On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 19:26:05 +0000, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > 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.
As a non-Facebook user - well said. -- Brian.
