Subj : Re: Facebook
To   : Spectre
From : Adept
Date : Wed Aug 24 2022 14:51:39

 Sp> All I do on my phone is, phone calls and SMS.  Any time someone asks if I
 Sp> have some app on there, I tell them I have a dumb phone even though its a
 Sp> perfectly fine LG android job.

Weird.

I make as few phone calls as possible while still being a member of society,
and use Google Voice for most of the SMSs I do, which makes it more internet
application than phone thing.

But I come from the point of view that Personal Digital Assistants just went
wrong when they added in phone functionality.

 Sp> I bunged in purity, I'm not sure if the PC end of things is different to
 Sp> the phone apps or the PC is already filtering stuff, but purity doesn't
 Sp> seem to see much to tidy up.

Facebook does tend to change their advertising bits often enough that FB
Purity is oftentimes playing catchup for ad blocking.

But I had it cut out the reels, as I was finding myself watching them and not
really appreciating the distraction.

 Sp> usenet groups I used to follow.. like CSA2, comp.sys.apple2.  But
 Sp> otherwise there's nothing I need out of FB.. I'll collect photos of

Yeah. It seems like real people are using it less, and for everything else,
there seem to be decent other options.

Seems vaguely sad to be using Facebook instead of the actual comp.sys.apple2.

But I guess there are benefits to some of the newer aspects of technology.

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