Whatever did we do before Facebook?
I belonged to Facebook for about two hours.
Somehow I have survived.
Whatever did we do before Twitter?
I have never used Twitter.
Somehow I have survived.
Free Republic and back in the good old days, some of us Freepers would meet in an IRC channel.
Actually I don’t know how many of you have been around as long as I have. But there was days where we had 200 and 300,000 post comments if you will on threads around here. I hope a lot of our old timer start to migrate this way and come home I know I’ve been on the site more now than I have probably been in months if not years. We already have the infrastructure I don’t see why we just don’t use it
How about before Free Republic?
What will you do when they take “us” down?
“I belonged to Facebook for about two hours.”
Me too. I have been writing software since the ‘70s. When I saw what kind of connections they were making to people I had not even thought of for 25 years, all the while pleading with me to upload my address book, my skin just crawled. I cancelled it immediately. I never got a twitter account, or instagram, or any of the others. I also do not carry a smartphone.I have an old flip phone I don’t carry half the time. I do have a tom-tom gps with lifetime updates, but mostly I get that out to just to do the updates.
Young people these days spend their lives living in a panopticon, oblivious to it. I cannot imagine what it will be like when they get to my age. I suppose it will be glorious or hellish, but I doubt it will be anywhere in between.
Me too.
It took me about 6 hours to remove all my photos, albums, videos, and posts yesterday. I’m going to stay with FB for 30 more days so “the photos you have moved to your trash will be permanently deleted in 30 days”. I have been with FB since 2009.