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Post by comicsandwho on Jul 24, 2018 21:40:12 GMT -5
There is plenty of horse by-product on Facebook. But everyone has a choice of what to 'Like', who to 'friend', and what to get involved with. I have a great deal of friends(including some who have been 'online friends' from other, pre-social media forums, for over a decade), and the usual 'people I went to school with' and still keep in touch with. And, of course, some family members. Recently, I've joined a lot of FB groups dedicated to comics and pop culture(mainly 'old TV Guide listings'). I focus on what I'm interested in, and stay away from the people who only use it for political self-stimulation. Twitter...nah, I got nothing. Twitter sucks. As long as they justify keeping the account of a certain orangey failed real estate guy who moved into another line of work, they'll maintain their reputation as the part of social media where any @$$clown can say anything. All I know about the other sites is that they exist.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 24, 2018 21:54:56 GMT -5
BTW, I meant to say that I was browsing a forum run by a famous audio mastering engineer the other day (I visit pretty regularly, despite not actually being a member there) and I saw you. Same username, same avatar. I wanted to say "hi", but as I say, I'm not a member of the forum, so I couldn't. Still, it made me think, "small world." Hi. Actually that avatar has a bunch of vinyl LPs behind 'me'. I'm on two music forums and two comics ones so I guess I'm officially well balanced now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 5:09:29 GMT -5
I don't interact on any social media sites -- I've valued my privacy more than most people are.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 25, 2018 7:56:12 GMT -5
I met my wife on MySpace. It has its uses. I met my wife in a chat room for X-Files fans. So yeah the internet in general has it uses. I wouldn't be happy today if it weren't for it.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 25, 2018 8:35:09 GMT -5
I met my wife on MySpace. It has its uses. I met my wife on a Pittsburgh-area local site. Only personal ad I ever placed in my life, only personal ad she ever responded to in hers.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 25, 2018 14:12:27 GMT -5
I met my wife on MySpace. It has its uses. I met my wife on a Pittsburgh-area local site. Only personal ad I ever placed in my life, only personal ad she ever responded to in hers. I met my wife in a gas station.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 25, 2018 16:06:50 GMT -5
I met my wife on a Pittsburgh-area local site. Only personal ad I ever placed in my life, only personal ad she ever responded to in hers. I met my wife in a gas station. That's an interesting location for a first meeting. Were one of the two of you working there, and if not, how did it happen?
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 25, 2018 16:15:41 GMT -5
I met my wife in a gas station. That's an interesting location for a first meeting. Were one of the two of you working there, and if not, how did it happen? I was the one working, in the only state (IIRC) where the driver isn't allowed to pump his own gas, NJ. She drove in, we talked as I put in a couple of dollars' worth to fill the tank (regular was 36.9 then) of her VW Squareback and eventually one thing led to anotherand we started going out. And I knew then what I still know now: that I am the luckiest man in the world.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 25, 2018 16:41:15 GMT -5
36 cents??!!! Wow. Cheapest I can remember in 1995 when I started driving was about 70 cents.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 25, 2018 17:13:16 GMT -5
I feel like I remember my Mom paying 29 cents for gas. Least I ever personally paid was probably 89 cents a gallon.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 25, 2018 17:22:50 GMT -5
I feel like I remember my Mom paying 29 cents for gas. Least I ever personally paid was probably 89 cents a gallon. When she was a teenager, my wife and her parents went out West for a couple of weeks one summer, and she recalls gas for 29 cents a gallon in Utah.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 25, 2018 17:31:56 GMT -5
Oregon is the other state that requires a gas station employee to pump the gas for you.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 17:48:53 GMT -5
How I met my wife: my biology lab partner in college became my best friend and I met his sister at the beginning of my sophomore year. We were dating by the end of my sophomore year. Unfortunately he died from cancer 3 years ago. My wife & I will be married 34 years on Aug 4.
Price of gas when I started driving: 59 cents.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 25, 2018 17:56:10 GMT -5
I had a guy come out to pump gas for me at a little gas station just outside of Salem, MA, when I was there last month. I couldn't quite believe it was happening at first - that kind of thing had pretty much vanished in the UK by the time I was born in the early '70s. The guy was one of three station attendants, all dressed up in their matching oil company uniforms. They were all really friendly guys, who enjoyed joking around with us and gently ribbing us about the fact that my wife and I were a) English, b) vegetarian, and c) going to see the Red Sox play in a few days time. I think meeting these three gas station attendants was probably our favourite random encounter with Americans. Edit: I met my wife at an open mic night that I was running. She's a singer and a musician herself, and wanted to get up to perform a few songs with me. I suggested that I take her phone number and then come round to her house at the weekend, so that we could practice a few songs together (cunning, eh?). We started properly going out a couple of weeks later. 2nd edit: This is my 5,000th post. Woo-hoo! (Jeez, what a loser!)
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Post by Pharozonk on Jul 25, 2018 18:03:17 GMT -5
I just got an e-mail from my local police and they caught the guy that murdered my neighbor -- this same guy will be charged another count of murder for murdering another man 2 months ago at a local business over a drug deal. The police department sent me a picture of the guy that murdered my neighbor and I told them that I've seen this guy last March lurking around our area and hanging near our laundry room. So, this guy is being slammed with 2 counts of murder -- 2nd Degree. Glad to hear the guy got caught, Mech. Hopefully you can sleep easy now.
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