On 2010-12-20 16:21:50 -0600, Duggy said:
> 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.
I totally agree that they should be opt in. I had issues with someone 
who added me to a group. She apologized and removed me, but it was 
annoying.
-K
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