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I admit it, I don't understand many of the online social networking tools that seem to be breeding like rabbits every day online, but I do understand that people are developing new ways to use them in order to network and organize people toward political action (such as Agape) much like what we're trying to do in the Roots project.
So I'm going to start a regular column on Saturdays to discuss these things and talk about ways to build our community out. Today I'm taking the facebook plunge. I asked Spazeboy to explain the whole thing to me since he's in the right age demographic and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't understand it himself. He's now one of my facebook friends so I guess we're learning together.
Do you use facebook? Do you like it? Are you afraid of it? What features do you find useful? Is it better to burn out than to fade away?
You can register for facebook here. My profile is here, Kobe's is here, and we're always looking for new friends.
And please join the firedoglake facebook group. Since facebook is open source there are being interesting new applications written every day, and the Obama campaign seems to be making the most of them. I think there could be many interesting ways we could use it to inform, motivate and organize our community to make the leap from virtual to real-world activism, and we'd love to hear your thoughts.
(And I should cop to the fact that I'm just shamelessly working the blog because I must have more facebook friends than Matt Stoller.)
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Oklahoma kiddo @ 5
Says you. I keep getting emails about food fights and it frankly confuses me.
My first facebook friend was Matt Cooper, though. I thought that was appropriate.
Seite!
I used to have a myspace page, but I got junk postings and when I wanted to communicate with someone electronically, I’d send them email instead of posting to their myspace account, and they’d do the same in reply, so eventually I just cancelled my account. But then again I’m close to the grandfather age of their prime demographic, so I don’t think they missed me!
It’s tough. First there was usenet followed by irc, then instant messaging, blogs, myspace, facebook, and where is it going to end?
I am hoping for some synergy, and that most of us can remain (mostly) in our niche.
With my face, anything called “facebook” is bound to be scary.
Seriously, though, I always have concerns about privacy with all of these things. In some ways, I’m very old-fashioned, and liking my privacy is one of them. Or, perhaps “anti-social” is a better way of putting it.
Thank you, Jane, for providing us with a friendly way to learn a new tool! I’ll go over there today to join up. It really is hard to keep up.
One of the tools I’d really like to have is a way to access all the comments I’ve written here at FDL. The “Search” window in the right-side frame is useless for this. I was told that a Google search like “Firedoglake Schacht” or some such should work, but when I do that, I get lots of extraneous stuff– more that’s extraneous than is mine. If someone knows the right way to use google for this purpose, please let us know!
Bob in HI
I thought facebook was for students only.
DrenchedOtter @ 7
Kobe had a myspace page for a while. It was full of advertising and crap, it was owned by Murdoch and it wasn’t open source so that pretty much ended the possibilities there.
Jane:
We live in the shadow of Baylor Univ. and know tons of students in our community who literally share thousands of msg’s/friends via FB. It’s a great immediate feedback tool and conduit for networking. I check it daily and it updates me via my Bberry when someone’s “poke”s me. Great idea and thanks for starting this up to you and Pach!
Bob Schacht @ 10
I do Google searches this way:
site:firedoglake.com Cujo359
or whatever I’m interested in. The more keywords you can add after your login name (if you’re looking for a particular subject you commented on), the better. Say:
site:firedoglake.com Cujo359 large dog biscuits
One way to learn how to do google searches is to click on the “Advanced Search” link, try different things, and see how they look in the URL bar.
Eureka Springs @ 11
Nope. Good article on facebook being used for online activism here.
Does one have to use a real name on facebook? I’m with Cujo anent privacy..
Now Facebook? I’m so lame my MySpace page is completely stock, and now I have to deal with another one?
Seriously, Jane, great idea!
Robert @ 13
Explain “poke” because it has a whole different meaning in my world.
While you’re adding Jane as a friend, go ahead and look me up too.
spaze@spazeboy.net
Oklahoma kiddo @ 5
Yeah it is…so easy even * I * just joined up. Thanks Jane!
Bob Schacht @ 10
Try this google search bob.
SteveAudio @ 17
Yeah, I think Facebook is going to be a lot more interesting for our purposes than MySpace is. MySpace seems to be great if you’re a band but not so good for getting people in Maine to orgainze against Susan Collins.
I have 6 friends on MySpace
It is a point of pride.
See, now that spazeboy’s there, I’d just feel like a dirty old man all over again if I went on facebook.
I’ll just sit in the corner here with Kobe.
For those of you in Washington, there is a Palestinian Anti-occupation march taking place tomorrow Sunday June 10th in D.C..
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list
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Several years ago I attended one of these marches spent all day interviewing (audiotaping) older Palestinians who had been run out of their towns and villages in the 1940’s and 50’s. This is an opportunity to hear these stories first hand. Hear the other side of the I/P issue attend the march.
Rosanne Barr speaks out about the occupation of Palestinian lands. Her statement will be broadcast at the rally tomorrow.
http://www.democracynow.org/ar.....08/1512231
“I am speaking out against the occupation of Palestinian lands as a citizen of the world, American, as a Jew, and grandmother. Worth the listen (short)
If you attend the march/rally I can guarantee you will learn a great deal.
I have to say I like being able to put people’s faces to their names. We’re working on an app where you can enter your facebook page ID in FDL and whenever you comment, a little icon with a link to your facebook page will be able to let someone see you.
Pach has one that doesn’t have his photo or personal id but it’s still his “online identity” so that works too for folks who still want to be anonymous.
TeddySanFran @ 24
Oh heavens Teddy stop. You’re younger than me.
Jane Hamsher @ 22
[snip]
Yeah, I think Facebook is going to be a lot more interesting for our purposes than MySpace is. MySpace seems to be great if you’re a band but not so good for getting people in Maine to orgainze against Susan Collins.
I’m in Maine. Curious how you see this happening.
Compared to MySpace (and based only on my experiences with Facebook so far), I’d say that Facebook is far superior user experience:
It loads fast.
It’s not cluttered with spam, crappy glitter graphics, and phishing schemes.
And I haven’t encountered a single Facebook profile that begins playing Britney Spears’ “Toxic” (or any song by any artist) at full blast as soon as you click on it.
TeddySanFran @ 24
Hell, if I go on I’ll BE a dirty old man. So don’t feel bad.
PeterK @ 28
Tom Allen inspired me this morning. How wonderful if HoJo became the kiss of death, you know?
I really like the format here at the lake now. Am kind of with Cujo and Eureka Springs on the privacy thing.
speaking of photos.. Jane, did you ever get to see all the photos sent by firedogs and edited by monk?
Jane Hamsher @ 31
sorry–HoJo? another damn acronym–pls explain (not feeling so swift today).
Jane - I signed up and then unsigned. I need some privacy - not a lot - and while it’s nice to put faces with names, I think I’ll stay behind my screen name, although anyone with Google and any ambition could probably figure out my real identity by piecing together all the comments over time, it would be more work than it’s worth.
That, plus having a face that’s perfect for radio.
I see that Pach and OFG used screen names, but that seems to violate Facebook’s rules.
Eureka Springs @ 33
I didn’t. I did hear it was in the works but never saw it, entirely likely it came through when I was in some kind of dubious state earlier in the year and it fell through the cracks. Can somebody resend? I’d love to see it.
Fouad Ajami thinks Lewis Libby deserves a purple heart.
I beg to differ.
-GSD
I too am fired up about RGJoe2.0: Remember the Maine!
Can’t wait to prove to Susan Collins just how toxic the old coot is. She deserves it, too, after the deafening silence outta her/his/their Senate Committee on Katrina, war-profiteer contracting, and oil & insurance company profits. We’ll show her just how much bipartisan seating means!
I just joined. What the heck.
heh, i’ve never thought much of the social networking apps. I do know that my younger sister, still in college, uses both facebook and myspace. The owner of myspace speaks volumes about my opinion of that particular app.
never used it, so let see if it is a useful tool. If nothing else jane can chalk up another friend in her race with matt! *g*
I keep putting off getting a web page up for my music and artisto-political-environmental rants. I’ve been putting it off for 14 years. Back then, everything seemed so elegant and simple and the web was brand new. Even then, though, at 45 or 46, I felt older than than the demographic. The first two years of non-AOL graphic interface siezed the European activist imagination a good year or 14 months before Americans really began to understand what had been created.
I followed Jane’s link to myspace on my laptop and I got my son’s, my son’s band’s, my son’s band’s drummer’s, my daughter’s boyfriend’s and a couple other accounts that have been run off this machine, but it won’t let me register another account at this address, so I’ll use that as an excuse to go take a nap.
One thing I do know, Jane, from using computers in the home for 24 years and communicating in groups over modem for 23, is that what we will find handy in 2009 either hasn’t been invented, come out yet, or is being used in its infancy by small groups of people.
Cujo359 @ 14
This works pretty well for me! Thanks. Since I don’t use a code name like you do, I put my signature “Bob in HI” in quotes, and that worked well.
Thanks,
Bob
petedownunder @ 35
I get the privacy thing, which is why I like Pach’s icon. It’s still a great way to organize — you can become a part of various networks or interest groups that pursue things you care about, with an ability to communicate quickly — that don’t need you to give away personal information or photos that make you identifiable in ways you don’t want. For instance, Rick Jacobs just sent me an invite to be in a group for humane immigration reform that is part of his Courage Campaign and also associated with the train ride that David Neiwert is going to be on (I was really happy to be able to recommend David for that). If they need to get info out to people who are willing to take action about that particular activity, say Lou Dobbs attacks them again or something, facebook would be a great way to do it.
Petedownunder,
How do you unsign? I have the same concerns.
Never mind, found it.
Hi Jane -
How would an FDL Facebook be different from what there is now- us reading the post, then the record of comments where people can and do interact?
Jane, I never heard of a final piece of monk-work either.. I think he found a few hundred more photos than he expected…)
hojo-lieberman
Thanks for bringing this topic up… There is real potential here!
The blog seems cooler because of the real time, continuous medium of expression / flow. Ultimately, everyone uploads everything they have to say and it is just a search engine away to retrieve their perspectives…even as they are manifested throughout time.
We watch the news come in (via manual scanning or filtered RSS) and post the links along with our comments. This is just fabulous for elucidating a larger point of view.
In the blogosphere, our “faces” are our opinions. A “tag cloud” of the most frequently used words we use in our comments would be an apt graphical identity to propagate.
The way to organize might be to distribute an RSS filtering program that was locally selective for political content and viewed as an application which aggregated and reduced to a tag cloud for browsing. Kind of an RSS/Tivo/Visualizer amalgamation.
Jane- saw answer to my question in 43
dmac @ 47
Thanks, but why hojo? (I admit, I’m a stickler for details sometimes)
I signed up under my screen name. No problem. The picture I put up is of my wee baby (50 days old today!) with me barely in the pic.
My 10 min old facebook profile
jane-
ygm
called fwd please advise and the subject of it just happened again this post.
Susan Collins is the downeast slang name for Joe Lieberman.
Ayuh.
-GSD
Milan River @ 45
Very good question.
We have a limited number of posts in a day, and we often can’t get too regional because we’re appealing to a national/international audience. Plus we have front pagers who write posts and make decisions about what they want to write about.
Someone within the FDL community might want to organize people who live in, for the sake of argument, Maine. Maybe to have a write-in campaign to local newspapers enlightening people about how Susan Collins is a Bush-lovin’ fool, or to show up for a Tom Allen fundraiser, or maybe to become active in local town committees. Ideally you would be able to use facebook to identify those in the FDL community who lived in Maine and be able to communicate with them directly rather than having front pagers mediate it. More specifically targeted than just mentioning something in comments.
PeterK @ 50
Holy Joe Lieberman because he’s a sanctimonious prick.
PeterK @ 50
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HoJo is a shortening of Holy Joe (as in holier-than-thou), I believe.
I have to say that I had some rather bizarre experiences trying to do blog outreach for the BA visit of Tom Allen. In one case, I was burned. So this is catching me at a point where I am very unlikely to put any more info about myself out there.
And, what’s to stop trolls from joining the FDL group?
Oh, yeah, good chance my “screen name” is already taken. ;) There are a lot of us out there.
A filly just won the Belmont.
trifecta @ 51
Woo hoo! I’m proud to be your first friend.
Jane Hamsher @ 55
DING! In what is something of a rabbinical tradition (I speak from some experience, being Jewish too).
Valley Girl @ 57
I guess I would say don’t put more info about yourself out there than you are comfortable with. I think that’s manageable.
As for trolls — there are always going to be trolls, he willingness to tolerate them is a liberal trait and it’s what makes the internet a more hospitable place for us. The wingnuts really shoot themselves in the foot trying to use one-way communication in a two-way world. I don’t think anything would be communicated group-wide that we wouldn’t say on the front page of FDL anyway, just targeted more specifically.
And btw, I don’t know if ultimately facebook will be the best way to do this. We’re trying it out, testing it to see if it works.
GSD @ 53
One thing (from a long-time Maine resident) to remember, if you get involved in this race, is that Mainers tend to be rather wary of anything that looks like an attempt by outsiders to influence their affairs. They are generally quite reasonable and willing to listen, but have a sharp ear for hype. And the connection with HoJo hasn’t got much play up here (at least I haven’t seen it).
I keep putting off getting a web page up for my music and artisto-political-environmental rants. I’ve been putting it off for 14 years. Back then, everything seemed so elegant and simple and the web was brand new. Even then, though, at 45 or 46, I felt older than than the demographic. The first two years of non-AOL graphic interface siezed the European activist imagination a good year or 14 months before Americans really began to understand what had been created.
I followed Jane’s link to myspace on my laptop and I got my son’s, my son’s band’s, my son’s band’s drummer’s, my daughter’s boyfriend’s and a couple other accounts that have been run off this machine, but it won’t let me register another account at this address, so I’ll use that as an excuse to go take a nap.
ed teller-
“One thing I do know, Jane, from using computers in the home for 24 years and communicating in groups over modem for 23, is that what we will find handy in 2009 either hasn’t been invented, come out yet, or is being used in its infancy by small groups of people.”
ed teller-
you remind me of the time when i had the only email addy in my town and the only people who did it were nasa types and nerds…….aol was in it’s infancy, i was the first aol subscriber in my city, and i have to say, it was better back then…….i was out of computer world for years and just entered back in last fall…out of disgust for the upgrading updating updoing of it all……..a lot has changed, but don’t know that it’s better…really don’t think it is, although much more is out there, was plenty meat available then and you didn’t have to update and buy a computer every 6 months………but please do make your site of music and thoughts, i can’t imagine a better purpose.
Hi Jane -
My inner elementary schoolboy came out.
First I “poked” you -
Then I asked to be friends :)
There was a program on NPR about Face book and how kids set up fake facebook sights so that their parents do not see what is really posted about their kids.
http://www.npr.org/templates/s.....Id=5182960
http://www.npr.org/templates/s.....Id=7402921
I’m taking care of a maybe dying cat, and I wanted to you to be the first to know. I apologize for breaking in: love to Jane.
Thanks, Jane.
I went to the facebook link, and you have to register before you can even see what you are getting into. Yeah, I read the long privacy policy statement, but not having actually participated in the facebook site, a lot of it didn’t make sense to me.
So, that’s the second reason I didn’t join up to try it out.
But, the general idea of finding a way for people to make connections for political action is a great one.
This is along the same kinda thing, but the same place that just booed war-criminal Andy Card is hosting this item front paged in the local rag::
I’m gettin’ in.
This was my own ‘miracle’ 3rd show:
http://www.photog.com/gdead/70.....index.html
Patty Smith played that day too. I’ve just been recently truly exposed to her work of stuff besides the Gloria etc. usual suspects. Genius!
She mentioned how ’some’ thought the Dead were dinosaurs. Then mentiioned the recent Dead visit to Egypt and shows at the Pyramids.
Hey Now!
———–
‘Steal Your Face(book) Right Offa Yo Head!’
Don’t mean to be dense, but why? Are you recruiting recruits? I look forward to learning more about it from you. Until then, I wish you and Matt well.
PeterK @ 62
A few letters to the editor might elucidate some your fellow New Englanders as to the pernicious influence of Holy Joe on Susan Collins.
-GSD
Thanks Jane for the explanation.
Sometimes being more analog in a digital world makes me weird.
Cujo359 @ 9
So you’d prefer an antisocial-networking site, perhaps? ;-)
Did anyone post this NYT article about Facebook, it’s funny
NYT
mhpcr
I’m taking care of a maybe dying cat, and I wanted to you to be the first to know. I apologize for breaking in: love to Jane.
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been there ((((mhpcr))))
GSD @ 70
Well, it depends. They generally don’t see him so negatively up here. It would have to be done carefully, IMO.
Links for info about Palestinian Anti-occupation march in D.C. on June 10 (tomorrow)
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
http://stopthewall.org/worldwi.....1460.shtml
Hi Jane!
Don’t worry you’ve got more friends than just Matt although I’ve found it’s good to have him on your side.
Drinking Liberally, Oakland is a facebook member. If you are in the San Francisco Bay area and can’t get to the SF side we meet in Oakland on the second and fourth Wednesdays every month Visit the site linked above for directions to the venue. We have also started meeting for brunch twice a month for folks who need a Left Blogistan fix but find it hard to get out at night.
We are currently working on an email campaign to get the Dems to realize that they must fight on the Iraq issue or risk losing their majority.
Our small contingent of bloggers some of whom also blog at our political action site Bear Republic Action Group are looking forward to this year’s YearlyKos in Chicago.
I have not really spent a lot of time trying to ‘work’ facebook yet. I’m still catching up from registering at tribe.net, Zanby and upcoming.org. Fellow blogger tekstone has registered us with Change.org.
We will see if these social networks can be useful in advancing our progressive agenda.
Thanks for the poke Jane!
“China and five other nations –
Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan and the United States — accounted for more than 90 percent of judicial executions in 2006, Amnesty said in a report earlier this year.”
America keeps some great company.
-GSD
re GSD @ 75:
I actually think SC is much more vulnerable on supporting W and the war. Linking her to HoJo would seem a bit far-fetched, except maybe in that context.
There are a few things that make Facebook (IMHO) the best social networking site out there. It’s far superior to Myspace.
1. Facebook tends to display real information. I’m not a 23 year old pimply faced geek pretending to be 19 year old nympho. On Facebook, I really am a 23 year old geek. Of course, people can and do lie and sign up under fake names, but most people use their real names. The point is to find your friends. You can’t do that without a name. I’ve recently started to look up people I went to high school with.
2. You have total control over who sees what information. You can enter a large amount of personal information and allow it to be seen only by your friends, people you have explicitly told Facebook you know and who have responded that they do, in fact, know you; your networks, organizations of people based on having attended a common school or living in a common geographic area; or everyone. So, for example, if you want your friends to be able to see your address, but not anyone you went to college with, you can tell Facebook to show your address only to your friends. You can even be more explicit and tell Facebook which of your networks can have particular information. For example, I went to a small liberal arts school, so I’m willing to show more information who went to the same school as me (my Wheaton College Network) than I am everyone who lives in Washington DC (my regional network).
3. You can tag your friends in photos, and they will automatically show up in your profile and vice-versa.
4. If you look for a friend and don’t find them, it’s easy to invite them to sign up.
5. Facebook pages don’t look like they were put up by middle school students.
6. You can use it to organize events. For example, a friend of mine (who doesn’t work for any sort of advocacy organization), organized a day of prayer, fasting, and action for Darfur (yes, I’m a religious liberal), that had nearly 300 participants. Plus, if you can get your friends to use it, you can use it just like you would evite.com, only it works better.
7. Facebook has just rolled out a new developer platform that should provide interesting new functionality. Plus, if you do work for some sort of non profit, you can write your own application to advance your message.
There are a ton of things I could say about Facebook and what makes it so useful, but I think that this highlights a few of the important ones.
PeterK @ 62
That needs saying over and over again. I agree totally. About negative reactions to outsider attempts to influence their affairs.
And, BTW, I have gone to Maine for at least a few weeks every summer for 15 years. Small place, off the beaten track. I know the local people and the local history. [so, in case you were wondering, my comment about bizarre experiences had nothing to do with me acting untoward ;)]
(((mhpcr)))
so hope the “maybe” has a happy ending for you both.
Yeah baby, I heard and saw ‘that’ on the “face”. I’ll be in Tahlequah sometime after midnight tonight. Let’s rock. And I know you’re lookin’ here now. I promise to be more radical ;0). See you and The People in about 7 or eight!
For you sweet OK. Indian Princess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
Ed*ard Teller @ 41
I agree, but I also believe that the more experience we have with the tools that are out there, the better prepared we’ll be to jump on that new thing when it comes along.
A techie friend of mine likes to use the example of the CB radio craze of the 70’s. A bunch of people discovered this thing used by truckers, and really liked the idea of being able to communicate from their cars (and a lot more people thought it sounded kinda neat but not worth the bother or expense.) Then when cell phones (originally car phones) were introduced, people said “oh, that’s what we really wanted!”
(Which isn’t a good example of my point, because CB experience probably didn’t prepare you to take advantage of cell phones, but it’s still a good story.)
Ok, I posted a photo and a comment in Pachs post… how do I poke someone? *s*
and my face book name is Giovanni Eureka Springs AR…hope they let me keep it.
Jane Hamsher @ 22
I do like facebook better-though I’m on Myspace as well.
Myspace has become cacaphonous. I rarely bother with it unless I get a notice that someone’s stopped by. On FB I find much more my pace.
BTW, I’m Boadicea W on facebook, and I’d love to add some firepups to my friends.
mhprc and cat:
When my cat was ill and would not eat- we heated canned cat food a little in the microwave. The warmth brought out the aroma of the food more so he’d be more interested in it. Not too hot though.
OT - Helen Thomas is on Tim Russert on CNBC right now.
Gawd, another generational chasm looming I see, haven’t even got up to iPod speed yet, don’t have a 12 year old arround to show me how, can’t afford to hire someone at 19 year old rates, if they had the time to spare. Now to do what? Haven’t the slightest clue what Myspace is; no inclination to find out doesn’t help motivation at all. And now something about proding - I want to see the liscence for proctology first! (A F*rd line comes to mind as well). Good luck with it anyway, it does sound like it could help personalize communications and eleminate the current anominity prevailing which is a double edged instrument. All the best……
Redshift @ 72
Hmmm, how would IM go on that kind of network?
AS1: Screw you!
AS2: Up yours!
AS1: Go away!
AS2: Leave me alone!
AS3: Would you guys STFU, already?
Sounds like a sure-fire winner, or a right-wing blog without the self-important nicknames.
[Opens Door, looks around, drops bags.]
I’m Back!
PeterK @ 62
Of course you haven’t seen it. Just like CT voters saw and heard nothing about Joe the LiarMann when he was running from Lamont that would indicate that Joe was anything but what he said he was: ‘The Last Honest Man’.
The corporatist media are perfectly prepared to strangle any attempt to get the truth out about the vile, corrupt scum who with millions from the MI complex, Big Pharma and Big Oil are working overtime to make you, me and everyone else in our country happy residents of Corporate Slave State.
This is why FDL is so important. This site led the way in showing the residents of Left Blogistan the truth about Joe.
Now they and the rest of us need to tell the millions of Americans who haven’t got the memo….
Everything you ever dreamed for you, your family, your nation is in peril from the actions of the insane posse of greedy fascist wannabees who call themselves ‘Republicans’, ‘Conservatives’, ‘Believers is Christ’ and a host of other pseudonyms none of which can hide their unAmerican nature from the citizenry.
If we rip down the curtain of MSM lies they hide behind.
Kobe doesn’t have any animal friends.
Oh, and since everyone else is doing it, on Facebook I’m Will Johnston, Wheaton IL Alum 05 and live in DC. Just thought I’d give a few details since there’s 114 Will Johnstons on there.
mhpcr @ 66
My bestest friend (college days) just had to make the decision to let one of the kitties go to heaven. Tears, many tears.
Her ex, still a friend, thought that she was overreacting, and that there were “deeper issues”.
I told her (short form), b.s. We cried a lot together on the phone when she told me the news.
NEW POST upstairs
Cujo359 @ 90
7M40!
Email passwords? Dont think so.
I get these facebook, FreindsRus etc.”invites” from people all the time, and it always irks me to NO END that they have passed my email off to something like that.
Valley Girl @ 67
VG, I’m a positive maniac for privacy. I signed up under my screen id. For one thing, if I used my real name nobody’d know who the heck I was, and for another I have been stalked. I’m very cautious about what info I put in public-it’s all a calculated risk.
You can limit the info that is available about you to a large extent.
OK, I’ve barely unpacked, and am trying to figure out this new-fangled facebook thing.
Do I need to go facebook site to facebook site to poke people here?
Speaking of new Internet experiences, the latest FDL revamp is interesting. I don’t know why, but the column on the left side of the page has disappeared, and there are now two columns on the right, one of which consists only of the “Advertise liberally” button. I’m running