[Milsurplus] Some thoughts about Facebook

[jphutch60bj]

Face plant -  sorry book.

It was a simple means to hookup with another half so to speak. Also eave 
comments good or bad about the days activities with new "friend".    All 
this around a 15 second attention span, then next, scrolling with the 
thumb....  sipping a beer.... ?-}

my 2 cents

On 9/23/2021 4:31 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
> Facebook exists for one reason and one reason only. To get information 
> about you and to sell that information to outside 3rd parties. And to 
> get that information Facebook will try and do anything to entice you 
> to join and stay connected 24/7 or as much as they can. I frequent a 
> Computer Nerds website called "slashdot.org". They have, over the many 
> years that Facebook has been in existence, highlighted just how 
> insidious Facebook has become, the damage it does (here are just two 
> stories in the last month: 
> https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/09/18/0317223/wsj-facebooks-2018-algorithm-change-rewarded-outrage-zuck-resisted-fixes 
> and 
> https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/09/14/1911252/facebooks-own-research-shows-instagram-is-harmful-to-teens-report-says 
> ) and just what a piece of cr*p the owner is. If you care about your 
> children, just say "no" to Facebook for them. At the very minimum, 
> please teach them how to think and not just accept the drivel that 
> Facebook presents to them. And in case your wondering, I don't like 
> them or any company built on their business model. I think that 
> companies like them help drive wedges between people and are part of 
> the reason (not all, but part) we have such polarization today.
>
> End of Rant. BTW, Many former Yahoo groups have moved over to 
> Groups.io and I can highly recommend it.
>
> 73, Gordon KJ6IKT
>
> At 01:37 PM 9/23/2021, Hubert Miller wrote:
>> I joined Facebook so I could have access to some groups. I joined 5 
>> groups focused on military or ham radio.
>> Another thing that pushed me past my reservations was I found a group 
>> for aficionados of a particular South
>> American song style. After I joined up, I also did a search and 
>> looked at the page of an ex, and I was very
>> pleased to see that things turned out well for her.
>> Anyway, to Facebook. I am actually quite disappointed. I thought, FBs 
>> designers and engineers became
>> multimillionaires and billionaires, and they couldn't do better than 
>> this? You the customer, do get a "poor
>> man's webpage", with minimal effort on your part. You get a 
>> simplistic service matched to personalities
>> types that are young and uncomplicated. You can enter, for your 
>> "about" data, that your hobbies are
>> "making electronics", that's as precise as it gets. And I assume, 
>> maybe the hobby of cat photos, or photos
>> of your meals. On the groups, the area for actual posting is squeezed 
>> down to a portion of the screen. I
>> don't get that. I posted some of this comment on the FB page for one 
>> military radio group, and I expected
>> to be flamed for it. Instead, I see a couple comments more or less 
>> agreeing with me. "It's all we have".  I
>> also mentioned my opinions to Takashi Doi, who recently started a FB 
>> group on "Japanese Military Radios",
>> and he agrees, and replies, "It's not for us, it's for young people". 
>> Maybe so.
>>
>> I don't totally reject FB, though. I think it actually may be useful 
>> as a recruiting tool. We all want to recruit
>> the new generation to our swell hobbies. FB is not ideal, but it's 
>> out there; it's what they like to use, are
>> used to using. FB may get these swell hobbies out there in front  of 
>> their eyes.
>> -Hue Miller
>> Newport, Oregon
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