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Duggy says...
>
>On Dec 20, 10:38=A0pm, Vince M Hudd  wrote:
>> Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
>> > Yeah, I'm pretty sure that similar circumstances well
eventually FORCE =
>me
>> > to use Facebook. =A0But 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, bu=
>t
>> 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 frien=
>ds.
>>
>> 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 lat=
>est
>> 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.
>

Then apparently he 'friended' the wrong person.  ONLY friends can add you to
groups and the person gets a notification.  Yeah, it's a stupid situation but
the members do have a fair amount of control.

Jan


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