[Dixielandjazz] DJML Facebook - 707 Members!

[Marek Boym]

One man's meat, Jerry...


On 15 April 2014 20:07, Jazz Jerry <jazz1jerry at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi Marek,
>
> I see that you use gmail which it has been shown by the likes of Edward
> Snowden is fair game for the various security services including those from
> the UK, USA and many other countries. No real privacy there. Facebook only
> shares the information you give it. If you don't want the world to know the
> name of your cat, your favourite banjo player or where you had dinner last
> Thursday then you don't have to tell them!
>
> I agree that many do share far too much personal information but Facebook
> can only pass around what they know.
>
> As I said the content of the Facebook DJML is far more dynamic and
> interesting than this group.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jerry
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 15 Apr 2014, at 14:49, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Proselytizing, Jerry?
> You can't see what's wrong, I can.  What I cannot see is the purpose of
> all that missionary preaching.
> You have apparently been on FB before the DJML group, so you don't mind
> another group.  OK.  But why can you not understand that some people value
> their privacy escapes me.
> Cheers
>
>
> On 15 April 2014 11:36, Jazz Jerry <jazz1jerry at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> I really cannot see what the problem is with Facebook. I have been a
>> member for quite some time and use an app on my iPad to access it. Whilst
>> on the site I can check the groups I subscribe to including the DJML and
>> read what has been posted. I 'joined' the group in order to do this
>> although anyone can visit without joining. However they cannot contribute
>> without  being accepted.
>>
>> Having checked the DJML group this morning, which I do not do every day,
>> I found a number of interesting submissions concerning jazz. Certainly more
>> that this forum has which seems to have deteriorated considerably recently
>> with lots of very inane and incomplete messages. Nothing like as
>> interesting as when I originally joined in the mid-nineties.
>>
>> Jerry Brown
>>
>> All I can say is visit the Facebook group and have a look.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> > On 14 Apr 2014, at 23:33, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > Jim O'Briant wrote:
>> >> The "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" page on Facebook isn't a personal or
>> >> business page that one can "like." It's a Facebook Group that you have
>> to
>> >> actively join.
>> >
>> > Dear Jim, friends and colleagues,
>> > Like Mike, Bob and a few others, I was  not happy with the move to
>> Facebook.
>> > And particularly that group's use of our DJML acronym.
>> > However, out of courtesy, I signed up, believing that you cannot
>> properly evaluate something if you do not experience it.
>> > I logged in several times during the setup but, apart from the initial
>> seven of so 'messages', nothing much happened.
>> > The log in process seemed complicated and there was no feed back.
>> > Assuming that it would all become clearer, after it caught on, I waited
>> for further contact or instructions.
>> > Nothing.
>> > Obviously, I've missed something on the way through. Or have I?
>> > Now, I can't find the facebook log-in link in my saved Inbox message
>> file.
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Bill.
>> >
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