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color=#0000ff>Honestly folks, this venting of spleens about Facebook takes me
back to the same sort of reactions to when Yahoo was the only site on the net
that had chat rooms. Shock!!! Horrors! What people were saying and
doing, ogling each other in various forms of revealed and hidden
identities. It was all so silly and fun or repulsive and boring depending
on who you were and what you were looking for.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>Facebook has it's strengths and weaknesses just like all human
communication conduits. You gotta check it out first to find out if it
recommends itself to you. For those of us who have tracked down old school chums
and long lost other friends, it has been a wonderful site. I have friends
who are visiting other countries and it is nice to read their blog like reports
to us on their list. I enjoy it as well because I can keep track of what
my kids are saying; in a way, it is a window into their lives that as their dad
I want to know about. I enjoy posting things that interest me and enjoying
the interests of my friends in ways that are more interactive than emails.
I have been on for more than a year and have had exactly one intrusive stranger
log me onto their site as their friend. When I looked closely they were
not a real person but a "bot" that represented a company selling products. I
manually disengaged myself from them and reported it as abuse.
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=555141817-13072010><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>I have no inclination to go on Twitter or any other sites other
than emails, of which at work I send and receive so many per week that any more
is a labor I am selective about indulging.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=555141817-13072010><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>All the best</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=555141817-13072010><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Fred</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> f_minor-bounces@glenngould.org
[mailto:f_minor-bounces@glenngould.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>RubatoM@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:49
PM<BR><B>To:</B> f_minor@glenngould.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor]
Facebook<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><B>I have been quite reluctant to join Facebook. It
seems to be geared to children or adolescents. However, many people,
including my elderly husband, enjoy it. One of our friends from Key West,
however, had her information picked up by a scam artist. This criminal
wrote to us saying that he was our friend, asking for help with an emergency and
needing several thousand dollars to get out of a dingerous country. We
were sceptical, of course, checked it out with the KW police and found our
friend to be completely safe at home.<BR><BR>This may be a rare occurance, but
another reason I have stayed away from this "service". I am also a former
teacher and I would prefer not to be found by many of my former students,
several of whom are serving long prison
sentences.<BR><BR><BR><BR></B></FONT><FONT face=Geneva color=#000000 size=3
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