[meteorite-list] Photos of Dr. Laurence Garvie and Myself teaching meteorite basics.

From: Michael Mulgrew <mikestang_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:48:26 -0700
Message-ID: <CAMseTy3fPLN0j_i143vO4TRQjokPX0ph+hAmdg8aoJJbgx0nbw_at_mail.gmail.com>

I'm with you, Anne, a colossal waste of time. Imagine how productive
people could be in the real world if they spent a little less time
plugged in?

Michael in so. Cal.


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Anne Black <impactika at aol.com> wrote:
>
> WOW!!!!!
> Thank you Jim, but really all that!!!! No wonder some people call it a colossal waste of time!!!!
>
> Lists...... Groups....... How do you find time to manage all that? I haven't even found time to update my website since I got back from Tucson. No, I might consider something simple like the Meteorite-Exchange page, but nothing more.
>
> As for the NSA, I don't know how that got into the conversation, it is totally irrelevant.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
>
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Wooddell <jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net>
> To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sat, Mar 15, 2014 8:51 am
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Photos of Dr. Laurence Garvie and Myself teaching meteorite basics.
>
>
> Hi Anne,
>
> The simple answer is security settings per post in FaceBook (FB).
>
> FaceBook posts can be the following;
>
> Public - The post goes goes to anyone. You can see them.
>
> Friends - The post goes to the FB friends that have been approve by
> Ruben as FB friends. Only his friends see them
>
> Group - The post goes to a specific group that Ruben would select.
>
> Lists - The post would go to a specific list that Ruben made that has
> his FB friends he wants
> in the list. An example is my Meteorite Interests List. Everyone I
> have in FB that is related to
> meteorite interests are in my Meteorite Interest List. This keeps me
> from bothering these folks
> with my other interests they may not want to have anything to do with.
> It keeps things respectful of others for me
>
> And there are a few others...
>
> For some examples, I use List's a lot. I made several. One of them is
> called Family and only my family members get those posts.
>
> I host two groups and my posts to those groups do not go to my
> meteorite FB friends.
> (unless FB breaks or I blow it).
>
> This is part of the learning curve I mentioned in a previous post.
>
> Another example... Melinda Hutson hosts the Cascadia Meteorite
> Laboratory page. I just invited a bunch of folks to "Like" that page.
> It is currently
> gaining members by leaps and bounds and when CML posts something, all
> those folks will see it. If those people do not like what CML posts,
> they can simply
> not follow it (a control command) or they can simply unlike it.
>
> FB also offers more opportunities for businesses and dealers to reach
> out to millions of people.....I have yet to see any meteorite dealer
> take advantage of this
> and it truly is a way to grow a business. They all must be making too
> much now to bother with that!!! ;) Just a thought...sometimes a
> business owner or manager
> needs to step back a bit from their perception of what is and actually
> run their business as a business, if they want to grow (Business 102).
>
>
> The bottom line is this.
>
> Email Lists are very limited in features. They hold you captive on who
> sees what you post and what you see other post (excluding filter you set
> in your software)
> FaceBook fixes that.
>
> As far as the NSA bs, that's what it is. If they want to know about
> you, they do and don't think they don't! If you have that much to hide,
> you should not have any
> electronic means of communications that is tied to a network. It's just
> silly to think that way. What's really funny about that...is that some
> of my friends that could
> actually have something to hide...are closer to true outlaws as can be
> (top dogs in the 1% world)....are on FB. So this NSA stuff is simply
> silly perception.
>
> I am by no means saying email lists are bad, I enjoy this one minus all
> the ads...but I have filters employed!
> On 3/14/2014 6:09 PM, Anne Black wrote:
>>
>> I cannot see Ruben's page either. And here is what I don't understand:
>>
>> A few weeks ago someone posted a link to NASA's Facebook page, I was
>> glad of that because I could finally look at a professionally done
>
> and
>>
>> monitored page and see what Facebook could really be like when well
>> done. Well, I looked at NASA's page at length, and I was very
>> disappointed by the amount of garbage posted there (idiotic comments,
>> crazy theories, and more), but at least I could read it. And I can
>> also read Meteorite-Exchange's page (much cleaner, how do you do that
>> Paul?).
>>
>> But I cannot read Ruben's page. Why not?
>>
>>
>> Anne M. Black
>> www.IMPACTIKA.com
>> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
>
> --
> Jim Wooddell
> jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net
> http://pages.suddenlink.net/chondrule/
>
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