On Dec 21, 9:38 am, Jan  wrote:
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> Duggy says...
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> >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.
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> >> I felt that way about social networking sites in general at
one point, bu=
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> >> 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=
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> >> to use this, that or the other lamoid app on the site from
the same frien=
> >ds.
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> >> And the latest example of totally brain dead 'innovation' on
the site is =
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> >> new format 'groups' - whereby friends can 'add' you to a
group. Yes, *add=
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> >> 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!)
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> >> Why am I still on Facebook, again? I seem to have forgotten. :|
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> >I created a group called "Facebook groups should be opt in not opt
> >out" over that issue.
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> >Within a couple of days of that change, Mark Zuckerberg was added to a
> >NAMBLA group.
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> 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.
The "friend" was an technology critic who was added to it, and added
Mark to prove a point.
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