From: team8martinland@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:50:49 +0200, Ned Ludd  wrote:   
      
   > Netrunner wrote:   
   >> Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   >> Replicant Ned Ludd covertly transmitting a message to renegade friends   
   >> in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
   >>   
   >>> jfuste wrote:   
   >>>> On Mar 28, 1:55 pm, "Martin 'Martinland' Schemitsch"   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:23:39 +0100, StainlessSteelRat  wrote:   
   >>>>>> grunchlik wrote:   
   >>>>>>> SSR? Lukas? Netrunner, et. al. It's been a while, so I thought I'd   
   >>>>>>> stop in and say hi...   
   >>>> As Lukas said, we are Facebooked now! :D   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ;-)   
   >>> Trouble is, whenever a community "moves" some will always be lost.   
   >>>   
   >>> I just don't see Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.  Maybe because I'm   
   >>> getting old, but it looks like a new way to do the same stuff.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's pretty, though.   
   >>   
   >> Don't be saying you're getting old - that really doesn't make me feel   
   >> any better about life!  I've done my best to ignore daughter, nieces   
   >> and nephews growing both in age and height, so enough already.  AS for   
   >> the new stuff, it is the same except different and both more and less.   
   >> How that weighs depends on how you want to use it.  I'm more in touch   
   >> with some old friends and also distant nieces than I was before.   
   >> (Apart from the time-wasting playing of games.)   
   >>   
   >> Oh and did you hear of this new thing - I dunno if all the gizmos have   
   >> it yet - apparently, you can make this connection and actually talk   
   >> and listen to a person at a distant place.  Can't remember what they   
   >> called it ... telephing or something.   
   >>   
   >> Netrunner   
   >> --   
   >> Just about to tweet people that I'm going to update my Facebook status   
   >> to say I've been writing on Usenet...   
   >   
   > Maybe I'm just too comfortable with Usenet, and not sufficiently excited   
   > about Facebook to even consider the learning curve, no matter how low.   
   >   
   > I'm sure you have to do something to sign up, and I know I could   
   > probably build yet another false profile, but I like the anarchy of   
   > Usenet and how it is administered, vs. the corporate management of   
   > Facebook (and the profit motive).   
      
   Well said, I partly agree...   
      
   ML   
      
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