tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post303544521804144863..comments2023-06-14T07:03:19.543-05:00Comments on A Round Unvarnish'd Tale: Facebook ThoughtsCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817680463922038375noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-75508730345433620922011-07-24T09:40:25.260-05:002011-07-24T09:40:25.260-05:00Even though I don't "do" Facebook, I...Even though I don't "do" Facebook, I appreciate the points you made on your list and, as usual, how well you made them.<br /><br />(And <i>The Great Divorce</i> is one of my favorite books.)Leahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02069794229090921826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-66394301552985450952011-07-12T06:41:32.387-05:002011-07-12T06:41:32.387-05:00Thanks, OA!Thanks, OA!Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04817680463922038375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-50120793428221711692011-07-09T20:19:55.742-05:002011-07-09T20:19:55.742-05:00Well done, Cheryl. You've neatly addressed in ...Well done, Cheryl. You've neatly addressed in detail a portion of the broad issue tackled by Matthew Shaffer in National Review.Orycteropus Aferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778932701096220808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-12287756633743075742011-07-08T18:47:28.185-05:002011-07-08T18:47:28.185-05:00Great post, Cheryl, and very helpful to a newbie f...Great post, Cheryl, and very helpful to a newbie facebooker such as myself!<br /><br />AnneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-60551914670975908612011-07-08T09:17:25.607-05:002011-07-08T09:17:25.607-05:00Ewe, that is an excellent point. Facebook has beco...Ewe, that is an excellent point. Facebook has become such a common way of connecting that those of us who do it can forget that not everyone does. (I didn't, by the way, until a year or two ago. And before that time, I had a Facebook account but never checked it and didn't feel like I was missing anything. Sigh. Now that I have become active on FB it is another place that I experience FOMS--fear of missing something.)<br /><br />Your comment is a good reminder that Facebook is NOT real life. It is just one way to communicate. But it is an imperfect way. And real life is what happens outside, not inside, Facebook.Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04817680463922038375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973269483459581996.post-79491974546776302672011-07-08T09:09:02.227-05:002011-07-08T09:09:02.227-05:00I think what you wrote here is very good advice. D...I think what you wrote here is very good advice. Dh and I refuse to do Facebook for a whole bunch of reasons. We are unusual for someone our age that neither of us do Facebook. So far it has worked fine that friends that do Facebook have been kind enough to e-mail me photos when another friend had a baby etc. We had a trip last year that would have been so much easier to contact friends with Facebook. But it worked the old fashioned way to e-mail or phone all our friends and family. We met up with everyone we wanted to meet up with.<br />I do see good things about Facebook. My sister reconnected to her current boyfriend through Facebook even though they are living on different continents now. She sold most of her belongings to friends through Facebook and moved to another country for a year. <br />I do get frustrated when people assume that everyone else does Facebook. It seems like the more people I mention that I refuse to do Facebook, the more people I meet that are just like me and don't do Facebook either. It is not just the older generation that doesn't do Facebook. Also there are people like me that do technology, but not Facebook. I wish that more people that did Facebook would remember that there really are people that don't do Facebook.Ewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09049392222474704158noreply@blogger.com