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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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