XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/17/24 12:45 PM, D wrote:   
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   > On Sat, 17 Aug 2024, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >   
   >> What bothers me is that otherwise smart people have replaced usenet with   
   >> Facebook.  Maybe X too, but I don't read that even if I have an account.    
   How   
   >> hard can it be to do all three? The 'social media' make actual conversation,   
   >> as opposed to post-it notes, difficult. I "know" the people I've known on   
   >> usenet since 1995. I've met some of them IRL.  FB people, unless friends of   
   >> friends, are unknown strangers, just groups of words without names.   
   >>   
   >> And don't get me started about Nextdoor...   
   >>   
   >   
   > What is this nextdoor thing? I have heard about it on usenet, but I think   
   > it must be some US thing that has not yet reached europe.   
      
   It's sort of like facebook, but divided into neighborhoods (literal   
   neighborhoods, maybe 1 mile or so in diameter).  It's clunkier than   
   facebook, but there's local stuff that makes it kind of useful --   
   especially since the local newspaper now has ONE page of actual local   
   news if we're lucky.  I would guess that half the participants have   
   never used a computer, just a phone, and have very little comprehension   
   of how the world actually works.  I really didn't realize how stupid   
   people could be until I subscribed. It's all over the US, and will   
   probably invade Europe soon.   
      
   > As for fb, I am hearing more and more people who decrease their amount of   
   > fb:ing or just stopped using it altogether except planning childrens   
   > activities or so.   
      
   With filters and the Social Fixer extension for Firefox and Chrome I've   
   made it as much like usenet as possible.  I only see posts from friends   
   (100 or so, mostly from usenet), friends of friends, and groups that I'm   
   interested in.  No ads, no posts that FB thinks I might be interested in.   
      
   The good thing about usenet is that you 'meet' random people who are   
   probably interested in the same kinds of things that you are, aren't   
   stupid, and aren't a waste of time.  Yeahyeahyeah, a lot of loons, but   
   they're easy to weed out and there aren't as many as there used to be.   
      
   'Reels' (short videos) have just started showing up, and they're   
   tempting time-wasters.  I don't regret seeing Simone Biles' performances   
   though -- and I wouldn't have if somebody hadn't brought them to my   
   attention.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Bev   
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        shouldn't we be the ones to suck?"   
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