From: me@privacy.net   
      
   Fred J. McCall  wrote in   
   news:fk6pfa1ae0crrh9n80t1bevdv9d3gp282k@4ax.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.   
      
   Facebook doesn't decide that, you do. I've been on Facebook political   
   pages where extremely serious and lengthy political debate has gone on.   
   You decide when you want to stop. The notifications page lets you know   
   if there is further activity on a thread you are following. It also   
   keeps things concise, rather than having to wade through 500 lines of   
   redundant included text that people are too lazy to remove from a post,   
   are are simply trying to drive their opponent out by overwhelming them   
   with huge posts containing a 2 line reply on Usenet.   
      
      
   > 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.   
      
   You can block senders very easily on Facebook, far better than on Usenet   
   where killfiles will not remove any followup that contains the text from   
   the person you are trying to block and don't want to read. Facebook   
   will, as there is no 'included text'.   
      
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