I see that 22 years after Y2K, I've already forgotten how to spell millennia, and that the singular is millennium. Maybe I need to write a WhatsApp message to myself as a reminder :-)
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 11:14 AM Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> wrote: > Here in Ecuador, group chat is very widespread. Unfortunately (?) it is > mostly through informal WhatsApp groups. Email is *so* last millenia, and > even FaceBook has mostly given way to Instagram, TikTok, whatever. Yuck. I > especially dislike WhatsApp groups because it has even taken over some > institutions, such as the foundation that I'm working with. The biggest > problems are that the identity of each person is tied to their phone > number, and there is no central archive of its content. For the former, if > a person loses their phone, they have no way to recover their chat history, > and unless person B has person A's information (name, etc.), person B only > sees the phone number of person A, hence having no idea who is who until > they add all these people to their phone's contact list. For the second, > institutions tend to lose their collective memory, unless someone is in the > group from start to finish, and somehow maintains an archive of past > conversations. > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:32 AM Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > >> I've lately run into two mentions of "group chat" as the organizing >> principle of social media for the day. You keep different groups for >> different purposes, and you don't let social media into the chat. I think >> Friam actually functions as a group chat, aside from google scanning >> everything. But technically it's a Gen-Z thing, so we obviously don't know >> what we're doing. >> >> It was a neighbor group chat that busted the Ted Cruz Cancun getaway plan >> in February 2021, while Texans froze to death or were bankrupted by spikes >> in electric rates. >> >> -- rec -- >> >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:53 AM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It's an interesting question. Someone posted a poll on a Mastodon server >>> recently, something like "What is it you want from all this stuff? (E.g. >>> Twitter, Facebook, ...)" The possible answers were things like >>> "Friendship", "Connectedness", etc. There was an "Other", which I filled >>> in. I wrote something like: "The state of the world. When I was younger, I >>> read the newspaper and watched the daily news on one of the big 3 networks. >>> Now, it feels like everything's all fractured. TV news is for ancient, out >>> of touch people. The newspaper is neither local, nor does it tell >>> interesting national or international stories. So, I use these media, like >>> 12-20 different outlets just to get some sense of the state of the world." >>> >>> I wish I had a better answer to "where do you find this stuff". It can >>> be exhausting trying to stay informed. Fora like FriAM help a bit. >>> >>> On 8/13/22 17:57, Gillian Densmore wrote: >>> > >>> > And where do find this stuff glen >_< >>> > >>> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 2:41 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com <mailto: >>> geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> > >>> > __ >>> > >>> https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion >>> < >>> https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion >>> > >>> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >>> >>> -- >>> ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ >>> >>> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >>> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >>> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >>> archives: 5/2017 thru present >>> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >>> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >>> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> >
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