On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:58:00 -0500, John Kuthe >
wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:49:13 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:28:47 -0700, gtr > wrote:
>>
>>>On 2015-09-20 21:00:39 +0000, John Kuthe said:
>>>
>>>>>>> You must not be looking in the right places.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps not. I've searched for "cooking groups" and such and find a
>>>>>> number that are closed groups; perhaps some of these are the "right
>>>>>> places" but inaccessible. Any clues as to how such groups can be found
>>>>>> are appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Closed groups are no inaccessible. You ask for permission to join.
>>>
>>>Good to know, thanks.
>>>
>>>> Yep, and many times you will be granted access. Unless it's what
>>>> Facebook calls a "Private" group which is onl;y visible/accessable by
>>>> invitation, ostensibly. I'm that Facebook literate from an admin
>>>> perspective.
>>>
>>>I find FaceBook's interface problematic for too many reasons, but if
>>>you're literate perhaps you can answer this: If I subscribe to RFC,
>>>which I have, but also have 2 dozen "friends" that post 10 times a day,
>>>is there anyway to do filtering without unfollowing/unfriending and
>>>such?
>>>
>>>That is, I'd like to review NO rfc posts, and only my friends blabber.
>>>Following this I'd like to see none of their blabber and all of the rfc
>>>posts. I ran into this before with a jazz musicians group that had
>>>such high volume that I had to unfollow it altogether to avoid the
>>>deluge. Seemingly there is no middle ground.
>>>
>>>Elsewhere you said:
>>>
>>>> Mosly what peolle do is what I heard termed as "peacocking", from one
>>>> of the founders of Flickr. Basically just posting something that says
>>>> "llook at me and how cool I and my life are."
>>>
>>>I've been needing that work. This is the entirety of (what I perceive)
>>>twitter to be.
>>>
>>>> Lotta what I call hit and run posts.
>>>
>>>Sometimes minus the "run". Repetitive stand-alone "look-a-me" posts.
>>>I've started calling this barking, because seemingly no response will
>>>encourage a give-and-take engagement.
>>>
>>>> Not as many good discussions but Ive had a few in a few Facebook Groups.
>>>
>>>In a previous attempt to search for cooking groups I got these "closed
>>>groups "and nothing like RFC. Now I get RFC and all the "closed
>>>groups" I saw seem to have vanished. Clearly it takes practice to
>>>learn best out to waste one's time.
>>
>>That's one of the main points of faecebook - to get you to spend as
>>much time on faecebook as possible. That, and build up a profile of
>>you.
>
>One of the best things I ever foujnd for Facerbook is FBPurity.com,
>for Fluff Buster purity!! FBPurity is free, safe, blocks Facebook ads
>AND gives you the user much more control over your Facebook!! I liked
>it so much the first day I used it I donated $20 to the guy who wrote
>it!

I remember those when I was on FB. Sadly, it doesnt filter out most of
the FB users... talk about lowest common denominator crap.