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Posted by Pat P on June 24, 2009, 12:18 pm
>
>> Frankly, I don't live there, but I do hit FB once or twice a day. I went
>> to
>> stay in touch with one HS friend who prefers it to emails. I have since
>> reconnected with a bunch of HS friends and that has been fun. I've even
>> gone
>> to see one of them play in their 70's cover band. (which was very nearly
>> post worthy just for the strangeness of the evening.) I never would have
>> gone with out FB.
>
>
> There absolutely is a place for FB and other social networking, as well as
> "professional" networking sites. I think the issue, at least my
> perspective, is the pervasiveness of this to the point of overwhelming
> actual personal contact and communication skills. Manners - in public, on
> public forums, electronic, in "real-life" , socially and professionally -
> have taken an enormous hit. The saying "discretion is the better part of
> valor" seems to have no meaning for people consumed with this need to be
> "in-touch" all the time. What is the norm for acceptable anymore? While
> surely one can have a FB page with minimal info, but allow you to be
> reached, etc - the overwhelming majority goes the other way.
>>
>> I found a long lost hockey friend - her son played with DD but she shut
>> down
>> totally when he got cancer and lost touch with everyone outside her
>> family.
>> (He's fine now I'm happy to say and she is getting better. She had been
>> so
>> fragile when I saw her in a store about 4 years ago when he had his first
>> remission.)
>>
>> DH has found a family connection he didn't know about and is now getting
>> to
>> fill in a piece of the family tree he wouldn't have been able to
>> otherwise
>> due to a name change. And found a cousin (many times removed) that
>> remembers
>> his dad as a young man. DS stays in touch with his cousins. I get to
>> learn
>> about Brat's success with her dogs.
>>
>> And there are past and current members of this list there. One lost her
>> newsgroup access and didn't opt to use one of the other methods to read
>> this. Others use it as safe way to talk privately. Or just talk with a
>> larger group with out being on a open public forum (like this).
>>
>> Is a lot of it moaning about the weather? Sure, especially those of us in
>> NE
>> where we haven't seen the sun for more than a few hours in weeks. And
>> there
>> is lots trivia like grocery store trips and such. But why does it bother
>> you
>> so? The shallow and the deep have always been with us. Haven't you ready
>> the
>> Diaries of Samuel Pepys? Talk about minutia for public consumption.
>> (http://www.pepysdiary.com/) He's no Thoreau, but both have their place
>> in
>> the greater world.
>>
>>
>> Cheryl
>>
> Like anything else, you can use a tool as you see fit, and suits your
> need.
> However, with the FB phenomena, it seems the peer pressure is to join up,
> and put yourself out there. So, how addictive does this become - and how
> does that affect the individual in terms of what else they're doing, let
> alone productivity in the work sense?
>
> Ellice
As I said - superficial - but obviously you can either take it or leave it!
It doesn`t really float my boat, but that`s not to say I criticise those who
like it, any more than I would castigate anyone who does not like chocolate!
(It`s just a matter of choice - think Mayo versus salad cream!)
It seems to me that I hear far more about Twitter these days, in any case.
I`m not too enamoured by that either. but then I`m allowed to be a miserable
old sod ;-)
Pat
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