tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post6626005202564467236..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: Facebook Status UpdateMike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-51675514153028238472012-11-20T20:20:30.064+00:002012-11-20T20:20:30.064+00:00Martyn,
Now I think about it, we did exchange a f...Martyn,<br /><br />Now I think about it, we did exchange a few emails on the subject many years ago -- he denied all knowledge, of course.<br /><br />We were quite close friends for about two terms, but he was way more political than me, and fell off the edge of the known universe when he was sent down at the end of the first year. These days, we might have stayed in touch via FB, I suppose.<br /><br />It's very odd, now that he turns up quite often on the radio -- I don't even know the name of his wife, yet there's that familiar voice again. I must say, I'm impressed by his performances on Radio 4's Saturday Review -- he's quite a good and well-informed arts reviewer, something I would never have expected.<br /><br />Of course, most old lefties who knew him back then can't forgive his rightward turn...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-4697451109499552072012-11-20T18:31:07.381+00:002012-11-20T18:31:07.381+00:00Hah! I'll drop him a Tweet about them ...
Int...Hah! I'll drop him a Tweet about them ...<br /><br />Interesting piece last week in the Times about Mr A's father and the effect his constant affairs had on the family - unfortunately you need a subscription to read it. Not that I have one - I use the one et up by a paper I used to work for. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article3590867.eceMartyn Cornellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16843357962176591317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-57116548585224931722012-11-17T20:12:12.122+00:002012-11-17T20:12:12.122+00:00Martyn,
See, that's why I thought I'd giv...Martyn,<br /><br />See, that's why I thought I'd give it a try -- sounds so useful, put like that.<br /><br />I have actually enabled the "like this post" button on this blog, but either nobody likes (sorry, "likes") my stuff or it's a bit too discreet down there at the bottom of the post. As far as I know, I have not picked up any FB or Twitter traffic.<br /><br />If I lived in HK away from friends and family I'm sure I'd feel different about FB.<br /><br />[Aaronovich? I was at university with that guy, and he went off with some of my best records when he was "sent down" {the university equivalent of "unfriending"), inc. a first pressing of Full House with the blacked out track list. Haven't spoken to him since.]<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-26771554981961200102012-11-17T19:37:37.494+00:002012-11-17T19:37:37.494+00:00All right, I won't try to friend you on FB ......All right, I won't try to friend you on FB ...<br /><br />Facebook, and Twitter, are pretty much essential if, like me, you run a semi-pro blog: when I post on the blog, I put up links to the post on FB and Twitter, and it boosts the hits. I've had more than 450 hits via FB in the past month and 200 via Twitter. Other referrers are more important (Huffington Post! Wikipedia!) but every little helps. And since I'm in HK, and I now have people I know from New York to New Zealand, it IS a way of seeing what they're up to. But there's certainly a lot of blather on FB. However, Kent Wiley, some of the keenest Facebook users I know are over 60, so I'm pretty convinced you're wrong there.<br /><br />Twitter is extremely useful if you're in a community that communicates via Twitter, as the beer community in the UK does: I get a huge and valuable amount of news via Twitter. And because of some of the people I subscribe to - David Aaronovich, Nick Cohen, to name two - I get directed to articles I would not see otherwise. But it can be the most awful timesuck.Martyn Cornellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16843357962176591317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-23773749895933236412012-11-13T20:28:50.943+00:002012-11-13T20:28:50.943+00:00Kent,
No problem, you were by no means the bigges...Kent,<br /><br />No problem, you were by no means the biggest Portal of Pointlessness! It was an interesting experiment, and I haven't bailed out completely...<br /><br />Now you mention it, I *loved* the telephone as a youngster, to the annoyance of my father when he got the quarterly bill. The advent of mobiles has changed all that, of course.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-79331375332755453952012-11-13T19:47:23.591+00:002012-11-13T19:47:23.591+00:00Sorry to have contributed to the avalanche of triv...Sorry to have contributed to the avalanche of trivia from unknown "friends" this summer. I'm pretty convinced you can't be over 50 and "get" FB. I check it every few days, perusing the inanities (one young "friend" updates her status every time she moves to another club), and still fail to "get" it. I never even liked the telephone, as a youth.Kent Wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440197819258194471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-47244048809036480962012-11-09T22:34:45.666+00:002012-11-09T22:34:45.666+00:00Good point; but for me, Mike, it's the comment...Good point; but for me, Mike, it's the comments that I most enjoy. The interaction and points of order etc are what really make blogging worthwhile. There's a lot of humour there and sometimes they are the best part of it.Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-4421787929458262772012-11-09T19:22:21.045+00:002012-11-09T19:22:21.045+00:00Dave,
You're welcome. I'm still annoyed ...Dave,<br /><br />You're welcome. I'm still annoyed that I don't get it. But then, I don't get clubbing, either.<br /><br />I think blogging only *just* counts as Social Media -- you could turn off the comments and ignore everyone if you wanted to!<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-16291005828886185652012-11-09T16:46:31.927+00:002012-11-09T16:46:31.927+00:00Thanks, Mike for doing it so I don't have to!
...Thanks, Mike for doing it so I don't have to!<br /><br />Actually Mrs Dave does it to keep in contact with First Born who lives in Mexico so it's obviously useful. However, She does spend a lot of time looking wistfully at the photographs of the grandchildren of her many "friends".<br /><br />I have no intention of getting involved with social not-working beyond blogging, of course.Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.com