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Posted by Ballpark Frank (24.237.94.196) on 11:44:09 10/27/14

In Reply to: Not on Facebook posted by Pat

I was on Facebook years ago, and left for a host of reasons, including:

1.) What I saw as "creeping invasiveness" as Facebook kept releasing new ways of eroding my privacy.

2.) Watched Facebook usage trash a number of people's careers and stir up big time public relations for employers, including local government (example: City of Bozeman).

3.) I had too many Facebook "friends" that were constantly/repeatedly posting boring drivel. You can only block so many "friends" before the application loses its usefulness.

4.) It was a slowly increasing "time sink". There are only so many hours in the day, and I choose not to expend them following small details in other people's lives. I do not engage in any social media. There is nobody out there that I am so enamored of that I wish to Tweet them or receive their tweets. I see Twitter as "next generation Glamour magazine or the National Enquirer". Have a nice day you rock stars, Hollywood types, and political clowns on the Beltway! You won't be doing it on my time!

5.) It might have been my 22 or 23 year old niece that sent me over the top. I think the world of that young lady, but reading the ups and downs of her love life was too big a window into the cultural divide between this old curmudgeon and the Millenials.

Maybe I am suffering from a bad case of being "overly conventional". I still have access to the Secure Loon Page, and even visit it occasionally, just to see if anyone has posted anything.

Individual participation on both this page and the Up Close and Personal page has slowly shrunk over time. I would shy away from relying on any single medium for planning the Loonion that excludes a portion of those stalwarts that still hang out here, unless it is very inclusive (like this page).

Ballpark (Curmudgeon)



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