From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   soupdragon  wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >   
      
   Except Facebook DOES decide that.  Someone replies to something I   
   posted.  But I can't find my original post to look at the replies to   
   it.  What do you suggest?   
      
   >   
   >> 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'.   
   >   
      
   Unless someone includes it.   
      
   --   
   "It's always different.  It's always complex.  But at some point,   
    somebody has to draw the line.  And that somebody is always me....   
    I am the law."   
                                  -- Buffy, The Vampire Slayer   
      
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