PanoTools NG:
Re: I just don't get Facebook...
Richard 2012-Feb-18 00:49:45
Agree.
Let's move onto to some more interesting posts. Not necessarily my posts, but enough
of Face Book, please.
Richard
--- In #removed#, Trausti Hraunfjord <trausti.hraunfjord@...> wrote:
>
> 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 <panoramas@...>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > ** On 2/15/2012 12:21 PM, Hans wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In #removed#, Roger Howard <rogerhoward@><rogerhoward@>wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Ken Warner wrote:
> >
> > We all use this forum to announce or denigrate other types of forums.
> > What does that tell you?
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I do not understand why people choose to receive mails from it.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Hans
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Pat Swovelin
> > Cool Guy @ Large
> >
> >
> >
>
------------------------------------
--
<*> Wiki: http://wiki.panotools.org
<*> User Guidelines: http://wiki.panotools.org/User_Guidelines
<*> Nabble (Web) http://panotoolsng.586017.n4.nabble.com/
<*> NG Member Map http://www.panomaps.com/ng
<*> Moderators/List Admins: #removed#
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PanoToolsNG/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PanoToolsNG/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
#removed#
#removed#
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
#removed#
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/