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Edgy MD
Feb 13 2017 07:17 PM

MY friend Julia put up a post on my agency's Facebook page. Julia has a Spanish surname, so this is the reply another poster gave her.

"Julia XXXX-XXXX, your Mexican president is waiting for you to come home. Why don't you go."


Here's the historical marker at the front of her family's cemetery.



It's like 40% of the country is just begging to be punched in the face.

Fman99
Feb 13 2017 07:25 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

We call those people "red staters" in my house.

Edgy MD
Feb 13 2017 07:31 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Her friend Miguel works in communications for the NEA. He posted an association press release on their FB page and got this response:

HEY,FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING WETBACK! TIME IS UP FOR YOU AND YOUR ILLEGAL ALIENS.GO BACK TO MEXICO YOU MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND STICK A BURRITO UP YOUR MOTHERS ASS YOU FUCKING BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Benjamin Grimm
Feb 13 2017 07:35 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

And somehow it's offensive to say that some people are "deplorable."

MFS62
Feb 13 2017 08:53 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Forget catching gear.
Social media have become the tools of ignorance.

Later

Rockin' Doc
Feb 18 2017 04:01 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

It seems to me that the anonymity of the internet too often brings out the worst in some people. Many people seem emboldened by the anonymity of the internet, so they post things they wouldn't normally say in person. Unfortunately, their objectionable postings in cyberspace are probably a reflection of their true feelings, which they are too afraid to say in public. Then, of course, some people are just crass, idiots.

I still have not joined Facebook. Too lazy to set up an account and sift through all the ignorant bull online just to stay in contact with a few old friends I don't get to see much anymore. I guess I'm old fashioned, but rather than use Facebook to keep up with distant family and friends, I will send them an email, write a personal note in a birthday or Christmas card, or pick up the phone. When possible I will arrange to stop in for a visit when possible. I deal with less idiots that way.

themetfairy
Mar 03 2017 02:35 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

You probably already thought of this, but when you're on the highway with a bunch of kids and your car suddenly accelerates uncontrollably and won't stop even with your foot off the gas pedal, stand on the brake, ease to the shoulder (while alternately hitting the emergency lights and your directional to alert other drivers), and aim for a slight incline. Then pop it into neutral, jam on the emergency brake, and turn the car off (but be prepared for a jolting stop).

metsmarathon
Mar 03 2017 06:43 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

themetfairy wrote:
You probably already thought of this, but when you're on the highway with a bunch of kids and your car suddenly accelerates uncontrollably and won't stop even with your foot off the gas pedal, stand on the brake, ease to the shoulder (while alternately hitting the emergency lights and your directional to alert other drivers), and aim for a slight incline. Then pop it into neutral, jam on the emergency brake, and turn the car off (but be prepared for a jolting stop).


so, if that ever happens, where the engine somehow starts to run away from you, pop it into neutral first. then you won't have to stand on the brakes to slow the car down, and you'll have more control over the deceleration rate, and won't have to fight the engine any more, or risk using the e-brake while in motion. it also won't leave you in a situation where you somehow destroy your car's ability to stop before you're able to bring it to a stop.

curious how new the car was that this happened on. i know toyotas just recently had that problem a few years ago... but for the most part, it shouldn't be able to happen. and if it does, neutral is your best friend, and safest first choice.

this has been 'mansplaining' by metsmarathon. because, of course, were i to find myself in the same situation, i would be calm- and clear-headed enough to think "neutral first, then brakes", yeah, uh huh, sure...

glad your facebook friend prevailed, survived, and kept calm enough to regain some measure of control over their car.

themetfairy
Mar 03 2017 06:55 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

It was a 2002 Honda Civic. Apparently it had been in the shop recently, and the mechanic fessed up to possibly knocking some wires loose earlier in the day while working on something else.

My friend and her passengers were very, very lucky indeed!

cooby
Mar 04 2017 03:31 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Yes, and kudos to the mechanic that owned up to maybe being somewhat at fault.

Yikes that is scary!

themetfairy
Mar 13 2017 10:54 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Just saw a minor fender bender and I said to my toddler, "That's why we always wear our seat belts, that car accidentally hit the other car." To which she replied, "OH MY GOSH, that car is sooooo gonna be in time out!"

themetfairy
Apr 11 2017 09:10 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Apparently Sean Spicer got his history degree from Trump University.

HahnSolo
Apr 11 2017 09:26 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Got a notification that today was [friend's] birthday.

Said friend committed suicide nine months ago. And people who don't know that are peppering the wall with HBDs. Ugh.

Would have thought if they kept a memorial page up that they wouldn't send birthday notifications, but maybe the family never changed the page's settings.

Edgy MD
Apr 11 2017 10:44 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Awful.

Ashie62
Apr 11 2017 11:43 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

MFS62 wrote:
Forget catching gear.
Social media have become the tools of ignorance.

Later


O.T. but you can add twitter.

Edgy MD
May 05 2017 04:05 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Somebody asked online what it's like to die without insurance. To pay into a plan your whole working life, but to get sick and fall off a program because you're no longer employable, and through an accident of history, insurance is forcibly linked to employment. To decline physically, but have enough left mentally to watch every dollar bleed away and every last bit of your dignity under assault.

And then this guy Jim, a friend of a friend in Phillie, chimed in.

Let me give you my first hand account. I'm dying. I was supposed to be gone already. I HAD great insurance at a reasonable price thru COBRA. I was booted off of it because they say I paid 8 hours too late. I'm appealing that but I'm currently uninsured.

I was in palliative care because there is nothing any doctor can do but as things have worsened I was transitioned into hospice just before the insurance problem.

Hospice runs about 250 per DAY. It would be well worth it but not given my finances. The angels at Crossroads Hospice have taken me under their wing for reasons that I cannot fathom. They offered to continue my care unfunded for as long as I am. All my meds, all the nursing 24x7 that I need. Not one cent.

But they have a limited area that they cover and I moved about 8 miles outside that area. I moved because I needed a one floor apartment and the sheriff sale on the house I built is at 8 tomorrow.

The number 8 keeps coming up. Maybe because it's infinity. And THAT is what it's like having a progressively debilitating disease with no insurance. You sit. And you wait. To die. And you know it won't be long. But it feels like infinity.

A Boy Named Seo
May 05 2017 05:50 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Jesus, that's heartbreaking. How about that hospice?

cooby
May 31 2017 01:30 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Happy here

themetfairy
May 31 2017 01:35 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

I have an older cousin whom I haven't seen for a long time but who accepted my friend request today. It was nice being able to catch up with her, show her some videos of the kids, etc.

MFS62
Jun 04 2017 06:20 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Peter Gammons showed up as someone "I may know". Is this an imp or is it legit? Have any of you made him your fb friend?

Later

metirish
Jun 05 2017 02:12 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

MFS62 wrote:
Peter Gammons showed up as someone "I may know". Is this an imp or is it legit? Have any of you made him your fb friend?

Later



Isn't he dead??

Edgy MD
Jun 05 2017 07:41 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Alive and kicking. Works for the MLB network and publishes regularly at PeterGammons.com.

Still slinging his axe, too.

[youtube]cAGX9BLZIxc[/youtube]

MFS62
Jun 06 2017 01:11 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Too late. His invite went away when I didn't act on it for a couple of days.
So, if it returns, Should I accept?
Would you?
Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jun 06 2017 02:09 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

It's just an algorithm flirting with you.

themetfairy
Jun 18 2017 06:16 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Here's to my dad and all the other Grumman Apollo 13 Lunar Module dads from Long Island. Jim Lovell and Fred Haise are still here to celebrate Father's Day with their kids, their 47th Father's Day since you helped to save their lives.

Edgy MD
Jul 07 2017 01:11 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

The last, like, 12 people to attempt to friend me were catfishers. It's depressing.

On the other hand, I kind of feel like a celebrity bored by all the adulation. "Somebody wants to be my friend? What, another 22-year-old in a cocktail dress? Not interested, Sweetheart!"

Benjamin Grimm
Jul 07 2017 01:37 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Do they actually send you friend requests? Or is it Facebook that suggests them as people you might know?

For me, for a while, I was getting a lot of the latter. They're young women in sexy poses, with whom I have no friends in common. They weren't reaching out to me. Facebook was suggesting that I reach out to them.

For some reason, it stopped a few months ago.

Ceetar
Jul 07 2017 01:51 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

I've gotten some of the friend requests recently. same photo format. I've joined a couple of facebook groups recently, so I think maybe that exposes me to more spam. *shrug*

I'm always unsure initially because the internet is weird and I don't always know the names of people. I stumble across you people posting on my timeline sometimes and think "wtf is this?"

Edgy MD
Jul 17 2017 08:32 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

I just got a friend request from "Rhiannon Sinareth." Rhiannon didn't bother with the cocktail dress, making her request with a bare-boobie profile photo.

Rhiannon, honey, I'm at work. Put some clothes on or you're gonna get me in trouble.

— Eduardo Sinalot

Ceetar
Jul 18 2017 02:39 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

It's right there on the dropdown on that friend's page.

Edgy MD
Jul 18 2017 04:52 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Gosh, ceets is unfriending me and posting a screen shot while he does it. Cold!

d'Kong76
Jul 18 2017 05:02 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Edgy MD wrote:
Rhiannon didn't bother with the cocktail dress, making her request with a bare-boobie profile photo.

Right neighborly of her!

Edgy MD
Jul 18 2017 05:53 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

I'd say that she is like a cat in the dark, and then she is the darkness.

Ceetar
Jul 18 2017 05:56 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Edgy MD wrote:
Gosh, ceets is unfriending me and posting a screen shot while he does it. Cold!


*winkemoji*



I've got at least two friend requests from women that I've just let sit there. They appear to be real people, but I can't figure out if/how I might know them.

Ashie62
Jul 18 2017 06:27 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

You don't know them. They are hookers using facebook to find dates.

Ceetar
Jul 18 2017 06:31 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Neither of these are what I'm looking for in a hooker.

cooby
Jul 18 2017 07:52 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

She seems to have a private page

Fman99
Jul 19 2017 10:43 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Blocked for 3 days for posting protected content, in this case, one of my solo acoustic covers ("Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers). See you Friday, FB.

MFS62
Jul 19 2017 12:04 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

How do you unfriend someone? I have some old business associates I no longer care about. My help screen is no help.
Later

Ceetar
Jul 19 2017 01:18 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

MFS62 wrote:
How do you unfriend someone? I have some old business associates I no longer care about. My help screen is no help.
Later



scroll up. there's an image.

MFS62
Jul 19 2017 01:33 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Ceetar wrote:
MFS62 wrote:
How do you unfriend someone? I have some old business associates I no longer care about. My help screen is no help.
Later



scroll up. there's an image.

Just saw it.
Thanks.
Later

MFS62
Aug 17 2017 01:16 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

How can I import a picture from Facebook to the CPF?
I saw it a while ago, but isn't in the FAQ.
Is it the URL button above the reply frame?
Some help, please.

Later

Mets Willets Point
Aug 17 2017 03:05 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

MFS62 wrote:
How can I import a picture from Facebook to the CPF?
I saw it a while ago, but isn't in the FAQ.
Is it the URL button above the reply frame?
Some help, please.

Later


You'd have to download the photo to your computer and then upload it to the CPF as an attachment.

MFS62
Aug 17 2017 06:13 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

OK, its on my computer.
How do I upload it? (step by step, please)
Later

Benjamin Grimm
Aug 17 2017 06:40 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Use the Upload Attachment tab that's below the box where you type in the text of your post. (Down and to the left of the Submit button.)

MFS62
Aug 17 2017 07:10 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

D'oh!
That's it?
I was looking at the buttons above the box. Thought it would have been near the youtube tab.
Thanks.
Later

cooby
Aug 20 2017 01:32 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

What's with the stupid doggy nose pics some young chicks are posting? Is it the new duck lips?

41Forever
Aug 20 2017 03:09 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

cooby wrote:
What's with the stupid doggy nose pics some young chicks are posting? Is it the new duck lips?



I think that's a filter on Snapchat. Kids today.

Edgy MD
Aug 21 2017 02:06 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Rob's a fun movie theater operator from Ohio. Lunchbucket and I both know him from a music group we frequent.

Rob is interesting enough that he broke with tradition and had a female friend stand up for him at his wedding, a "best (wo)man," if you will.

His best woman woke up this morning to find this outside of her house.

[fimg=500:w99cszyb]https://metsinpeace.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/jew.jpg[/fimg:w99cszyb]

America, 2017. The United States of America.

d'Kong76
Sep 21 2017 03:09 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

People and things are probably 'following' you that you're not aware of.

Go to your account settings
Go to Block
Go to Block Users
Type in "Following Me" without the quotes

I deleted over forty buggers. Fb and Tweetyland have to do better.

Zvon
Sep 21 2017 07:04 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Fman99 wrote:
Blocked for 3 days for posting protected content, in this case, one of my solo acoustic covers ("Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers). See you Friday, FB.


That's a bunch of bullshit. How does that even happen? Does the artist single you out? The record company? Facebook itself throws a dart at a list on the wall?

I see this happened in July. Has this happened again since?

It's not like you're selling copies, you're just sharing your love for music by playing songs for others. It's no different than playing out at a local bar or restaurant. That's a pretty fucked up move by facebook.

Ceetar
Sep 21 2017 01:05 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 21 2017 01:52 PM

d'Kong76 wrote:
People and things are probably 'following' you that you're not aware of.

Go to your account settings
Go to Block
Go to Block Users
Type in "Following Me" without the quotes

I deleted over forty buggers. Fb and Tweetyland have to do better.


if you click on your name you can see the '16 are following you' list on the left somewhere.

mostly the random spambots and stuff for me, one guy from my homebrew club, one HS 'friend' who maybe has a second account anyway.

but they only see public posts anyway. so just the promotional "I wrote this stuff" when I remember to make it public.

oh, and one guy from the Hawthorne police dept. I blocked him.


edit: this is not a thing. What you did was a chain letter thing and you just blocked random people who's names show up matching those words.

Fman99
Sep 21 2017 01:19 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Zvon wrote:
Fman99 wrote:
Blocked for 3 days for posting protected content, in this case, one of my solo acoustic covers ("Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers). See you Friday, FB.


That's a bunch of bullshit. How does that even happen? Does the artist single you out? The record company? Facebook itself throws a dart at a list on the wall?

I see this happened in July. Has this happened again since?

It's not like you're selling copies, you're just sharing your love for music by playing songs for others. It's no different than playing out at a local bar or restaurant. That's a pretty fucked up move by facebook.


It has not happened since. It's happened 3 times in total, once for a Prince song (back when he was still alive, though that may have been on Youtube and not FB), and one for an Eagles song.

Each time I got an email from FB indicating that they had taken it down based on a request from a record label.

I took the step afterwards of downloading an archive of every song/guitar video I've posted to Facebook (there are about 250 of them, give/take). I'll continue to post them there, but if they ever delete that account (which they threatened to do), I at least have original copies that I can post somewhere else and then just post links to my FB page.

Edgy MD
Sep 21 2017 01:23 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

You don't fuck with Prince. Even dead Prince. Everybody knows that.

Benjamin Grimm
Sep 21 2017 01:59 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Don't fuck with Dead Prince or Greg Prince, for that matter.

d'Kong76
Sep 21 2017 02:03 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Ceetar wrote:
edit: this is not a thing. What you did was a chain letter thing and you just blocked random people who's names show up matching those words.

I have no idea what you mean about chain letters and random people. I went into
my settings and found that over 40 people were following me. Some of these names
were in fucking arabic. It's disturbing.

Ceetar
Sep 21 2017 02:16 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

edit: this is not a thing. What you did was a chain letter thing and you just blocked random people who's names show up matching those words.

I have no idea what you mean about chain letters and random people. I went into
my settings and found that over 40 people were following me. Some of these names
were in fucking arabic. It's disturbing.


what you did was block random people who's names were returned based on a facebook algorithm that matched 'following me'. They weren't actually following you.

[url]http://www.thatsnonsense.com/typing-following-facebook-block-list-shows-followers-hoax/

Click on your icon, on the left under 'my info' is where your actual follower count is, if enabled, and you can click that to see who they are.

d'Kong76
Sep 21 2017 02:20 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Cool, thanks!

cooby
Sep 21 2017 02:40 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

d'Kong76 wrote:
edit: this is not a thing. What you did was a chain letter thing and you just blocked random people who's names show up matching those words.

I have no idea what you mean about chain letters and random people. I went into
my settings and found that over 40 people were following me. Some of these names
were in fucking arabic. It's disturbing.



Yeah me too. Good to know. Too bad you have to do them one at a time

cooby
Sep 21 2017 02:41 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Oh! Should have read Ceetars!

seawolf17
Sep 21 2017 04:50 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Nope. It's not real. You can see who's following you, but that's not it. That's just searching for people who have some variation of "following me" in their names/handles.

Benjamin Grimm
Sep 21 2017 06:42 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

I don't think anyone is following me. Not even Little Peggy March.

41Forever
Sep 21 2017 09:37 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 21 2017 09:42 PM

Speaking of followers...

A friend posted this:

This is creepy. Go to your Facebook account settings, then blocking, then block users, and type in "following me" without the quotes into the text box then hit the "block" button. You will find 15-20 or more people FOLLOWING YOU that you do not know! Scary how many people can get into your account! Wow!


So I tried it, and sure enough there were a bunch of people following me who were not friends. A couple names I recognized. But a lot I did not. Have no idea why, or they were bots or this is a ruse or whatever. I checked my work-facing page, and it was pretty much the exact same people.

d'Kong76
Sep 21 2017 09:39 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Debunked ^^^

41Forever
Sep 21 2017 09:42 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

d'Kong76 wrote:
Debunked ^^^



Ah. Thank you. Where did you find the debunking? Just curious what the heck was going on there.

Found it!

[url]http://www.thatsnonsense.com/typing-following-facebook-block-list-shows-followers-hoax/




Never mind!

Zvon
Sep 21 2017 11:57 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Fman99 wrote:
Fman99 wrote:
Blocked for 3 days for posting protected content, in this case, one of my solo acoustic covers ("Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers). See you Friday, FB.


That's a bunch of bullshit. How does that even happen? Does the artist single you out? The record company? Facebook itself throws a dart at a list on the wall?

I see this happened in July. Has this happened again since?

It's not like you're selling copies, you're just sharing your love for music by playing songs for others. It's no different than playing out at a local bar or restaurant. That's a pretty fucked up move by facebook.


It has not happened since. It's happened 3 times in total, once for a Prince song (back when he was still alive, though that may have been on Youtube and not FB), and one for an Eagles song.

Each time I got an email from FB indicating that they had taken it down based on a request from a record label.

I took the step afterwards of downloading an archive of every song/guitar video I've posted to Facebook (there are about 250 of them, give/take). I'll continue to post them there, but if they ever delete that account (which they threatened to do), I at least have original copies that I can post somewhere else and then just post links to my FB page.


I still think that's appalling. Do they really have a legal right if you are just playing the song for others? You're actually promoting their song! I'd contest their stand and threaten them that if they continue to harass you that you will delete your fb account and find a more welcoming place to share your performances. That's what they are: performances. I never needed permission to play songs in bars that were copyrighted. You shouldn't need permission to perform them on-line.

On the up side you must have played it so great that the record company felt threatened.

Fman99
Sep 22 2017 02:00 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Zvon wrote:
Zvon wrote:
Blocked for 3 days for posting protected content, in this case, one of my solo acoustic covers ("Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers). See you Friday, FB.


That's a bunch of bullshit. How does that even happen? Does the artist single you out? The record company? Facebook itself throws a dart at a list on the wall?

I see this happened in July. Has this happened again since?

It's not like you're selling copies, you're just sharing your love for music by playing songs for others. It's no different than playing out at a local bar or restaurant. That's a pretty fucked up move by facebook.


It has not happened since. It's happened 3 times in total, once for a Prince song (back when he was still alive, though that may have been on Youtube and not FB), and one for an Eagles song.

Each time I got an email from FB indicating that they had taken it down based on a request from a record label.

I took the step afterwards of downloading an archive of every song/guitar video I've posted to Facebook (there are about 250 of them, give/take). I'll continue to post them there, but if they ever delete that account (which they threatened to do), I at least have original copies that I can post somewhere else and then just post links to my FB page.


I still think that's appalling. Do they really have a legal right if you are just playing the song for others? You're actually promoting their song! I'd contest their stand and threaten them that if they continue to harass you that you will delete your fb account and find a more welcoming place to share your performances. That's what they are: performances. I never needed permission to play songs in bars that were copyrighted. You shouldn't need permission to perform them on-line.

On the up side you must have played it so great that the record company felt threatened.


The whole thing is goofy, I'll admit. And I'm sure it's just that some artists are hyper sensitive to it and some aren't. For some reason, the Eagles doing it seemed right in line with the documentaries I've seen about them. Bill Withers, on the other hand, who grew up in modest environs, I'd have figured to be more forgiving. And it may be all on the record labels, for all I know.

I'm small potatoes, man. I get 100-200 views per video and that's only by tagging 8-10 people in every post. I put them up there for my mom, really, as she enjoys seeing me play and hearing me sing. Plus it helps me prep for local open mic appearances.

Edgy MD
Sep 22 2017 02:24 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Guys, it's technically a performance if you are playing a song in your car real loud and it can be heard in the street. And performances command licensing fees. And this reaches a lot more folks than that. The idea that everybody ignores that (I'm guilty, too) doesn't make it untrue. The job of the publishing house is, in part, to crack down on the performers who aren't paying licensing fees.

Yeah, publishers can look the other way at small potatoes. But if they do, it's a bad precedent for when they need to charge Kenney Chesney or Kid Rock or Twenty One Pilots for playing the song in an arena.

Composers gots to get paid. A big part of Prince's legacy is his defense of his intellectual property. If folks don't, well, we get a music industry full of big personalities, but crappy, crappy songs.

Ceetar
Sep 22 2017 02:20 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Trying to figure out how they're finding you. I guess they're searching for the title/artist and coming across it, but it looks like most of them are shared with friends or friends of friends so I don't know how they'd even see it? Unless Facebook is snitching on it themselves.

I'd argue that this makes it like playing it in your own house to a select group of friends, not a public performance, and that they should fuck off, but then it's a private website and they can do whatever they want I guess.

You could try, instead of posting the song title/artist, writing it in paint and posting that image. That makes it non-searchable but still very obvious to anyone reading.

d'Kong76
Sep 22 2017 02:33 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

This might be a dumb/question (ya'll should be used to me by now) but if one
goes to a local watering hole on a Friday night and the bar band is playing a set
of 1980's classic rock hits... do they pay licensing fees to the record labels?

What Fman is doing on fb seems pretty harmless to me, he's not passing a hat
around so what's the damage? With all the other stupid shit on fb, they should
be happy that someone with talent is doing something creative and entertaining
instead of posting senseless memes about farts or cat tricks.

So there.

Vic Sage
Sep 22 2017 02:39 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

when you play a song in a club, the club has ASCAP/BMI/SESAC blanket performance licenses. YOUTUBE has deals with music publishers and labels, and movie/tv studios, too. FACEBOOK doesn't, and instead just harasses its users. They should have blanket licenses and allow users to post their own performances, but FACEBOOK sucks.

Edgy MD
Sep 22 2017 02:40 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

d'Kong76 wrote:
This might be a dumb/question (ya'll should be used to me by now) but if one
goes to a local watering hole on a Friday night and the bar band is playing a set
of 1980's classic rock hits... do they pay licensing fees to the record labels?

Not to the labels, but to rights agencies, who collect for the publishers, who collect for the artists.

They're certainly supposed to. And the agencies send out agents to try to make sure they're compliant.

OE: What Vic said.

Ceetar
Sep 22 2017 02:51 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Vic Sage wrote:
when you play a song in a club, the club has ASCAP/BMI/SESAC blanket performance licenses. YOUTUBE has deals with music publishers and labels, and movie/tv studios, too. FACEBOOK doesn't, and instead just harasses its users. They should have blanket licenses and allow users to post their own performances, but FACEBOOK sucks.


There's no way the local townie bar has that though. Facebook definitely should though. I'm not sure what they really expect from Facebook Live.

I think part of the 'problem' is they don't want you to be able to type in "Born on the Bayou" and get some random guy in Upstate New York instead of the CCR version.

d'Kong76
Sep 22 2017 02:55 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Thank you both, learned something new.
We see an Aerosmith cover band from time to time and I've often wondered how they
can just play 2 1/2 hours of another band's catalog and not pay some kind of royalty.
They're really good, hell they're better than Aerosmith hahaha....

Mets Willets Point
Sep 22 2017 04:51 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

I once tried posting a clip of my daughter dancing to a Kraftwerk song and a pop-up notice informed me that I wasn't allowed to post it (even naming the full song title). I assume Facebook has a built in audio recognition platform to recognize licensed music.

Fman99
Oct 13 2017 02:51 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Slapped with another 3 day ban. This time it was for "New York State of Mind." Which means I have to find and remove the other Billy Joel songs I've done, probably. LAME.

Fman99
Oct 14 2017 01:30 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

My 3 day ban has turned into a permanent shutdown of my Facebook accounts, due to repeat violations. I was due for a social media break anyway.

d'Kong76
Oct 14 2017 01:42 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Bizarrely absurd considering all the fucking bullshit that goes on on both
facebook and twitter. Complete nonsense.

cooby
Oct 14 2017 02:19 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Agreed. Your music is done beautifully and as tributes. Who could object to that?

Fman99
Oct 15 2017 12:36 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

cooby wrote:
Agreed. Your music is done beautifully and as tributes. Who could object to that?


I actually had an exchange of emails with the VP of anti piracy efforts at Universal, whose name and email gets attached to every notification Facebook sends out. He told me what I already knew, which is that because FB doesn't pay to license music, that my actions are in violation of their policy, and steered me to sites like Youtube and Soundcloud, where no such restrictions exist.

I will sign up with a new FB account and email at some point. I'm in no hurry. To be honest, I feel over dependent on the social interactions I get from it, and maybe I can use this as an opportunity.

Fman99
Oct 15 2017 12:37 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

cooby wrote:
Agreed. Your music is done beautifully and as tributes. Who could object to that?


And thank you by the way :) I will be back, most likely as a new Youtube channel.

Ceetar
Oct 16 2017 01:07 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Fman99 wrote:
Agreed. Your music is done beautifully and as tributes. Who could object to that?


And thank you by the way :) I will be back, most likely as a new Youtube channel.


and then you can share the youtube to facebook, every time, to exactly the same effect, with no punitive results. Don't you just love copyright law?

d'Kong76
Oct 16 2017 07:50 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Talk with yourself and you'll hear what you wanna know - Aerosmith, circa 1972

[fimg=600:3n3ydy0f]http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/101617a.jpg[/fimg:3n3ydy0f]

Fman99
Oct 17 2017 01:10 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

I wonder if he noticed that he was talking to a brainless dolt.

d'Kong76
Oct 17 2017 01:24 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

"Nice hair, wanna make out later?"

dgwphotography
Oct 17 2017 01:55 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

All of the "Me too" posts on my wall makes me feel ill.

Benjamin Grimm
Oct 17 2017 02:21 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

I feel the same way. Especially since one of them was posted by my 18-year-old niece.

d'Kong76
Oct 17 2017 04:41 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

What is a 'me too' post?

cooby
Oct 17 2017 04:54 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

d'Kong76 wrote:
What is a 'me too' post?



Yeah?

Edgy MD
Oct 17 2017 04:56 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

It's a social media movement suggesting that all women who've been sexually harassed or assaulted post "Me too" as their status.

d'Kong76
Oct 17 2017 05:02 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Hope I don't run into that. I have like ten young-woman fb friends. My close
friends all had mostly daughters. Is this an off-shoot of that rat face hollywood
piece of shit?

Benjamin Grimm
Oct 17 2017 05:09 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Yes. The "Me too" thing was started by Alyssa Milano.

Me Too: Alyssa Milano elevates Harvey Weinstein conversation

And you don't have to be especially "young" to be a "me too". I have two female Facebook friends in their 50s who have posted a "me too".

d'Kong76
Oct 17 2017 05:18 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Geez, thanks. Thankfully haven't run into that yet.

metsmarathon
Oct 17 2017 05:38 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

its a shame that we need people to out themselves, and at time struggle mightily with the decision to out themselves, as victims so that we can get it into our collective damend skulls that it is a problem. a big problem, and one that affects everyone we love.

because we cant care about other people's problems unless we personally care about people who are also similarly affected.

and also, once more, the burden of solving the issue of sexual assault and sexual harrassment is placed squarely on the shoulders of the victims themselves.

men suck.

Ceetar
Oct 17 2017 05:51 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Yes. The "Me too" thing was started by Alyssa Milano.

Me Too: Alyssa Milano elevates Harvey Weinstein conversation

And you don't have to be especially "young" to be a "me too". I have two female Facebook friends in their 50s who have posted a "me too".


It was initially started ten years ago by Tarana Burkeactually.

Fman99
Oct 17 2017 05:53 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

I'm glad to be off of the page, to be honest, because of this latest thing. Not because I'm blind to the awfulness of the world, but because I prefer to surround myself whenever possible with positivity and optimism and it's way easier to do that without a Facebook account.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 17 2017 06:07 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Twitter is where you wanna be for negativity and pessimism.

cooby
Oct 17 2017 10:39 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

metsmarathon wrote:
its a shame that we need people to out themselves, and at time struggle mightily with the decision to out themselves, as victims so that we can get it into our collective damend skulls that it is a problem. a big problem, and one that affects everyone we love.

because we cant care about other people's problems unless we personally care about people who are also similarly affected.

and also, once more, the burden of solving the issue of sexual assault and sexual harrassment is placed squarely on the shoulders of the victims themselves.

men suck.



Honestly guys, this is about a different breed of men than you are. It is an awful culture that treats women that way but happily, it seems to be a minority of men who would do this.
Furthermore, I can't imagine ever saying "me too" on my facebook page even if it had happened to me. What a weird way to put that out there. But we are all different, and if that's how some ladies choose to do it, good for them. Give them love but honestly, I dont feel, even as a female, that sexual assault is a normal culture.
Don't feel bad for being men is what I'm trying to say.

A Boy Named Seo
Oct 17 2017 10:44 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

cooby wrote:
metsmarathon wrote:
its a shame that we need people to out themselves, and at time struggle mightily with the decision to out themselves, as victims so that we can get it into our collective damend skulls that it is a problem. a big problem, and one that affects everyone we love.

because we cant care about other people's problems unless we personally care about people who are also similarly affected.

and also, once more, the burden of solving the issue of sexual assault and sexual harrassment is placed squarely on the shoulders of the victims themselves.

men suck.



Honestly guys, this is about a different breed of men than you are. It is an awful culture that treats women that way but happily, it seems to be a minority of men who would do this.
Furthermore, I can't imagine ever saying "me too" on my facebook page even if it had happened to me. What a weird way to put that out there. But we are all different, and if that's how some ladies choose to do it, good for them. Give them love but honestly, I dont feel, even as a female, that sexual assault is a normal culture.
Don't feel bad for being men is what I'm trying to say.


Very well said, mm. Terrible circumstances, but also encouraging to see this contagious strength in victims who are now feeling empowered to call these pigs out. If shitty men can't be decent to women to begin with, maybe at least the shitty men will be scared of the consequences.

A girl I dated recently told me she'd been raped multiple times when she was younger. My girlfriend before that was raped by her ex-boyfriend. The one before that, a man tried to attack her when she was traveling overseas, but thankfully she got away. The one before that, her boyfriend was physically abusive and tried to rape her. Another had her drink drugged by a guy at a bar. Another was sexually assaulted by a guy she knew very well.

I don't know how many of these women were part of the #metoo this week, but to cooby's point, I know there are way more who've had disgusting shit like this happen to them and not said a word for a lot of different reasons. It makes me scared for for all my female loved ones from my nieces to my mom. There's hopefully a culture change that is happening and it will be painful but - long game - hopefully positive.

Edgy MD
Oct 17 2017 11:15 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Culture is what culture is, though. It provides a context of what will and won't fly that leads people to cross lines that they wouldn't cross in another context. I know when I read all those me-too's, I went thinking, "My God, I hope I'm not somebody's me-too." I'm a lamb, but I was a young man once with lousy young-man's judgment.

I know in college I had a friend, from a pretty different background than mine, two years behind me, but very sweet, who spilled her guts to me about being interfered with by a family member. (That's me using a euphemism. She was raped.) I knew I was out of my depth, and I encouraged her to speak with a counselor or campus minister. I know I never followed up with her, likely because I suck.

I also dated a young woman, very funny, but also from a very different background as mine, who I soon found out was a little too danger-loving for me, so I backed off the relationship. She was going to school on a scholarship as the child of a professor, but her dad was deceased and while I don't know that her dad raped her, clearly had some fucked-up ritualistic relationship with her. I never pressed it. Maybe I'm just too conflict averse, but that's two people who needed help I think I let down, and that was before I graduated. She legally changed her name before graduating, which was more proactive than most of the things I've ever done.

She actually FB friended me a month or two back. After 30 years. I dunno if I should reach out and say that I'm sorry I wasn't more help, or let sleeping dogs lie.

Clearly it's a dog that doesn't lie very still with a lot of traumatized folks.

A Boy Named Seo
Oct 19 2017 08:34 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Edgy MD wrote:
Culture is what culture is, though. It provides a context of what will and won't fly that leads people to cross lines that they wouldn't cross in another context. I know when I read all those me-too's, I went thinking, "My God, I hope I'm not somebody's me-too." I'm a lamb, but I was a young man once with lousy young-man's judgment.

I know in college I had a friend, from a pretty different background than mine, two years behind me, but very sweet, who spilled her guts to me about being interfered with by a family member. (That's me using a euphemism. She was raped.) I knew I was out of my depth, and I encouraged her to speak with a counselor or campus minister. I know I never followed up with her, likely because I suck.

I also dated a young woman, very funny, but also from a very different background as mine, who I soon found out was a little too danger-loving for me, so I backed off the relationship. She was going to school on a scholarship as the child of a professor, but her dad was deceased and while I don't know that her dad raped her, clearly had some fucked-up ritualistic relationship with her. I never pressed it. Maybe I'm just too conflict averse, but that's two people who needed help I think I let down, and that was before I graduated. She legally changed her name before graduating, which was more proactive than most of the things I've ever done.

She actually FB friended me a month or two back. After 30 years. I dunno if I should reach out and say that I'm sorry I wasn't more help, or let sleeping dogs lie.

Clearly it's a dog that doesn't lie very still with a lot of traumatized folks.


LFWS offered some introspection on FB that's in the same neighborhood as your post, and I like both how, and what each of you wrote a lot. WRT to your friend, if it were me, I might let that sleeping dog stay sound asleep for fear of stirring up something she may have already worked through on her own.

metsmarathon
Oct 26 2017 02:34 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

because e'rybody loves facebook chain mail, i'm playing along in the black and white challenge. sorry in advance if i tag you. (you've no obligation to acknowledge my attempt to rope you in to this inanity)

dgwphotography
Oct 26 2017 03:06 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

metsmarathon wrote:
because e'rybody loves facebook chain mail, i'm playing along in the black and white challenge. sorry in advance if i tag you. (you've no obligation to acknowledge my attempt to rope you in to this inanity)


I've lost count as to how many friends have tagged me in this. I'm just too damn busy to partake...

metsmarathon
Oct 26 2017 03:08 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

cool, so i can safely tag you and not worry about you taking offense!

dgwphotography
Oct 26 2017 03:40 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

metsmarathon wrote:
cool, so i can safely tag you and not worry about you taking offense!


Go right ahead :-)

A Boy Named Seo
Oct 26 2017 04:24 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

We were talking to my nieces about unplugging and not being married to a phone/tablet, whatever. They're like, "well, what about you?" so I put my money where my mouth was and pulled the plug on FB and Insta. Gotta make sure the new virtual meth is not the CPF.

d'Kong76
Oct 26 2017 04:32 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Not familiar with the black/white challenge.

What I've been getting a lot are these posts with a speech about true friends
and caring and there for you and paying attention and illness awareness and
seeing which one of us will copy and paste it to their page and they know which
ones will and which one's won't and you can't just like or share because for some
reason that's cheating and and this all must be done with the next 24 hours or...

Uh, no thanks.

(run-on intentional)

cooby
Oct 26 2017 04:50 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Yeah as if we don't care if we don't ante up

Ceetar
Oct 26 2017 05:32 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

dgwphotography wrote:
metsmarathon wrote:
because e'rybody loves facebook chain mail, i'm playing along in the black and white challenge. sorry in advance if i tag you. (you've no obligation to acknowledge my attempt to rope you in to this inanity)


I've lost count as to how many friends have tagged me in this. I'm just too damn busy to partake...


I forgot after 5 days (Weekends!) but since I basically post random silliness anyway I went along with that one, just didn't challenge anybody. (Mostly because I didn't want to find/copy/retype the prompt on my phone, where I post the pictures from)



I gotta stop arguing with antisemites in the local community facebook group, but otherwise I enjoy sharing pictures with/of family and interacting with groups, mostly from podcasts like Effectively Wild, or Steal this Beer, or Why Mommy Drinks. That's where the real value is I think.

Fman99
Oct 26 2017 07:58 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

A Boy Named Seo wrote:
We were talking to my nieces about unplugging and not being married to a phone/tablet, whatever. They're like, "well, what about you?" so I put my money where my mouth was and pulled the plug on FB and Insta. Gotta make sure the new virtual meth is not the CPF.


As long as you continue to smash puss on buxom Latina beauties, and ride your motorbike, and I can somehow channel your smash-o-puss-o energy, all will continue to be right with the world.

d'Kong76
Oct 27 2017 02:42 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

d'Kong76 wrote:
Not familiar with the black/white challenge.

I just got this! I incorrectly assumed this was some kind of race relations
thing or something.

Fman99
Oct 31 2017 02:26 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Fired up the new FB account, most of you don't accept friend requests without a mutual friend, but I am now on irish's friend list, so, if you're friends with metirish you should see me out there as an option.

Was going to take a longer hiatus but I've been feeling looped out of stuff, of late, and I think maybe this is part of it.

Mets Willets Point
Oct 31 2017 05:33 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Welcome back! This time post the videos to Vimeo and then share on Facebook.

Fman99
Oct 31 2017 11:45 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Mets Willets Point wrote:
Welcome back! This time post the videos to Vimeo and then share on Facebook.


Yeah, Vimeo, or Youtube, or some other medium. Still researching where I want my videos to live.

Now I also get to rerecord a lot of my favorites, take another crack at them.

d'Kong76
Oct 31 2017 02:09 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

I only see mutual friends when I look at irish's fb friends.

metirish
Oct 31 2017 02:14 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

d'Kong76 wrote:
I only see mutual friends when I look at irish's fb friends.



I need to change that , old privacy settings

EDIT - Changed

d'Kong76
Oct 31 2017 02:17 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

Thanks! Now let's see if accepts my friend request :-)

Ceetar
Oct 31 2017 02:39 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

facebook.com/ceetar

pretty sure I accept all requests, but i'll add you when you pop up.

d'Kong76
Oct 31 2017 09:55 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

"My wife says I have two major faults: I don't listen, and something else."

Fman99
Nov 01 2017 01:02 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Ceetar wrote:
facebook.com/ceetar

pretty sure I accept all requests, but i'll add you when you pop up.


Got a bunch of CPF'ers back on my list. Nice to be back amongst the social folks.

MFS62
Nov 01 2017 01:40 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Fman99 wrote:
Ceetar wrote:
facebook.com/ceetar

pretty sure I accept all requests, but i'll add you when you pop up.


Got a bunch of CPF'ers back on my list. Nice to be back amongst the social folks.

Check your CPF messages.
Later

Fman99
Nov 01 2017 01:55 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

MFS62 wrote:
Fman99 wrote:
Ceetar wrote:
facebook.com/ceetar

pretty sure I accept all requests, but i'll add you when you pop up.


Got a bunch of CPF'ers back on my list. Nice to be back amongst the social folks.

Check your CPF messages.
Later


Nice to "meet" you!

Edgy MD
Dec 05 2017 03:17 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

Edgy MD wrote:
I also dated a young woman, very funny, but also from a very different background as mine, who I soon found out was a little too danger-loving for me, so I backed off the relationship. She was going to school on a scholarship as the child of a professor, but her dad was deceased and while I don't know that her dad raped her, clearly had some fucked-up ritualistic relationship with her. I never pressed it. Maybe I'm just too conflict averse, but that's two people who needed help I think I let down, and that was before I graduated. She legally changed her name before graduating, which was more proactive than most of the things I've ever done.

As if her life wasn't traumatic enough, I see now that she's now a teacher.

At Newtown High School.

In Sandy Hook, CT.

Ashie62
Dec 05 2017 11:26 PM
Re: Facebook 2017

I pursued a facebook message out of left field from my true love 32 years after fate pulled us apart.

We married within six months in 2010.

Although she passed away I don't regret getting back in touch with her at all.

MFS62
Dec 06 2017 12:42 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

It would be helpful if there was some way to identify friend requests as a CPF-er, when they are not using their CPF name, other than just friends in common. Then, we usually have to ask, "Who are you"?

Maybe a secret handshake?

Later

Mets Willets Point
Dec 06 2017 07:27 AM
Re: Facebook 2017

I’m taking a break from Facebook.