7 Jun
2012
7 Jun
'12
12:11 a.m.
On 7 June 2012 00:59, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 06/06/2012 10:50 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Somewhat tend to agree with that myself. I do not tend to use them for
social purposes, although in business, it's different.
Hmm, it seems, that I don't even need
something like IRC..
I do have a phone flaterate, it is much less hassle to call the person on
the phone...
?Holm, my friend, this is one area in which you and I must disagree. ?I
hate phone calls. ?So disruptive. ?Our opinions on social media are very much the same,
though. ?I have a
Facebook account, but mainly to find and keep in touch with people who
haven't figured out "real email" yet; mainly old childhood friends.
Overall, my position is that I'm a busy guy, and I will NEVER have
enough free time for Facebook. ?It's little other than a huge time sink
for people who don't have anything better to do. :-(
You know, it is not mandatory, or even useful or helpful, to play with
it to use it.
I don't put many pictures on it. I seldom update my status - that's
what Twitter is for, so I feed it through. I prefer email for
contacting people. I don't play any games on it at all and rarely
browse it - maybe on 5-10 min session a week, if that.
You don't need any of that.
But it is becoming the Internet's telephone directory. It is a simple
easy way to find people and build a big address book, to contact them
if needed, and to use as a birthdays-reminder system and so on.
Calling someone for the first time in ages? Quickly look at their page
and see what has happened in their life recently.
Its events system is also usable and can be syndicated out via
standard protocols - I sync mine into my Google Calendar, which is
synched into my phone automatically. Much easier than setting up and
running my own Exchange Server, which I am perfectly capable of doing
but see no reason to.
You don't have to live on the damned thing to make use of it.
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