[ale] facebook hacked?

[Tom Freeman]

Ok. I'm the "old fart" (58). I've seen too much in the past 10-15 years of
the next "greatest thing" to be much impressed one way or the other. And I 
will stand by my snide remark that I have yet to see material on facebook 
that I _really_ need to know about _NOW_. There are one or two things that
have been worth finding out, but they have generally had a half-life on 
order of weeks. Other people have different experiences. If you need to
push information to me, I have an answering machine on the phone, and
my friends know that. Otherwise, drop by the house, bang on the door, and
we can just plain gossip.

I got a Facebook account to pickup grandchildren pictures which certain
friends keep wanting to see. Sadly, the parents keep forgetting to post
the grandchildren pictures. That molasses in January going up hill
is going to make its appearance before I get something I want out of the
system.

Just as there are a few worthwhile movies being produced, there are a
few worthwhile movies dating back to the era of the silents. I rather
doubt that the percentage of production has changed much either, but I
have never attempted to find that out for sure. Same concept applies
to music, although I admit to prefering older popular music. My
preference doesn't make it better in any way however.

FWIW, etc.

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Jim Philips wrote:

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> 
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
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>       On Dec 17, 2010 7:22 PM, "Jim Philips"
>       <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
>       > The level of old-fartism in this thread is amazing. Of course,
>       > I realize I'm arguing with a group that only recently
>       > understood that Pine and Lynx are not the future of the
>       > Internet.  I should add that I am fifty-seven myself.
>
>       HEY! I still use pine and lynx! And while I may not exactly a
>       spring chicken, I am not exactly an old fart, either... :)
>
>       --
>       Sent from my G2 running CyanogenMod!
>       That is, a phone. :)
> 
> 
> I know. I don't  want to push the point too far. But there is a certain
> knee-jerk opposition to anything that hit the scene in the last ten years.
> People should ask themselves if it's rational or generational. I'm just as
> hard on younger people who think "old" movies couldn't possibly be good.
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