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ABC News Wants to Hear From You Facebook is changing the way we live and define our sense of community. People now use it to share their most intimate moments…from the birth of child or the passing of a parent. "World News with Diane Sawyer" is examining how Facebook and other forms of social media are reshaping our lives. If you have a story about how Facebook changed your life, or created a new experience, "World News" wants to hear from you. Please write your information and story below, and a World News producer may contact you for more information or to do an interview. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/mailform?id=11199194 |
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. - George Bernard Shaw
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moose
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« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2010, 10:28:00 am » |
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I have no use for face book or twitter - they are the same as cell phones which do nothing for anyone who uses them except waste time!
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« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2010, 02:24:19 pm » |
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Actually I disagree.
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Jack Oneil
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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2010, 03:44:48 pm » |
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I had a facebook account for a while there but closed it because it was taking too much time every day to respond to it. I sometimes didn't look at my facebook page for a few days and then I felt bad for ignoring people who had sent me a message, a friend request, or some other communication that I failed to respond to.
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"Anyone can give up, it is the easiest thing to do, but to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that is the true strength." Teddy Roosevelt
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« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2010, 07:42:47 pm » |
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Facebook is a good way to waste time, I agree! My brother and I use it to keep in touch, he lives in Louisville. We could call each other but the hours we both work plus he is on call a lot, calling is just not feasible at times.
I also keep up with my nieces who are scattered throughout Crab Orchard, Lexington and Louisville. Facebook gives me an easy way to let them know I am thinking of them or laugh at one of their jokes without the mess of picking up a phone--never know when they are going to be home or having to mail a paper card.
Business wise--since advertising on Facebook I have seen my parent company, (for bath and body products) increase in sales.
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. - George Bernard Shaw
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Spades
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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2010, 07:58:11 pm » |
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It allows me to annoy a whole lot of people that I might not otherwise get to irritate.  |
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I will love you like none other. For I have died a thousand tiny deaths, and every time I died I thought of you.
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Jack Oneil
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« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2010, 08:07:32 pm » |
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That is great work on the picture Spades! People from the past really would be shocked at the tech items we have today and how we use them.
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"Anyone can give up, it is the easiest thing to do, but to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that is the true strength." Teddy Roosevelt
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« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2010, 08:31:39 pm » |
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I will admit Twitter is a complete waste of time lol
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« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2010, 08:36:57 pm » |
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That is great work on the picture Spades! People from the past really would be shocked at the tech items we have today and how we use them.
Can't take credit, just something I had in my Photobucket. But, I agree. Technology that was barely imaginable a scant decade or so ago would be "magic" to someone 100 years ago. |
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I will love you like none other. For I have died a thousand tiny deaths, and every time I died I thought of you.
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« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2010, 02:55:03 am » |
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Even as recently as 30 years or so ago when I was in school studying digital electronics, the idea of devices such as an iPhone at affordable prices seemed unimaginable. Even the internet as we now know it, was also unimaginable. Any prediction that home computers could connect with such speed and download entire movies or modern video games would have seemed far fetched and if possible, would be far too expensive for the average to afford.
That was during the time when VCRs were still very new and the instructor was telling us about an amazing new invention called the laser disc. It was still in development but he predicted that someday all data would be stored in digital format on discs that could be read by a laser. Of course back then the most modern micro chip in some sort of normal use was probably the old 8086. It would have taken it all day to read the ones and zeroes off one modern DVD.
I honestly think most people from back in the 50s or 60s, if we could time machine them to today's world, would be more surprised at our hand held digital devices than they would be if we all had flying saucers. The magnitude of the advancements in technology since 1980 is literally like going from the Model T to a modern Ferrari in a single generation.
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"Anyone can give up, it is the easiest thing to do, but to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that is the true strength." Teddy Roosevelt
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« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2010, 06:32:52 am » |
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I agree that technology has come a long way since the 30's, however, in spite of these gains, I ask what have we lost in everyday life? The art of real conversation, the loss of productivity, the loss of being close to family and friends and greater time for just wasting time? Being on a phone from the time you get up until the time you retire, or spending hours sitting in front of a computer, regardless of what you are doing on it. Spending more and more on phones and the internet. Seems that we have lost a lot more than we have gained.
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« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2010, 11:10:26 pm » |
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well I'm on it and it hasn't changed my life either way..
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« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2010, 04:33:34 pm » |
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Diane Sawyer interviewed the young man last night that started facebook. He is now 26 and a billionaire. BTW, he is a college dropout. He was attending some little college in the northeast called Harvard.
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