[Magdalen] New Yorker

[Grace Cangialosi]

That’s interesting. I’ve never understood those things where they ask if you want to connect using FB, so I don’t do it—just put in my email address or whatever...

> On Mar 26, 2018, at 3:46 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I went into my settings and got rid of all the apps I had connected over
> the years. Everything seems to work fine; I just have to login individually
> to sites where I formerly used my FB credentials.
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I cleaned mine up seriously and left it at that. Not deleting as it is how
>> I keep up with some people in my life.
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:34 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I deleted it from my life years ago and seldom pine.
>>> 
>>> I imagine the movement is about how (as Trevor Noah put it) Mark "Walking
>>> Peanut Allergy" Zuckerberg allowed such a good idea to become such a tool
>>> of evil in the wrong hands.  The premise being that he may have had the
>>> brilliance to create it, but not the wisdom to maintain it.  God gave Its
>>> creation free will; technology should never have such a thing.  (Remember
>>> that all his "safeguards" are put in place only after havoc occurs rather
>>> than doing the true "brilliant" thing and, shall we say, think ahead.)
>> I'm
>>> so glad that our seldom-bipartisan Congress is rumbling loudly these days
>>> about actually regulating such things, not as social media, but as MEDIA.
>>> 
>>> I'm no fan of Sen John Kennedy of LA, but he can turn quite the phrase on
>>> occasion.  He recently likened Facebook to the social media equivalent of
>>> "The Truman Show".
>>> 
>>> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>>> 
>>> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
>>> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
>>> "...[My mouth is a] shithole..." -- 45th US President.
>>> 
>> 
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> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA