Miss Manners???

CaptainWacky said:

"Off the grid" was the term I was going to use. But it is prophecised that she will show up with a cookie in our hour of darkest need.

I feel like I come on too strong sometimes in trying to get people to stay here when they return and that ends up scaring them away again, so I WON'T say "OMG CAIT PLEASE STICK AROUND AND FOREVER EVERYONE ELSE TO RETURN TOO SOMEHOW WITH YOUR MYSTIC POWERS." Remember, I'm not saying that.

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Wacky, of all the people here, you could influence me the most to come back and stay. But, I know you're not trying to influence me.

But, here is what's going on with me right now, and why I think I'm here to stay for a while. First, I miss message boards. Having real conversations, or fight's, or whatever. Not just a click as people pass on by. Secondly, Facebook pissed me off. I got this demand to take down one of my pages due to copyright violations. Except, it contains all my own writings. I have the copyright on it. I refuse to bow down to f/b on this. So, I found myself longing to have some real free speech, and take a real break from 'social media'. What came to mind was TK. Why? Because it's free speech, I know people. People I missed, and social media hasn't ruined this place.

But mostly I missed some of you so much, and wondered why I've been absent for so long. So, I'm not just dropping by to say hello. I came to spend more time with old friends [and frenemies]. Wacky you are one of them. Don't know about my mystic powers, but I'm not just passing through. It's been 20+ years and we are family.

I did find an old email and I emailed her. It didn't come back as undeliverable, so there is hope I'll hear from MM. I'll keep you all posted if I do.

CaptainWacky said:

The Anti-Facebook resistance grows! Every time I visit it's just clickbait shit designed to fool old people, and when I look at the replies it's mostly all old people being fooled (with the odd "haha, stupid old people!" comment.)

Facebook’s AI-Generated ‘Shrimp Jesus,’ Explained

"Shrimp Jesus" is a strange depiction of Jesus Christ fused with crabs and shrimp that has emerged from the flood of AI-generated spam spreading through Facebook.

www.forbes.com

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Agreed. I keep my page, but it's mainly for family and friends. I quit Twitter when Musk too over. Haven't missed it for even one minute. Anyway, that's why I began to miss message boards. I mean we had it all on message boards. Long, involved conversations, RP, politics, spam [lol], drive-byes, arguments and friendships. I wish F/b hadn't taken over so completely because we lost a lot more than we think. I suppose I got old and longed for the good-ol-days on TK. It was such a ride.

Volpone said:

I still go to Facebook out of habit but the algorithm that populates the feed is so terrible that I don't actually wind up reading any of the posts of the 3 or 4 "friends" it's decided to feed me ad nauseum. I just count amount of unsolicited garbage inserted and delete twice as much of my content (if Facebook makes money from my content I shall take it away). At this point I'm back to mid 2020 on my posts and late 2019 on "likes." I've already deleted basically everything from my profile except a profile and background photo, my name and my birthdate. I don't honestly expect that Mark Zuckerberg will look in and go "I've been such a fool. Thanks for helping me to see the light. I'll be rolling the software back to what we were using in 2012." But the vindictiveness of it gives me a measure of pleasure.

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OK, I so like your POV. Sometimes a measure of pleasure is enough. You know what I mean?!

Kyehlar said:

Tell you the truth, I don't even remember what the message was. Let's start over, Hi, I'm Kye!

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Dude, good to see you and re-meet you. LOL We're good then?!!