On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:02:42 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 9/6/2013 11:12 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 20:26:48 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/6/2013 7:31 PM, Kalmia wrote:
>>>> Jill,
>>>>
>>>> Glad I'm not the only person who never joined Facebook. Are people so insecure they have to blast all their business to their friends?
>>>>
>>> I didn't say I never did. I did, and found absolutely no use for it.
>>> And then they made it extremely difficult to "unsubscribe". For a while
>>> I was getting an email every time someone said "oh!" or "Cool!". They
>>> hid how to turn off email notifications pretty well. I finally figured
>>> out how to unsubscribe. The I deleted the account. They hide that
>>> pretty well, too.
>>>
>>> And again, I hate it when retailers jump on that bandwagon. I'm not
>>> joining FB just to get a coupon or a discount for some product. I'll
>>> take my business elsewhere. It's their loss, not mine.
>>
>> You just have to spend a little bit of time learning how to use and
>> tune Facebook effectively. Then it's acceptable.
>>
>> At least until Facebook changes everything up again which is every 4-6
>> months.
>>
>> Huffing and puffing about it every time the subject comes up just
>> shows that you're not very adaptable and snooty.
>>
>> -sw
>>
>Huffing and puffing? No, I'm rather glad the snooty ones like
>Terwilliger and his fan club would rather spend time on FB.
>
>Snooty? Not at all. I simply don't like or need the interface. You
>yourself said they change everything every few months. What's the
>point? If it works, leave it alone unless you're applying bug fixes.
>
>They make it very difficult to unsubscribe. You have to jump through
>hoops to turn off notifications. And even then, they don't actually
>delete the account.
>
>Hell, they even had a fake account allegedly created by my father, who
>never touched a computer in his life. Yeah, that's ethical. <sarcasm>
>My oldest brother pitched a fit and they removed that "account".
>
>I am not adverse to change. I did software QA for years. Of course
>that was business software, not social media crap. The programmers
>weren't constantly changing things just to make it seem more "cool".
>
>There are plenty of other ways for me to stay in contact with family and
>friends (the ones I want to) than FB. If people love FB, more power to
>them. I'm simply not one of those people.
>
>Jill

Several months ago I subscribed to facebook just to check out the
cooking section and to see what all the hoopla was about. It didn't
take long (about an hour) when I was informed by the keeper of the
gate via email that I was not wanted there. So I unsubscribed. I
never posted anything, I was subscribed for less than six hours. I
will never again darken the doors of those know nothing sicko facebook
freaks. Why pray tell would anyone want to make all their personal
bizniz available to everyone on the planet, only reason I can fathom
is that NONE of them face book freaks have a life.