The elephant in the room, of course, for me is how utterly cretinous Facebook is. I have an account, but no page, or is that wall?, or timeline? Or something. I have diverted all Facebook notifications into the bin of my email, but I am aware I get about 200 a week, and I hardly use it. If it had been designed to be more annoying it couldn’t have been. John Leonard
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Sure it’s easy enough to deny those requests for “friendship” on Skype, ( hey, who mentioned Skype ??) that’s the easy bit. On email my system dumps them and other clutter immediately into the Trash bin where they are easy to ignore. But on facebook I seem to get “tagged” by people I’ve never heard of (or want to) as a result of unknown “friends of friends of friends” somehow mentioning me in mail not ever intended for me. There seems to be an ever increasing network of contacts I don’t want – and all this rubbish keeps coming in which I delete delete delete. I just hope the senders get disappointed by my lack of response. Needless to say I’m steering clear of twitter and instagram, whatever they are. Tony. —–Original Message—– Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 9:32 PM Cc: birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org As far as I am aware it’s not compulsory to have friends on FB, to accept friend requests or do anything other than what you want to do – so you don’t have to do anything on FB other than join and read posts for groups that interest you – you don’t even have to actively participate (in the same way that quite a few BA subscribers over the years have admitted to being “read-only” members most of the time). Cheers Tom Wilson Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 3:50 PM Cc: mailto:birding-aus@birding-aus.org Hi John, You don’t have to divert your FB notifications into your email bin you can set up FB so that you don’t get email notifications – it was cluttering up my emails as well. The good thing about FB when set up this way is that you can peruse your friend’s posts or favourite FB page when you like and otherwise it doesn’t interrupt your peace. Allan Richardson
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As in life, It certainly not compulsory to have friends on FB, you can have enemies, I have several of those. At least on FB, you can get rid of those with the click of a button. Carl Clifford
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As far as I am aware it’s not compulsory to have friends on FB, to accept friend requests or do anything other than what you want to do – so you don’t have to do anything on FB other than join and read posts for groups that interest you – you don’t even have to actively participate (in the same way that quite a few BA subscribers over the years have admitted to being “read-only” members most of the time). Cheers Tom Wilson Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 3:50 PM Cc: mailto:birding-aus@birding-aus.org Hi John, You don’t have to divert your FB notifications into your email bin you can set up FB so that you don’t get email notifications – it was cluttering up my emails as well. The good thing about FB when set up this way is that you can peruse your friend’s posts or favourite FB page when you like and otherwise it doesn’t interrupt your peace. Allan Richardson
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Hi John, You don’t have to divert your FB notifications into your email bin you can set up FB so that you don’t get email notifications – it was cluttering up my emails as well. The good thing about FB when set up this way is that you can peruse your friend’s posts or favourite FB page when you like and otherwise it doesn’t interrupt your peace. Allan Richardson
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