Random Daily Banter

[briantrumpet]

Still have to think carefully, but this makes it vaguely clear - the number of horizontal steps is the first/second etc (first cousins being via siblings of parents, second cousins via siblings of grandparents), and the once/twice is the vertical displacement from the same generation in either direction (up/down)

 

[First Aspect]

Still have to think carefully, but this makes it vaguely clear - the number of horizontal steps is the first/second etc (first cousins being via siblings of parents, second cousins via siblings of grandparents), and the once/twice is the vertical displacement from the same generation in either direction (up/down)

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I think for the gentry, as for rural communities in Cornwall, there are a few black lines missing from that diagram. Or some people appear in more than one box.

 

[briantrumpet]

I think for the gentry, as for rural communities in Cornwall, there are a few black lines missing from that diagram. Or some people appear in more than one box.

There's the old one about whether in Cornwall if you divorce someone they are still your cousin.

 

[briantrumpet]

Just in case @PurplePenguin thinks I've lost my touch with the over-60s French women (the comments and likes are on the Facebook Page which crossposts from Instagram, whose sole function is, I am convinced, to make Facebook look usable)... it's entirely bizarre that I can't actually see the comments without friends screenshotting them, but their dedication to a random 61-year old Devonian is rather touching. Genuinely. Well, apart from the one or two creepy ones.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Just in case @PurplePenguin thinks I've lost my touch with the over-60s French women (the comments and likes are on the Facebook Page which crossposts from Instagram, whose sole function is, I am convinced, to make Facebook look usable)... it's entirely bizarre that I can't actually see the comments without friends screenshotting them, but their dedication to a random 61-year old Devonian is rather touching. Genuinely. Well, apart from the one or two creepy ones.

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Are they aware of your Facebook situation?

 

[briantrumpet]

Are they aware of your Facebook situation?

Yes, they are. A few have come over to my separate French Instagram profile (I explained that that's the only way I can reply to comments), but most of them say they are just happy to see I can at least crosspost to FB. But the French (wisely) also think IG is pants, so that's only Plan Z if FB is irretrievable by May 2026.

FWIW, I turn off DMs on both of the French pages (FB & IG), so if they do want to make suggestive comments, they will be public for all the other women to see. Seems to do the trick in keeping it under control. There seems to be no link back to my personal IG profile despite me crossposting from it.

The two main lessons I've learnt so far is that I should have found someone else to be a back-up admin of my FB Page, and that Meta has taken enshittification to really to heart. I think I'd have a fair claim that they've taken my Meta Verified subscription under false marketing (simply, the support chat doesn't work, which is why I signed up), but I'm going to keep plugging away trying to find a viable contact method before playing legal, as that might slow down getting things sorted, which is all I'm interested in.

I reallly ought to be able to access Meta in Ireland, who pay my invoices, and to whom I had to prove my identity and tax status, but there's no email contact I can find, and the only online contact forms are via Facebook URL, so completely blocked to me. I just need to prise one door open long enough to be able to make contact with an actual human.

 

[PurplePenguin]

There seems to be an entire sub reddit for people in your situation.

I think only fans is your future.

 

[briantrumpet]

There seems to be an entire sub reddit for people in your situation.

I think only fans is your future.

Maybe I need to retire from the uni job too before I go down that route...

Yeah, joined Reddit a few days ago, and have commented on a few threads of people stuck in FB limbo, so will put some more time into searching round there for other ways round the Kafkaesque impasse.

 

[PurplePenguin]

It surprises me that people still use Facebook. My reluctance to use it used to cause communication problems with people, but I rarely hear about it now. Instead they all moan about my not using whatsapp.

 

[briantrumpet]

It surprises me that people still use Facebook. My reluctance to use it used to cause communication problems with people, but I rarely hear about it now. Instead they all moan about my not using whatsapp.

FB is deeply flawed in many respects (not least the unaccountability and management-by-AI-bot), but from personal experience, for reaching older communities with benign stuff, and getting some sort of order in publications, nothing matches its reach and ease of sharing. I'm Never Going to Go TikTok, and Instagram is dire for photo sharing (for numerous reasons). Maybe FB is bigger in France because they aren't as hip as the UK. Dunno. Though I do see some ugly community stuff shared too which makes understanding each other and coming to compromises very difficult, when passions have been inflamed.

I've managed to collect a grand total of *ONE* contact on Signal (see, I do listen to you sometimes), but today's uni students (slightly surprisingly) are very good with WhatsApp, pretty rubbish with email and Facebook.

 

[Ian H]

One of our cycling groups is spread over wotzap and Signal. One member had a panic about the former's privacy when FB took over, so we started to move across, but various folk refused the jump.

 

[Pblakeney]

One of our cycling groups is spread over wotzap and Signal. One member had a panic about the former's privacy when FB took over, so we started to move across, but various folk refused the jump.

People do not like change, and that increases with age. This explains boomers hanging onto FB.
Quite simple really.

 

[First Aspect]

People do not like change, and that increases with age. This explains boomers hanging onto FB.
Quite simple really.

Don't think it is boomers, given how old most of them are now.

FB to me seems to function as an alternative to small company or community websites. Which is a pain because I have never used it personally.

 

[Pblakeney]

Don't think it is boomers, given how old most of them are now.

FB to me seems to function as an alternative to small company or community websites. Which is a pain because I have never used it personally.

I used boomers as a handy stereotype. Expand it to your wishes.
Point stands that it is convenient and once used people are reluctant to change.

 

[First Aspect]

I used boomers as a handy stereotype. Expand it to your wishes.
Point stands that it is convenient and once used people are reluctant to change.

Yes but you aren't 18.

GenZs use it to mean people who are as old as they will be after they next blink, and who they think are old because they don't act quite as much like a lemming in relation to the next big thing that's just the same as the last one.