From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   "Mary"  wrote:   
      
   >"soupdragon"  wrote in message   
   >news:XnsA45769853446B6e912rbx@news.datemas.de...   
   >> "Mary"  wrote in   
   >> news:mdfi2e$n2l$1@speranza.aioe.org:   
   >>   
   >>> He seems to like Facebook. I used to go on Facebook for a while a few   
   >>> years ago, but I do a lot of searches when I go on the Internet and   
   >>> was posting on a few newsgroups at the time and I am not that   
   >>> interested in Social Media. Maybe I will check it out again sometime   
   >>> but I have other things on my mind right now.   
   >>   
   >> Search Facebook for soc.culture.scottish. Most of the old die-hards are   
   >> there. It offers things Usenet couldn't, like imbedded pictures and   
   >> video..   
   >   
   >I liked Usenet for conversation about mutual interests.  It depends on your   
   >interests on the Internet I suppose.   
   >   
      
   Usenet still works better than things like Facebook or BBSs for   
   serious discussions, as they tend to peter out fairly quickly because   
   of things like FB deciding what you really want to see rather than   
   letting you decide.   
      
   Usenet also made the right choice on 'killfiles'; "I don't want to   
   read what that person says" rather than "I want to hide everything I   
   say from that person".  The latter is the juvenile approach.   
      
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