On Dec 20, 10:38 pm, Vince M Hudd  wrote:   
   > Joseph DeMartino  wrote:   
   > > Yeah, I'm pretty sure that similar circumstances well eventually FORCE me   
   > > to use Facebook.  But I won't like it and I insist on my right to be   
   > > dragged kicking and screaming into the future.   
   >   
   > I felt that way about social networking sites in general at one point, but   
   > then I caved and joined Facebook. It's not so bad as long as you can   
   > mentally filter out the sheer idiocy you'll see from day to day in some   
   > friends' status updates, not to mention being bombarded with "invitations"   
   > to use this, that or the other lamoid app on the site from the same friends.   
   >   
   > And the latest example of totally brain dead 'innovation' on the site is the   
   > new format 'groups' - whereby friends can 'add' you to a group. Yes, *add*   
   > you. Not *invite* you, which you could decline (or just ignore), but   
   > actually *add* you, so that if you don't want to be a member of their latest   
   > daft group, having been added you have to go to the effort of removing   
   > yourself. (Once removed, you can't then be added - but that does miss the   
   > point somewhat!)   
   >   
   > Why am I still on Facebook, again? I seem to have forgotten. :|   
   I created a group called "Facebook groups should be opt in not opt   
   out" over that issue.   
   Within a couple of days of that change, Mark Zuckerberg was added to a   
   NAMBLA group.   
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