It's amazing how data collection works. Here on Gmail, there are "delays"
when I log in - you know data's being collected. On Facebook, very few
comments appear on a post; you have to keep clicking. Now when I'm on
suddenly the posts scroll "speed up" and I have to return to the beginning
I deleted fb over a year ago and never looked back. I do however post art and
music on inst - but feel I may delete that little monstrosity also ha ha.
Troubling this stuff. I’m with you Alan on this I think. My small town allows
for enough face to face interaction and conversation in cafes
Hi and thank you and agree with you to an extent. The problem is one of
age; I use Fb "intelligently" I think, but for many, all of these social
programs take away from real life, not add as an adjunct to it.
Increasingly people are living to an extent on all of them; that's clear
for example from
Alan,
Yes, I agree - but on the other hand I also think that a lot of people
use social media in a much more grounded way. On Instagram I'm in touch
with a lot of small-scale makers who live in the same area as me. They
post notifications to each other about new work that they've made
*/Taking a break from posting on Netbehaviour, I miss other
voices. But I did want to send this out, from a few days ago,
thinking about the fast-forward transformations of social
media. And apologies for previous posting too much. - Alan/*
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As if I were speaking extemporaneous at a
