On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:28:47 -0700, gtr > wrote:

>On 2015-09-20 21:00:39 +0000, John Kuthe said:
>
>>>>> You must not be looking in the right places.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps not. I've searched for "cooking groups" and such and find a
>>>> number that are closed groups; perhaps some of these are the "right
>>>> places" but inaccessible. Any clues as to how such groups can be found
>>>> are appreciated.
>>>
>>> Closed groups are no inaccessible. You ask for permission to join.
>
>Good to know, thanks.
>
>> Yep, and many times you will be granted access. Unless it's what
>> Facebook calls a "Private" group which is onl;y visible/accessable by
>> invitation, ostensibly. I'm that Facebook literate from an admin
>> perspective.
>
>I find FaceBook's interface problematic for too many reasons, but if
>you're literate perhaps you can answer this: If I subscribe to RFC,
>which I have, but also have 2 dozen "friends" that post 10 times a day,
>is there anyway to do filtering without unfollowing/unfriending and
>such?
>
>That is, I'd like to review NO rfc posts, and only my friends blabber.
>Following this I'd like to see none of their blabber and all of the rfc
>posts. I ran into this before with a jazz musicians group that had
>such high volume that I had to unfollow it altogether to avoid the
>deluge. Seemingly there is no middle ground.
>
>Elsewhere you said:
>
>> Mosly what peolle do is what I heard termed as "peacocking", from one
>> of the founders of Flickr. Basically just posting something that says
>> "llook at me and how cool I and my life are."
>
>I've been needing that work. This is the entirety of (what I perceive)
>twitter to be.
>
>> Lotta what I call hit and run posts.
>
>Sometimes minus the "run". Repetitive stand-alone "look-a-me" posts.
>I've started calling this barking, because seemingly no response will
>encourage a give-and-take engagement.
>
>> Not as many good discussions but Ive had a few in a few Facebook Groups.
>
>In a previous attempt to search for cooking groups I got these "closed
>groups "and nothing like RFC. Now I get RFC and all the "closed
>groups" I saw seem to have vanished. Clearly it takes practice to
>learn best out to waste one's time.

That's one of the main points of faecebook - to get you to spend as
much time on faecebook as possible. That, and build up a profile of
you.