[ale] facebook hacked?

[Lightner, Jeff]

What?  No twitter?!

 

I get on Facebook - I just don't see any compelling importance level of
anything there that makes me think I need to see it in real time.   It
seems to me about 90% of Facebook postings deal with Farmville or some
other app that I just don't give a damn about.   (Of course one now can
block those kind of things without blocking the users thankfully.)

 

If it ever got to the point I had to use Facebook for business as well
as for personal stuff I suspect I'd end up with two separate accounts.
I don't see any reason to share who my friends/family are with my
employer and business associates (until they become people I don't mind
"friending").

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Jerald Sheets
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 11:16 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] facebook hacked?

 

 

On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:

	
	I refuse to use facebook. If someone wants _me_ to know
something they can stop being a lazy narcissist and send me an email.

		 

 

I used to say the same about texting and pagers before that.  "Why can't
they just use the phone if there's an emergency" and then "why can't
they just call me?  They have a phone in their hand."

 

Thing is, like the PC before it and phones before that, we get left
behind if we don't at least have presence on the "de-facto" standard
communications methods of the day.  Sure, they're a pain, and sure
they're not what we're used to, but you could make similar arguments
about the adoption of the phone, email, pagers, online forums, TXTing,
and now Facebook.

 

Just because the culture we grew up in didn't include these things
doesn't mean they're not what's up with communications today.

 

Take our drum corps for instance:  http://corpsvets.org  We have all age
groups from 13 - ***

 

We used to do everything by mailing list (est. 1998).  That was fine for
awhile until we noticed marked reduction in participation.  I took over
the mailing list and set up the first forums with a gateway between the
forums and the mailing list.  All of a sudden we were back to nearly
100% participation.  over a few years, this too started to fall off.
Then we added a CC: to a distribution mechanism that would TXT people
who wanted it (the tech behind that...a manually aliased email address
to XXXXXXXXXX at txt.att.net according to carrier's particular method).  We
had a small bump and then a meteoric drop off.  No matter what we did by
all of the communications methods we had, no one would
answer/acknowledge announcements (especially teens/college).  

 

It wasn't until we set up our Facebook presence that communications shot
back up to normal levels.

 

When you meet someone today, they ask for your Facebook.  Not your
phone#, not your IM or even email.  They ask for your Facebook.  I'm
starting to see it even in businesses.  I keep LinkedIN for business and
Facebook for casual, but I can see a world where LinkedIn ultimately
declines and FB adds a business services portion.   I really don't know
why they haven't done it yet.

 

Point is, we can stick to our guns and hold out to our currently-held
values.  That most certainly has its benefits for us, but in the world
of today I can't imagine that being good for us in the long run.  Point
is, by saying "lazy narcissist" at those with a FB presence, what is the
difference between that and saying the same thing at the advent of the
telephone?  

 

This is a new world and it's much younger than we are, and today's grads
are tomorrow's employers.  As we age, they will ultimately be our
employers.  If we want to play on the handball court where everyone is,
we're going to have to acquire a racket, like it or not.

 

 

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