John
Well I must admit that I opened a personal Facebook Account mainly to try and understand what its all about mainly because my company is going in that direction with marketing and I wanted to better understand it. After about two months I have 6 or 7 friends and about 4 photos posted (two if you don't count the pix of my dog and cat). I have been receiving instruction from my 23 year old niece on this (she has something in the neighborhood of 400 photos on her page). But I must admit I still don't get it. I think it's a function of age since outside of work what I value most is peace and quiet. I will even avoid noisy restaurants even if they have the best food in town.
I do have a personal email account but I only check it once or twice a week -- usually sort by sender and delete about half the messages without reading them.
David B. Gaynon
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I have considered resigning myself from some of these arenas like Facebook and LinkedIn. You realize what you have gotten yourself into when these things happen to you that did happen to me:
1. Your brother-in-law gives your mother-in-law your Facebook connection 2. Some friends that you like socializing with at parties a few times a year, start "updating" and letting you know that their cat has died, they are going on vacation, or their kids are graduating from High School, they now love mead better than beer, etc.
3. People invite you to join their network and you find they have 500+ connections already 4. People invite you to join their network and you ask them who they are and they are not sure if you have met, but since you are in the same professional association, you MUST have a lot in common 5. The Web sites send increasing amounts of self-serving promotional "concerns" and "invitations" for you to be more connected. And more connected. And more connected - so they can keep their stats up and charge their advertisers/supporters more.
I live professionally in and out of email and the Internet all day. To start the evening with more time staring into an LCD screen is not my idea of having a life. I have noticed at times me, my wife, both kids and their friends all starting into a TV, CRT, or LCD screen simultaneously for the better part of some evenings. Is that a life? Not for me. I head to the workshop and putter around or take walks in the woods or walk down to the park on the river or do something besides type as fast as I can into an electronic world. We really do need to manage our technologies better when it begins to change the nature of personal relationships and privacy expectations.
I really enjoy friends, relatives, and associates - in moderation. But when they start having 24/7 expectations of daily responses, it can become a bit much. You wonder what will happen to us if there is ever a national emergency and an electrical blackout for a few days. I am sure that following such a disaster Facebook, LinkedIn, and Titter will be encouraging you to contact everyone right away. Will they be helping you or their statistics?
John
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John Phillips
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Gaynon
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 12:05 PM
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Subject: Facebook
A brief but interesting blog on leaving Facebook behind.
http://futurelawyer.typepad.com/futurelawyer/2010/05/goodbye-facebook-have-a
-nice-life.html
David B. Gaynon
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