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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What? No twitter?!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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”).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jerald Sheets<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 17, 2010
11:16 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta
Linux Enthusiasts</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] facebook
hacked?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font>I refuse to use facebook. If someone wants _me_ to know something
they can stop being a lazy narcissist and send me an email.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Take our drum corps for instance: <a href="http://corpsvets.org">http://corpsvets.org</a>
We have all age groups from 13 - ***<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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 <a
href="mailto:XXXXXXXXXX@txt.att.net">XXXXXXXXXX@txt.att.net</a> 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).
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>It wasn't until we set up our Facebook presence that communications
shot back up to normal levels.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>#!/jerald<br>
Linux User #183003<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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