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#1 Post by Beebs52 » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:19 pm

Can you tell I deactivated my FB account? So, ship the illegal peeps to DC rather than states Obama doesn't like? Discover some gas to justify droning the ISIS? Identify specific people who managed VA lists, scheduling, etc. and fix it?
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#2 Post by BackInTex » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:23 pm

Beebs52 wrote:Can you tell I deactivated my FB account? So, ship the illegal peeps to DC rather than states Obama doesn't like? Discover some gas to justify droning the ISIS? Identify specific people who managed VA lists, scheduling, etc. and fix it?
I'm not sure there are any states, in this country, Obama likes. He's basically screwed them all.

I hear he's going to run for office in Afghanistan. He'll win by a landslide there. Or Iraq. He's pretty popular with the ruling, or soon to be ruling, parties over there.
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#3 Post by Beebs52 » Fri Jun 13, 2014 9:28 pm

Weirdly, Geraldo thinks we shoulda droned last week. Go fig.
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#4 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sat Jun 14, 2014 4:50 am

Why did you deactivate your FB account? (Asks a newly assimilated unit of the collective.)

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#5 Post by littlebeast13 » Sat Jun 14, 2014 6:28 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:Why did you deactivate your FB account? (Asks a newly assimilated unit of the collective.)

Avoiding all the political BS would be reason enough, but given the original post, it doesn't seem like that was the reason...

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#6 Post by Beebs52 » Sat Jun 14, 2014 7:58 am

Don't worry, I'm not gonna be political trolling. I'm off fb for awhile because there's too much annoying stuff in the feed all day all the time. Decided life's too short. At least here you can be somewhat selective.
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#7 Post by Bob Juch » Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:09 am

Beebs52 wrote:Don't worry, I'm not gonna be political trolling. I'm off fb for awhile because there's too much annoying stuff in the feed all day all the time. Decided life's too short. At least here you can be somewhat selective.
You have far better control over what's delivered into your News Feed on FB than you do in what you see here. Maybe you just need to learn how to control it.
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#8 Post by Beebs52 » Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:27 am

Bob Juch wrote:
Beebs52 wrote:Don't worry, I'm not gonna be political trolling. I'm off fb for awhile because there's too much annoying stuff in the feed all day all the time. Decided life's too short. At least here you can be somewhat selective.
You have far better control over what's delivered into your News Feed on FB than you do in what you see here. Maybe you just need to learn how to control it.
I just dint want to have to. It wasn't the political posts, I don't mind peeps posting theeir personal views. It wqs all the "shares" with roving bands of wingnuts and moonbat comments. Equal opportunity annoyance.
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#9 Post by Ritterskoop » Sat Jun 14, 2014 3:13 pm

Bob Juch wrote: You have far better control over what's delivered into your News Feed on FB than you do in what you see here. Maybe you just need to learn how to control it.
I disagree. Here, you can mark some folks to have their posts not show up, and you can choose to click on a post or not. Helpful thread titles make this an easy choice fairly often.

I'm not saying you can't do those things on FB, but I disagree that FB is better in this regard. Possibly equal. Possibly here is better.

Also here we have no ads.

Here, I never feel overwhelmed by the clutter. There, it takes only seconds to feel that way.

True, it's someone else's account that I only use on occasion, so I don't know a lot of the people involved, but yikes there is a lot of crap. The day I was sure I would not be having an account was the day I saw a post about someone's baby's first fajita. I get wanting to tell about a baby's first word or first step, but not their first fajita. How does a baby eat a fajita anyway?
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#10 Post by Beebs52 » Sat Jun 14, 2014 5:30 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:
Bob Juch wrote: You have far better control over what's delivered into your News Feed on FB than you do in what you see here. Maybe you just need to learn how to control it.
I disagree. Here, you can mark some folks to have their posts not show up, and you can choose to click on a post or not. Helpful thread titles make this an easy choice fairly often.

I'm not saying you can't do those things on FB, but I disagree that FB is better in this regard. Possibly equal. Possibly here is better.

Also here we have no ads.

Here, I never feel overwhelmed by the clutter. There, it takes only seconds to feel that way.

True, it's someone else's account that I only use on occasion, so I don't know a lot of the people involved, but yikes there is a lot of crap. The day I was sure I would not be having an account was the day I saw a post about someone's baby's first fajita. I get wanting to tell about a baby's first word or first step, but not their first fajita. How does a baby eat a fajita anyway?
Babies WEAR fajitas.
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#11 Post by Bob Juch » Sat Jun 14, 2014 7:55 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:
Bob Juch wrote: You have far better control over what's delivered into your News Feed on FB than you do in what you see here. Maybe you just need to learn how to control it.
I disagree. Here, you can mark some folks to have their posts not show up, and you can choose to click on a post or not. Helpful thread titles make this an easy choice fairly often.

I'm not saying you can't do those things on FB, but I disagree that FB is better in this regard. Possibly equal. Possibly here is better.

Also here we have no ads.

Here, I never feel overwhelmed by the clutter. There, it takes only seconds to feel that way.

True, it's someone else's account that I only use on occasion, so I don't know a lot of the people involved, but yikes there is a lot of crap. The day I was sure I would not be having an account was the day I saw a post about someone's baby's first fajita. I get wanting to tell about a baby's first word or first step, but not their first fajita. How does a baby eat a fajita anyway?
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#12 Post by Ritterskoop » Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:55 pm

Bob Juch wrote: I have no ads on Facebook or any other site for that matter: I use the AdBlock Chrome extension.
That's great but I don't think it will block posts about babies having their first fajitas.
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#13 Post by SportsFan68 » Sat Jun 14, 2014 11:09 pm

I know a grandmother who relishes everything her kids post about the grandkids, and I mean everything. A report about a first fajita would be delightful to her, especially if it was accompanied by a photo.

Having said that, I agree that everything that comes through on a daily feed is waaaaaay too much for me. I cut my feeds back to about half a dozen last year, and then when I got back from Alaska, I could never catch up even with those few, so I gave up trying. The only time I look in is when someone tells me in person to do so. I've found what works for me.
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