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« Reply #75 on: July 21, 2011, 07:56:05 pm »
You have no idea how annoying Facebook can be when you've worked in the arts, but no longer do.  I've got about 100 friends who use Facebook as their way to bombard their friends with marketing for their shows.  There's a summer theatre festival on right now locally, so I have to sort through so much "see my show" shit to read the few non-advertising posts from my friends.  It's bullshit.

I'm not on Googleplus.  I'm seriously considering that this may be the point where I get off the social media bus.  I don't know.  I'm sick of wasting time on this shit.  Is it worth it to bother with the next thing?  Is it the next thing? 
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« Reply #76 on: July 21, 2011, 08:44:25 pm »
You can't really blame your friends for advertising their shows.  Facebook has been sold as a good tool for that.  I have the same problem with dozens of friends in working bands.  Most of those people have a min. of at least one gig a week.  I think the best thing to do is to just hide those people from your feed.
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« Reply #77 on: July 21, 2011, 08:49:36 pm »
Sorry but yes, you can blame them. Your friends could make a fan page for their bands and their shows and then you can choose to follow that or not. That's what I've done with my book and my blog, soon to be another book. I no longer post stuff about my books or links to my blog in my personal feed.
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« Reply #78 on: July 21, 2011, 09:32:49 pm »
Well that's true, of course Wombat, but if your friend asks you to join their fan page and you don't they might think you are an asshole.  It's easier to join up and then hide yourself.
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« Reply #79 on: July 21, 2011, 09:55:36 pm »
Yeah, and these people are my friends, so hiding them doesn't work because their self-advertising posts are mixed in with their regular socializing posts.  I'll miss BBQ's and beach days and birthday par-tays and reunions and shit if I hide them.  I agree with Wombat - they're not using the technology appropriately and it's annoying as hell.  I've considered quitting Facebook entirely more than once this week due to being totally slammed with promotions, but then there's the few actual nuggets of useful communication that occurred which I would have otherwise missed that keep me from totally giving up.   
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« Reply #80 on: July 21, 2011, 11:19:38 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on July 21, 2011, 09:32:49 pm
Well that's true, of course Wombat, but if your friend asks you to join their fan page and you don't they might think you are an asshole.  It's easier to join up and then hide yourself.

Ha, so you're not really following my blog, then. If you hadn't mentioned it would never have occured to me that someone would go to the trouble of pretending.
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« Reply #81 on: July 22, 2011, 05:49:09 pm »
You know what makes me want to block people though? It's not promoting things. It's endless updates from a fancy vacation. If you really have something to say, fine, but no one wants to hear stuff like "eating croissants and watching the passerby at a cafe in Paris!" half a dozen times a day. You know what? A million people have done that, it's no more interesting than telling me you are eating a bagel in your office, and it just rubs my face in the fact that I am not in Paris on a fancy vacation, so what on earth makes you think it is a good idea?

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« Reply #82 on: July 22, 2011, 05:51:36 pm »
i want to block people that emphasize words by addinggggg theeee lasttttt letterrrrr wayyyyyyy tooooooooo manyyyyyyyyy timessssssssssssssss

Also, I Blocked A Person Who Capitalized Every Letter Because Reading Her Updates Simply Infuriated Me.
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« Reply #83 on: July 22, 2011, 06:12:17 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on July 22, 2011, 05:51:07 pm
So much for my hossback pictures...

No, you know me, anything with an animal gets a pass. I actually don't mind when this person reports the weird breeds she sees at the dog show in France. That's entirely different.
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« Reply #84 on: July 22, 2011, 07:38:43 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on July 22, 2011, 06:06:41 pm
I am on the verge of that with a relative who insiSTs on capitalizing certain letters when they appear together in a word because of their devotion to one of them 'rock groups'.

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« Reply #85 on: July 22, 2011, 08:00:16 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on July 22, 2011, 07:55:32 pm
Suicidal Tendencies, yeah.

It's damn near a Juggalo kinda thing.

so that means it wouldnt be noble of people to replace letters with numbers in written or typed communications because they love prince?
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« Reply #86 on: July 22, 2011, 11:27:02 pm »
I realize that G+'s circles are a re-branding of Facebook Groups, but it's all SO much easier to manage in G+. And I like that, for now, it's relatively exclusive. I just wish there were a way to mute people in the feed, but I think they'll get to that eventually. There are people (family) who would be irritated with me if I stopped sharing with them, and with whom I do not mind sharing certain stuff, but whose constant political and theological screeds I'd rather not see.

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« Reply #87 on: July 23, 2011, 04:06:26 am »
Quote from: wombat on July 20, 2011, 07:49:31 pm
I hate to start this argument again but... I was just at my part-time job and tried to look at GooglePlus and I couldn't because they hadn't updated the browser on the computer I can use there. It is not my business to update their browser, so I went and looked at Facebook instead.

I don't understand why they can't make the site backward-compatible. There is NO other website I try to use that has this problem. I can't help thinking it is a ruse to get people to switch to their browser.
Related: My wife has a MacBook that I believe was the last generation before they started using Intel chips. She can't upgrade Firefox unless she pays for an OS upgrade and this does mean that she can't get on Google Plus.
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« Reply #88 on: August 04, 2011, 02:41:09 am »
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OK, as long as we're going down this road, whatever. Fuck it. Not updating your browser is deeply stupid, other than in Wombat's weird situation.

Did we run young Dan away?  This was his last post on July 12.  That was also the last time he was active on the board. 
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« Reply #89 on: August 04, 2011, 04:38:37 am »
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Did we run young Dan away?  This was his last post on July 12.  That was also the last time he was active on the board. 

i think he's visiting chicago.
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