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Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Finchie (14th Nov 2009 - 01:22:25) I don't get it. Why do people think that other people care that they are "going to bed", "watching xyz", "playing game, guitar hero modern hero autotheft 2010" etc. etc. Am I really an old fuddy duddy ? I could understand if they were "just about to head out on the last stage of everest" or "bopping away at muse concert" or something interesting. I really don't get it. Please help me understand "Generation X". Cheers, Finchie ("typing at key board having enjoyed a couple of beers")

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Liz (14th Nov 2009 - 11:52:28) Also every single photo on facebook is of a night out! who wants to see loads of drunken blurry photos of a bunch of strangers!!

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Verity (14th Nov 2009 - 14:02:38) I don't think facebook etc is any worse than half of the threads on here.. Some of us use it to keep / get in touch with friends and family all across the world. It's a good way to get a 'feel' for how people are doing and to share photos - I put family snapshots etc rather than of drunken nights out (but then, can't say as I have many of thoses...). And I can see how they and their kids are growing up. I do find twitter a little fast paced, but maybe it's the modern 'net curtain' look or chat over the garden fence???

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Paul Robinson (14th Nov 2009 - 14:42:43) I am with you on this Finchie. It astounds me how much time people spend on these so called social networks discussing asinine subjects with people who they would not give the time of day to if they saw them in the street. One other aspect that disturbs me is the way young parents share photographs of their babies on these sites only to have them appropriated by all the wrong people and shared among like minded individuals who take perverse pleasure in candid shots of young children. Be warned, it happens Paul Robinson

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Verity (15th Nov 2009 - 08:59:56) Paul, I agree we all have a duty to safeguard children and have to stop 'wrong people' getting access to children who really shouldn't, but we can go a little OTT in stopping everything. You can still share photos with your friends and block others from seeing them. As long as it's just typical family snapshots it's not harder for said 'wrong people' than for them to look on the TV, visit a local place, etc.

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Paul Robinson (15th Nov 2009 - 11:47:19) Verity, I agree. As doting grandparents we love to get e-mailed photos of our grandchildren from time to time. Not subscribing to any of the above social websites, I am perhaps not the best person to discuss their use but it occurs to me that the problem occurs when your friends forward your pictures to their friends who may in turn forward to their friends who may not be known to you. Paul Robinson

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Tom (16th Nov 2009 - 11:37:22) "Asinine subjects"?? Facebook enables us (the young people) to keep in touch with our friends who are at university all over the country...think about what you say before you post on here...especially if you don't know what you're talking about!

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - claire (16th Nov 2009 - 18:04:31) hehe ....... i remember my mum n dad saying the same thing about cb radio 30 years ago!! ...... 1- 4 a copy lolol

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Finchie (16th Nov 2009 - 18:07:27) Status "Just preparing tea" Na - doesn't really work for me !! Is it getting you going ? Cheers, Finchie

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Karen F (16th Nov 2009 - 18:35:24) Mr Finch Take it you will not be joining up to the new social networking site 'You Twit Face' anytime soon then.....!!! Status: Wasting time on Liphook Talkback when should be bathing children and putting them to bed.

Re: Twitter, facebook & status updates ... - Finchie (20th Nov 2009 - 18:35:15) Probably didn't emphasis my point about STATUSES. Totally agree that there is big value in all of these applications ... keeping touch with genuine friends (facebook), work networks (Linked in), video to video & telephony (skype), old friends (friends reunited), family history (genes reunited), special interest forums (best I don't list mine !) - and I am a big advocate and user of all, apart from facebook (I prefer a beer and talking). My point is STATUS updates. I see people saying "just going to bed" and pointless updates like that on both twitter & facebook. What is the point ? Please keep in interesting like "just going to bed with my girlfriend - not my wife" or such like ! When CB radio came out, I never said "breaker breaker 1-9, this is Mark 2 Escort Boy, with furry dice, on the A 40, just changing up a gear, having had a hearty breakfast" - I said something INTERESTING and USEFUL - "like there there a copper with a radar trap southbound at J10" DULL STATUS UPDATES SHOULD BE BANNED. Happy Weekend. Cheers, Finchie ("Just about to go and help cook tea and getting ready for the weeknd - Yea") - and you should too Karen !!

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