On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:49:13 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:

>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.

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