tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post3737093298647364896..comments2024-03-13T04:00:21.690-05:00Comments on Life 101 : FacebookRick Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01005727239466916086noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post-25010114270861544162010-10-03T12:45:41.689-05:002010-10-03T12:45:41.689-05:00And poor me, just twenty and yet only a weekly vis...And poor me, just twenty and yet only a weekly visitor to the site!<br /><br />And you're perfectly right about the urban legend and hype part as well. There doesn't seem to be a way to check it though...APhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03861449757599870039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post-18424623267460160842010-10-02T13:51:51.675-05:002010-10-02T13:51:51.675-05:00Like Just Plain Tired I have successfully avoided ...Like Just Plain Tired I have successfully avoided a Facebook account thus far. I'm comfortable with that.<br /><br />I couldn't agree more with your soapbox rant and I do hope you're right about there being more people in the middle than at the extremes, but I'm not convinced by what I see around me. <br /><br />Even my mother (sweet little lady who usually won't speak if she doesn't have something nice to say)got all caught up in that Muslim hate over the mosque thing.<br /><br />It hurts my soul to have to argue with other Americans that the first amendment applies to EVERYONE ... or it applies to NO one. How can anyone not understand so basic a principle?Mustang Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07302252270800805553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post-121782459325493522010-10-02T10:16:56.391-05:002010-10-02T10:16:56.391-05:00I joined Facebook at the urging of my children, so...I joined Facebook at the urging of my children, so I open my account every day. I don't make any entries, because I feel it more important to hear their voices on the telephone. Also, it's nice to open a piece of snail mail and find that I'm thought about.Granpappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18357214903534207171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post-6972811452588571582010-10-02T09:27:55.738-05:002010-10-02T09:27:55.738-05:00I haven't embraced Facebook. Just not that int...I haven't embraced Facebook. Just not that interested in it I guess.Just Plain Tiredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17370008595700891854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post-65064929276379710422010-10-02T07:08:25.028-05:002010-10-02T07:08:25.028-05:00I am with you. Facebook is a daily read for me, bu...I am with you. Facebook is a daily read for me, but I have a love/hate relationship with it. I have enjoyed connecting with people I knew several decades ago, and relatives I don't hear from otherwise. <br /><br />Twitter? I mostly just hate it. How can a person share anything meaningful in 140 characters? And how am I supposed to decipher the hyper-shortened abbreviations to figure out what they said in 140 characters?? I know you didn't say anything about Twitter, but I lump it in with the other social media.<br /><br />I still like old fashioned stationary and pens to communicate--but it is nice to have the option to go a different route since not many agree with my preference!<br />tmorneryswifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13702378853361498700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post-57878838448252772242010-10-01T18:18:26.776-05:002010-10-01T18:18:26.776-05:00It's a great view from a soapbox.
I agree wit...It's a great view from a soapbox.<br /><br />I agree with you 100%.<br /><br />I'm on Facebook but I don't play the games and I don't get involved in the petty BS that goes on between hateful "friends". In fact most of my FB Friends are from High School because I got on there when they were planning a reunion. I've had nothing to do with any of them for 40 years and now I peek into their lives after all that time and they act just as they did in 1969!<br /><br />We are stupid for believing things that are spread on a social network. There's this thing now where if you have a "smart" phone you can set it to log onto your Facebook wall everytime you go into a store or restaurant or race track or other public venue with open wifi. Imagine 500 of your not so close friends knowing you went to Starbucks for coffee!<br /><br />In the future, maybe in the present, privacy will be more prescious than time.Charlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17167633465853736197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19517251.post-37374700091379172102010-10-01T17:58:50.029-05:002010-10-01T17:58:50.029-05:00I agree with you about the mosque. This is either ...I agree with you about the mosque. This is either a free country or it isn't. And lots of people do generalize about Muslims and their religion. It is shameful what has gone on in New York. <br />It made me think of David Koresh and how he caused the death of all those people in Waco. I thought, "No one would make a fuss if a Christian church were built on top of that fiasco - and David thought he was Jesus Christ himself!Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14175778756449339363noreply@blogger.com