33 replies to this topic

[hpotter]

Oxo, on May 21 2009, 10:21 PM, said:

D`ont bother with it or face book.
MSN or phone calls.

As for friends united if I wanted to keep in touch with certain old school friends I would have. Sod having one pop up out of the blue and wanting to know what has been happening since we left school!

Billy no mates?

[reidmail]

Oxo, on May 22 2009, 06:08 PM, said:

PMSL, reread this just now.

Should read,

D`ont use twitter or face book.

USE msn or phone calls.

You're both wrong. The word is "don't"

(You have been reported to the apostrophe police)

[hpotter]

reidmail, on May 28 2009, 06:44 PM, said:

You're both wrong. The word is "don't"

(You have been reported to the apostrophe police)

Where does *both* come into it.

(you have been reported to the "don't read posts correctly police")

[black knight]

i am now on both facebook and twitter - as paul knight or paul_c_knight if you ever want to find me!!

[jameswilson]

black knight, on 23 May 2010 - 07:23 PM, said:

i am now on both facebook and twitter - as paul knight or paul_c_knight if you ever want to find me!!

If you link to your twitter account from here then tsi will push info to twitter automatically.

James

[arfur mo]

perhaps i'm just a grumpy old man, alright yiu lot delete the 'perhaps' .

as a fanatical with a real vengeance anti spammer, anti-doorstep seller, andti-unrequested sales phone call etc, ant- religious/energy suplier conversion preacher/student in grungy jeans and sandals, what i don't like is the way these services seem vault any information about you across the WWW, and beyond any control.

i've just deleted my facebook account, all i seemed to get was friend invites from people whom i have no idea who or what they are, and obviously have bogg all in common with them.

take MSN for instance, possibly the forerunner of qall social networking, you turn on and instantly blam! 4000 messages saying hello Arf!, what you doing Arf, been on your holidays Arf etc etc.

like i simply ask WTF are they asking me these questions for? if i was in need i'd be bleeding asking for their concern or sympathy.

i liken it to CB radio days, where numbnuts wanna be DJ's in waiting, between playing naff music ask 'am i getting out?' (which i'd reply 'perhaps you should more often), "whats your 20 breaker? (a family pack of condoms but mind your own on which flavours) whats my poundage (fooc'd if i know i've - never met you) and so on and on with the inane being used for the lack of conversational arts.

if i WANTED to speak to you i'd bloodywell phone phone, email or as here contribute to a forum (with varying success ).

so 'perhaps', perhaps has been reinstated

regs
Arfur Mo

Edited by arfur mo, 23 May 2010 - 07:58 PM.

[jameswilson]

i reakon people said the same about the telephone then the mobile then email then sms.... etc etc.

imo its a modern communication method. use it or dont. im not a big face book user but if i had more time i reakon i would be. everyone else seems to be on it all the time.

[A-G]

Oxo, on 23 May 2010 - 08:08 PM, said:

Another pet hate is when a friend sends a e-mail and it is CC`ed to all and sundry, if I wanted others to see my addy I would publish it!

I'm always amazed that the Police do that. Every general notice I get from them is CC'd to loads of other companies showing me their E-mail addresses. What happened to DPA rules?

[jameswilson]

they should use bcc

[arfur mo]

Oxo, on 23 May 2010 - 08:08 PM, said:

Have to agree, not into FB or Twitter.
Another pet hate is when a friend sends a e-mail and it is CC`ed to all and sundry, if I wanted others to see my addy I would publish it!

seems we are on the same page here,

i take the trouble to clean off all the previous a/d's and company gumf before forwarding on. my joke emails when pasesd on tend to go and come from a set group of friends, but even if you blind cc you still have to have one main name to start off with.

before social networks really got started, getting junk fax's was a big issue with me. if i could find the fax number that sent it, i to wind up a doc in word in larg text size exsplainining repeatedly just how much i do not want them to fax me again - and send it 30 - 50 times, delayed it to go out 8:30 on a friday night (free week end calls on my plan), tack was to empty their machines paper tray, and all over the floor with any luck, and fill the buffer so no more faxes could be received chocking the business salse feed, when they reloaded the paper it would then spew the fax buffer.

when it worked i generally knew from getting a highly annoyed phone call - revenge is bliss!

now seems the tack is to harvest email addresses

regs
Arfur Mo

[arfur mo]

Adi, on 24 May 2010 - 08:06 AM, said:

Yeah, sado's with no life

lol!,

i prefer to have some choice, but admitted modern comms via these sites means you have far less control over the info given out to those who you don't know.

people, especially children in their innocence or stupidity, often give away very sensitive persona information. and there's been a recent case of a girl jailed for persecuting another via facebook, even with persistent threats to kill her.

just makes me wonder why many are so willingly subjecting themselves to the possibility of this kind of behavior, which can be perpetrated easily, have horrific effects on the victims while the instigator can be safely anywhere in the world.

for me, i belong to several PTW and Tech forums. while bad behavior can still happen, most forums will nip the more serious incidents in in the bud, and i know at least another member having an unjust pop at me for what ever reason, won't get to tell or embarrass me to all my family and/or close friends.

regs
Arfur Mo