On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 19:03, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > I'm just guessing, but how do they access Facebook and yet not be able > to use a telephone?
I think some of you miss some of the advantages of Facebook. It allows me to stay loosely in touch with around 120 friends, many of whom I have not seen face-to-face for maybe 30 years. They can see I'm still alive and I them, and I'm able to feel just slightly more in-touch with them. The overall effect is a bit like that of receiving a once-per-year round-robin letter from each of them, except that instead of a whole wodge of news coming once per year, one gets - shall we say - a fiftieth of the amount 50 times more often. It also allows one to comment immediately on something someone else has done, which requires a lot less commitment than a full conversation with someone whom, in fact, one perhaps no longer knows well. I would not expect most of these people ever to ring me, and by the same token I am not going to ring 120 people, who're now spread all across the world. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
