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I`m there too - still haven`t really sussed it all out yet, but we`ll have fun learning! My son and grandson got me on there some time back, but I`m still not much wiser. Must concentrate. Still trying to find a photo of me that won`t frighten anyone!

Pat

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Oh dear - I poked Cheryl today - hope I didn`t give her anything nasty!

Pat

Pat,

why does this sound nasty? *snickering*

Donna in Virginia who can use all the laughs she can get as she has the world's worst cold

I was contacted by friends I hadn't 'talked' with in ages and think I set up a facebook profile. Info isn't in my cheat sheet but after a brief flurry, messages from them stopped. I'd rather do real time voice talking

I've got the time and am being overwhelmed with yahoo group emails and stitchin ning. I'd rather spend less time online and more stitching ;-)

I was reading about this and figure this is how to stay ahead of the curve, should one wish to, FB is now old hat at five years old lol

aside, it's interesting that the younger crowd seem totallydisinterested in privacy, I wonder if down the road they will besorry. 'Down the road' - that's assuming it's not one with CCTV lolSometimes I feel Big Brother is being welcomed in!

Every time I turn around I hear more about face book on TV( I use it for sound in the house),My husband just laughs at me for joining. I find myself going more to the computer to see what is new!!! Less cross stitch being done!!!! Have a very nice day Barbara

Umm, I think that SOME of the younger crowd are totally disinterested in privacy, but a lot of them are very circumspect about what they post to their facebook and other places. So I really don't think that they're that different than any other generation in which some people let it all hang out (albeit via different media) and others didn't.

Elizabeth

In most cases, I don't think it's the young people who have changed, but the change in range and permanence of the media involved certainly raises the stakes--and some young people woefully underestimate the potential consequences of the things they put out on the net. On the other hand, I do think there are some young people who have considered the situation and decided (rightly or wrongly) that the way of the future involves significant changes to prevailing ideas of privacy. Maybe they turn out to be pioneers, or maybe they turn out to be shortsighted. Only time will tell ;-)

Best wishes, Ericka

I am accepting of the correction of 'some', it's never great to generalize and I know better.

However I do think it is different than it was for previous generations because many actions will be there in the ether forever! Years ago in the UK my brother and I decided to paint a pedestrian crossing on a certain stretch of road as a protest to a number of accidents to pedestrians. We were judicially reprimanded and the papers covered it. Five years later probably nobody associated either of us with the deed if it was even remembered.

Fast forward to today and the same event would be there easily accessible via google in the newspapers, in online court documents, one's going to be forever wearing the hanging out.

.An interesting side effect might be history. For about a generation and a half, the late 1960s to the advent of widespread internet usage (late 1990s), we were not a nation of communicators. Letter writing among younger people (I raise my hand as guilty) had fallen out of favor, we communicated by phone, if at all. There will be a dearth of those everyday letters chronicling commonplace and historic items. Now, of course, every view on every matter will be represented and debated endlessly.

Linda

True enough. I have made an effort to print off emails from grandchildren and shove them in a file.

With a cousin we went through letters we both had from my mother to her mother and also my grandmother about my cousins father who was a POW in Korea for a few years. My parents living in Tokyo were able to find out some details to pass on and then my grandmother would impart the findings to her DIL, my cousins mother.

My grandmother had several sisters and they wrote to each other once a week or so. For economy's sake they first wrote the usual way on the sheet, then did a half turn and wrote across the paper the other way. Nightmare to read in their spidery writing. They are merely minute details of day to day life, recipes if you could really call them such as ovens had no regulated temps etc., quite a bit about sickness in children and what could be done to pacify, soothe etc.

Maybe FB can sort of re-create that but I doubt it. Maybe a later version will be more successful.

My Grandmother suffered from TB of the throat, and spent a number of years(even after she was cured) in the Sanitarium at Bracebridge, Ontario because she had had a tracheotomy which never closed. She wrote a diary. Family letters would be sent to her, and then forwarded on to other family members (after being disinfected). Luckily for me, she copied a number of the letters into her diary. This I have, at second hand, a letter written by my Dad the day before he met my mother, letters from several of my uncles, and WWII letters from her nephew in the south Pacific theatre. All fascinating. My sister has our mother's diary in which she talks about meeting Dad.

We also have all the letters my DFIL sent to my DMIL when he immigrated to Canada. She followed several months later after he had a place for them to live. His descriptions of his trip and his adventures in a new country are wonderful.

MargW

It's like being transported back.

I've not done it. With the job hunting thing, I'm on linked in, and really need to exercise that more. At the same time I was also advised NOT to do facebook while doing Linked In. The serious job seeking thing, evidently it deosn't work in your favor to be doing the more fluffy social networking. And, I have seen some people really spending way too much time acting like they're 20 and in college - addicted to their Facebook time, and neglecting more business kind of things.

So, hopefully, I'll manage to start exercising my Linked In contats, or find some. I actually am pretty bad at doing that - I know - hard to believe.

But, enjoy yourselves.

Ellice