Message to All My SB Facebook Friends: Who the heck are you!?

[Rick Inman]

My wife told me today that Howard has been escorting John Chatterton around.

Ah, facebook...

 

[almitywife]

Got a friend request from this guy "David".
I only know one "David". Definitely not this guy...
Turns out David is Dave. That one, I do know...

you mean Davo??

 

[Teamcasa]

you mean Davo??

Davo? Nope just Dave.

 

[wardric]

Dave who?

 

[SCUBAJENNIFER]

:sonic:

 

[DennisW]

Well, I registered today and requested a few of you folks as friends. Then I started getting all these darn e-mails. Is Facebook one of those spam generator sites? I went in and turned off a bunch of those notifications, I hope that helps.

 

[Rick Inman]

Okay, FINE! I now have my own Facebook page.

 

[The Chairman]

You have provided no link for us, sahib!

Rick Inman's Facebook page

 

[TSandM]

Facebook's like anything else . . . there's a learning curve in figuring out how to use it to suit YOU best. A few things I have figured out: First off, you can have people as friends without having to see everything they are doing. At first, I didn't want to approve friends I really didn't know, because then I got the newsfeeds of all the stuff they were doing that I didn't know anything about. But then I realized I could hide all that -- and if people want to know what I am doing, more power to them!

Second, there is a way to get rid of all the quiz results and the like. Somebody sent me a screenshot of a page that allows you to disable certain applications. I can't get to that screen on Firefox, but it exists, apparently.

Once you have done those things, you get info from people whose lives you really want to follow, and you're "findable" by the folks who want to get back in touch with you. I've reestablished contact with a number of people I had missed -- I like that.

 

[Rick Inman]

Facebook's like anything else . . . .

Thanks, good help for this nOOb.

Most of this social networking stuff seems pointless to me. But I have a neighbor across the street (retired school principal & wife) who stopped moving forward with the times back in the early 80's. Their house is all 70's stuff, their furniture, floors, applyances... They have no cell phone, no computer, no CD player, no DVD or even VHS.

They had to get cable for their TV due to the recent change to digital and I have to go over to their house a couple of times a week and push the buttons to get it working again. They just do not get the menus, input selections, etc.

They didn't move forward as the technology changed and now the jump is just too far. I tell them about the internet and they just shake their heads in wonder.

I am 50 years old, and with age comes the temptation to criticize facebook and twitter and grumble about what a waste of time it all is. I'm not gonna do it. I am going to keep pushing forward with whatever comes, learn it, understand it and apply it. Then I might start grumbling about it, but after I have earned the right.

Who knows. Maybe the day will come when I'll say, enough, and plant myself in 2055 and refuse to move forward. After all, when I was a kid we didn't have those new fangled nano-brain-networking-implants, and we got along just fine.