Social networking, that is. I deactivated my Facebook and twitter accounts. Leaving LinkedIn for now. It's all BBSing, tilde IRC and a little mastodon
now - nothing commercial.


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Social networking, that is. I deactivated my Facebook and twitter accounts. Leaving LinkedIn for now. It's all BBSing, tilde IRC and a little mastodon now - nothing commercial.

I'm actually doing similar. While my accounts are active on FB (for now) and Twitter, I'm not using them in any direct way. The apps are off my phone, I never go to FB on my computers, and Twitter only exists for blog post sharing purposes -- I'm not active on there either beyond automated stuff.

SDF, Gopher, and a renewed interest in my BBS are taking over currently, along with my standard activities in the phone phreak community. Mastodon on SDF is proving nice, but beyond things like that I've finally gotten myself to for the most part abandon social media, primarily for my mental health.

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On 12-16-21 09:01, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All <=-

Social networking, that is. I deactivated my Facebook and twitter accounts. Leaving LinkedIn for now. It's all BBSing, tilde IRC and a little mastodon now - nothing commercial.

Facebook is still too useful to me. Twitter, I keep around mainly so I can follow (mostly technical) links people send via Twitter. I've had less use for LinkedIn in recent years, but that may change next year. But there's likely to be a change in the nature of my activity there.


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Re: Off The Sauce...
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Dec 16 2021 09:01 am

Social networking, that is. I deactivated my Facebook and twitter accounts. Leavin
LinkedIn for now. It's all BBSing, tilde IRC and a little mastodon
now - nothing commercial.

... Abandon desire

Congratulations!

Twitter is trollheim, Facebook's signal/noise ratio makes it unusable (and besides
they manipulate content to suit their agendas). I tried LinkedIn but it did nothing
for me. It is amusing to see that the original comm platforms are the ones still
working fine after all these years to an acceptable level of usability.

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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All <=-

Social networking, that is. I deactivated my Facebook and twitter accounts. Leaving LinkedIn for now. It's all BBSing, tilde IRC and a little mastodon now - nothing commercial.

I've actually done more "facebook" lately because of some groups I've
been in - people are posting pictures and I've enjoyed loooking at
those. :-)

As for Twitter - there are some people that I contact there and if I
need THEM to see something, that's where I'll put it. :-)




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On 12-24-21 21:27, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

I've actually done more "facebook" lately because of some groups I've
been in - people are posting pictures and I've enjoyed loooking at
those. :-)

I do find there's a number of useful Facebook groups around.

As for Twitter - there are some people that I contact there and if I
need THEM to see something, that's where I'll put it. :-)

I only keep a Twitter account, so I can easily view Twitter links that others send me!


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Vk3jed wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

On 12-24-21 21:27, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

I've actually done more "facebook" lately because of some groups I've
been in - people are posting pictures and I've enjoyed loooking at
those. :-)

I do find there's a number of useful Facebook groups around.

Yeah - I think it's like everything else - there are people there
that share interests, and thus it makes THOSE GROUPS worth 'hanging out
in" from time to time, much like echos here on BBS's. :-)





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On 12-26-21 10:28, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I do find there's a number of useful Facebook groups around.

Yeah - I think it's like everything else - there are people there
that share interests, and thus it makes THOSE GROUPS worth 'hanging out in" from time to time, much like echos here on BBS's. :-)

Yeah, there's certainly similarities between echomail and some smaller FB groups. :)


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Vk3jed wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

On 12-26-21 10:28, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I do find there's a number of useful Facebook groups around.

Yeah - I think it's like everything else - there are people there
that share interests, and thus it makes THOSE GROUPS worth 'hanging out in" from time to time, much like echos here on BBS's. :-)

Yeah, there's certainly similarities between echomail and some smaller
FB groups. :)

Agreed! And I've actually been 'checking in' some on them. :-) Been seeing
pics of some gun 'polishing' that I'm looking forward to trying!




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On 01-01-22 02:15, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Yeah, there's certainly similarities between echomail and some smaller
FB groups. :)

Agreed! And I've actually been 'checking in' some on them. :-) Been
seeing pics of some gun 'polishing' that I'm looking forward to trying!

Whatever floats your boat, but yes, Facebook has its uses, from niche groups to organisations and clubs using it internally.


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Agreed! And I've actually been 'checking in' some on them. :-) Been
seeing pics of some gun 'polishing' that I'm looking forward to trying!

We just call that porn, my friend. We all polish our guns with it... ;)

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McDoob wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Agreed! And I've actually been 'checking in' some on them. :-) Been
seeing pics of some gun 'polishing' that I'm looking forward to trying!

We just call that porn, my friend. We all polish our guns with it... ;)

LOL - not the same thing, but made me chuckle. :-)




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