You can set your privacy to none.
You can set your privacy to prescreened friends only.
And a number of points in between.
If I want to ask my friends if they want to go to a concert - one
message on facebook will easily get the invite out to a number of
likeminded friends.
Or I could do it the old fashioned way and ring 10 or 20 people.
I also use facebook to keep in touch with numerous relatives from
around the world. And they with me.
And anyone who doubts the security aspect, go and find me on facebook
(Chris Dimmock, Sydney Australia) and tell me what you can find out
about me from facebook. Not from other sites - just facebook.
I speak at a lot of conferences, and it's pretty easy to find my
Austin Healey website - but what can you find about me from facebook??
Facebook and Twitter will never replace this list, anymore than a fax
machine will.
Sure, you can use a hammer and cold chisel to undo a nut, but it
probably isn't the tool of choice, if you like.
FB and Twitter etc are a different animal, with a different purpose.
Email, with an archive, is the perfect solution for our list.
And thank you Mark for providing it.
Chris
Sent from my iPhone
On 21/07/2010, at 8:58 AM, dwflagg@juno.com wrote:
> I am still trying to understand the obsession with having to be in
> constant or virtual contact. People become paranoid if someone does
> not
> respond "real-time". Why are people screwed up - information
> overload!!
> And can someone please tell me why people have to put their lives in
> the
> picture window for the world to see and then complain when they are
> harassed or the victim ( and I use the tern loosely) of identity
> theft.
> Hello, it is a bit like leaving your car parked with the keys in the
> ignition and complaining when it is stolen!! FB diminishes the
> meaning of
> friend the way making an after market "M" diminishes the original.
> New is
> not always better. I still like to talk, face to face, write
> letters, and
> use a real telephone. Call me old fashion, but you have your freakin
> brave new world!!!
>
> Doug
>
>> I like this List.
>>
>> Besides, if we moved to FB we wouldn't have Ed, and no one wants
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Brave (or naive) New World or not, I would not be inclined to
>> participate in a Facebook Healey page as an alternative to this
>> list.
>>
>> Certainly, I feel more comfortable with the security issues
>> confronted
>> on this list compared to the related issues of using Facebook.
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