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i see facebook as a kind of moving collage. i don't put up much of anything about my actual life there and don't have that many people amongst my friends who do--some choose to and that's fine--i just don't. i'm more interested in the collage aspect of it, and even then for short periods at a time. it pays to have friends who are interested in curious things if that's how you see the medium. and it is the case that you do get to know stuff about the folk in your network by way of what they're thinking about--i just think it's more interesting when what folk are thinking about is not exactly what they happen to be doing when they open up the browser. but whatever, it doesn't matter...facebook doesn't seem to me something worth taking terribly seriously.
i am friends with 3 of my nephews. mostly what i've learned about them specifically from facebook is that they don' know how to spell.
that said, it seems an interesting promotional space if what you're promoting is symmetrical with the way the place works--a kind of 2-space network. it makes sense to me that tfo would have a presence there---i was a little confused before because i thought there already were presences.
i should say that i'm sympathetic to the qualms folk have expressed above about blurring lines between versions of themselves and i can imagine sharing them in the kind of situations they describe.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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