dunno about the usage of the word friends in English but when I call someone a friend I do so with a sense of pride and obligation. I never liked facebook's use of the word for that very reason, AOL used buddy which I liked a lot better (not to say I liked or even used AOL)
the google+ concept of circles that I can name individually is much nicer - I hope they'll stick to don't be evil and keep the place clean of ads and not get into the kind of heavy data mining and callous disregard for privacy as facebook does... 2011/7/11 Keith Whaley <keit...@dslextreme.com>: > steve harley wrote: >> >> On 2011-07-10 14:05 , Matthew Hunt wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Tim Bray<tb...@textuality.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Be happy to send those invites, but I need a gmail-flavored address. >>>> -Tim > >>> I just sent invites to Steve & Ecke, no Gmail address required. Maybe >>> Google just doesn't trust their own people with that power yet. :-) > >> thanks Matthew -- it worked (with two attempts), and tied itself to my >> Google account; thanks to Tim for the offer too; now i can figure out >> what it amounts to for me (a Facebookophobe) > > Ahhh, another one. I catered to my grandkid's requests, and joined Facebook, > some year ago. > Up to now, I've had requests from well over 300 total strangers to be their > friends! > > What IS it with people? > > Why in God's name do they want to make friends with and talk to a complete > stranger? > > Yeah, we both know ONE person, mutually. So bloody what? > > keith > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
