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May 24, 2013 at 2:57 pm #2136704
Remember asking what “social media” is for, Palmetto?
Lockedby ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
At the time, I didn’t have an answer, but I have done some research.
Facebook is for maintaining relationships with semi-estranged family and fair-weather friends, mainly so you can keep each other updated on really important stuff, such as photos of what you had for lunch. If you prefer not to know what such people eat for lunch, better skip it.
LinkedIn is about general-purpose non-specific brown-nosing. It is great for keeping those sucking-up muscles trimmed. If you don’t want to suck up to anybody, better skip it.
Google+ is about finding completely random people who happen to have the same interests as you, or who produce interesting text or photographs or who attract interesting discussions or otherwise tickle your fancy. If you don’t want to do that, better skip it.
Like, if someone was to fancy plants of the family Nepenthaceae, one could join this community:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117037123781049426104
or this one:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108732200169956427257
or this one:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105730273526169818962It’s all about fancy.
[EDITED: The headline punctuation saves, lives.]
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May 24, 2013 at 4:45 pm #2428477
So is that some kind of crack at me?
by hal 9000 · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Remember asking what “social media” is for, Palmetto?
Not that i would understand of course so you’ll need to be a lot more down to earth as I’m not overly clever.
I work with Computers so you have to explain everything as if I will not understand. :p
Of course regardless I wouldn’t consider joining any of these either. :0
Col
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May 25, 2013 at 12:29 pm #2427397
Nah, just using a familiar example of niche interests.
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to So is that some kind of crack at me?
I could have used motor sports, but I can never remember which ones are lame and which ones are not, so I went with something with universal appeal 😉 :^0
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May 25, 2013 at 1:00 pm #2427394
None of them are lame.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Nah, just using a familiar example of niche interests.
Well, none of them that are measured against a clock or other objective goal. Anything judged (like motorcycle stunts, monstor truck free-styling, skateboard tricks, ice skating, or gymnastics) is an art, not a sport. That doesn’t mean the participants aren’t atheletes.
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May 28, 2013 at 10:51 am #2427337
I’m that much of an outsider, I misinterpret the “they’ve ruined it”…
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to None of them are lame.
to mean some of them are now ruined :p :^0
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May 29, 2013 at 4:21 am #2427304
Huh? Who said “they’ve ruined it”?
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to I’m that much of an outsider, I misinterpret the “they’ve ruined it”…
Neither the HAL unit nor I used that phrase. I don’t know what your referring to.
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May 30, 2013 at 3:12 am #2427262
Not now, but my convo buffer suggests that some people at one time…
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Huh? Who said “they’ve ruined it”?
said something like that. Could have been someone else, and my mind conflated it.
Anyway, when not knowing anything about a subject, I prefer to not use examples from that subject 😉
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May 25, 2013 at 12:56 pm #2427395
Vaguely and in general.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Remember asking what “social media” is for, Palmetto?
If I can’t remember any specific question, it only means I don’t remember asking them, not that they weren’t asked.
I don’t see why anyone would want to keep up with semi-estranged family or fair-weather friends, or keep them updated either. I’ve read too many posts from people who have found LinkedIn to be useful for me to pooh-pooh it. But I’ve also tried it enough to determine there’s no value for me. I may get around to taking a look at Google+ one day, but I’m active enough here to satisfy my on-line itch and something about getting a Google account trips my long-range sensors.
I notice you didn’t include Twitter 🙂
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May 26, 2013 at 6:24 am #2427385
becasue only twits twitter and neither of you are twits – nt
by deadly ernest · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Vaguely and in general.
nt
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May 28, 2013 at 6:42 am #2427353
Well Hello Palmy
by shellbot · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Vaguely and in general.
My fair-weathered friend 😀
Just touching base to see how ye doing.
(hehe)
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May 28, 2013 at 9:45 am #2427346
Fair-weathered? Me?
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Well Hello Palmy
I’ve been right here, two shows nightly. 😀
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May 28, 2013 at 10:49 am #2427339
Isn’t Palmie more of a Wear-feathered friend?
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Fair-weathered? Me?
:^0
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May 28, 2013 at 4:36 pm #2427317
Speaking of worn feathers,
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Isn’t Palmie more of a Wear-feathered friend?
I’ve had a good birding spring. There was a prothonotary warbler at the Darlington race, a swallow-tailed kite flew over work last week, and a loggerhead shrike has been hanging out at nearby farm since February.
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May 29, 2013 at 1:34 am #2427312
Cools
by shellbot · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Speaking of worn feathers,
I’m not very knowledgeable about birds, but I do like to watch them. Particularly fond of ducks for some reason.
I don’t get to close to birds much anymore tho, after the almost famous episode at TR. LOL
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June 3, 2013 at 11:51 am #2427139
As I was getting into the van this morning
by nicknielsen · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Speaking of worn feathers,
I got to watch a magpie giving a crow what-for…
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June 11, 2013 at 2:14 am #2426564
Cool
by shellbot · about 10 years, 9 months ago
In reply to As I was getting into the van this morning
😀
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June 11, 2013 at 9:15 am #2426546
It evens out.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 9 months ago
In reply to As I was getting into the van this morning
Later in the day that same crow was probably strafing a Cooper’s or Red-Tailed hawk…
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May 29, 2013 at 1:32 am #2427313
Well see,
by shellbot · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Fair-weathered? Me?
I just couldn’t help ruffling your feathers ..
(hahahahah. ah, i kill myself sometimes..)
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May 29, 2013 at 4:22 am #2427303
And with jokes like that,
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Well see,
sometimes I encourage you to do so. 😀
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May 30, 2013 at 3:14 am #2427260
Ha!
by shellbot · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to And with jokes like that,
Someone who wants to hear my jokes?? Holy cow!
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May 30, 2013 at 3:55 am #2427256
Wrong sentence.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Ha!
Try the LAST one in your preceding post!
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May 30, 2013 at 4:07 am #2427251
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May 30, 2013 at 4:20 am #2427248
Someone is begging for a nuclear feather-ruffling.
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Ha!
:p :^0
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May 30, 2013 at 4:08 am #2427250
grrr
by shellbot · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to And with jokes like that,
gotta figure out the nesting levels on this thing… where that silly “take offline” thing come from?
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May 30, 2013 at 4:22 am #2427247
It’s a special little
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to grrr
“F U” from the site re-unfitting…
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May 30, 2013 at 5:21 am #2427245
The seventh level of Heck.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to grrr
If you go too far down and get stuck with ‘Take Offline’ instead of ‘Reply’, go back up to the previous level and reply to it.
“Teacher says, every time someone uses ‘Take Offline’, an angel gets sodomized.”
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June 4, 2013 at 10:48 am #2427106
Figures….
by cmiller5400 · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to grrr
The “Take Offline” creates a post in the Water Cooler area. But since this is a water cooler topic, won’t that create some sort of loop? Kind of like “Crossing the streams” and having a total protonic reversal event 😀
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June 11, 2013 at 2:15 am #2426563
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June 11, 2013 at 5:30 am #2426554
More like
by nicknielsen · about 10 years, 9 months ago
In reply to grrr
nested procedure calls…without end.
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May 27, 2013 at 2:51 am #2427371
social media for companies
by cdurai · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Remember asking what “social media” is for, Palmetto?
Social media engagement for companies or brands is different. Companies use social media for building their brand and its management. By proper monitoring and analyzing the ‘Shout’ (sentiments) in the social media they can change their business or service strategy. They can use shout analytics for the sentiment analysis in the social media monitoring.
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May 28, 2013 at 5:22 am #2427358
Buzzword Bingo
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to social media for companies
“They can use shout analytics for the sentiment analysis in the social media monitoring.”
We have a winner! Three management-speak phrases in one sentence! I award extra points for ‘sentiment analysis’; that’s a new one on me.
With that said, I have no doubt that there are some departments in some companies that gain value from social media. That doesn’t mean it has value for all companies, or for individuals on a personal level.
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June 10, 2013 at 12:54 am #2426585
I’ll Raise You…
by dogknees · about 10 years, 9 months ago
In reply to Buzzword Bingo
“Microsoft finds a new way to deliver a private cloud in a box”.
Try explaining that to your Gran!
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June 10, 2013 at 7:29 am #2426581
Hell,
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 9 months ago
In reply to I’ll Raise You…
the only way I can explain ‘private cloud’ to myself is to use old-fashioned terms like ‘client-server’…
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June 10, 2013 at 6:04 pm #2426568
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June 10, 2013 at 12:42 pm #2426573
Another view
by aidemzo_adanac · about 10 years, 9 months ago
In reply to Remember asking what “social media” is for, Palmetto?
[b]Facebook[/b], is a place for the insecure, the self conscious, the shut-ins and the sick to be someone they WANT to be. They can make friends that they would never be able to befriend in real life, they can get sympathy from total strangers that they consider friends (when sick, in hospital, left by a spouse etc.)
[b] Linkedin[/b] Initially a good choice for a business networking portal. Now it has turned into Facebook for people who wish they were in business. If you don’t follow suit and endorse everyone you get messages from, if you don’t allow unknown people to endorse you and if you use it strictly as the tool it was designed for, you can still stand out from the crowd and gain credibility for your achievements. If you join the masses, you lose credibility and its ‘a useless website.
[b]Google+[/b]: Is a link near G-Drive where some people waste a lot of time, senselessly and without any positive outcome. If you’ve lost all of your pretend friends on Facebook there’s Google+ where you can start again.
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