I guess this could be arguably politics/debate, but I just wanted to mention *somewhere* that I deactivated my Twitter/X account (@digitlman) last night. No big loss. I would occassionally post new YT video notices or software release announcements there, but that's about it.

I just couldn't stand the thought that my account was somehow adding to the numbers that supported Elon Musk and own private BBS/platform. Fuck that guy.
I encourage you to consider doing the same...
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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Digital Man to All on Wed Feb 05 2025 06:15 pm

I encourage you to consider doing th
same...

I just stopped using it or clicking on
any links to it since requiring to log
in for almost everything (almost.. you
can still read linked Xweets or
whatever). Fuck logging in to web stuff
:D. And I haven't had it on my phone or
other devices since they stopped
allowing 3rd party apps however long
ago.

Really, though, fuck all that social
media crap altogether.

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Digital Man wrote to All <=-

I just couldn't stand the thought that my account was somehow adding to the numbers that supported Elon Musk and own private BBS/platform. Fuck that guy. I encourage you to consider doing the same...
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I deleted mine within a week of him purchasing it. Seriously considering doing the same to Facebook (again). Took a three year hiatus from it a few years ago...created another account about the time that I shut down Twitter. Should have left well enough alone. The break was the best thing for me. :)



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Digital Man wrote to All <=-

I guess this could be arguably politics/debate, but I just wanted to mention *somewhere* that I deactivated my Twitter/X account
(@digitlman) last night. No big loss. I would occassionally post new YT video notices or software release announcements there, but that's about it.

I just couldn't stand the thought that my account was somehow adding to the numbers that supported Elon Musk and own private BBS/platform. Fuck that guy. I encourage you to consider doing the same...

Done! Haven't used it for several years anyway, but it's gone now.



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I guess this could be arguably politics/debate, but I just wanted to mention *somewhere* that I deactivated my Twitter/X account (@digitlman) last night.

big loss. I would occassionally post new YT video notices or software release announcements there, but that's about it.

That was the only reason I got a Twitter account to begin with... to post
YT video notices... but I did eventually get to following a few accounts,
like MeTV, Fleisher Cartoons, and the Onion.

I stopped posting notices a while back.

I just couldn't stand the thought that my account was somehow adding to the numbers that supported Elon Musk and own private BBS/platform. Fuck that guy. I encourage you to consider doing the same...

His buying it didn't bother me at all, and I admit somewhat enjoying the exposure of "shadow banning" and the outing of the antifa kiddie porn rings that soon followed. I have never really cared for him as a person, though,
and the idea of him being involved in government is not to my liking.

There is a newish, Twitter-like platform called BlueSky. Most of the
accounts I was following on X either cross-post to BlueSky or have moved
over all together. https://bsky.app


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CJ wrote to Digital Man <=-

I deleted mine within a week of him purchasing it. Seriously
considering doing the same to Facebook (again). Took a three year
hiatus from it a few years ago...created another account about the time that I shut down Twitter. Should have left well enough alone. The
break was the best thing for me. :)

I'm really enjoying the fediverse - specifically, mastodon. It reminds
me of the old identi.ca days (the authors of it and one of the authors
of ActivityPub were old BBS callers/sysop friends of mine, Ratsnatcher
and Mr. Bad... ) Right now, it's mostly political-free, ad-free, mostly
techie people, artists and writers in my feed. You can start your own
server or find a server with a shared interest as a basis.



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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Digital Man to All on Wed Feb 05 2025 06:15 pm

I guess this could be arguably politics/debate, but I just wanted to mention *somewhere* that I deactivated my Twitter/X account (@digitlman) last night. No big loss. I would occassionally post new YT video notices or software release announcements there, but that's about it.

I just couldn't stand the thought that my account was somehow adding to the numbers that supported Elon Musk and own private BBS/platform. Fuck that guy. I encourage you to consider doing the same...

I have a Twitter account, but I never have used it much. I suppose I might as well deactivate my account.

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: CJ to Digital Man on Wed Feb 05 2025 10:25 pm

doing the same to Facebook (again). Took a three year hiatus from it a few years ago...created another account about the time that I shut down Twitter. Should have left well enough alone. The break was the best thing for me. :)

For me, I keep in touch with a lot of family and friends on Facebook, and I'm in some groups there for various things (Plex Media Server and Star Trek, etc.), and if I stopped using Facebook, I'd be missing out on that stuff.

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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Digital Man to All on Wed Feb 05 2025 18:15:57

I partially agree with you and even though I rairly post anything on X, I use it to see the 'real' news via videos that don't seem to appear anywhere else.



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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Digital Man to All on Wed Feb 05 2025 06:15 pm

I guess this could be arguably politics/debate, but I just wanted to mention *somewhere* that I deactivated my Twitter/X account (@digitlman) last night. No big loss. I would occassionally post new YT video notices or software release announcements there, but that's about it.

I just couldn't stand the thought that my account was somehow adding to the numbers that supported Elon Musk and own private BBS/platform. Fuck that guy.
I encourage you to consider doing the same...

but you were fine with twitter when it was manipulating people and politics?

and it blocked people because they had an opinion on the covid vaccine but let global terrorists use twitter.

you shouldn't encourage anybody to do anything. they can make their own decisions. why do they need encouragement?
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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: CJ to Digital Man on Wed Feb 05 2025 10:25 pm

I deleted mine within a week of him purchasing it. Seriously considering doing the same to Facebook (again). Took a three year hiatus from it a few years ago...created another account about the time that I shut down Twitter. Should have left well enough alone. The break was the best thing for me. :)

so i will ask YOU. were you fine with how twitter operated before?
and you don't like facebook but you liked twitter before musk?
that's really misinformed.
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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X
By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Thu Feb 06 2025 10:07 am

I just couldn't stand the thought that my account was somehow adding to the numbers that supported Elon Musk and own private BBS/platform. Fuck that guy. I encourage you to consider doing the same...

His buying it didn't bother me at all, and I admit somewhat enjoying the exposure of "shadow banning" and the outing of the antifa kiddie porn rings that soon followed. I have never really cared for him as a person, though, and the idea of him being involved in government is not to my liking.

There is a newish, Twitter-like platform called BlueSky. Most of the accounts I was following on X either cross-post to BlueSky or have moved over all together. https://bsky.app

he's a fucking huge asshole and I don't like him as a person, but i also have not met him nor know him.

he seems to get things done when in charge, though.
bluesky has been around for years.

but do any of us who don't like x/twitter really WANT to use another micro blogging platform? dont all the social media networks essentially do what micro blogging does?
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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Mickey to Digital Man on Thu Feb 06 2025 01:51 pm

Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Digital Man to All on Wed Feb 05 2025 18:15:57

I partially agree with you and even though I rairly post anything on X, I use it to see the 'real' news via videos that don't seem to appear anywhere else.

i just use telegram and i join news channels and meme channels.
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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: MRO to Digital Man on Thu Feb 06 2025 06:58 pm

Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Digital Man to All on Wed Feb 05 2025 06:15 pm

I guess this could be arguably politics/debate, but I just wanted to mention *somewhere* that I deactivated my Twitter/X account (@digitlman) last night. No big loss. I would occassionally post new YT video notices or software release announcements there, but that's about it.

I just couldn't stand the thought that my account was somehow adding to the numbers that supported Elon Musk and own private BBS/platform. Fuck that guy.
I encourage you to consider doing the same...

but you were fine with twitter when it was manipulating people and politics?

Yeah, I guess so. I'm actually fine with Twitter, it's X/Elon that I can't stand.

and it blocked people because they had an opinion on the covid vaccine but let global terrorists use twitter.

No moderation is perfect, but I really didn't investigate it.

you shouldn't encourage anybody to do anything. they can make their own decisions. why do they need encouragement?

They don't. I guess what I meant to say was: reconsider your Twitter/X account - if you don't really need/want and would like to see Elon eat shit sooner than later, consider deactivating your account. That's all.

If you like/use X/Twitter and don't mind supporting Elon's enterprise, by all means, keep the account.
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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Feb 06 2025 05:50 pm

to the numbers that supported Elon Musk and own private BBS/platform. Fuck that guy.
I encourage you to consider doing the same...

but you were fine with twitter when it was manipulating people and politics?

Yeah, I guess so. I'm actually fine with Twitter, it's X/Elon that I can't stand.

and it blocked people because they had an opinion on the covid vaccine but let global terrorists use twitter.

No moderation is perfect, but I really didn't investigate it.

just look into it a little bit. it was nuts what they were doing.
they were trying to manipulate people and create hate and division.

They don't. I guess what I meant to say was: reconsider your Twitter/X account - if you don't really need/want and would like to see Elon eat shit sooner than later, consider deactivating your account. That's all.

so why do you want to boycott this guy but say nothing about companies like blackrock who are truly evil and people like bill gates who are sick pedophiles who want to destroy the world for your children and children's children.

i'm not even a conspiracy nut. but there's a lot more worse stuff out there than elon. I think you're being manipulated by the media and you need to look at why they are doing it.

Power over people is true power, and that is what the media and these large companies work towards. They want you to think a certain way and act a certain way. by boycotting 'x' and talking badly about elon, you are doing exactly what they want everyone to do. Now, why is that?
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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: MRO to Digital Man on Thu Feb 06 2025 08:13 pm

so why do you want to boycott this guy but say nothing about companies like blackrock who are truly evil and people like bill gates who are sick pedophiles who want to destroy the world for your children and children's children.

i'm not even a conspiracy nut.

I think you just contradicted yourself. :-)

I really didn't intend to make this a debate. Just remind folks: if you have a Twitter/X account, you're helping Elon's empire (even minutely), and if you don't want to do that, consider deactivating the account. That's all.
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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: MRO to Digital Man on Thu Feb 06 2025 08:13 pm

like blackrock who are truly evil

Black Rock, the coffee company?

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: MRO to CJ on Thu Feb 06 2025 06:59 pm

Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account By: CJ to Digital Man on Wed Feb 05 2025 10:25 pm

I deleted mine within a week of him purchasing it. Seriously considering
doing the same to Facebook (again). Took a three year hiatus from it a few
years ago...created another account about the time that I shut down
Twitter. Should have left well enough alone. The break was the best thing
for me. :)

so i will ask YOU. were you fine with how twitter operated before? and you don't like facebook but you liked twitter before musk? that's really misinformed.

In your opinion. In mine however, it's not misinformed. Musk is an entitled little twat...albeit a rich little twat. I don't agree with him nor am I fond of him or his ego, ergo account deleted. I really would be fine without any of them. <shrug>


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but do any of us who don't like x/twitter really WANT to use another micro blogging platform?

I guess that depends on why you use X or, more importantly, why you'd be dumping it. If you are getting sick of social media in general, then the answer would be no for sure. If you use it to follow a few sources you
don't seem to find (easily anyway) on other platforms, you might.

I don't check BS daily. Probably more like once a week, similar to how
often I check X.

dont all the social media networks essentially do what
micro blogging does?

I presume that they mostly do.


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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: CJ to MRO on Fri Feb 07 2025 01:26 pm

so i will ask YOU. were you fine with how twitter operated before? and you don't like facebook but you liked twitter before musk? that's really misinformed.

In your opinion. In mine however, it's not misinformed. Musk is an

in my opinion what?

twitter and facebook were both doing dirty deeds. that's a fact.

so you liked twitter before which was a propaganda machine?
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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: MRO to CJ on Fri Feb 07 2025 04:55 pm

twitter and facebook were both doing dirty deeds. that's a fact.

Never said they weren't. In fact, I said that the break was the best thing for me. I well remember the whole Cambridge Analytical bruhaha. As far as I'm concerned, I can do without any of them. With facebook, I limit the number of people that I have "friended" and I don't click on click bait. I'm there just long enough to check on the family and friends that I do follow. If I get ads or "news" items in my feed, I report them as inappropriate and move on. Give their algorithm something to figure out.

so you liked twitter before which was a propaganda machine?

I'm sure that it was better than it is today. But, I guess I'll never know because I'm not on there. And as far as Facebook is concerned...eh. I could always do what we did before 'social' media...pick up the phone and call my family and friends.


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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: CJ to MRO on Fri Feb 07 2025 08:43 pm

so you liked twitter before which was a propaganda machine?

I'm sure that it was better than it is today. But, I guess I'll never know because I'm not on there. And as far as Facebook is concerned...eh. I could always do what we did before 'social' media...pick up the phone and

why are you sure it was better than it is today?
it was overrun with bots and bullshit.

now it just exists.

i just find it strange how people pick a side or go against some guy
they don't know. and then announce they are leaving. it's not an airport, you don't have to announce your departure.

and people tell other people to leave. i think these people have been brainwashed.

all elon talks about is how shit sucks and there's a lot of waste. he's true. why would anybody be against exposing that?
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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: MRO to CJ on Fri Feb 07 2025 08:49 pm

Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account By: CJ to MRO on Fri Feb 07 2025 08:43 pm

so you liked twitter before which was a propaganda machine?

I'm sure that it was better than it is today. But, I guess I'll never know
because I'm not on there. And as far as Facebook is concerned...eh. I
could always do what we did before 'social' media...pick up the phone and

why are you sure it was better than it is today? it was overrun with bots and bullshit.

Still is.

now it just exists.

i just find it strange how people pick a side or go against some guy they don't know. and then announce they are leaving. it's not an airport, you don't have to announce your departure.

I don't need to know someone personally to disagree with their views and how they treat people. Some people are just toxic individuals and I'd rather not have anything to do with them or their business.

I didn't announce my departure...I just did it. Didn't announce "I'm Here!" when I joined, why would I announce "I'm Leaving!"?


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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to CJ <=-

I'm really enjoying the fediverse - specifically, mastodon. It reminds
me of the old identi.ca days (the authors of it and one of the authors
of ActivityPub were old BBS callers/sysop friends of mine, Ratsnatcher
and Mr. Bad... ) Right now, it's mostly political-free, ad-free, mostly techie people, artists and writers in my feed. You can start your own server or find a server with a shared interest as a basis.

Mastodon is where I've been spending a lot of time, too. I've really, really been enjoying it and the concept. I'm on a couple of focus-specific servers with a few different logins, and then see the general feed when I want it.

I'm also on Facebook, but the problem I'm having lately is that my feed is 100% politics right now from both sides of the political spectrum. I've snoozed almost 75% of my friends for a month, and it's still politics-heavy.

So... mastodon it is for now...

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Abortretryfail to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Feb 08 2025 11:33 am

Mastodon is where I've been spending a lot of time, too. I've really, really been enjoying it and the concept. I'm on a couple of focus-specific servers with a few different logins, and then see the general feed when I want it.

I'm also on Facebook, but the problem I'm having lately is that my feed is 100% politics right now from both sides of the political spectrum. I've snoozed almost 75% of my friends for a month, and it's still politics-heavy.

So... mastodon it is for now...

So facebook won't show you that stuff unless it thinks that's what you want. Like if you start looking at videos of big boob asian girls, that is what it will switch to showing you.

So were you obsessed with politics to the point of where it was affecting you and you want to cut yourself off? that thing about ignoring most of your friends is a pretty surprising thing to read too. are they really THAT bad or do you just feel overloaded. my friends dont talk about politics much except for a few people with TDS.
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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Feb 06 2025 09:49 pm

I really didn't intend to make this a debate. Just remind folks: if you have a Twitter/X account, you're helping Elon's empire (even minutely), and if you don't want to do that, consider deactivating the account. That's all.

Then you made a bad move.

Nowadays, leaving X is a political declaration and it will be recognized as such. You may as well place a Yes we Can sticker on the back of your truck. Calling a Deer a Horse and all that, if somebody bothers to remember.


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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Nightfox to MRO on Fri Feb 07 2025 08:58 am

Black Rock, the coffee company?

I think he means Blackrock, the finantial company that likes shorting on Telefonica stocks so the market value of the firm is bellow 80% of its actual book value. Which is a sure means to flag them as motherfuckers.


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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: MRO to CJ on Fri Feb 07 2025 08:49 pm

and people tell other people to leave. i think these people have been brainwashed.

It happened the same with Freenode, actually, when people started advising friends to leave en masse because rumors they were getting about the new ownership. It was very political. There was a lot of FUD regarding the new management using system logs to chase gays down.

Eventually, Freenode fell because the new management was inept. The herd mentallity of the userbase was disturbing, though.


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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: CJ to MRO on Fri Feb 07 2025 08:43 pm

always do what we did before 'social' media...pick up the phone and call my family and friends.

There isn't enough of this.

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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Arelor to Digital Man on Sat Feb 08 2025 08:24 pm

Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Feb 06 2025 09:49 pm

I really didn't intend to make this a debate. Just remind folks: if you have a Twitter/X account, you're helping Elon's empire (even minutely), and if you don't want to do that, consider deactivating the account. That's all.

Then you made a bad move.

Nowadays, leaving X is a political declaration and it will be recognized as such. You may as well place a Yes we Can sticker on the back of your truck. Calling a Deer a Horse and all that, if somebody bothers to remember.

"Kamala won" sticker.
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I'm also on Facebook, but the problem I'm having lately is that my feed
is 100% politics right now from both sides of the political spectrum.
I've snoozed almost 75% of my friends for a month, and it's still politics-heavy.

My Facebook feed is mostly high-school friends who got in early and
didn't experiment with other social networks. I suppose I'm the edge
case, approaching 60 and still experimenting with social networks...




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Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Arelor to Nightfox on Sat Feb 08 2025 08:26 pm

Black Rock, the coffee company?

I think he means Blackrock, the financial company that likes shorting on Telefonica stocks so the market value of the firm is bellow 80% of its actual book value. Which is a sure means to flag them as motherfuckers.

Ah, I haven't heard of them..

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Abortretryfail on Sun Feb 09 2025 09:36 am

My Facebook feed is mostly high-school friends who got in early and didn't experiment with other social networks. I suppose I'm the edge case, approaching 60 and still experimenting with social networks...

There were a couple others I had used before Facebook - MySpace was one of them. I also used LiveJournal. My friends I had on both of those all moved to Facebook though.

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There were a couple others I had used before Facebook - MySpace was one of them. I also used LiveJournal. My friends I had on both of those all move to Facebook though.

Don't forget one of the 1st ones ... yearbook.com .... God that was awful. MySpace was a dream come true after that. ;)

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Exodus to Nightfox on Sun Feb 09 2025 08:38 pm

There were a couple others I had used before Facebook - MySpace was one of
them. I also used LiveJournal. My friends I had on both of those all
move to Facebook though.

Don't forget one of the 1st ones ... yearbook.com .... God that was awful. MySpace was a dream come true after that. ;)

I hadn't heard of yearbook.com.

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 09 2025 03:43 pm

There were a couple others I had used before Facebook - MySpace was one of them. I also used LiveJournal. My friends I had on both of those all moved to Facebook though.

I used all those, along with Orkut, Tribe.net, Friendster, and others that I've forgotten about. The rest of my high school friends weren't as techy and didn't go anywhere except Facebook.

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Feb 09 2025 07:49 pm

I used all those, along with Orkut, Tribe.net, Friendster, and others that I've forgotten about. The rest of my high school friends weren't as techy and didn't go anywhere except Facebook.

I forgot about Friendster, but I hadn't heard of Tribe.net. I knew Orkut was fairly popular in Brazil (I had an ex from Brazil), but I don't remember if I had heard about Orkut before I met my ex from Brazil.

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Nightfox to Exodus on Sun Feb 09 2025 19:54:54

Don't forget one of the 1st ones ... yearbook.com .... God that was
awful. MySpace was a dream come true after that. ;)

I hadn't heard of yearbook.com.

I remember Classmates.com which was kinda the same thing. It was free to join (maybe you still can), and post your photos of yesteryear and then today. If anyone wanted to contact you or comment they had to pay. Almost as good as MySpace.

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Mickey to Nightfox on Mon Feb 10 2025 06:40 pm

I remember Classmates.com which was kinda the same thing. It was free to join (maybe you still can), and post your photos of yesteryear and then today. If anyone wanted to contact you or comment they had to pay. Almost as good as MySpace.

Yeah, classmates.com is still around. That site seems more intended for people who want to get in touch with friends from high school and perhaps earlier. I've checked there recently, but there aren't many people there from my high school for my graduation year or the years around it.

My high school's web site used to have an alumni page which would publish former students' names and email addresses - though you had to send the webmaster a message to get your name and preferred email address on there. I think that had more people than were on classmates.com, but it still wasn't a whole lot. It seems my high school took down their alumni page though..

I know some people say they're no longer in cotact with people for a reason, but for me, I feel like I wouldn't mind getting in touch with some people again, and there was no particular reason for the lost contact.

Nightfox

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I hadn't heard of yearbook.com.

I remember Classmates.com which was kinda the same thing. It was free to jo

Yeah, my bad, it was classmates.com

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Exodus to Mickey on Mon Feb 10 2025 10:37 pm

I hadn't heard of yearbook.com.

I remember Classmates.com which was kinda the same thing. It was free to jo

Yeah, my bad, it was classmates.com

classmates is basically a construct to get information and money out of its users. i heard if you have yearsbooks you can make good money selling it to them. i'm not sure you can even talk to a real person in support on that site now, though.
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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Abortretryfail <=-

My Facebook feed is mostly high-school friends who got in early and
didn't experiment with other social networks. I suppose I'm the edge
case, approaching 60 and still experimenting with social networks...

That's where I'm at too (although a little bit younger). Most of my friends hopped on Facebook not long after MySpace started falling apart. Honestly, I just don't have the energy to cut them out, even though I live 1500 miles away. I also haven't seen any of them in over 30 years.

Right now, it's just easier to snooze them or unfollow them (without unfriending) just to keep my feed clean. I don't need to see them all trying to dunk on the other political party. It gets old. So, I seek out cute dog photos. :)

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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I forgot about Friendster, but I hadn't heard of Tribe.net. I knew
Orkut was fairly popular in Brazil (I had an ex from Brazil), but I
don't remember if I had heard about Orkut before I met my ex from
Brazil.

Ohhhhh... tribe.net. I had totally forgotten about them. I actually am sad that it didn't succeed. Early on, it was a pretty obvious successor to USENET, and I'm sad that it never really succeeded. It was truly a flash in the pan: blew up early
and flamed out.

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Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
By: Abortretryfail to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Feb 15 2025 12:32 pm

That's where I'm at too (although a little bit younger). Most of my friends hopped on Facebook not long after MySpace started falling apart. Honestly, I just don't have the energy to cut them out, even though I live 1500 miles away. I also haven't seen any of them in over 30 years.

Right now, it's just easier to snooze them or unfollow them (without unfriending) just to keep my feed clean. I don't need to see them all trying to dunk on the other political party. It gets old. So, I seek out cute dog photos. :)

so why didn't you do this 4 years ago? stuff was bad back then.
people were nuts about politics for quite some time.

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