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Post by Dick Glasgow on Mar 30, 2009 19:56:06 GMT
I just joined up with Facebook today & I was wondering if anyone here was a member? If so, ... I'll see you over there!  My FacebookCheers Dick |
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Apr 1, 2009 6:35:34 GMT
Just for the record, 'Concertinas in Scotland' now has its very own Facebook!Cheers, Dick |
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Post by yankeeclipper on Apr 1, 2009 14:39:08 GMT
WARNING: LUDDITE RANT!  In the humble opinion of this grumpy old dinosaur, "electronic social networking" is an oxymoron (or perhaps just for ox-like morons ); it's about as 'social' as graffiti. People on Facebook claim 'friends' they've never met and measure their social success by how many sign on. Electronics are doing for social interaction exactly what they've done for music - displacing humanity with technology, and nuance with volume. 
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Apr 1, 2009 16:51:38 GMT
You have a point Yankee but, as with MySpace, it's only the morons who accept everyone who connects with them, so most folk with any wit tend to ignore friend requests from anyone with more than a couple of hundred 'friends'. Also, if you have any sense you only connect with folks who have the same interests, that way you keep your page & friends to an easily managed level. If I ever click on a page, on either format, with more than 700 or 800 so called friends, I immediately leave again. One of my other musical interests is Dulcimers & through MySpace & now Facebook I've been able to connect with some absolutely fascinating & talented musicians, from many far flung places & learned a lot about their instruments & their music. So believe me there are positives to the formats. I reckon it's all down to common sense & how you make use of these sites. For a full time musician like myself I find them both very useful both in letting folks know about my music & also making musicians who may find themselves in my home area here aware of the local pub sessions. Believe me, I've met & played with some great musicians through MySpace, who would probably have gone right past us here. I'm sure it's not ideal for everyone, but then of course nobody is being forced to join these sites, so if it aint for you, my advice is .... don't go there. However, it is wise to find out about things first, before deciding. A friend of mine here, who is in his late 50s told me recently that he hates Curry. When I asked him why he couldn't tell me ... do you know why, because he's NEVER actually tasted it!  Maybe he'll finally try it when he's about 80 & discover that he actually loves the taste! ... then he'll be thinking he wasted a lot of bad Curry free years! Cheers Dick |
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Post by yankeeclipper on Apr 6, 2009 12:56:42 GMT
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Apr 7, 2009 8:19:25 GMT
Yankee, I'm too long in the tooth to let comments like the one reported in that article bother me.
Vanity was never one of my strong points.
Now I'm a fat, baldy old man ... let them bring it on! ;D
Cheers
Dick
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Post by ishtar on Apr 25, 2009 13:11:56 GMT
Yankeeclipper, Facebook is whatever you want it to be. If you want 800 friends, you can have 800 friends. If you only want people you actually know in real life, you can do that too. I don't understand that 800 friends thing either, nor do I see what Twitter is about. But then maybe I'm just too old!  I have my group of friends on Facebook, and I think it's a lovely way of keeping in touch with them. We're there for each other, not to prove anything to anyone. We're spread over the four corners of the earth, and Facebook is like having a local pub to meet in, I suppose. It's no worse than a forum, with the added bonus that there are no trolls or flame wars. |
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Post by Dick Glasgow on May 19, 2009 14:14:26 GMT
I'm happy to see that our new member Terry found us through our Facebook page.
Cheers
Dick
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