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EDITED/DELETED to keep Keith happy. 
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I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
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No politics please.
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Some of the things asked for in that Jeep forum were so stupid they should have been embarrassed asking.
RTFM
Oh, you're in the JEEP group? I have a question: "what are those four round rubbery things on the bottom of the Jeep?" signed, the internet
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And we're happy having you here Matt! +1
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I have a Facebook account. I look at it about once a year. Joanne Cooper posted a song. Thank you Joanne, it was a nice song.
I find the whole Facebook thing pretty strange...being friends with a 1000 people I don't know. I don't try to control anything. Amusing amount of brain dead people posting who knows what.
No on has ever been unfriendly with me unless I consider disagreeing with their views or use of language unfriendly.
Do you really expect people to be polite, friendly, and intelligent? The same people who are on the
6 o'clock news are on the internet.
But after that, there are a few polite, friendly and intelligent people. Also a good many more who are at least intelligent...lol
Again, thanks Joanne for singing and playing a song.
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Ì find Facebook very useful for getting support on something that may be important to me at the moment. For example, I have done several 7-day juice fasts and when I started, I had no idea how to go about it. I simply joined a group called juicing for beginners and had free and instant access to (and support from) people who have done this all before. Then, when I am not on a fast I unfollow the group. I am currently doing the 75 day hard challenge and, yes, there is a fantastic Facebook group for this too. All totally free. If anybody is interested, I do have another very nice group on Facebook. I post a challenge song every day and pleasant people come on and post their rendition of the song and people say respectful things. You can check it out here. https://www.facebook.com/groups/song.a.day.challenge
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My opinion about FB varies from day to day. As a private person, I don't like the fact that anything you post in a public group or on your page can be seen (and reacted to) by pretty much everybody in the world. I solve this problem by posting mostly in private groups. Private groups are invisible to everybody except the group's members. And as Joanne said, there's a group for just about any hobby you might have.
I also don't like the information overload. Every time you "friend" someone, everything they post shows up in your daily feed. I solve this problem by unfollowing people as soon as they become FB friends. Unfollowing people keeps them in my friend list so I can contact them easily if necessary, but it stops everything they post from showing up in my feed. Sorry, I don't care where you went on holiday or what you had for breakfast.
These two strategies make FB much more user friendly to me, as I can log in daily without being overwhelmed by stuff I don't want to see, and I rarely have to deal with snarky comments, because most of what I post is invisible to the world.
On the positive side, FB provides an unparalleled opportunity to promote yourself if you are trying to get your music (or other art) noticed. The same connectivity that makes it annoying in terms of info overload makes it useful in terms of exposing the world to whatever you want them to see.
For example, if you want to stream music performances and want to have an actual audience, all of your FB friends will be notified when you stream. I stream on Streetjelly, but the average audience there is much smaller than my FB friend list. If were into self-promotion (I'm not) FB would be my go-to place for manifesting a social media presence.
Regarding the problem of conflict on FB or other platforms: purposefully making confrontational statements is going to paint a bulls eye on your back no matter where you do it. That ain't an internet problem. File that under communication skills.
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Early in my Facebook years I had people on friends who I did not know. They usually lasted a day or 2. A few called me out by asking through others why I dropped them. They did not like the reply.
I look at it like this. If I have allowed you to be on my friends list, and you NEVER comment on a post, NEVER contact me just to say hello, etc... why bother having you on friends? So I have 18 friends on Facebook, all of whom I know in real life, and all of whom I interact with on almost a daily basis. I also have a completely fake profile so anybody asking to add me (they can't because of privacy settings) would just be phishing.
People are setting up shops on Facebook with slight variations of legitimate users, like for you they might set up PattMarr Inc, and then post fake ads to scam people. You wouldn't even know about it, but if they scam 1 person, they are ahead of the game. YOU get the angry email for the fraud, and they close their Facebook, open another, and do it again. So if someone wants to do that to my fake name, have at it. I am in no way connected to it.
Other than a tiny bit of fun for people who use Facebook in the spirit in which it is intended, it is an awful place.
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Facebook is a tool. Use it (or don't) in whatever way it works for you. And if pics of someone's dinner bug you, just scroll past them (like I do when y'all post pics of your studios or latest guitars!) 
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What is this 'Facebook' of which you speak? <grin>
//oh now I remember, that was a thing like 20 years ago right?
Make your sound your own!
.. I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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Facebook is a tool. Use it (or don't) in whatever way it works for you. And if pics of someone's dinner bug you, just scroll past them (like I do when y'all post pics of your studios or latest guitars!) Absolutely correct. The only reason that I belong to Facebook is to reconnect with friends and acquaintances from High School, College, Medical School, and Graduate School. If they start saying things that get on my nerves, it possible to modify what hits my wall without actually unfriending them. There is a lot, and I mean A LOT, of misuse of social media but it also serves a wonderful purpose and I’m not going to allow those who misuse it to ruin it for me when there are so many ways to manage around them. Back in the Pre Internet days, I was working on an immunological research problem that required me to become no only knowledgeable but proficient in a lab technique called a Jerne Assay. I had access to, and was learning to use some pre internet tools that allowed me to communicate in real time with the actual inventor of the assay, who not only taught me the ins and outs of running the assays but shared with me a number of papers that had not yet cleared the publication procedures, but saved me many hours of fruitless lab time and showed me several paths to the proofs that I was looking for in my personal research that I hadn’t even thought of. It was kind of a unique thrill when I was challenged by my research oversite committee on several things in my design when instead of citing a particular journal article, I was able to say ‘Personal communication with the author” and be able to present a printout of a discusssion I had with the leading authority in the world on the subject. After that, I would talk everyone to death on how wonderful and revolutionary it would be when we all had immediate access to ideas. I never perceived what all of the un filtered information hitting us would do to science and a lot of that youthful excitement has been replace3d with dread.
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No politics please.
Moderators, please delete this thread. Agree with the sentiment Matt but rather than delete the entire thread, Eddie could be a good Netizen and delete his single political post, instead of forcing the entire thread down.
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No politics please.
Moderators, please delete this thread. Agree with the sentiment Matt but rather than delete the entire thread, Eddie could be a good Netizen and delete his single political post, instead of forcing the entire thread down. Though I didn't see my post as being any more political than whoever brought up "free speech" (which means 1st Amendment) I will edit it.
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
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And if facebook thinks you are not using your real name it can easily disable your account unti you provide official id, such as passport etc.
Likewise if you go on a scammers page and give warnings to others about the scam, and the scammers block you (If you do this often enough in different Facebook scam pages) Facebook will want to know what you are up to, and give you notice that you could receive a ban or strike.
I speak from experience as regards the above, there is absolutely no way I would ever trust facebook with my passport info or other id.
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Met a lot of nice people in Facebook jail!!
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
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there is absolutely no way I would ever trust facebook with my passport info or other id. Absolutely is the right adverb. I used a throwaway cell phone number to sign up, with a fake name, fake photo, created an elaborate fake backstory (like about my family, all with fake photos, a girlfriend who is also fake and HER fake photo. Her young daughter is SO cute!) and signed up in a different city. I also stay out of groups and rooms, thus managing to stay out of Facebook Jail. Anybody reading that profile would think it is a real, normal, average kind of guy. I am there for my 18 friends and that's all. The number of friendships I have seen destroyed because ADULT HUMAN BEINGS don't seem to understand that we don't have to agree on everything to coexist (ironically one of whom has that "coexist" bumper sticker on her car) is staggering. She dropped over 30 people because they were backers of the guy she hated in 2016. And when he won she found herself with a president she didn't want and nobody to talk to on The Book Of Face. I couldn't make her understand that if she expects people to respect her opinion and not try to change it that is required that she do the same. We have now not spoken in almost 6 years. And that scenario is far too common.
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I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
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I’m with pat. I unfollow everyone, including all my actual real life friends and my husband! I also unfollow all groups. Then I follow specific groups if I have a specific interest at the time (like my 7 day juicing example). It works for me
Edited to add: I also delete any disrespectful comments on both Facebook and my YouTube channel.
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Facebook is like all tech things to me. If I enjoy it and/or there is a benefit from it then I’m good. The amount of privacy detail options available in the fb settings is remarkable. My feed consists of nothing but subjects and people I’m interested in. Just this morning via fb I heard from a guy who was in a band that my and a friend’s company booked and recorded in 1965. I’d not heard from anybody in that group in 56 years. Pretty cool. And regarding all the fb tracking issues just take a look at how many trackers your browser blocks on every site you visit. My browser (Safari) blocks them and gives me the number blocked. And I assume other browsers do the same. Naïveté? Maybe but I also don’t worry about my Moderna jabs implanting a 5G chip in my brain 
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I also don’t worry about my Moderna jabs implanting a 5G chip in my brain Now that was seriously funny Bud. LOL! Josie
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I’m with Bud on this one. Not worried about a social media website collecting info about my likes (and dislikes)
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