From: artis@nospamplease.net.invalid
"McPeart" wrote in message
news:100520111027509587%mrf@mac.com...
> In article , Artisan
> wrote:
>
>> "McPeart" wrote in message
>> news:090520111334480086%mrf@mac.com...
>> >>
>> >> Make an invite-only group. Sheesh.
>> >>
>> > Too complicated man... When the high gravity hop heads (formally known
>> > as Froofs) want to post "your mama" jokes it takes too much energy to
>> > navigate to the group only section.
>> >
>> > One slip up posting it on your wall and you have lots of splaining to
>> > do...
>>
>> I can guarantee you, nothing on my wall will ever reach anyone by
>> accident,
>> not even on my drunkest of drunk weekends. **(Explained below)
>>
>> >
>> > "AMR Facebook is like hearing Rush on regular rotation on a Top 40
>> > radio station. Too much "gargage" in between"
>>
>> As opposed to here, where we have to maintain ever-growing killfiles? ;)
>> This newsgroup right now is 90% content from those "garbage inbetween"
>> posters. (BTW, it's just as easy to killfile on FaceBook as it is here
>> on
>> Usenet.)
>>
>> Anyway,
>>
>> **Here's the perspective from which I was looking at it.
>>
>> - On Usenet, there's not a thing that I or anyone else can do, as it was
>> put
>> the other day, to prevent my/your "fucking mom and fucking grandma" from
>> reading everything that takes place in any given newsgroup. (That dang
>> "Google Groups" gateway has already introduced more moms and grandmas to
>> these forums than most people are willing to admit.)
>>
>> - On Facebook, even if I were for some stoned-out reason to miss the
>> group
>> page, I have bullet-proofed my wall from slip-ups by locking it down to
>> "Friends Only" reading, instead of the "Friends and Friends-of-Friends"
>> setting. That's a one-time set-it-and-forget-it deal. Nothing on my
>> wall
>> is readable from any accounts I don't have directly in my Friends List,
>> and
>> that's locked-in and accident-proof. It really is that simple. Even
>> easy
>> enough for a Mac user. ;) ;)
>>
>> Again, nothing on my wall ever reaches anyone by accident, not even if I
>> were completely baked. It's locked in on the privacy settings, out of
>> the
>> way where changing it by accident is just not likely. If you do that one
>> trick, you'll be as safe as you ever were using a newsgroup reader.
>>
>> So the whole issue is a red herring. Anyone who can operate an NNTP
>> browsing agent can handle this as well, hopped-up or not.
>>
>> As the "Daria" theme says... If I'm wrong, please correct. ( [LA-la-LAH]
>> You're standing on my neck. [LA-la-LAH]... )
>>
> I get that FB is an improved platform with more bells and whistles than
> this aging Usenet platform could ever offer and in theory is a logical
> migration for AMR. In practice however it is not there yet.
>
> It is just that when I KF Libby I have no remorse but when I hide my
> sister on FB, it eventually backfires and creates a family argument.
> More hassle than I need as my sister would never visit AMR. :) I would
> have to hide or many damn people or limit my friends as Norbie does
> which is too late. Too many different breeds in one place I guess for
> my liking :)
Ah, I get it. I misinterpreted that it was that mix of people in your own
friendslist that caused the trouble. You're right, that is trickier. The
way I keep things like that straight is to assign sheltered friends and
family members to a group that doesn't see my wall, and I update them by
group Facebook mail which actually works very very slick. So the way it
works for me is, I post to my wall and it's all safe, or I go into the
messaging tab where I put the name of my family-friendly group into the "TO"
field. But I do get that these things are always YMMV so I can see it not
being viable for everyone.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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