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Jorgan · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2018 8:36 am Post subject:

The only time I presumed to bore people of late, were a few pics of me on my last day in the Forces; you know... one of me in dress uniform and some other relevant shots. Everything else tends to be getting tagged in family pics by my wife. I used to post a lot more, but just of feel it's a bit self indulgent.

I think originally when most of us joined in the 00s, it was used as intended: to share pictures and thoughts with family & close friends. But now like most social media, it's become too commercialised and full of people self-publicising; and that's probably put a lot of us over 40s (maybe even >30s) off.
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Gus · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:12 pm Post subject:

Nick Clegg.

I mean. Seriously.
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Jorgan · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:26 am Post subject:

It's all about Insta now isn't it?

As for the dress - bit chilly for that, Stanley in June (Falklands Liberation Parade). I know the Bootnecks like that sort of thing though Laughing

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explorerJC · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 16060 Location: Farthingstone

apparently...

not tried Insta yet, but assume i will get dragged there kicking and screaming...
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explorerJC · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 16060 Location: Farthingstone

I look at the internet less and less and the range of sites is decreasing too...unless it is shopping related...

Much of FB is filled with selfies (personally, i'd rather see the view), narcissism and ill conceived opinions....it is a great place for viewing irony, virtue signalling and victimhood though...so it is not all bad...
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fruit thief · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 2764

Bucking the trend here, recently signed up for facebook for the first time aged 45 to watch 70.3 worlds then Kona. Claimed my name was Jorgan. Haven't been back since mind.

JamieMcP · Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 4799 Location: Edinburgh

Only reason I am still on it is that my cycling club use it as their main form of communication.
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SloggingScotsman · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 2967

This new iPad summary is quite revealing on how you spend your time on the internet.

While most of my time involves learning French or viewing stuff to help me refine my self knowledge (eg comparing how I feel about this or that and then working out why), it has made me think about the value of my time.

Facebook especially. While I learn from old hands and try to help new hands, a lot of the stuff I see, quite frankly is a waste of my time. About the only real valuable stuff that appears on my front page is stuff from the UN, MDS, Dali Lama etc. The stuff from most people, perhaps 1% holds interest for me. And some of the suggested sites and adverts just make me shake my head. Those algorithms clearly don’t understand me. (Ejc behave).

On a separate issue I was going to strike through my tag line, and follow it with a quip but couldn’t get that to work, anyone know how to do it? I assume something like [s]....[/s] but that and other things I googled doesn’t work.