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   Lukas Mariman to Netrunner   
   Re: [OT] The Specials   
   03 Mar 09 20:25:23   
   
   From: lukas.mariman@gmail.com   
      
   Netrunner schreef:   
   > Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   > Replicant Lukas Mariman covertly transmitting a message to renegade   
   > friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
   >   
   >> Lukas Mariman schreef:   
   >>> StainlessSteelRat schreef:   
   >>>> Lukas Mariman wrote:   
   >>>>> BTW I am finding my FB activity is scaring away some of the "friends"   
   >>>>> I had, including some of that nice looking colleagues I have. I think   
   >>>>> I generate way too much status messages or something and I piss them   
   >>>>> off after a while, I dunno... :-/   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Kind of depressing. Maybe I should tone down my FB activity but then   
   >>>>> what's the use of it?   
   >>>> Status updates I don't have a problem with. Applications, random   
   >>>> unrelated photos, and similar crap... that's annoying!   
   >>> Another theory emerged. My perfectly honed cynicism & bionically   
   >>> enhanced sarcastic sense of humor may be too much for some people to   
   >>> "get" which I'm afraid is what happened in the latest instance...   
   >> Whoah, that sounded arrogant like hell, right? ;-p   
   >   
   > Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. FWIW, I think you know which people   
   > DO 'get' you over the past decade. There are plenty of options on FB   
   > for lowering or raising the amount of things that pop up on your own   
   > page coming from each other individual. There are also options to   
   > ignore invitations from certain applications or individuals, etc.  One   
   > thing I found useful is to go through the list of application settings   
   > to make sure that the apps don't update whatever when they feel like   
   > it.  Other people really don't need to know that I bought a sword in   
   > whatever game.  And a few games, quite frankly, other people don't   
   > even need to know I play.  Having established and figured out what's   
   > what, I'm now reducing, especially eliminating activities that are   
   > just about achieving a 'higher score' as ultimately that is rather   
   > pointless.   
   >   
   > Ummm... I guess that's it ... ummm ... I'll be off to FB then...   
      
   You're right! I made the mistake of diving into FB without figuring out   
   the filtering stuff and the likes.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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