Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[alfred russel]

Glad your sisters came around and now oppose voter ID laws.

I am frankly surprised they are so in favor of immigration and want open borders.

You may be misinterpreting the meme. You are assuming they intend to convey it is the beginning of something negative, but that may be an unwarranted assumption.

[Valmy]

Glad your sisters came around and now oppose voter ID laws.

I am frankly surprised they are so in favor of immigration and want open borders.

You may be misinterpreting the meme. You are assuming they intend to convey it is the beginning of something negative, but that may be an unwarranted assumption.

This is just the beginning! Of something awesome!

[Neil]

I accepted fifteen years of Facebook friend requests last month, having not logged in for quite some time. 

Browsing around, I have to say that I'm struggling to see what the appeal is.  I mean, it's nice to be able to stay in touch with people through things like Messenger, but most of the content that they suggest for me are comics about elderly people struggling with the modern world, or pictures of pets.  Does the algorithm think I'm an elderly man or something? 

[DGuller]

Is that the US?

Close, that's Russia.  Surprisingly they actually did have a strictly enforced lockdown regime for a while.

[Valmy]

Is that the US?

Close, that's Russia.  Surprisingly they actually did have a strictly enforced lockdown regime for a while.

So they are warning us of authoritarianism in Russia eh? This warning comes 500 years too late.

[grumbler]

I accepted fifteen years of Facebook friend requests last month, having not logged in for quite some time. 

Browsing around, I have to say that I'm struggling to see what the appeal is.  I mean, it's nice to be able to stay in touch with people through things like Messenger, but most of the content that they suggest for me are comics about elderly people struggling with the modern world, or pictures of pets.  Does the algorithm think I'm an elderly man or something?

Who the fuck are you?

[Barrister]

I accepted fifteen years of Facebook friend requests last month, having not logged in for quite some time. 

Browsing around, I have to say that I'm struggling to see what the appeal is.  I mean, it's nice to be able to stay in touch with people through things like Messenger, but most of the content that they suggest for me are comics about elderly people struggling with the modern world, or pictures of pets.  Does the algorithm think I'm an elderly man or something?

The appeal of Facebook is to catch up on news from more distant family and friends who you still want to keep up with, but are unlikely to actually pick up the phone and call on a regular basis.

[Neil]

I accepted fifteen years of Facebook friend requests last month, having not logged in for quite some time. 

Browsing around, I have to say that I'm struggling to see what the appeal is.  I mean, it's nice to be able to stay in touch with people through things like Messenger, but most of the content that they suggest for me are comics about elderly people struggling with the modern world, or pictures of pets.  Does the algorithm think I'm an elderly man or something?

The appeal of Facebook is to catch up on news from more distant family and friends who you still want to keep up with, but are unlikely to actually pick up the phone and call on a regular basis.

Yeah, that had been a task that I had traditionally let others handle.  Obviously I'm making adjustments now, and I don't know how I'm going to keep all this stuff straight.  I don't really have a mind for those little personal details.  Or maybe I do, but I've always used it for other things.

[Barrister]

I accepted fifteen years of Facebook friend requests last month, having not logged in for quite some time. 

Browsing around, I have to say that I'm struggling to see what the appeal is.  I mean, it's nice to be able to stay in touch with people through things like Messenger, but most of the content that they suggest for me are comics about elderly people struggling with the modern world, or pictures of pets.  Does the algorithm think I'm an elderly man or something?

The appeal of Facebook is to catch up on news from more distant family and friends who you still want to keep up with, but are unlikely to actually pick up the phone and call on a regular basis.

Yeah, that had been a task that I had traditionally let others handle.  Obviously I'm making adjustments now, and I don't know how I'm going to keep all this stuff straight.  I don't really have a mind for those little personal details.  Or maybe I do, but I've always used it for other things.

Yeah, your current news is the kind of thing that Facebook can be useful for.  Obviously there's people you'd tell in person, but a simple post on Facebook can save you from making dozens if not hundreds of phone calls / letters.

Plus the pet pictures.  I've realized I'm a sucker for pet pictures.

[Neil]

Yeah, your current news is the kind of thing that Facebook can be useful for.  Obviously there's people you'd tell in person, but a simple post on Facebook can save you from making dozens if not hundreds of phone calls / letters.

Plus the pet pictures.  I've realized I'm a sucker for pet pictures.

I found that I mostly delegated that, as I wasn't really up to communicating.  Same with funeral planning.  I was making high level decisions and paying bills, but most of the work and communication was carried out by my sister-in-laws and my sister. 

[viper37]

Does the algorithm think I'm an elderly man or something?

more like a living dead, in your case?

welcome back!

[Razgovory]

Is that the US?

Close, that's Russia.  Surprisingly they actually did have a strictly enforced lockdown regime for a while.

That's what I thought.  Unshanka's aren't common headgear for US police.

[Syt]

[Syt]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Rogers

This quote appears frequently[13][14][15] on the Internet and is often attributed to Rogers with an incorrect date of 1931. In fact, the quotation is part of a longer sermon by Rogers from 1984 in a larger series titled God's Way to Health, Wealth and Wisdom (CDA107),[16] but it also appears as a passage in Rogers' 1996 work Ten Secrets for a Successful Family stating that "by and large our young people do not know either the importance or the value of honest labor".[17]

Rogers did not originate the quote at all. In fact, he did not claim to have originated it. Instead, he was citing almost verbatim anti-Soviet propaganda that had circulated in many magazines in the early 1960s.[18] The quote appeared before that in the Congressional Record of 1958, where it was appended to the record by U.S. Senator George Aiken of Vermont. Aiken had taken the words from Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, who had said them in his address at the Illinois Agricultural Association's annual meeting on November 13, 1957.[19] They have also been attributed to Gerald L. K. Smith, who had written them in his magazine, The Cross and the Flag.[20] Since the quote was attributed to Rogers in 2009, it has been regularly attributed to him; however, Rogers was essentially quoting Eastland or Smith at the time.

[Razgovory]

Gerald L.K. Smith was a Nazi...