george9219 typed:
On Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:09:25 AM UTC-4, giles wrote:
Sorry about the late response. Will post an appropriate escuse if
anyone so demands.



I've looked at facebook. Even signed up a couple of years ago, thus
demonstrating that cheap wine is not an unmixed blessing.



I'll continues to peek in here from time to time, though I suspect
that sic transit gloria mundi applies as much to electronic media as
to universes and such like.



In any case, it's been fun to watch so many reveal themselves
(however unwillingly in some cases) for so many years. Even better
was getting to meet and get to know some very excellent human
beings. Facebook (and Dog only knows what next) will prove, I
suspect, to be the antithesis of what it claims for itself (and what
its proponents agree to with heads bobbing in imbecilic unison).
The "Social Media" are anything but. It has already been noted by
many watchers that they tend rather to isolate individuals from real
human contact with others. After all, who actually NEEDS face to
face contact with other anthropoids when it is so much easier to
project a sanitized image?



As for anonymity.....nyuck, nyuck.



Mosca LaMouche

As for me, I am going to have a wonderful experience shopping for
beautiful and durable girl's shoes in Dubai. And after I find a
beautiful and durable girl to wear them, I'm off to Facebook.

That's the spirit!

Usenet = anarchy
Facebook = organized, sanitized, advertized

.. . . so they're almost identical except one is more sucky than the other.
--
TL,
Tim