[Healeys] Facebook, Healey List, and the Brave New World

[Alan Seigrist]

I was an early adopter of Facebook and while it has some advantages,
generally speaking I find it more or less annoying now and I rarely
look at it.  I no longer interact regularly on Facebook.

On 7/20/10, Editorgary at aol.com <Editorgary at aol.com> wrote:
> Never proposed that we should switch the Healey list to Facebook -- we're
> Baby Boomers on this list, in the vast majority I think, so there's no way
> that most of the folks here would ever agree. Facebook is on the other side
> of
> that great print world /internet world divide and most of us will never
> understand it, but will die before it matters whether or not we understand
> the
> phenomenon that's taking place.
>
> My point was that this list was created and is maintained at great effort
> to serve a one specific shared set of interests of a group of people who
> could only otherwise communicate by meeting each other personally and then
> sharing information one piece at a time to one person at a time. Facebook,
> for
> all its flaws, does that a zillion times a day, with every user
> participating
> in his or her own specially tailored and infinitely responsive network.
>
> There's nothing that says our generation has to participate, or even that
> we have to like the visible effects of what has taken place. But refusing to
> participate isn't going to change the fact that the change has taken place,
> and it is only starting (with the quant-jock created housing/financial
> debacle as one example) to have its effects. As the man once said: "you have
> sown
> the wind, and you will reap the whirldwind."   The interesting thing, of
> course, is that the millenial, or internet, generation enjoys the breeze.
>
> Cheers
> Gary
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