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3 hours ago SlidellMan

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   masschamber

   I don't think anyone has ever said otherwise.
   

3 hours ago bluejay  »  Isaiah Austin

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   2 hours ago

   Isaiah Austin

   I sent you a PM.
   
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   2 hours ago

   retrorussell

   Phil Collins claimed copyright infringement and asked that it be taken down.
   

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3 hours ago save2600

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   3 hours ago

   joeatari1

   Why so sad???
   
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   3 hours ago

   jd_1138

   u alright?????????
   
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   1 hour ago

   GoldLeader

   Yeah,  What's up?   
    
   Or is this a response to masschamber's Status Update?, cuz that fits.
   

4 hours ago masschamber

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4 hours ago Nathan Strum

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8 hours ago bluejay

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   8 hours ago

   carlsson

   Let me fix that for you:
    
   
   
   

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   7 hours ago

   desiv

   I suppose that depends on your definitions of "old" and "useful."  🙂  I find there is something charming and fun with some of those B/W 68K Mac games.  Combination nostalgia and just fun.  I find that useful for me every once in a while.  It was also useful to me replacing capacitors.  Got some good experience there.  
   

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   7 hours ago

   bluejay

   @desiv Well the thing is, by "old macintosh" I mean the really early models that came before the SE(128k, 512k, Plus, etc.)
   You need an SE FDHD to transfer files onto the thing because of the weird 400k/800k floppies they used. And if you have an FDHD, might as well use it. There's literally no reason to own an old Mac these days other than the fact that they're super cool  
   

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   7 hours ago

   desiv

   As a user, totally agree.  Mine is a Classic so it has a HD floppy I can use for transferring and it has a HD.  My roommate back in college had a single floppy Fat Mac, and all I remember was the pain of swapping floppies.  (Well, and some fun with Continuum...  But mostly I remember that swappy flop...  Over and over..) 
   

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   7 hours ago

   bluejay

   @desiv Luckily I have a external floppy drive for my 512ke. It's not an OEM drive(apparently made by a company called Fujitsu) but it's 800k, has a manual eject button(the auto-eject in the thing works too!) and it works well, so it's better than the real Apple drive in every way. I don't have a hard drive for it though.
   

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   1 hour ago

   Bakasama

   They only thing you can do with those early macs is just play those Glider games and Escape Velocity games. 
   

8 hours ago Prosystemsearch

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13 hours ago ∞ Vince ∞

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   12 hours ago

   jd_1138

   I can't really stomach most Hollywood films, as 99 percent of them are fecal matter. I just watch a few foreign films per week. I will watch American sci-fi movies though.
   

15 hours ago x=usr(1536)

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15 hours ago BydoEmpire

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   12 hours ago

   Rogerpoco

   I have one for a couple reasons, it makes signing in to new sites easier from time to time, and I use the "messenger" box to carry on passive conversations with Friends that moved away and stuff, but I don't "look at Facebook", or add stuff to my page, or do friend requests, period. Don't even think I completed the process of putting in all my info. So I use it like a "PC cellphone", and a way to log in to ebay, lol!
   

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   11 hours ago

   desiv

   Good call.  I don't use it for anything "social."  I know me and I would hate it.   I didn't have it for the longest time, but finally did when I got my 3D Printer, as the best support was there.  I have 3 or 4 tech groups there now I check for support things now.  But still no family/friends/etc...  I see my wife's frustration with it sometimes, and I don't feel bad about not using it for anything social.  TBF tho, I was never a very social person anyway.  Not anti-social!  Just not social.
   

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   11 hours ago

   BydoEmpire

   I actually got away from it for a while, but a couple of specific groups sucked me back in, and over the years I got more and more in the habit of using it more and more.  It became a time suck and mental drain, despite my attempts to unfollow basically everything and minimize usage. I just wasn't able to "not look," and whenever I did I'd get frustrated, and over time it got worse and worse.  I will miss some of the groups, but not enough to compensate.
    
   There's nothing social about "social media," IMHO.
   

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   10 hours ago

   phattyboombatty

   I think many people are addicted to FB or social media. I was an avid fan in the beginning, but it is clear to me that users lost control and understanding of how one may represent oneself. I decided to keep my profile only as a "phonebook" of sorts. When I peek at it after many months at a time, it is a cesspool, but I maintain hope that we can shift and improve our abilities to use this medium in a mature way.
   
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   10 hours ago

   carlsson

   How do you spy on your friends and acquaintances without a Facebook account? That is at least 1/4 of the reasons I use it nowadays, to keep track of what people are doing that I might benefit from knowing but otherwise would not be able to find out.
   

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   9 hours ago

   desiv

   Ah carlsson, so you are interested in what your friends and acquaintances are doing?  Me.. not so much...  
   

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   9 hours ago

   carlsson

   Interested is a big word. Sometimes situations occur where it is beneficiary to know things about other people's lives.
    
   I mean from scouting on Facebook I get to know who just divorced, who just had a child so I'm not likely to depend on them for a couple of years, who is working out of town this week, who is friend with whom (two people I normally wouldn't realize they know eachother), who is going to what event, who has which political and other opinions, who writes in which public groups and about which subjects. Without the social media, I would be none the wiser and my friends could put on a character when we meet and I wouldn't know much about their real identities. Of course not everyone are as public, so some of my friends still have secret personalities and interests. I can't say that bothers me though.
   

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   9 hours ago

   thanatos

   Don't forget seeing people make the great accomplishment of changing their profile pic background to show their support of the social movement of the week.  Such noble work done.
   

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    5 hours ago

    frankodragon

    When I read that FB was just using users to get companies to follow them what they buy online, that's when it was time to get out of there.  Someday maybe it'll be known as MySpace 2.0.
    
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    4 hours ago

    desiv

    I remember talking to some developers at a conference who were all laughing about "Farmville" because it was about farming, but mostly about farming data.    Which is why the little data I have on my facebook account doesn't match me.  (and I don't ever play facebook games)
    
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