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Re: Re: I just don't get Facebook...
Trausti Hraunfjord 2012-Feb-17 23:55:00
One could datamine FB with a program such as "Teleport" ... saving
everything to one's HDD... but considering all the cat-stories, weather
reports from granny's kitchen window etc, there would be little sense in
doing so. On the other hand, today's society for "most", doesn't include
"no internet access". We are connected 98% of the time, and I doubt that
any information is so essential that it could not wait for a connection to
be retrieved.
That being said, I see this group as the perfect setup, and would not like
it to change over to anything remotely resembling FB.
Don't fix it if it ain't broken.
Trausti
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Pat Swovelin <#removed#>wrote:
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> --- In #removed#, Roger Howard <rogerhoward@...><rogerhoward@...>wrote:
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> On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Ken Warner wrote:
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> We all use this forum to announce or denigrate other types of forums.
> What does that tell you?
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> You might. The vast, vast majority of people I know, work with, and
> socialize with, don't subscribe to any mailing lists - in fact a
> significantly large number of people I associate with barely use email at
> all, as it's viewed (rightly, in my judgement) a terribly limited,
> >awkward, and inflexible medium.
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> I have never used Panotools as a mailing list.
> Why would you spam, you mail with it when you can visit it online and post
> online.
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> I do not understand why people choose to receive mails from it.
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> Because you have *local control* of everything which gives you access to
> that knowledge anytime and anywhere without a Net connection. Nothing else
> allows you that capability. And if you need to you can always access it
> with a web-based UI.
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> Anyway, this *mailing list* has a lot of noise on it these days, including
> discussions of the opinions of the relative value of other communications
> mediums, frequent debates about platforms, and other discussions with only
> the most tenuous connection to the stated purpose of the forum. I would
> agree, not every medium is right for everyone - it's often generational and
> cultural - but to suggest that those mediums are not valuable is entirely
> self-centered. But mailing lists are hardly the end-all-be-all of social
> communications mediums.
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> If you think Twitter is just for following Bieber, and Facebook is all
> about fending off requests from people you left behind when you graduated
> high school, you use them differently than I do.
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> Pat Swovelin
> Cool Guy @ Large
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