On Dec 20, 10:38 pm, Vince M Hudd  wrote:
> Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
> > Yeah, I'm pretty sure that similar circumstances well eventually FORCE me
> > to use Facebook.  But I won't like it and I insist on my right to be
> > dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
>
> I felt that way about social networking sites in general at one point, but
> then I caved and joined Facebook. It's not so bad as long as you can
> mentally filter out the sheer idiocy you'll see from day to day in some
> friends' status updates, not to mention being bombarded with
"invitations"
> to use this, that or the other lamoid app on the site from the same friends.
>
> And the latest example of totally brain dead 'innovation' on the site is the
> new format 'groups' - whereby friends can 'add' you to a group. Yes, *add*
> you. Not *invite* you, which you could decline (or just ignore), but
> actually *add* you, so that if you don't want to be a member of their latest
> daft group, having been added you have to go to the effort of removing
> yourself. (Once removed, you can't then be added - but that does miss the
> point somewhat!)
>
> Why am I still on Facebook, again? I seem to have forgotten. :|
I created a group called "Facebook groups should be opt in not opt
out" over that issue.
Within a couple of days of that change, Mark Zuckerberg was added to a
NAMBLA group.
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