On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:39:05 +1000, Bruce >
wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:33:35 +0100, "Ophelia"
> wrote:
>
>>"Bruce" wrote in message ...
>>
>>On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:44:22 +0100, "Ophelia"
> wrote:
>>
>>>"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
...
>>>
>>>On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 2:25:50 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:01:41 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 2:38:21 AM UTC-10, graham wrote:
>>>> >> On 2019-08-15 5:40 a.m., Gary wrote:
>>>> >> > wrote:
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> I could use twitter but I don't.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > Same here but what's your point?
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> More to the point: What is the point of Twitter?
>>>> >
>>>> >Twitter makes it possible for 63 million of his followers to know what
>>>> >the President of the United States is thinking at any time of the day in
>>>> >real time. That's quite a remarkable thing.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed. All these old RFC people who hate social media are like old
>>>> people who thought trains would make the cows' milk go sour.
>>>
>>>More like: It's of no earthly use to me. There's nothing there that I
>>>want to read.
>>>
>>>If it can be expressed in 280 characters, it's facile bullshit. I can
>>>go to Usenet if I want that. I don't need it showing up on my phone at
>>>all hours.
>>>
>>>Hey! You kids! Get off my lawn!
>>>
>>>Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>>====
>>>
>>> LOL I have never used Twitter and wouldn't know how... don't want to
>>>either
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>>
>>But you use Facebook. The RFC geezers frown upon that as well.
>>
>>===
>>
>> Oh I don't look down on Twitter users) I am not sure I know any and if
>>family used it .. who knows))
>>
>> As you know, I have family and friends on FB!
>
>Yes it's a good way to stay in touch, in spite of the privacy issues.
LOL yeah so is email, facebook, twitter, youtube, quora, and about 20
others. If you are worried about privacy then just use email, in fact
email is still the best method of communication.
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