Of course some of the same articles are on Facebook. It has everything and
it has everything so that its share holders can make lots of money. And
everyone, including Democacy Now, has a presence there and wants to be,
"liked", on Facebook. People have been fighting for years to keep the
internet neutral and to keep it as free and unregulated as possible. That
sure won't happen on Facebook which is trying to become a monopoly. And as
soon as the government began pressuring them to find Russian ads and
influence which supposedly distorted the election, guess what!, they found
it, because Zuckerberg knows which side is bread is buttered on. It amazes
me that a person like you who follows Marxist theory so closely, would be so
supportive of a huge monopolistic corporation.
Miriam
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Miriam, pretty much every one of those sources that you post articles from
have a presence on Facebook. I have some of them in my feed too. Frequently
I see some of the same articles that you post here. Now how is it that the
very same article becomes superficial when it appears on Facebook and it is
not superficial when you post it here? By the way, sometimes you complain
that certain articles from certain sites are hard to read and hard to copy.
I think that if you got them from Facebook and used the M.Facebook site you
would find them a lot easier to access with a screen reader.
On 11/6/2017 6:34 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Well, that's a matter of opinion because to me, the sources that you like
provide superficial information and some of the information isn't of
interest to me or isn't useful to me. It's kind of like choosing books. I'm
on the DB Review list. People have a variety of tastes. Some people
recommend books that they love, but I would never want to read. I like some
books that most other people don't. But sometimes, our tastes overlap. The
same is true of information sources. I choose mine very carefully. One
example is the podcast feeds on my VR Stream. There are people who have 50
or more feeds on their streams. At the moment, I have 16. I've had some,
discarded them, and replaced them with others.
Miriam
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It is not a matter of liking different info than you do, but choosing to
expand my sources.
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I guess that different people are interested in different kinds of
information. It's a matter of taste. I had a blind friend, a guy with a PhD
in psychology, who was not interested in reading newspaper articles. He
didn't trust journalists. He preferred to get his information from talk
radio. He was very interested in medical issues and he liked to listen to
doctors who had radio programs during which they gave advice. He also had a
police scanner in his apartment at one point. He was, for many years, a
lurker on this list, but he never read the political articles that we
posted. He was only interested in posts related to blindness.
Miriam
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Miriam, As with anything, the thing itself is not inherently good or
evil, but the way it is used. I am on twitter subscribed to a million news
sources. I get live notice of live streams of protests, live police calls,
140 characters of news headlines that allows me to look further into an
issue or not, weather alerts, police alerts, kidnapped kid alerts. It is a
great source. I am on Facebook where there are neighborhood pages and town
pages of where I live and find out instantly, for example, of a bear coming
down my block, a woman in great need after an abusive husband left, lost
dogs, a family whose teen was killed in a car accident and needed help, a
man sitting in a car on my block taking picture of kids. The police are on
the site and post neighborhood alerts. It is a wonderful source.
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I'm certainly not on twitter. The idea of thinking that one can adequately
express an idea in 140 characters is ridiculous. It's just a way to lash out
at others or inflate one's ego, as far as I'm concerned. Facebook is a huge
money making operation and is not the way I want to communicate with
anyone!Even my kids who are 53 and 45 don't use it. And if I could manage
it, and I almost do, I'd boycott Amazon because I don't want a monopoly
doing all the selling in the world. I have ideas about right and wrong and
I've tried to live my values. But as society becomes more and more corrupt,
it becomes harder and harder to do so. I'll hold out, wherever I can.
Miriam
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Miriam, Are you on Twitter? Why no Facebook?
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It was just a personal post that was forwarded around and happened to
come my way. Maybe you wouldn't be on Facebook, but you have made plenty
of personal posts right here yourself.
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I wouldn't be on Facebook to begin with. And the fact that people wouldbecome involved in a story like that when really important and horrible
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Subject: [blind-democracy] What would you do with something like this?that she found. She said that it had been abandoned and that she found it in
There is a guy on Facebook who says that his wife brought home a puppy
