LoT Facebook group
 

So I created a Lounge of Tomorrow Facebook group and added a bunch of you, but in case I missed someone, let me know and I'll add you if you're interested - or if you're not on Facebook if you think we should add your mother.

It looks like you missed a lot (LoT... Hehe) of us.

Faceboook Groups - the world's latest in snubbing technology.

They should have called it "Cliques". Then I might have been interested in it.

Yep, all I thought was cliques are us. Perfect way to rid facebook of all the benefit I get out of it. (Which is stuff, ideas, links, photos, and news shared by the widest variety of people).


That said, I think a LoT group is a really good idea. Can I join?

Heh - I'm waiting to see if this is the LoT killer

Yeah, not sure Facebook has the best interface for adding folks, as I seem to have already added many who are requesting to be added - maybe using old email addresses or just some odd lag-time going on. In any event I suspect before long everyone except Parmesan Jim will be there soon.

And Kevy.

I need to check the settings, can I opt out of being emailed when someone posts to a group. If not, and it gets active, I imagine I will be removing myself from any groups.

In your account setting under notifications you can select when or when you don't want Facebook to email you

Am I understanding things that my membership in this group is publicly available information? Is it possible for someone searching for me to learn that (that it not by searching for Lounge of Tomorrow but by searching for me)?

Currently the membership is public but you bring up a good point in that here while membership is "public" in some sense there is the veil of the screen name - I shall make it a secret society and hide the membership - much more fun and cliquish that way

Oh ho ho. The mom joke. Y'know, I use it as a bit of a punchline, but my family dynamics are such that a bit of busybodyness on the part of my mom back in December has resulted in a rift between her mother, sister, and niece. All due to her getting involved with a FB entry from a nephew of my stepfather. I need this convoluted shiat in my own life? No, I do not. The common wisdom seems to be that I'm somehow over-reacting, or that my concerns could all be addressed through FB's privacy settings. So, I did some poking around on teh intarwebs to find out what problems other people might have with FB. Mainly because I kept hearing about Mark Zuckerberg's slippery grasp of privacy and property. Sadly, I have not been reassured. So, while it sounds like a swell time will be had by all, for now I'm going to remain Facebook free. If I could set up a trial account, and back out of it if I didn't dig it, I might feel better. Apparently, though, closing a FB account is next to impossible. Wikipedia has an illuminating article on the whole thing. I'm sure it was written by the same crazy people who think that climate change is real, and that the homo-sex is a valid lifestyle choice.

Still available by snail mail, e-mail, cell phone, text message, twitter, the LoT, micechat, sky-writing, and, God forbid, in person,

Jim

Secret. Hide. Facebook. Uh yeah, experience shows it really doesn't work that way.

My mom's on facebook. She has not seen anything that I did not intend her to see.

Of course she's not crazy. Well, not maliciously crazy (she did call today to be sure CP passed along to me the medicare mass mailer postcard with my name on it).

Well, my mom isn't maliciously crazy either, but the the mom-force is very strong with her.

Hmmmmmmm I cant find the facebook Lot

And I would still rather have a wasp's nest shoved up my pooper than start tweeting. So I get it. To each their own social media time waster. :)

It's a secret now

It's a secret now

*pout* I wanna be with the popular kids!!!

Are you on Facebook?

I've been snubbed.

Is it on double secret probation?

that would be telling

Miffed by the power of the exclusive clique! Am not included.

Chris, are you trying to tell us something?;) (My kid is in the group, but not me!)

:p

You have to be on facebook. Then just go to the group Lounge of Tomorrow (or is it unge of Tomor?) and hit the Request to Join button.



Has anyone besides me felt that LoT was on its last legs lately? It was suggested by somebody that we all just move over to facebook and carry on there. Not sure if this is what's going to happen with this Group (it doesn't seem able to robust enough to substitute even for the slimmed-down LoT of 2010, but who knows?)

Happy Dance time!!!

All great things come to an end - not that I'm angling to hasten our demise, but rather exploring ways we might evolve, and who knows what's yet around the corner - Friendster<MySpace<Facebook<?

Not me

Not me either. I think we're all busy with our own things. I think moving over to FB wouldn't be a good idea - I'd post a heck of a lot less if I couldn't post at work.

I think the format is different... Unge Tomor might replace the "Soooo...." thread, but other topic-based discussions, I doubt it.

That's what smart phones are for

I don't see it as the end of the LoT at all. There are a lot of things that I would post here that I won't post on FB.

I seem to still be having trouble inviting everyone over, but it seems any member can invite others to join so, those of you who are there, if you see anyone missing go ahead and invite them in.

It's much easier to load a webpage on a computer and pop back and forth between that page and something else then it is to look at one page on my phone. However LoT goes is where it goes. I'd probably get a lot more done at work if I wasn't posting.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Really? Maybe A.D.D. really was the correct acronym for this group. :rolleyes:

What she says! Look at my status page on FB- very impersonal, just general info and boring status updates, designed to make FB think that it's not just a Mafia Wars profile. :D This is my online home, not FB.

If Facebook is the evolution of here, then I'll probably be left behind (not that such is an argument against whatever evolution happens). I'm unlikely to add the group to the very limited filter I use for what I read on Facebook.

The purpose of here is to have conversations (for me, anyway). Facebook is horrible for anything but the most minimal of conversation (in my experience).

Plus, despite current settings I don't trust FB to not have random bouts of screwing up privacy settings and having anything I say in a secret group temperorarily or permanently exposed. So I'm not going to say anything interesting even if I did participate.

But I've kept the group membership in case I'm wrong (I was, for a while, wrong about twitter) but if you notice I've eventually left the group, that's why. Nothing personal.

FB is not a replacement for the LoT by a looooong shot.

You've been saying that since day 5 of the LoT.

Odd that you stay that Alex. I find Facebook to be exactly like LoT. People post something and, if it sparks an interest, people respond and keep responding in what becomes an actual thread.

I don't think a single Group will naturally produce the variety of threads necessary to imitate a message board - but since theoretically the membership of the real LoT and the facebook LoT are the same, there is nothing to stop that from happening. The threads just don't get convenient names.

The biggest annoyance so far is the constant notifications on FB that someone new has joined or commented. I can't find a way to disable that.

For each post there is an "unsubscribe" button.

I'm with Alex, I don't find Facebook's interface very comfortable for long-form conversation.

I concur.

I couldn't lurk as well on facebook.

Arr, and a fine lurker ye be.

I concur in the above dissents.

It's the people, not the venue. That being said, because I have ADD and am all over the place all the time, FB is my window. Elvis would have agreed.

Also, on the group page there's an "Edit Settings" button on the upper right.

I think I'm one of the last people on the planet that doesn't have FB but I don't see a need for it. I also don't need my Mom and uber religious/crazy Aunt looking through my stuff. My nephew is having that issue but for some reason they haven't found my son yet! Lucky boy.

I am happy here on LoT and that is where I will stay. Have fun though!

^ See? SEE!?!

Whatever. I'm fine to stop by here once in a while. But the fact of life in America today, is that I'm hardly unusual in saying I'm on Facebook ALL DAY LONG.

I'm not sure what to make of that little factoid. Guess I'm just unAmurrican.

I'll be standing right next to you Jim.

I guess at least we can talk that way, like real Americans used to ;)

Ok, checked it out.

It's been two days. When will someone say something other than "Hey! This is Facebook!"

So changing the settings seems to have stopped the emails, any way to get it to stop telling me when I log in how many updates there have been to the group?

Who's going to start the "From Facebook" thread, in which everything posted there is reposted here? ;)

Why is this in any way a big deal?

Added - maybe that came off with the wrong tone. I'm not seeing why we're talking about Facebook vs No Facebook.

I don't know that we are. Are we? Is it coming off that way? I don't care if LoT has a FB presence, my mom will finally be able to catch up on all the comings and goings around here. ;)

You know who else wasn't on Facebook: Adolph Hitler!!!

All of us not on FB must be Nazis!









Does it count as a Godwin if the intention is to get Godwined?

Howard Johnson's right!

Rev'rent!

I must be the only one capable of telling their mom "I'll add you to Facebook but you can't see anything" or "sure, I'll add you" then block everything.

I added my mom, filtered her out then called her up 2 weeks later (after asking her daily who random people were who kept trying to friend me) and said "mom, I have to delete you from Facebook. I am tired of cousins and friends of yours I have no recollection of ever meeting trying to add me"

Then again I'm waiting for her to try and add Erica. Apparently she's showing up as a suggested friend for her.

Why not? :p

I would not be happy if LoT went away to be replaced by a FB group. There are many things I would not want to post on FB - even in a "secret" group. There is no such thing as privacy on FB.

I prefer the structured thread format and relative anonymity of LoT.

I'm on FB all day, too. If my iPhone is on and it is usually sitting on the FB app. It helps me sell tickets for shows and stuff.

Not to pick on GC, but I was just forced to open and read an e-mail about bacon.

I could be "on FB all day long" on the weekends by having the window open. Then again I'm also on LoT all day long by those standards. Open windows, get distracted and walk away. Come back hours later.

Agreed, and since some of us live more in that world than this I hoped to keep us all connected one way or another

I live in my own world. The woodland elves tell me that all the time.

It's not a big deal to me. It is more of a curiosity deal. I'm curious as to what the value of a Facebook group, if any, ends up being. Since this group, for the most part exists for talking to each other, I don't see the value of saying that this talking (under the umbrella of the group) will happen in two different places. So either one or the other will fade away or the group will constantly be repeating itself in both locations (as with all the people who simply mirror everything they say to every social network site). Or a value will develop that I'm completely not thinking of.

And that which I find interesting to think about, I talk about.

For people who can't or won't use Facebook (I'm not in that camp because I use Facebook, I just don't use Facebook for the purpose filled by LoT), I can see why it might be a big deal for an important social circle to at least partially move to where they aren't.

Ok, I take that back. Just went back to Facebook and more **** related to the group was on my screen (some kind of chat window). Rather than tracking down how to turn off (I closed it, but it returned within a couple of minutes) everything I don't want to see I just left the group.

If it looks like I'm missing anything great and want back in I'll ask and you all can say no then.

I see Lot People.

On the CNN home page. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

There's a setting you can disable.

Lani's still there, she can reinstate you whenever you want

What makes you think she'd let a poseur like me in? She has standards.

The chat thing rather freaked me out. Not sure how I feel about it, but minimizing it seems to bring me to a place where I look at it when I'm in the mood.

I agree on the chat. Whoever started that needs to be disciplined.

I'd suggest sending the perp NSFW links to scantly clad women. That would be a fitting punishment.

Last Night's LoT Live Chat on Facebook was something that cannot be done here on the real LoT. It was an interesting experiment, and might have some value.

Hey Lash:

This one is for you.

I don't use Facebook for chat.

I don't use Facebook :)

I fixed it for you.

I use FaceBook to chat with a friend in Utah. But an incident yesterday morning reminded me why I should keep it closed.

:D

...and here I was thinking you'd found me an App that has the groups included... :p

Just eating my breakfast of home-made JD Maple Sausage with pancakes and eggs. 2 seconds ago · LikeUnlike

More fun with Facebook.

Plunder and pillage facebook the fun and easy way.

And the useful link: How to protect yourself

Excellent! Downloaded and installed.

I am now visiting facebook (and other sites) in Https nirvana so now the only ones I have to worry about stealing/sharing my data is facebook itself.

I would also recommend the GoogleSharing add-on for anonymizing your Google searches.

Here's another way to protect yourself:

OK, Kevy - I've got it stretched over the monitor... now what?

1. Wonder why everything is fuzzy.
2. Remove it.
3. Clean up.
4. Go buy one without spermicide.

You're doing it wrong. It goes over the keyboard.

If you remove someone from your friend's list, are they notified?

Why, what did I do? I'm sorry. :(

No.

Thank you. there is someone I really need to get rid of, but if he figures it out....

That said, there are apps you can get that will tell you this.

For example, FriendsLog allows you to be notificed if a Friend:

Takes you off their friends list
Changes their name
Deactivates their account

So if it is important to you that the person never know then you probably shouldn't do it and just completely isolate them.

Thank you Alex. I have already done that.

Also if they try to look at your page won't they get a message about being blocked?

Or if they look at your list of friends...

Honest;y I don't think he much cares about my page. I mainly want to block him from being able to see when I am online, logged into chat.

Sometimes I am glad that I only borrow vaginas and don't actually own one. It seems like the owners are much more prone to stalkers.

Really, one of the owners I know was attacked in the middle of the night. Had to go to the emergency room and everything.

(I trust she's doing better?)

In pain. The kind that Vicoden (and other medicines) cannot help that much.

I just told my FB stalker no...again. He has once again said he would not bother me anymore. The kid needs to get a life.

Stalker deleted me after I told him no and that I was seeing someone else. If I had known it would be that easy I would have lied and told him that a month ago.

Three e-mails I bother to read=bacon, bacon, bacon.

Make that four. I am out of the omelet.