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Thread: We Hates Facebook, My Preciousss
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by churchgeek:
One could also attempt to change the quality and content of one's posts.
Yes but ... where's the fun in that? I got the most answers recently to my question 'Should I buy that tiger onesie?'
(Yes - a serious question!)
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rolyn
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There is a simple little motto in our house..
..."We don't do Facebook or Twitter"
As for the Ship ? I guess it might take a few Hell calls to completely get rid of me ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Desert Daughter
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I had an account some years ago but after a while got depressed with reading other people's posts: peepholes into banality, really.
I deleted my account when they introduced timeline. I also saw no use for it. The people that matter to me and I keep in touch through phonecalls, letters (yes, ink on paper!! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ) and visits. The others can send me e-mails which I might answer.
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claret10
Ship's Paranoid Android
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I guess for me it's the disracting ability of the silly games and a quick way of sharing photos.
rarely post anything about myself and find some peoples spew of regurgitated supposed affirmations and repost this and you'll have good luck irritating.
OTOH one of my nonfriends has a gd sense of humout and posts rediculous jokes every day, quite entertaining.
Could i do without it, NO, gives me a sense ok i accept a false one, of actually being part of something.
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Thyme
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Am I the only person whom the thought of being tracked down on FB by a whole load of people from the past fills with horror?
![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Galilit
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Nope - learned that one the hard way when I signed up on one of those old schools sites.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by Thyme:
Am I the only person whom the thought of being tracked down on FB by a whole load of people from the past fills with horror?
Only in that I wouldn't remember who on earth they were!
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Pyx_e
Quixotic Tilter
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Being misanthropic I can honestly say: “Never have, never will.”
It is a tool of Satan. Never has there been a vehicle of gossip, envy and self delusion like it in all history.
Time is short. Repent.
Fly Safe, Pyx_e
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Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
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the Pyxenator hath spoken. Take heed.
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Signaller
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Dame Celia and the offspring are on it. I'm not. So I get called in to see the cute kittens, never mind that there's a real one sitting on my keyboard.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by Signaller:
never mind that there's a real one sitting on my keyboard.
Quick! Take a photo and post it on FB!
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Huntress
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I've 'had' Facebook (sounds like something contagious - well, perhaps...) since 2005 and still use it, though make sure to keep a check on my usage and how many times a day / week I log in. I've also now changed my usage of Facebook and after a couple of unpleasant incidents, limit post / uploaded photo visibility to the 'close friends' list. I keep everyone else I am connected with as 'friends' because of diplomacy - some of my family are not on my close friends lit but I don't want to cause epic storms in teacups by 'unfriending'.
Advantages:
Greater connection with members of my spread-out family, especially decades-older cousins with whom I now have a real genuine friendship, thanks to it being grown and nourished by Facebook conversations and comments on photos etc (not just clicking 'like' and leaving it at that).
The nice insight into friend's lives - I like seeing pictures of a batch of home-made jam or a friend's kid with their first snowman. If I get tired of such posts, I just scroll past.
Disadvantages:
The brutality of 'unfriend'. Instead of quietly letting a friendship fade into the ether - and some friendships do, in the real world, die a natural death - there is now the official 'unfriend' function.
Reinforcement of exclusion: OK so you realise that you're not invited to, say, a wedding which perhaps you had a reasonable expectation of attending. You get to see various posts about the planning of and run up to said event and then the pictures start popping up on multiple accounts afterwards. It's a choice of either unsubscribing to various friends' feeds for a while or going cold turkey for a couple of weeks.
Ersatz communication: my personal experience is that I haven't realised the huge length of time elapsed since I actually saw or had a proper phone conversation, or even sent a private text to a friend because we have swapped little comments and 'likes' back and forth on Facebook.
False privacy: this is where I have made mistakes - namely, forgetting that Facebook is a semi-public forum and that a conversation I have with a friend which is not in the private message capacity can be seen and commented on by whomever is on my 'friends' list. Shortly after a bad experience with this I hastily sorted out my 'close friends' list and privacy settings.
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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Originally posted by Boogie:
quote:
Originally posted by churchgeek:
One could also attempt to change the quality and content of one's posts.
Yes but ... where's the fun in that? I got the most answers recently to my question 'Should I buy that tiger onesie?'
(Yes - a serious question!)
I'm afraid I don't think we talked her out of it...
I dislike the machine that is Facebook, but I love the way it gathers together my online friends from various different places, as well as other friends who are geographically distant. I feel as though I can have coffee with friends every day. I also love it when my trendy 16 year old goddaughter is chatting with someone who is completely outside her usual world in the comments under my status update.
I am stringent in checking and rechecking my privacy settings, and nobody will ever find me or my posts by searching unless they are friends of one of my friends. I don't post any pictures that matter (I occasionally link to pictures on Flickr, because that way Facebook doesn't get any rights over them). I also have Social Fixer installed which allows me to keep it pretty well under control.
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Pyx_e
Quixotic Tilter
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I think it's all pretty safe, really
Ahhhh he's so cute.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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I signed up so that I could check on whether my adult children, living away from home, were still alive - without nagging at them all the time!
And when The Intrepid Miss S was asked at an interview whether she had any embarrassing photos on FB, she replied 'My Mum is on Facebook, so of course not!'
Mrs. S, serving some uses at least ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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geroff
Shipmate
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Facebook works as long as you apply the right account settings, don't use it at work, don't reply to the chain letters, and don't try to have discussions.
Ship = discussions
FB = finding old friends.
If you really want to be perverse and don't mind telling people your real name there is always the FB Ship of Fools (closed) group.
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ChaliceGirl
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I like Facebook, I find it entertaining. I have connected up with some really cool people from the past, and have met new people. I belong to a FB group that is dedicated to talking about fun things from the past and I enjoy partaking in the conversation.
However, there are some things that annoy me, such as memes, images or posts only intended to get a million "likes", for example :
I love my child more than anything in the world!-LIKE if you agree!"
"I miss someone who is heaven!-LIKE if you feel this way too!"
Pleese...just once I'd like to see "I can't stand my bratty kids! I hate them today! LIKE if you feel this way too!"
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kingsfold
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Facebook? What's facebook?
Never used it, absolutely no inclination to do so.
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Organ Builder
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I didn't really expect to love it when I first signed up, but I do. I have a number of different groups of friends.
There's the usual group of people with whom I went to High School--other than growing up in a small New Mexico town in the 1970s, we don't really have much in common. There are people with whom I went to college. I've enjoyed getting in touch with that group much more--and discovered I have more in common with some of them now than I did then.
There are several "organ groupies"--people who send friend requests to anyone else involved in our rather arcane field. As a result, I've had a chance to see pictures of churches and organs from Holland, Italy, and a variety of other places. I enjoy that--one sees the "bread and butter" instruments which are often missing when one is looking at pictures of "Famous organs of Wherever".
There is the usual group of relatives--including the discovery of a number of cousins I never really knew I had, found when I began to be interested in genealogy. There is my mother's first cousin, whose posts reveal her to be a lot more fun (and a lot more spicy...) than I would ever have thought from someone of that generation on my mother's side. I've learned a lot.
I'm also friends on facebook with a number of fellow shipmates. It surprised me at first just how much I enjoy them--there is less formality, and perhaps a more natural interaction. Although I haven't met them in person (yet) I enjoy the fact that facebook is more like an unstructured conversation. I've noticed it also makes me more attentive to what they have to say here on the Ship.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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FB is great for those who found that no-one reads their blog.
Doesn't the world revolve around our little patch of awareness? The world revolves around what I think, find interesting, what I do. FB confirms that my real world detachment is only a "like" away from starring in a really great drama where people all encourage and comment nicely about each other and resolve problems with laugh tracks, as someone reposts something I reposted from someone I know only from their picture and that they're a friend of a friend's acquaintance.
My current status:
getting out of bed to go to work, hope the boss isn't a douche today!!!! think I'll have some toast WITH JAM!!! for breakfast!!!! I dreamed nice dreams last night. May all your dreams come true today!!!! May you all all have a GREAT GR* Day!!!! LOL!!! Please like my status! Hugs to everyone!!!
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I'm taking it that's not a 'Like'?
It hinges, ISTM, on the uses of banality. We visited this a little while since on a thread on small talk. It is the egg in the mix of social cohesion. It is the alleviation of small ills, and the sharing of modest achievements. It is the stepping stone to deeper exchanges.
Having said which, all my FB friends are amusing and erudite, and we spend our time in swapping witty repartee, piercing insights, moving reflections, and pix of kittens playing with wool.
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Having said which, all my FB friends are amusing and erudite, and we spend our time in swapping witty repartee, piercing insights, moving reflections, and pix of kittens playing with wool.
You left out the pictures of gourmet meals!
Really, though, Facebook is what you make of it. It can be wonderful, or it can be a huge waste of time (or both). Not unlike the Ship in that regard...
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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I tried going without Facebook and replacing it with real-life interactions for a while, but some of my friends got really pissy about me turning up to their house and asking to look at some pictures of their girlfriend in a bikini. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Hail Gallaxhar
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angelfish
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The way people use FB tells you a lot about their insecurities. Deep down, we are all seeking affirmation, so the things people post show you what it is they seek affirmation for. That's my opinion, any way.
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Traveller
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I only have a Facebook account so that my wife can find herself and check what non-friends can see of her own Facebook account.
It doesn't stop Facebook regularly sending me e-mails saying it has found some people I may know from my own category - retired! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live:
I will praise my God while I have my being.
Psalm 104 v.33
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Not sure whether my FB friends are different than most, but I find I prefer the regular updates to Christmas Letters because people are more honest. In Round Robins, everyone makes their families sound so perfect, with all their achievements listed. However, on FB, people tend to shoot from the hip, annoyances as well as celebrations. So you get to find that their kids have wound them up, made a mess, didn't succeed at getting their dream job, or whatever. It's much more true to life.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by angelfish:
The way people use FB tells you a lot about their insecurities. Deep down, we are all seeking affirmation, so the things people post show you what it is they seek affirmation for.
I must be wildly insecure about dawns and sunsets.
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The Kat in the Hat
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
I tried going without Facebook and replacing it with real-life interactions for a while, but some of my friends got really pissy about me turning up to their house and asking to look at some pictures of their girlfriend in a bikini.
Where is the like button?
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kankucho
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Originally posted by The Kat in the Hat:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
I tried going without Facebook and replacing it with real-life interactions for a while, but some of my friends got really pissy about me turning up to their house and asking to look at some pictures of their girlfriend in a bikini.
Where is the like button?
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
To really piss them off, take a single plated meal round with you, show it to them, then eat it all yourself,
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Winnow
Apprentice
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My use of Facebook has evolved ... started as a way to connect with friens, relatives, and long-lost old friends and relatives, and to keep up with goings-on of everyone.
But I've discovered so many very interesting facebook pages devoted to my various intersts, or stuff I'm wanting to get interested in, and I've "liked" them and boy am I learning a lot. It's really really cool.
And as cat-people, DH and love the cat pictures ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) , and all the wild animal and bird sites. Not intersted in the photos of what-you-fixed-for-dinner (usually looks unappetizing) or vacations or the invitations to join the crazy games. Don't have time for that nonsense.
I love to have fun with political stuff -- if I disagree with their opinions (and I do disagree with a fair number of friends and relatives) I usually just post "hoghwash" or "baloney" or something of that sort ... I have to say SOMETHING. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
So I like facebook, but some parts of it bug me to death. I threaten to leave occasionally, but never do ...
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I like FB, because I can try to beat Kelly (may she live forever), St. Sebastian, Pants and Sharkshooter in Angry Birds. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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She said, as she just trounced Kelly on the weekly tournament.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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(Hi, my name is Kelly, and I am a Facebook games addict. I also have a competitive streak I never knew I had.)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by Winnow:
Not intersted in the photos of what-you-fixed-for-dinner (usually looks unappetizing)
Yes - it usually looks awful! these friends need some lessons in food photography! My usual response is 'bleugh' (verbally of course, I stay silent online!
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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This is not a trend I've noticed. Why would you want to photograph your (cooling) dinner rather than eating it?
It just goes to show, no one FB style is normative.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I joined facebook because no one was sending me pictures of anything
It's also useful to keep tabs on people who have drifted away from the Ship.
I don't unfriend anyone easily, but don't irritate me.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Firenze:
This is not a trend I've noticed. Why would you want to photograph your (cooling) dinner rather than eating it?
Who can say? I've seen this, though not with anyone I'm linked to on FB. There was a spate of this on an amateur photography site I was on, too: which even spawned a Crap Photos parody with pictures of plates of half eaten dinners with a dirty fork stuck into them, with a hideous colour cast over the photo.
Anyway, being on FB is now saving me the postage, I no longer have to buy stationery and books of stamps in order to post photos of my dinner to all my friends.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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The only person I see posting food pictures is one of my young relatives who has recently started university and therefore is learning by experience how to cook for herself and her friends every night. She is justifiably quite proud of her efforts and needs a little encouragement from all of us!
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Jane R
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Am I the only person whom the thought of being tracked down on FB by a whole load of people from the past fills with horror?
Nope. That's why my old schools, university and previous work record aren't in my FB record.
What baffles me is the little link to Facebook that pops up every time you buy something on Amazon. Who WANTS all their Facebook 'friends' to know that they've just bought the complete series of 'My Fluffy Little Magic Secret Unicorn'?* These shameful secrets should be shrouded in decent obscurity.
*It's not for me, it's for my daughter.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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quote:
Originally posted by Jane R:
What baffles me is the little link to Facebook that pops up every time you buy something on Amazon. Who WANTS all their Facebook 'friends' to know that they've just bought the complete series of 'My Fluffy Little Magic Secret Unicorn'?*
Doubtless in hopes that word of mouth will cause the sales of Fluffy Magic Unicorn books to go through the roof.
Married as I am to someone who has a book Out There, we cherish any online commendations we see (as do the Publishers).
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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I've posted food pictures several times. However, NOT after the meal is already begun to be eaten!
Frankly it's mostly for the colour combinations. Or shapes. I photographed some strawberries in a bowl once because they were very red and wet and glistening and had happily arranged themselves in an artful manner worthy of a still life.
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Organ Builder
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I posted a picture of two olives once, but they were in a lovely vessel filled with Plymouth Gin and a small amount of dry vermouth. It was a thing of beauty.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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Jane R
Shipmate
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Firenze: quote:
Doubtless in hopes that word of mouth will cause the sales of Fluffy Magic Unicorn books to go through the roof.
I can see why the publishers and author would like you to tell all your friends. What I can't understand is why you yourself would want to do so...
Perhaps I am just bitter and twisted as a result of having to feign enthusiasm for Fluffy Magic Unicorn books (hey, at least she's reading SOMETHING).
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Get her Fluffy Magic Unicorns Discuss Client Server Protocols. That'll put her off. (Robbed me of the will to live.)
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
I've posted food pictures several times. However, NOT after the meal is already begun to be eaten!
Frankly it's mostly for the colour combinations. Or shapes. I photographed some strawberries in a bowl once because they were very red and wet and glistening and had happily arranged themselves in an artful manner worthy of a still life.
There is nothing wrong with food photography
It's when photos of a soggy grey mess with the words 'my tea, yum!' are posted that I shake my head.
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geroff
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My FB avatar (or whatever they call them) is of me eating ice cream!
[ 02. February 2013, 11:31: Message edited by: geroff ]
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The Great Gumby
Ship's Brain Surgeon
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I've never done Facebook as a person, but my blog now has its own page. I just dropped that in on the off-chance that someone might want to "Like" it.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
A letter to my son about death
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
I've never done Facebook as a person, but my blog now has its own page. I just dropped that in on the off-chance that someone might want to "Like" it.
What is the hairy mound of grey stuff?
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