social media was Re: OS9 (for 6809) communication

On 6 June 2012 18:41, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote: What problems? Well, if you don't have many friends or never throw big parties, I am a little sorry for you. Personally, I am gregarious and have lots of friends. :?) So can I. Sometimes, it is quicker and easier to use a socnet. It is easier for me to pick, say, the London-based people out of my ~800 friends on Facebook than to choose their email addresses from the ~5000 people in my address book. Not at all. It's a tool, nothing more. If you don't want to use it, fine, but it makes you look foolish if you criticise others for no other reason than that they do use it, or because you don't know how to. I've been an IT support professional for 25 years. My tools are my hands and my brain; I used to carry around some physical media with a few handy programs on. I don't use a soldering iron - have not since the 1980s - or a multimeter, ever. Others regard these as essential tools. Neither of us is "right" or "wrong" - they're just tools for a job. I'm primarily a software support guy; if there is a hardware failure, all I have to do is diagnose it and get someone else to fix it, generally. Others are specialists in hardware repair and would not know a Group Policy from an XML schema. That's fine, too. You seem to be judging tools by your own use for them, and people by the tools they use. That is unwise. I usually do. :?) -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884