[AT] Remembering--Now Facebook and OFF TOPIC

[David Bruce]

Agreed so it is not applied without much consideration - and 
consultation with the other ADMINS.

David
NW NC

On 3/2/2015 9:32 PM, Dave Rotigel wrote:
> Anyone who uses any power they have as if they are God should be mistrusted!
> 	Dave
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2015, at 9:11 PM, David Bruce wrote:
>
>> I have been a FB user for a couple years now. I started as a way to keep
>> up with far flung family and friends. I have used computers with Win XP,
>> Win 7 (I refuse to use Win 8) and Ubuntu Linux. That doesn't seem to
>> increased my malware loading.
>>
>> Of late I have been functioning as an ADMIN (read as an adult) for one
>> FB group. If things get off track I can use my "power of God" and remove
>> the offending comments (or the user as well).
>>
>> Like many things in life there is both good and bad. I try to avoid the bad.
>>
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
>> On 3/2/2015 2:56 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>>> I don't have any of those problems... but then I don't click on just
>>> anything.
>>> Folks that play a lot of Facebook games seem to have a lot of problems.
>>> I have been running Google Chromium for some time with no problems. That is
>>> the Linux version of Chrome. I also run the Ad Blocker Plus. I used to run
>>> Firefox and still do for a few things where I like the way it renders some
>>> sites better but Chromium runs a lot faster for me.
>>> I have been playing with another one called Slim-boat which seem decent (I
>>> don't recall if it is Linux only or not).
>>> I have been running Linux for years now and will never go back to windows.
>>> Never... My old wide-screen laptop had a hinge breaking so I bought this
>>> one so I would have it in the hospital with me in November 2013. Silly me,
>>> I thought I would be able to function mentally after the surgery.
>>> :-)
>>> It came with Windows 8 on it and the third time it crashed it lost a good
>>> sized picture file I was working with. I hated the way it worked anyway so
>>> as soon as I could function I cleaned it out and installed Ubuntu on it.
>>> It's not for everybody but I like it (me and Sheldon Cooper).
>>> :-)
>>> I follow a few old tractor groups on Facebook and one thing I do like about
>>> it is the way it is so easy to display pictures. Some forums (using the
>>> Shopsmith Forum as an example) have a picture size limit so if I want to
>>> post a picture most of the time I have to re-size the picture before
>>> uploading it. I usually use:
>>> http://www.resizemypicture.com/
>>> On a Facebook group you just upload about anything and it is re-sized as it
>>> is posted.
>>> Most of the time the groups don't have all of the drama and crap because
>>> there somebody is usually "in charge" unlike the almost free-for-all
>>> regular status feed.
>>> I may not be fully productive yet but I can follow groups...
>>> :-)
>>> One downside to those groups is that they seem to post a lot of nice
>>> pictures but often with only four word descriptions, not many stories,
>>> "here is my tractor" type of thing.
>>>   :-)
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