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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
I was talking with my neighbor, telling her about an online coupon for Cat's
Pride cat litter. When I went to find the link where I'd printed the coupon, suddenly it's only available on FB. Same thing with some other things I've encountered lately. I'm not giving up on this ng, absolutely not. But I've re-activated my FB account. Apparently whether we like it or not, everything is going the way of FB. Now, what do I need to know? I don't want a gazillion emails telling me who just joined or asking me to be a "friend" people or whatever else. I've found the rpca location. Now I'm trying to find another group (rec.food.cooking). I know they're there because a friend told me so. But I have no idea how to add to my "groups". I must also comment, I found a woman who was one of my best friends in high school. She was a wild child. I remember when she got drunk and tried to run off with a sailor she'd known for 2 days. She's been married three times. Now she's all holier-than thou, quoting the bible next to her bible-thumping husband. Yikes! I think I'm going to be sorry I clicked "friend". I can't stand people preaching at me. Besides, I know her history. I was the matron of honor at her first wedding... and her husband decided to quit his job to become a minister. She wasn't gung-ho about it at the time, I can tell you that. Turning over a new leaf is one thing. Proselytizing on FB is quite a different story. I don't mind getting back in touch, but she'd better not preach at me. Jill |
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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
jmcquown wrote: Turning over a new leaf is one thing. Proselytizing on FB is quite a different story. I don't mind getting back in touch, but she'd better not preach at me. Jill I heartily agree with that! To me, religion is a very personal matter - each of us chooses the path to God that feels right to us, and unless someone ASKS for our input, that's how it should remain. (I doubt whether God cares - the important thing is to be the best human being we can be, not what form our worship takes.) |
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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
"jmcquown" wrote in
: I was talking with my neighbor, telling her about an online coupon for Cat's Pride cat litter. When I went to find the link where I'd printed the coupon, suddenly it's only available on FB. Same thing with some other things I've encountered lately. I'm not giving up on this ng, absolutely not. But I've re-activated my FB account. Apparently whether we like it or not, everything is going the way of FB. Now, what do I need to know? I don't want a gazillion emails telling me who just joined or asking me to be a "friend" people or whatever else. I've found the rpca location. Now I'm trying to find another group (rec.food.cooking). I know they're there because a friend told me so. But I have no idea how to add to my "groups". I must also comment, I found a woman who was one of my best friends in high school. She was a wild child. I remember when she got drunk and tried to run off with a sailor she'd known for 2 days. She's been married three times. Now she's all holier-than thou, quoting the bible next to her bible-thumping husband. Yikes! I think I'm going to be sorry I clicked "friend". I can't stand people preaching at me. Besides, I know her history. I was the matron of honor at her first wedding... and her husband decided to quit his job to become a minister. She wasn't gung-ho about it at the time, I can tell you that. Turning over a new leaf is one thing. Proselytizing on FB is quite a different story. I don't mind getting back in touch, but she'd better not preach at me. Jill If you don't want to see what that "friend" writes: - click on her name, - to the far right of her name you'll see "friends" "message" and an arrow - hover your mouse over "friends" - you'll now see "show in newsfeed" with a tick mark, unmark it or click on settings below that and unmark what you don't want to see from her Bobble |
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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
Bobble wrote:
If you don't want to see what that "friend" writes: - click on her name, - to the far right of her name you'll see "friends" "message" and an arrow - hover your mouse over "friends" - you'll now see "show in newsfeed" with a tick mark, unmark it or click on settings below that and unmark what you don't want to see from her What is the difference between "unfriending" someone and "unsubscribing" from that person? Also, what is the difference among the different levels of unsubscribing? I haven't noticed any difference, to be honest, but one assumes that if different options are offered, there must be different results from each, right? I have a few FB friends who post incessantly, so my news feed is full of stuff just from these people. Their posts can often be interesting, but after 15 in a row from the same poster, I get tired of it. Plus, I'm noticing that recently, most of what people post are "shares" from other posts, rather than their own writing. The shares are often good, but I don't want to read 30 shares per page. However, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by completely unfriending them. So I tried unsubscribing from "status posts". Still got the same amount of posts from them. There's some other level of unsubscribe (don't remember the details) but that didn't work either. Finally I had to unsubscribe completely from the person. I hope she didn't find out. -- Joyce May the great galactic kitten always purr you to sleep. |
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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
"Bastette" wrote in message ... Bobble wrote: If you don't want to see what that "friend" writes: - click on her name, - to the far right of her name you'll see "friends" "message" and an arrow - hover your mouse over "friends" - you'll now see "show in newsfeed" with a tick mark, unmark it or click on settings below that and unmark what you don't want to see from her What is the difference between "unfriending" someone and "unsubscribing" from that person? Also, what is the difference among the different levels of unsubscribing? I haven't noticed any difference, to be honest, but one assumes that if different options are offered, there must be different results from each, right? I have a few FB friends who post incessantly, so my news feed is full of stuff just from these people. Their posts can often be interesting, but after 15 in a row from the same poster, I get tired of it. Plus, I'm noticing that recently, most of what people post are "shares" from other posts, rather than their own writing. The shares are often good, but I don't want to read 30 shares per page. However, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by completely unfriending them. So I tried unsubscribing from "status posts". Still got the same amount of posts from them. There's some other level of unsubscribe (don't remember the details) but that didn't work either. Finally I had to unsubscribe completely from the person. I hope she didn't find out. -- Joyce May the great galactic kitten always purr you to sleep. on the ^ item on their post click on it you will see hide this ad unsubscribe from this person unsubscribe from updates you can also set how much updates to see from the person by selections or completely update. You can also go to your account settings and edit the person or globally If you unfriends it removes them from the friends list totally. They will see that you unfriended them not unsubscribed from them. If you unsubscribe from them you wont see anything to the level you set it at from none to only most important You can also control the amount of pictures updates and invites to apps or games the same way. DONT I MEAN DONT use a facebook app to do this you will open up a can of identity theft worms that will rot the whole orchard if you do |
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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
Matthew wrote:
on the ^ item on their post click on it you will see hide this ad unsubscribe from this person unsubscribe from updates you can also set how much updates to see from the person by selections or completely update. You can also go to your account settings and edit the person or globally Yeah, that's what I was talking about - different levels of unsubscribing from someone. I tried all of them, but I kept seeing updates from that person anyway!! If you unfriends it removes them from the friends list totally. They will see that you unfriended them not unsubscribed from them. If you unsubscribe from them you wont see anything to the level you set it at from none to only most important If I unsubscribe from someone, will they know that? You can also control the amount of pictures updates and invites to apps or games the same way. DONT I MEAN DONT use a facebook app to do this you will open up a can of identity theft worms that will rot the whole orchard if you do I don't go *near* FB apps! I also don't play games on FB anymore. But recently I've been reading my news feed. It's fun except when the same few people keep reposting the same stuff. -- Joyce Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto a freeway. |
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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
"Bastette" wrote in message ... Matthew wrote: on the ^ item on their post click on it you will see hide this ad unsubscribe from this person unsubscribe from updates you can also set how much updates to see from the person by selections or completely update. You can also go to your account settings and edit the person or globally Yeah, that's what I was talking about - different levels of unsubscribing from someone. I tried all of them, but I kept seeing updates from that person anyway!! Sometimes you have to do it multiple times If you unfriends it removes them from the friends list totally. They will see that you unfriended them not unsubscribed from them. If you unsubscribe from them you wont see anything to the level you set it at from none to only most important If I unsubscribe from someone, will they know that? NOPE You can also control the amount of pictures updates and invites to apps or games the same way. DONT I MEAN DONT use a facebook app to do this you will open up a can of identity theft worms that will rot the whole orchard if you do I don't go *near* FB apps! I also don't play games on FB anymore. But recently I've been reading my news feed. It's fun except when the same few people keep reposting the same stuff. -- Joyce Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto a freeway. |
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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
"jmcquown" wrote:
I was talking with my neighbor, telling her about an online coupon for Cat's Pride cat litter. When I went to find the link where I'd printed the coupon, suddenly it's only available on FB. Same thing with some other things I've encountered lately. I'm not giving up on this ng, absolutely not. But I've re-activated my FB account. Apparently whether we like it or not, everything is going the way of FB. Now, what do I need to know? I don't want a gazillion emails telling me who just joined or asking me to be a "friend" people or whatever else. I've found the rpca location. Now I'm trying to find another group (rec.food.cooking). I know they're there because a friend told me so. But I have no idea how to add to my "groups". I must also comment, I found a woman who was one of my best friends in high school. She was a wild child. I remember when she got drunk and tried to run off with a sailor she'd known for 2 days. She's been married three times. Now she's all holier-than thou, quoting the bible next to her bible-thumping husband. Yikes! I think I'm going to be sorry I clicked "friend". I can't stand people preaching at me. Besides, I know her history. I was the matron of honor at her first wedding... and her husband decided to quit his job to become a minister. She wasn't gung-ho about it at the time, I can tell you that. Turning over a new leaf is one thing. Proselytizing on FB is quite a different story. I don't mind getting back in touch, but she'd better not preach at me. Jill I did wonder when I saw you'd recently friended a couple of people on Facebook, I'm glad it was you and not someone learning your password. -- Adrian |
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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
"Judith Latham" wrote in message ... In article , jmcquown wrote: I must also comment, I found a woman who was one of my best friends in high school. She was a wild child. I remember when she got drunk and tried to run off with a sailor she'd known for 2 days. She's been married three times. Now she's all holier-than thou, quoting the bible next to her bible-thumping husband. Yikes! I think I'm going to be sorry I clicked "friend". I can't stand people preaching at me. Besides, I know her history. I was the matron of honor at her first wedding... and her husband decided to quit his job to become a minister. She wasn't gung-ho about it at the time, I can tell you that. Turning over a new leaf is one thing. Proselytizing on FB is quite a different story. I don't mind getting back in touch, but she'd better not preach at me. Jill I too, hate to be preached at. When I'm confronted with bible bashers, I tell them that I've already sorted all that out, I'm happy with it and old enough to know my own mind. Converts are always the worse. Yes! They go at with a zeal which is sometimes frightening. Shortly after my mother died I went to the mailbox and there was a letter for her. Something snapped and I started crying. I went back in the house. Not a minute later, someone knocked on my door. She said she'd been walking up the street and saw I was upset. She said she wanted to come inside and pray with me. Excuse me?! No! Pray *for* me all you want. I'm not letting you in my house. I'm very religious but most people don't realise it. Nor should they. You're not proselytizing. Judith I wouldn't say I'm religious, I'd say I'm spiritual. I was raised never to discuss religion or politics. My father told me it only leads to arguments no one will ever win because everyone thinks their point of view is the right one. I say there is no "right one". That's where I get into to trouble with organized religion. Jill |
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Grugingly Rejoined Facebook
"jmcquown" wrote in
: "Judith Latham" wrote in message ... In article , jmcquown wrote: I must also comment, I found a woman who was one of my best friends in high school. She was a wild child. I remember when she got drunk and tried to run off with a sailor she'd known for 2 days. She's been married three times. Now she's all holier-than thou, quoting the bible next to her bible-thumping husband. Yikes! I think I'm going to be sorry I clicked "friend". I can't stand people preaching at me. Besides, I know her history. I was the matron of honor at her first wedding... and her husband decided to quit his job to become a minister. She wasn't gung-ho about it at the time, I can tell you that. Turning over a new leaf is one thing. Proselytizing on FB is quite a different story. I don't mind getting back in touch, but she'd better not preach at me. Jill I too, hate to be preached at. When I'm confronted with bible bashers, I tell them that I've already sorted all that out, I'm happy with it and old enough to know my own mind. Converts are always the worse. Yes! They go at with a zeal which is sometimes frightening. Shortly after my mother died I went to the mailbox and there was a letter for her. Something snapped and I started crying. I went back in the house. Not a minute later, someone knocked on my door. She said she'd been walking up the street and saw I was upset. She said she wanted to come inside and pray with me. Excuse me?! No! Pray *for* me all you want. I'm not letting you in my house. I'm very religious but most people don't realise it. Nor should they. You're not proselytizing. Judith I wouldn't say I'm religious, I'd say I'm spiritual. I was raised never to discuss religion or politics. My father told me it only leads to arguments no one will ever win because everyone thinks their point of view is the right one. I say there is no "right one". That's where I get into to trouble with organized religion. Jill Amen! Bobble |
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