[Dixielandjazz] Fw: DJML Move

[Steve Voce]

I've had sunset-skipping mode on standby since this farrago started. Facebook and Twitter have been responsible for so many calamities (for example, how many thousands of pounds damages did the wife of our Speaker in the Houses of Parliament get stuck for?) that I will avoid them like bubonic plague. .
In my opinion these things are damaging to the English language (complete sentences are unwelcome!) and a dangerous pitfall for anyone foolhardy enough to expose himself to them (and anyone else in the world who should want to peer at you, it would seem).
In the unlikely event that Facebook was harmless, I would still find it and its adherents deeply unattractive.
I'll choose my own friends - with care.

Steve Voce


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> On 11 Jan 2014, at 15:14, "Pat Ladd" <pj.ladd at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> There is nothing wrong with the existing format with the possible exception of being unable to add attachments. Even that is something we have lived with  without major trauma..
> 
> My only brush with FB is a stream of people of whom I have never heard who suddenly wish to be my friend.
> 
> I have only knowledge of other `social media` sites from observing my grandchildren's absorption.
> 
> This seems to consist mainly of receiving a message which says Wot U duin? The reply to this is to take a `selfie` (see how on the ball I am?) depicting a face with cross-eyes and tongue stuck out.
> This apparently passes for a conversation.
> 
> I am sure that were I a star or even a band leader FB would be a great place to promote myself. As it is I can I cannot envisage any one in the wide world who is the slightest interested in the fact that I do not feel very well today, had no breakfast and have slept the morning away beside a roaring fire.
> 
> If the working musicians among us wish to branch off and promote themselves through FB so be it but please let us continue with the present format if possible.
> 
> Otherwise you may be presented with the unpleasant prospect of Bill H and I skipping, hand in hand, towards the sunset.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
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