Hoffman Amps Facebook page??

[mrr3000gt]

So when does someone create a Hoffman Amps Facebook group??

[EL34]

I had a facebook page.
Too many people I did not know wanted to join me or whatever it is that you do on facebook.
It started out for family and freinds, but I ended up deleting my facebook account.

Just asking because I don't really understand all this facebook, blogging, twitter stuff.
I'm old fashoin I guess.

Email me to talk to me.
Telephone me if you are a friend or familiy.
Come here or other forums to hang out with amp friends or to blab with other people about subjects that interest me.

That pretty much covers every form of communication that I have a need for.

What exactly is a facebook page be for?
Isn't the forum the place you go to talk to the members?

I'm serious, not being a smart-ass, I truly do not understand the whole thing?
I don't have, have never owned, have no need for a cell phone, if that explains anything.  

[FYL]

What exactly is a facebook page be for?

Nobody really knows. It's just some more agitation in the ever increasing digital wastelands.

[EL34]

I guess it serves a purpose for people to keep in contact with familiy and friends by posting pictures and stuff.
Someones Mom in Michigan can look at pics of the grand kids in California.

Exactly WTF is twitter for?
Is it just for teens to blab to their friends while they type crap on a blackberry with one hand, talk on a cell phone with the other hand and steer the car with thier knees while I look in the rear view mirror and wish I could choke them?

[simonallaway]

What exactly is a facebook page be for?

As an Englishman living in the US, for me it's one place where I can keep up with my euro-family in the same place as my US-family 

Nobody really knows. It's just some more agitation in the ever increasing digital wastelands.

I agree with that completely.

[sluckey]

Is it just for teens to blab to their friends while they type crap on a blackberry with one hand, talk on a cell phone with the other hand and steer the card with thier knees?

Hey hillbilly! You ain't as out of touch as you thought you were.    

[EL34]

Hey hillbilly! You ain't as out of touch as you thought you were.

Wow, did I get it right?
That was just a wild ass guess based on what I see when I look in my rear view mirror, just before I tap the brakes to make em crap their pants.

Ok, seriously this time.
WTF is twitter and what is it for?

Edit: Nevermind, I went to Wikipedia and read about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
Got no use for it here unless you guys want me to blog about getting bit by chiggers, what I am watching on TV, how good this peanut butter sandwich is, etc.

[simonallaway]

Ok, seriously this time.
WTF is twitter and what is it for?

It's also referred to as micro-blogging due to the fact that you can only send 140 characters at once. It grew in popularity at the SXSW music/media festival (in Austin I think) as users of it were 'broadcasting' their whereabouts during the day. As more people jumped on it, it reached a critical mass. And just as it was with the internet in the early 90's, it's become clogged with corporation and celebrities trying to 'monetize' it.

All that being said, I still don't quite know what it's for.

[EL34]

My whereabouts:
I am in the toilet, where are you?
Boy, this is a fun and valuable service. 

[FYL]

All that being said, I still don't quite know what it's for.

Twitter and other so-called social networks allow to collect a lot of very personal information for literally nothing. This info can be used for highly targeted marketing ops.

And would you like fries with that, Sir?

[EL34]

yes please, and now I must go and blog about this to other people that don't have anything going on in their lives.  

[rafe]

Facebook, I don't get it.....but I reluctantly signed up...I guess because of my myspace experience, with my space a friend convinced me to signup and I did....they had a classified section, I checked musical instruments from the closest city 45 miles away and by 6:00 that evening I had a supro thunderbolt for $60.00 Have not used my space very much since....With facebook I have reconnected with 2 old friends I'd lost touch with.......We talked on the phone. It's good for that, I don't (nor will I) participate in those sorry assed applications.......but it's a decent tool to find those good friends you lost IMHO...
PS I love that thunderbolt

[John]

Facebook is an excellent way to keep in touch with people you don't get the chance to see as often as you'd like. That being said, I have quite a few of my contacts on the "hidden" option because I don't really care about what they do every ten minutes, or whether their kids are puking (again and again and again). Mostly though, I jump on to play my turn at Scrabble and log back off. 

I also have a "page" for the business. I created that so that I could embed the news feed straight into my website making it MUCH easier for me to post updates about what's coming out of the fields and/or the greenhouse, any specials I might be running, etc. It's so much faster than editing the html, double-checking it, uploading, etc. That's the best part of FB for me personally.

I have no idea what twitter is for. I have enough twits in my life.

[Rev D]

 My family and I use it just to keep in touch. I've kept in touch with cousins and such I had lost contact with, but thats all I use it for. I don't post my every movement (whether its bathroom or not haha). I have it so I have to approve friends and that way you can ward off the online dates and hookers trying to be your friend...  It does let me keep in contact with family though and post pictures of the grandkids and such and keeps it semi private so just the family has access unless someone lets a clown in the group.

 I dont tweet or twit or whatever its called, I see no reason to let anyone know what I'm doing or that I'm have such low self esteem that I must broadcast I'm going here or there or to this concert oh lucky me. I do use the cell phone, but only in case we have a car problem or to let family know I'll be late and also carry it around the house in case I have a problem and no one is home. Outside of that I don't park on it like my step kids do. They feel they have to text every waking moment instead of calling anyone, but hey thats the plugged in generation and I can't or won't say I understand it and I guess thats ok.

Regards,

RD

[DummyLoad]

facebook has helped me keep in touch with family i have scattered all over the globe, and as already pointed out, keep in touch with friends that have moved away, or i don't get to see much anymore.

twitter - a total waste of time and bandwidth.

[Shrapnel]

facebook has helped me keep in touch with family i have scattered all over the globe, and as already pointed out, keep in touch with friends that have moved away, or i don't get to see much anymore.

twitter - a total waste of time and bandwidth.

I got both a twitter and a facebook account.  I get more follow requests from human pr0n pushers than anybody else on twitter. I barely even visit twitter anyway.

[renshen1957]

Hey hillbilly! You ain't as out of touch as you thought you were.

Ok, seriously this time.
WTF is twitter and what is it for?

I don't know if the Wikipedia entry got it right.  Brewster Rockit,  a comic in the newpapers, had this insight, "He puts the TWIT into Twitter."

[Fresh_Start]

Doug - PLEASE don't go to FaceBook.  I like this forum the way it is.

I'm glad someone else is as mystified by this "social networking" nightmare as I am. 

I set up a FaceBook account so that I could see some videos my daughter at college posted on her "Wall".  Unlike most kids her age, she hasn't posted anything yet (that I know of) disturbing enough to generate a phone call from Dad.  I have re-connected with a couple of long-lost friends.  However, what kind of "relationship" do you have with someone if FaceBook is the only medium? (that's a rhetorical question BTW)

Recently a girl I knew in high school and first year of college "friended" me.  I thought "cool!"  We exchanged greetings, and that was it in terms of interpersonal communication.  Except for the daily (at least) socio-political posts/photos/links that keep popping up on my "Newsfeed" (is that the same thing as a "Wall"?)  My wife suggested that I set it to ignore everything, but I said "Oh no, I don't want to be intolerant."  A week or so later, I'd had enough.  Now I block everything from her.

Twitter just sounds like a stupid idea

WARNING - Chip is getting on his parenting soapbox:  Kids need to know that texting/FaceBook/whatever makes it much easier to lie and be really mean.  Plus it's just not the same as a real conversation where you can hear voice inflections and emotions from the other person.  When my daughter was in middle school, she was trying desperately hard to be accepted by this clique.  One girl in particular made a habit of sending an "Instant Message" (yes, it was a while ago) telling Lizzie she couldn't go to the party, dinner, whatever, for some reason or another.  It was very hurtful, and also eye opening.  It is so much easier to be dishonest and/or cruel with text messages than it is talking to someone on the phone.  There's no instant feedback from hearing the hurt in the other person's voice or the challenge of "That's B.S.!" [/soapbox off]

Here's an honest question, why would anyone try to send a text message while driving?  Dial their g.d. phone number and talk to them fer cryin' out loud!

As far as cell phones go, I've had one since 1991.  I travel all over Virginia for work, and the cell phone is simply essential for checking messages, re-scheduling, etc.  Wonderful gadget... until they added the text messaging crap.

Sorry for carrying on so long...

Chip

[EL34]

I had a facebook account several years ago.

I deleted as soon as I started getting bugged by customers and people I don't know.

Forums and email take care of all my networking needs just fine.

[mrr3000gt]

Sorry to start this thread and not get back to it for nearly a year!!

I also am a newcommer to this social media thing: back some years ago when the general public started to hijack the internet, no real Info Tech pro had much business 'misusing' the internet.

I worked for a company in the early to mid 1990s that developed software and provided internet service to the public, so I got to see the internet go from about 6 real commerce web sites and Yahoo to what it is today. What people forget (or leave out of Internet history guides) is that one of the very first users of the internet - way before the flood of companies - was the porn industry. We were shocked at the shear number of porn-based sites vs the number of usefull sites back then. I remember thinking "here is the greatest thing humans have invented since the wheel, and it is being used for tribute sites for bizzare fetishes - what a waste!".

Early social media was more like bulletin boards - online clubs. Then came things like AOL and other all-in-one sites that provided service, portal service, membership bells and whistles. That is how the Info Tech civilians used the Internet in addition to commerse sites and things like Slipnot tribute sites.

Then eventually came what we recognize as social media (as we know it today). Enough people are using the Internet that it has become ingrained and even instatutionalized that it is both the telephone and shortwave radio combined: realtime and worldwide.

So withthis connective media, the means to take advantage of the widespread nature and pool of people lends itself for things like Facebook and twitter.

Facebook is a way for people to group together, keep tabs on each other, send messages, suggest people to others to be members of their friend lists, and allow for connected members to view each others friend lists to add to their own lists (I guess the theory being people we know might know each other but have lost contact with them). I have re-connected with people I have not seen for 30 or more years through simple searches, and even my own sister who lived in China for 10 years when I lost contact with her in the mid 1990s. All of my old Highschool is on it and its like a way to keep in contact. Not at all like the people who collect thousands of people they have no real connection with.

Twitter was hard for me to grasp at first, too. Basically it is similar to facebook (as you have lists of people you follow and people that follow you). If someone follows you on twitter, then whenever you broadcast your little 128 character message (called a tweet), then they all get it. Its a fast way to talk to hundreds or thousands with some little blurb of info. I keep tabs with a monster quasi-famous shreadder named Rusty Cooly who is from my home town through twitter. (I am one of a small number of his thousands he follows).

Both Facebook activity updates (from my 'friednlist'), twitter updates (as well as email, phone messages) and even phonecall all come to my android smartphone in realtime. I guess that makes me a whole lot of techno nerd...

[drumslinger2000]

I get the Facebook stuff and the Twitter stuff but the time just to keep up with it........