facebook

[john e. holliday]

facebook and some other similar sites are getting me.  Guess it is old age.  But, I keep getting alerts in my E-Mail about individuals wanting me to be friends on facebook.   Just today was one from an individual on the Brotherhood  of the Ring site.  I glanced at it and it showed I had  240+  people wanting to be friends on  facebook.  Even my relatives want me on there.   I have enough to keep  me out of the shop now with this site,  SSW,  the Brotherhood and Barton.  So forgive me guys/gals if I don't respond over on facebook.

Administrator if this is wrong place, you have my permission to move or delete it.   I guess I am just venting my inner self.

[John Stiles]

Don't sweat the small stuff Doc, it's all relatively the same thing...internet is the internet is the internet. The only difference is when individuals you don't know are trying to contact you....they generally are not trustworthy. Those: you ignore(!), put on your ignore list, and go on. Otherwise just don't let it bother you.

[Joe Just]

Doc, Just delete it and move on.
Joe

[Paul Taylor]

Doc
As long as you don't have a FB account you will not be able to connect. Just delete the emails.
FB is just a social network. It is a way to connet with old friends and make new friends. Hate to be the one to say it but it's the wave of the future.

[Serge_Krauss]

Hi, Doc-

I know too well what you're saying. I have found it a great way to reconnect with long lost friends and sometimes do some PR for the wife or get on my soap box,... BUT it can be way too time consuming. I'd suggest posting there how you'd like folks to handle it - like CL friends use regular e-mail or forums like this, so that you don't have to jump around everywhere. You can also post that you're lack of response is due to other pressing matters and not to any disregard toward them individually. Life is TOO SHORT to be held captive by the internet, great asset that it is. From experience, I know that it can sap your strength and keep you from things you really want to accomplish, unless you make special efforts to ration it. You're one popular guy! So take care!

SK

[John Cralley]

Well, I think I was the one that touched a raw nerve for Doc. I sent him a friend request yesterday. I did not intend to offend him (sorry Doc!!!). I actually wanted to add him as a member of my facebook Group -- Annual Worldwide Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/RingmasterFlyAThon/

Doc, I am truly sorry that upset you and my intentions, though misguided, were honorable.

As others have noted above, facebook can be a great vehicle for connecting with friends, family and for making new friends BUT it can also be a monumental waste of time!

I have to admire Doc for his wisdom in keeping facebook in check in his life!!

[Randy Cuberly]

Doc,
I completely understand your feelings about facebook and some other sites.  I felt very much the same for a number of years and do not go there anymore.  Some members of my family and a few friends have chided me for my decision but I'm adamant about it as I can tell you are.
Just build airplanes and take care of the little dog my friend...that's what I'm investing in these days.
Hope to see you at VSC.

Randy Cuberly

[Mike Lauerman]

Doc:
I concur. My #2 son registered me on facebook as a surprise...(8 years ago?) Next thing I knew, everybody wanted to be 'my friend'.
Takes more that some face stroke to be a 'friend', at least in my 'book'.

Suddenly, my fink-of-an-ex wife wants to be 'friends'! Hah! (With friends like her, who needs enemies?) 

So, I write an email to facebook. Real 'earthy' stuff...included the reason I dug a moat around the castle, what I'd like to do to certain undesirables, etc.
Well, facebook published it right on my page. LOL 

My favorite niece wrote me an email with the 3 letter 'WTF?' salutation. I finally satisfied everyone that actually matters, albeit with a condition: Don't try and reach me by facebook. I won't be there.

[john e. holliday]

n, I really didn't mean to single you out on this facebook stuff.  It is all the others that don't get the message for some reason.    I have a granddaughter that got into some serious trouble on facebook and another relative that did not do right by the family.  This late in life I shouldn't hold grudges, as there is not much of it left.  So if you think I singled you out on this I apologize.   But, I got the rant off my chest and now have to atone for it.

[Chuck Feldman]

I too do not care for facebook and the like. Email is enough.

Chuck

[FLOYD CARTER]

I don't much care if people "like" me, or not.  I remain my old, irascible self.

Floyd

[Hoss Cain]

Well, I'm glad I ain't the only one that despises facebook. My wife loves it and as a displaced Yankee here in the Kingdom (TEXAS) she loves to keep up with friends and family. I am glad she can. Yet some of her folks and my folks got her to put me on the XXXXing thing. I seldom go there. OTOH, it is kind of funny when the "sweeties" are asking for me to be their friend. My picture is one sitting in the cockpit looking back just before my last leg from Dulles Int. Airport to ORD into retirement. That was 17 years and 11 months ago. Maybe they think I have money to "burn"! Sorry sweeties what I have is left for beer and toy airplanes. About to complete the 78th year flying around the sun doesn't leave much for the "sweeties".    

I also get so many of those notices from facebook, but I just delete them all. Glad to read that I am not the only one.  

[GGeezer]

This says it all

[Bob Reeves]

Had the same issue with people I didn't even know wanting to be friends.. Seemed like hundreds.. I solved the problem by deleting my facebook account. Have better things to do with what time I have left.

[55chevr]

facebook links you to your email server.  Anyone that emails you that has a facebook account they cross link and send each of you a "Friends" request. This linking goes level to level and that is why you get requests from people you never heard of.  The reality is that no one actually requested anything.    I have a facebook account that I haven't visited in months and I get friends request continuously.


Joe

[Serge_Krauss]

I certainly sympathize with all the negatives, although I haven't yet had bad experiences, past the ordinary annoyances...yet? However, just this morning I got a "friend" request from a student about whom I often wonder. I had this very bright, promising, and funny kid in classes 20+ years ago, and he turned down a full-tuition college ride I'd gotten him. 'always wondered what had become of him. Now I'll learn that. It was also nice to be remembered. So this is the 4th or 5th person I'd valued highly once, but lost, who has reappeared through that dangerous portal. 'Not all bad.

SK

[John Park]

Folks:

From what I've been reading in British and Scandinavian newspapers over the last few days, the current attitude amongst the young is that facebook is no longer trendy - apparently they're waking up to the benefits of keeping your private affairs private!  So the word on the street, man, is that facebook is, like, just SO uncool...

Happy New Year to all

John

[55chevr]

The latest is "Linked in" ... more business oriented but same premise.


Joe

[Paul Taylor]

First there was "MySpace" then facebook and now Twitter is big and now Vines. And yes the business world has got LinkedIn. It is all "social media" and we have a type of internal Twitter at work where people can follow you.
So it is a way to keep up with what is going on with someone even tho you may know know them personally. For example I have never met Chip Hyde but am friends with him on FB. I get to watch as he "crosses over" into the control line world. If our paths to ever cross in real life I can relate to some of his adventures. And as others said you catch up with old friends. 

If you want to get down to brass tacks.  This site is kind of like FB. You share your experiences with us, some of them don't always pertain to models. We know when someone goes on vacation, or a business trip and even get to see pictures.  There is a members list and if you click on somes profile you can put them on your buddy list.

You can make FB as public or private as you want. And if you get a request it is because it may come from a friend of a friend. I have connected with other on here because we have a friend in common. Some are in other countries.
I do not post much on FB and I do not put my real DOB. I dont use it when I sign into other sites or app on my phone. And I have to accept a friend request before you can see my page. I am very selective on who I accept request from.
The one thing I do like is I now have a place to store all my CL pictures. Free and no limit. 

[Dwayne]

facebook is what you want it to be, I have my privacy settings set to friends only, if I see a friend request from someone I don't know I just delete it. I've found so many people from my past and have allot of fun chatting back and forth, right now it's mostly about hockey. Also I had the chance to chat a bit with Alan Brickhaus whom I've never met but was my friend on facebook. It's is a wonderful tool if like anything else is used correctly. Like anything in life it's all about how you choose to use it.

[Leo Mehl]

I don't much care if people "like" me, or not.  I remain my old, irascible self.

Floyd

Ah Flyd everyone I know likes you and what you do in modeling!