marcman
1/24/2011 5:03:00 AM
On Jan 23, 10:08 pm, "Velvet Jones" <Vel...@Jones.org> wrote:
> "marcman" <marcmanstud...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:c9cc0579-0c24-4347-bdfb-42380b62fccc@p7g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
> On Jan 23, 2:11 pm, "DGDevin" <DGDe...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> > "sweetbac" wrote in messagenews:ihhrb3$4lt$2@news.eternal-september.org....
> > > I still dont understand why Facebook has made billions,
> > > and I have NO interest in joining that limp wristed website,
>
> > Neither do I, and yet it is becoming a juggernaut that even has Goggle
> > worried. It's getting so that if I want to know what my favorite musicians
> > are doing I don't go to their website, I have to check their damned
> > Facebook
> > entry.
> >That's exactly correct. It's the biggest social phenomenon since smoke
> >signals.
> >People that haven't adapted yet will adapt eventually, because it's
> >here to stay.
>
> Not unlike the Borg. With a little luck, a time will come when we'll NEVER
> have to see each other face to face. That would close the book on Face.
>
> I don't Facebook. My wife does. My kids do. I asked a 15 year old teenage
> girl today how many hours per week she spends on face book. She never too
> much anymore. I said "ok, so how much is that, more than an hour per day?",
> "yeah", "more than 2 hours per day?", "oh sure, yeah", more than 3 hours per
> day?", "probably around that". I nodded. "uh huh".
>
> Maybe I'm just getting old. Or maybe I'm just right.
>
> --
> VJ
> -Who among us has not dreamed of faraway places and intertwined lovers?
I'll quit Facebook when it starts to infringe on my television soap
operas.
There's only so many hours in a day . . .