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[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

The one thing that Twitter has going for it are Hashtag Games. They’re really quite fun and given the creativity on this site and more specifically here on the AH forum I believe many of you would like them. I was guest hosting games and participating very actively up until January and was having a great time.

My adult kids all post on Facebook and Insta so my compromise was that I’d stay on Instagram but only if they post updates there. My oldest is living in NOLA (thus my One Night In New Orleans selection) and the entire Mardi Gras season I was getting some truly interesting insights to what goes on behind the scenes for locals down there

I used Twitter around 2008-2010 All I ever posted was updates on a cat that lived down the street that we called asthma cat because he breathed really loud.
My kids thought it was hilarious about a year or so ago when one of my friends said he was getting with the times and made a Twitter account. They were like, Mom no one uses Twitter. I think they just meant only us old people would ever think to use Twitter.

I use so many hashtags at Instagram My kids are so embarrassed about what I say in my hashtags hehehe

 

[redzinger]

...I wish I could just delete my account but my kids use messenger to contact me.

Messenger is horribly useful this way. For some reason, I've never taken to Whatsapp so much.

I didn't know people still used Twitter. I made an account when Twitter first started so I could grab my username I use everywhere but have never really used it much.

Some silly cow got my name before I did, and doesn't post any more. Gah.

 

[SimonDoom]

Considering it was stolen to start with....

Not really. Before Zuckerberg entered a "partnership" with the Winklevoss twins and Narenda, they hadn't really invented or created anything of unique value. They just had an idea, and a little source code written. Zuckerberg took the idea and created something of value. There isn't really any "there" there, as far as something being stolen. MySpace already existed at that point, after all. So it's not clear they had any proprietary rights that could be stolen.

The question wasn't one of theft so much as the more mundane question whether he owed them a cut because of an alleged partnership. It was settled rather than decided in court.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Messenger is horribly useful this way. For some reason, I've never taken to Whatsapp so much.




Some silly cow got my name before I did, and doesn't post any more. Gah.

Did they post about a cat with asthma...

LOL!!! Really though I guess I should feel bad for grabbing the name and not using it, but it's my name everywhere else, ebay, etsy, all the message boards I used to go to. And no it isn't this username, I only use this one here and at Wattpad.
Couldn't use it here though because if you google the one name I use everywhere it brings up my whole life! Name, pictures, everything.

 

[jaF0]

but my kids use messenger to contact me.

You know there's this new fangled thing called 'email', right?

Whether or not anyone snoops on it is questionable, but it won't be SuckeFace selling your shit to THEM.

 

[KeithD]

The NYT reports today that Facebook is under federal criminal investigation, so maybe they've pulled the plug and left the country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...inal-investigation/ar-BBUK1BA?ocid=spartanntp

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

You know there's this new fangled thing called 'email', right?

Whether or not anyone snoops on it is questionable, but it won't be SuckeFace selling your shit to THEM.

Yeah, but kids don't use email. My two youngest, 13 and 15, don't even really have email accounts. They have them so they can make instagram and FB accounts, but kids don't seem to use email.

Messenger is just so easy to use for when they're somewhere that I'm not and we need to make contact. Like Hey I'm at XXX do you want me to bring you a drink? Or something like that.
My oldest son is in the Marines. We have a family group chat on messenger and we've been chatting tonight to see if he wants to take leave in May when Tool is in town. It's just easier for us all to talk there at the same time then to trade emails back and forth.

 

[Jake223]

profound Keith..

 

[Hypoxia]

Back in the day, phone party lines were social media. A bit later, cellphones with walky-talky functions were there. Now we have all this spyware shit, ubiquitous surveillance. Yow. Assume everything you say or do is taken to be used in ways you don't wish. On FB, YOU are the product being sold. Enjoy, sucker.

 

[yukonnights]

I’m glad I never joined Facebook. I did listen to Mark Zuckerberg testify before the Senate. That was a joke in and of itself.

Anyway, at least you have more time to spend with us hereKant

Back in the day, phone party lines were social media. A bit later, cellphones with walky-talky functions were there. Now we have all this spyware shit, ubiquitous surveillance. Yow. Assume everything you say or do is taken to be used in ways you don't wish. On FB, YOU are the product being sold. Enjoy, sucker.

Looks like there'll be at least three on the bus to Bisbee

A 'thing' only becomes stupid if you keep doing it after you know...

 

[jaF0]

On FB, YOU are the product being sold. Enjoy, sucker.

Lit should be the support group for those struggling with withdrawl from the mind crippling disease known as Zuckeritis.

 

[Handley_Page]

You know there's this new fangled thing called 'email', right?

Whether or not anyone snoops on it is questionable, but it won't be SuckeFace selling your shit to THEM.

Ah, yes.
But that hinges upon whether the family can or does use E-mail, and mine don't.
My Granddaughters don't understand the concept of a "decent picture", and substitute some low-res crap with added stupids, like floppy ears.
There are time I despair of them.

 

[jaF0]

Ah, yes.
But that hinges upon whether the family can or does use E-mail, and mine don't.
My Granddaughters don't understand the concept of a "decent picture", and substitute some low-res crap with added stupids, like floppy ears.
There are time I despair of them.

https://t00.deviantart.net/T90E6IEJJERTjXL3YfanRb78ZAM=/fit-in/300x900/filters:no_upscale():origin()/pre00/4b6b/th/pre/f/2016/225/d/4/the_magical_costume__foghorn_leghorn_tf__by_sharpe_fan-dadbg9h.png

Eludicate'em.

 

[MelissaBaby]

You know what can really make a person hate Facebook?

Turning on the TV and seeing your profile picture, with a caption that reads "Wanted for questioning".

 

[Hypoxia]

You know what can really make a person hate Facebook?

Turning on the TV and seeing your profile picture, with a caption that reads "Wanted for questioning".

That's even worse than "Missing Since Friday," init?

 

[MelissaBaby]

That's even worse than "Missing Since Friday," init?

At least if it says that, you probably want the people looking for you to find you.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Well, it looks like FB is back as usual.

I'm a little disappointed that I wasn't kicked off.

Now back to our regular scheduled broadcast.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Well, it looks like FB is back as usual.

I'm a little disappointed that I wasn't kicked off.

Now back to our regular scheduled broadcast.

I can coach you on being kicked off. Its an art but after the first time, it’s easier and it’s not as painful. One can even learn to enjoy it.

 

[JanusGoneAwry]

Back in the day, phone party lines were social media. A bit later, cellphones with walky-talky functions were there. Now we have all this spyware shit, ubiquitous surveillance. Yow. Assume everything you say or do is taken to be used in ways you don't wish. On FB, YOU are the product being sold. Enjoy, sucker.

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!!

 

[Maeven_quinn]

I was relatively late to facebook compared to my peers. I didn't start a personal account until 2010. I had a author account for a bit, but honestly... facebook is gross.

I haven't touched that author page in over a year. I don't check my personal account more than once a month.

When you think about it, Fetlife, of all things, feels less gross and more private.

 

[OmnislashXX]

Hah. Facebook.

All people ever use it for is to post up silly memes of cat/animal videos or talk about some annoying meme or some such.

Last month, it was about how Shaggy would beat up everyone. Before, it was that neck dude. It's all a bunch of bull that the mindless dregs of society use to follow, laugh and talk about whatever is popular. Or a platform for religion, political messages, lesbians, racist undertones. And if you want to hold an actual, reasonable discussion about a serious issue, You're insulted, put under a microscope and gang raped.

Bah.

 

[blozo]

I for one love the dog and cat memes.
I mainly use it for marketplace though. Being retired, and being a golf addict, I can't be paying $500 for a new driver every time I crack the face. (I still swing 100 mph +)
I recently got a two year old model new in the plastic for $75.
Lots of other great stuff cheap too. Give it a try.

 

[Hypoxia]

For a localized experience, try nextdoor.com -- like FB for your neighborhood but without the turmoil.

 

[KeithD]

Most folks are doing it for the turmoil effect.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I can coach you on being kicked off. Its an art but after the first time, it’s easier and it’s not as painful. One can even learn to enjoy it.

Maybe sometime in the future. Maybe after I'm dead and turn into a troll.

But thanks. I do have a couple of other things I could use a little coaching in... with.