Remember the good old days when 'friends' were people you actually knew?

My New FB (funny business) Page

You did a good job on the John Simons FB page, why did you resign from that gig?

Also resigned from my directorship of the property management company I was involved in & helping out down the bookshop.

Roger Scruton's "Hiding Behind The Screen" - http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/hiding-behind-the-screen - explains beautifully why I left Facebook two years ago. Recent newspaper articles suggest that this corporate monster is an even greater threat to privacy.

"Nor does the existence of social networks like Facebook, which are also for the most part real communication between real people, involve any attempt simply to substitute a virtual reality for the actual one. On the contrary, they are parasitic on the real relationships they foster, and which they alter in large part by encouraging people to put themselves on display, and in turn to become voyeurs of the displays of others.

"Yet already something new is entering the world of human relations with these innocent-seeming sites. There is a novel ease with which people can make contact with each other through the screen. No more need to get up from your desk and make the journey to your friend’s house. No more need for weekly meetings, or the circle of friends in the downtown restaurant or bar. All those effortful ways of making contact can be dispensed with: a touch of the keyboard and you are there, where you wanted to be, on the site that defines your friends. But can this be real friendship, when it is pursued and developed in such facile and costless ways?

"It is arguable that the more people satisfy their need for companionship through relationships carried out on the screen, the less will they develop friendships of that other kind, the kind that offers help and comfort in the real trials of human life. Friendships that are carried out primarily on the screen cannot easily be lifted off it, and when they are so lifted, there is no guarantee that they will take any strain. Indeed, it is precisely their cost-free, screen-friendly character that attracts many people to them — so much so, students of mine tell me, that they fear addiction, and often have to forbid themselves to go to their Facebook account for days on end, in order to get on with their real lives and their real relationships."

The only reason to be there is to sell something. Fact.

I've had two Facebook accounts. One was an unsuccessful attempt to promote  a novel. The second was a tool to  take- down  a malicious fake Mrs Ambrose page.

I feel Facebook does have some social uses. Most of the friends on the memsahib's page are either real-world friends in distant places, or men with whom she briefly flirts before she invariably blocks them following an acid-drop of my confection when they overstep the mark.

Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2013-07-13 10:39:13)

Taylor is the obvious choice, as he is well versed with your house style, although that was not employed on the John Simons FB pages.

I need friends:

https://www.facebook.com/bennett.stleger#

And confirmed! Hi, friend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNc45FTenhg