Please note that this phpBB is now closed and remains here simply as a read-only archive of past activity.
I'm considering dismantling this forum because of low activity. I'd leave what is here as a "read only" archive.CAM wrote:I haven't seen many postings here. Has everyone defected to Facebook? I like facebook, but I like the Forum, too.
This is exactly what I'm thinking will happen. My main objections to Facebook are:David wrote:if nobody uses the forum, Facebook could be the next best thing until they mess it up, as I'm sure they will.
</li><li>zero stomping cat, yo-yoing pig, hulahooping cow, rope-jumping sheep smileys</li><li>ads galore on the sidebar (how many ads do you see here?)</li><li>constant distractions badgering people to add or poke friends, take quizzes, tattoo or cartoonize profile photos, etc. etc. ad nauseum.</li> and the 
and the 
along with all the other and I especially like the 
because it looks JUST like my dog. I also find this forum restful maybe because it doesn't have the ads, I don't know. At any rate, I hope you don't get rid of it. 
CAM wrote:Reason for leaving Facebook? (if one needs one!)David wrote:I'll probably be posting here more frequently now that I'm preparing to leave Facebbook.
My basic problem is that I am plugged into too many streams of data. Life is too noisy. I need more time with people and less time with machines.In his blog David wrote: I've had a blog for seven years now but posted nothing for the past eight months because of my interest in using Facebook. Initially I was still blogging and auto-importing my posts into Facebook but soon started to post directly into Facebook. Recently I have decided that I don't need to see everything that everyone on my Friends list posts and have been steadily removing people from the list of posts I see although I haven't removed anyone from my Friends list. The more I think about it, the more I realise that I need to start using my blog again. Facebook is immediate and short term and anything I post will disappear into the archives in a very short space of time whereas my blog posts stay around a lot longer and the archives seem simpler to access. If I do start blogging more often I suspect they will be more likely to be of the cathartic rants that I used to post. These may not be the sort of things I feel comfortable revealing to everyone on my Facebook list so I may stop importing them into Facebook.
For people who don't visit Facebook very often, it's just too difficult to find out what interesting things have been posted. I have only prevented Facebook from showing the posts of a couple of people because most people post both interesting and uninteresting things. But that means that when I haven't visited for say a week, I might have to click on "earlier posts" several times to see everything. I usually lose patience after doing it once.David's blog wrote:... Facebook is immediate and short term and anything I post will disappear into the archives in a very short space of time whereas my blog posts stay around a lot longer and the archives seem simpler to access. ...
I'm really glad that you are posting to your blog again too, David.Barbara wrote: For people who do regularly have interesting things to say, I'd much rather visit their blog once in a while than sift through Facebook. So I'm glad to hear you're using your blog again David - I had stopped visiting it.
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