ERD50
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Not really any of the above. I do not use it, but DW does, and it is great for keeping up with people you might not normally reach out to very often, and provides faster updates of those you do talk with regularly.
But I don't really want to get sucked in to another internet thing, I spend enough time on various forums and other computer related things. So I do not use it, but I do feel I may be missing out a bit. But that was not a poll choice.
I think this was discussed earlier, but it seems some of these social sites reach out further than one might expect. My Mom (who does not do Facebook), mentioned that another family member's FB pictures came up when she clicked some link related to Petco, because they both apparently have Petco card/accounts? So the common Petco account opened up to their FB page?
Now maybe those FB pages were public and not enough privacy locks, but I don't like the idea that I have to be so careful with all of this. I'll avoid it if I can.
It seems like google has got more complex on this. A while back, I posted a few things to youtube. Since they were in two completely unrelated categories, I used different logins with each, just to keep identities separate (not that important, I just figured why cross these things). And I would sometimes use a third login to comment on youtube. But now it seems these things are all merged into google+ or something, and it looks like anything I post anywhere on the internet through that can be viewed by others and tied together. It's hard to tell, and confusing to me. So I'm trying to just avoid it.
Just as a simple example, if I'm posting to a music or beer brewing site or youtube video on those subjects, I don't need those people to see my other postings maybe on political or religious or philosophy topics. People have really strong ideas on some of that, and when it comes to those other worlds, it does not apply, so I just prefer to keep it separate. But they seem to make that difficult now.
-ERD50
But I don't really want to get sucked in to another internet thing, I spend enough time on various forums and other computer related things. So I do not use it, but I do feel I may be missing out a bit. But that was not a poll choice.
I think this was discussed earlier, but it seems some of these social sites reach out further than one might expect. My Mom (who does not do Facebook), mentioned that another family member's FB pictures came up when she clicked some link related to Petco, because they both apparently have Petco card/accounts? So the common Petco account opened up to their FB page?
Now maybe those FB pages were public and not enough privacy locks, but I don't like the idea that I have to be so careful with all of this. I'll avoid it if I can.
It seems like google has got more complex on this. A while back, I posted a few things to youtube. Since they were in two completely unrelated categories, I used different logins with each, just to keep identities separate (not that important, I just figured why cross these things). And I would sometimes use a third login to comment on youtube. But now it seems these things are all merged into google+ or something, and it looks like anything I post anywhere on the internet through that can be viewed by others and tied together. It's hard to tell, and confusing to me. So I'm trying to just avoid it.
Just as a simple example, if I'm posting to a music or beer brewing site or youtube video on those subjects, I don't need those people to see my other postings maybe on political or religious or philosophy topics. People have really strong ideas on some of that, and when it comes to those other worlds, it does not apply, so I just prefer to keep it separate. But they seem to make that difficult now.
-ERD50