From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 4 September 2016<P>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 4 September 2016<P>

 @Echolocation<BR>
Re: FB. People feel differently about privacy, but to me, being put in some giant pot of other 40-something, middleclass white, male nerds who lean politically left and like Star Wars (or however they've targeted me) is really and truly not like being slaughtered for meat, or whatever's gonna happen to the pigs in that cartoon. <BR>
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FB is a fantastic service, I think. Now, I've been orchestrating a blog for a long time, so keeping a long running archive of photos is no big trick, but if I didn't, FB's doing that for me would be a wonder (in fact when I misplaced some travel photos from Alaska, in 2013 FB was doing a MUCH better job than my blog at preserving the fullsize images and so I was able to get back what I thought I lost) Between that, having an audience for my thoughts and photos, and staying in touch with people - not the people I care most about, who I'd still use email or texts or phone calls, but the second and third tier of friends whom I enjoy hearing about in small doses-- there is nothing like it.<BR>
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I resent FB sometimes - I think its immense popularity really sucked the air out of the room for the independent "blogosphere" such as it was - but "they have to fund stuff via ads (because NO ONE wants to pay for ANYTHING on the web" isn't one of those reasons. 
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