It is currently 29 Mar 2024, 15:18
sunnybob wrote:I was convinced (coerced) into facebook to keep in touch with my grandkids. They cant be bothered to message some old bloke thousands of miles away (at least not untill they are due to come here for holidays ).
So i very quickly gave the whole thing the heave ho. My life as been serene ever since
RogerS wrote:Sure social media can be used for good. But 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of it isn't.
9fingers wrote:
But it still drives me up the wall as well a some chap called woodbloke on there every few days…………
Bob
AJB Temple wrote:This member is VERY anti Facebook. Adopted it very early so that we could share stuff eldest son and I got up to with distant family in Netherlands. He was about 5 or 6 and a very good looking child. In no time we were inundated with requests for contact details, photos and so on. People pretending to be model agents and so on (all BS - his Dutch mother was a model and well connected).
The whole thing was repellent and I have shunned it ever since. It still gives me the shivers.
AJB Temple wrote:This member is VERY anti Facebook. Adopted it very early so that we could share stuff eldest son and I got up to with distant family in Netherlands. He was about 5 or 6 and a very good looking child. In no time we were inundated with requests for contact details, photos and so on. People pretending to be model agents and so on (all BS - his Dutch mother was a model and well connected).
The whole thing was repellent and I have shunned it ever since. It still gives me the shivers.
AJB Temple wrote:Expect you are right Mark. It was early FB though in the days of innocence before we realised that on-line platforms could be dodgy.
TrimTheKing wrote:All messages within the WhatsApp message wrapper are encrypted.
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