davesenesac
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Post by davesenesac on Oct 30, 2015 10:25:35 GMT -8
Not a hiking or backpacking subject but rather about the medium we are communicating in here so bears on the community so. As a young adult I nearly left my electronic hardware career to pursue psychology and communication but after a year of introductory college classes could see I really didn't have patience dealing with behaviors of some people. But it has always been something I have an innate nature and interest for. The following has a good list on cyberspace behavior topics that with wisdom if read can enlighten and improve one's behavior and communication in cyberspace. users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/ How to Resolve Conflict Online users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/conflict.htmlI have not been a member of Facebook for several years now after being an early user when its structure lacked reasonable safeguards and after getting jerked around in ways I thought were dangerous for my long term good name, closed my account. But as I will be putting more life in my photography business within the next year, Facebook has evolved since, will need to re-open an account. Thus will Amazon order a used copy of 2013 Facebook For Dummies to become familiar with its current considerably evolved form and carefully rebuild an account. The Internet is a potentially dangerous place for a public person using their real name, business addresses, not hiding behind pseudonyms. yup at home today birthday PTO and happy Halloween tomorrow, David |
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Post by Lamebeaver on Oct 30, 2015 11:53:33 GMT -8
My wife and I have a lot of common friends, who connect with her through her Facebook account. I had an account for awhile, but tired of wading through the constant deluge of worthless drivel to find the infrequent online jewel.
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ecocentric
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Post by ecocentric on Oct 31, 2015 7:51:31 GMT -8
If Facebook gives you too much nonsense, you need better friends.
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rebeccad
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Post by rebeccad on Oct 31, 2015 8:38:30 GMT -8
The Internet is a potentially dangerous place for a public person using their real name, It is. If everyone used their real name, it would probably get less dangerous. Maybe less interesting, too...But believe me, I am aware every time I post anything anywhere, but especially on FB where many of my constituents are friends or friends of friends, that just about anything can come back to bite you on the backside. |
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whistlepunk
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Post by whistlepunk on Oct 31, 2015 8:49:29 GMT -8
I have a FB account only to keep track of family news from my far-flung relatives. My FB bio is completely fictional. My family and friends know my life history. I do not care if snoopers or hackers get inaccurate personal data about me, in fact I prefer they do. The same for all my various web accounts. My financial and medical accounts contain real data, and have 18-20 character passwords that look like cartoon swearing.
The other sites, like this one, the bio is fake. It must be working, because when I google myself on one of those look anyone up sites, I get all kinds of strange biographies (at one point I was living in Des Moines while working in a machine shop in Houston. The daily commute was a killer!).
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tarol
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Post by tarol on Oct 31, 2015 9:31:54 GMT -8
My FB is chock full of online jewels! Thanks to all my great outdoorsy friends and family.
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JiminMD
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Post by JiminMD on Oct 31, 2015 14:39:43 GMT -8
Many of the people I've met through this board make my FB feed a deeply amusing thing.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Oct 31, 2015 15:24:47 GMT -8
Using FB as another news aggregator as I do rather than anything remotely "social" I'm a fan. There's any number of commercial enterprises and such I've "liked", Mystic Knotworks, Brooklyn Brewery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mountain Laurel Designs, bunch of national parks and various photographers, both street and landscape.
Nice way to be served with useful and or entertaining information.
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echo
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Post by echo on Oct 31, 2015 15:40:36 GMT -8
I have various groups on Facebook, a writer's group, the backpacker family, my coworkers, my old hometown classmates and family, and sometimes former students follow me, although I try not to connect with current students on Facebook. I'm pretty transparent, I don't use my raunchiest humor, I don't talk about the people I'm currently frustrated by, but I'm honest, the name, home area, family photographs and bio are all me. I'm broke and don't have much to steal, I'm trying to get people to find and read my books, I'm not much afraid of people although I've known some truly monsterous ones they have been far outnumbered by good ones.
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ecocentric
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Post by ecocentric on Oct 31, 2015 20:21:19 GMT -8
I'm pretty particular about not having any friends that are profoundly paranoid.
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ogg
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Post by ogg on Oct 31, 2015 20:23:43 GMT -8
I used to organize small group camping/day hiking trips, initially annually and later biannually, and establishing a private Facebook Group proved to be an effective means to communicate, organize and coalesce efforts as the group expanded. But eventually there were problems and I sometimes wondered if Facebook's nebulous heuristics played a role in certain persons missing key posts to the group, or if such posts were simply buried and unnoticed in the deluge of social flotsam inherit to Facebook- especially those with bloated friends lists- or ignored altogether. Eventually I pulled the plug on organizing the group trips. Too many headaches that weren't there in the early years. FB Groups was effective and efficient for such group trip planning, until it wasn't, and that was primarily due to one individual's behavior and the reactions of others to him.
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amaruq
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Post by amaruq on Nov 2, 2015 5:43:18 GMT -8
A small group of friends and I maintain a closed group for planning monthly or so backpacking trips. I browse the newsfeed when I'm sick of crosswords and have little else to do (e.g. while waiting on something). I follow interesting groups that cater to my many and varied hobbies, so there is always something worthwhile to look at. In order to avoid becoming much like some of my friends who feel the need to update their Facebook-verse with every mundane daily event, I've stopped with any form of text-only posts. Instead I opt to let my trip/adventure photos speak for me along with related anecdotes rattled off in the captions.
It is a great promotional tool for small, local businesses. It is possible for consumers to FB search a service and narrow it by locale making FB somewhat like a modern Yellow Pages, but with better social-media presence, abilities, and traffic than the actual YP website.
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