Well, it had to happen sometime. In these days of the ever-expanding, soon-to-be all-encompassing internet, it was inevitable that there is now a "The Session Dot Org Appreciation Society" group on Facebook:
Join it!
I don't know how many of you are on Facebook, but I'm willing to bet it's quite a few, internet nerds that we are. I think it could be quite good actually, as we would be using our REAL names (gasp), and we could put pictures and videos up, and basically get to actually know each other a bit better. Not saying it's impossible otherwise, but this just makes it very easy.
At the time of writing, there are currently 2 members: me and the creator, Dan (or D.J.F., as he is known here).
Consider yourself invited to join.
Oh dear. What is the world coming to? Facebook is taking over the entire internet. They just got a chat program as well, which basically means I will never finish this degree.
Wow! I'm not the biggest fan of Facebook but I have to admit... I find it quite touching that Dan created this group. And it's up to 18 members already!
I joined Facebook recently to look at some photos of a house an old friend of mine is building and I had no idea what I was getting into. Before I knew it people both here and in Ireland that I know who play ITM started friending me. It's great!!! I'm having a lot of fun with it so far.
Practically the entire internet is a "Facebook." Who is your ISP? Who owns your internet connection? If you want to be off the grid, lose your computer, credit/debit card(s), bank accounts, social security number (if your in the US), toll fare transponders, GPS transmitters, satellite radio connections, phone/cellphone... Who built you car? Do you know who makes your toilet paper? Etc etc etc...All of these things are rife with investors/owners/shareholders who many of us would disapprove of or perhaps even downright despise politically and/or personally. Facebook is free, and I don't care what THEY or anyone else knows about me. Rupert Murdock owns MySpace (I loathe Rupert), but my band still uses it. Why? Because it's free and it's useful. It's the modern world, and it's a wacky mess...
Hmm, I'd say there's a fair difference between keeping an open mind about questionable societal influences on one hand, and complete, unquestioning and uncaring capitulation on the other. Your analogies and comments display all the hallmarks of the latter, gw.
Uncaring capitulation to what? Please describe the politics of your preferred toilet paper manufacturer. Odds are you can't. My point is that it's nearly impossible to participate in the modern world without compromising the simple act wiping your arse, let alone your means of communication. I'm extremely progressive (if not downright anarchistic) politically, but I choose to live in the "system." I've been openly active on the internet since the early 90s and I work in the industry--so I know how it works from an insider's POV. I'm not capitulating to anyone or anything as long as I can say what I want to say whenever I want to say it. So far, no one has knocked on my door....
Hm, if I join that I'll have to take down my two fiddle videos. I don't want you guys to see how awful I am Maybe I'll post some new vids in a year or three...
Definitely agree with you, gw. What's to lose? Life's too short to hide oneself because you think "someone out there" is going to try to "get" to you!! If you can do it, flaunt it!
Well, more fool me for getting sucked into it. I only put up our session thing so I could communicate more easily with the Blythe Hill Fields Festival one which our session is playing at, and also to advertise our session: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=27744317288
I'll be careful about using it now. It's all very well saying "I don't care, if you've got it flaunt it", like we're just a bunch of happy little leprechaun musos, but what if you happen to hold controversial opinions such as those of myself and a few others on here, which occasionally you can't help but express? I don't want the CIA getting a direct handle on it. And also I don't want to be advertised at, as it says in the article (which I find difficult to believe some here read all the way through.)
Sorry if I inadvertently contributed to a pro/anti Facebook feud.
Obviously, the politics is relevant, but my first reason for not signing up was simpler. I'm already fully stretched with all the sites I visit regularly. It's about those hard choices about the most constructive ways to manage my available time.
As I understand, the NSA has acres of supercomputers that can monitor and screen every site, every email, every text 24/7. GCHQ likewise. If you've got something, er, 'sensitive' to communicate, then snail mail is a lot more private. But even if you're pure as driven snow (like me ) I think it's wise to consider where all this is going. Should the future become as dystopian as some expect, I suggest that authorities that want to exert control will do what previous regimes have done, they cannot control everyone, but they never need to, because fear can be spread easily by picking off a random selection. It only needs about ten percent of the population to be chosen for persecution, and everybody will know someone who knows someone who got 'into trouble'. I'm not talking about paranoia. I'm talking about real regimes, e.g. Burma. I'm amazed how innocent and naive some people are. I got the name of a woman (the context is irrelevant and completely above board) and out of curiosity googled the name. In five minutes, from about 6 sites, I had her address, in a leafy area of England, what she did for a living, her marital status, the names and ages of her children and where they went to school, and more. That sort of info is a goldmine for criminals. I love your line, 'happy leprechaun musos', KML, and aren't leprechauns renowned for discernment and wise insight, nobody's fool ?
ALERT: The Session is on Facebook!
ALERT: The Session is on Facebook!
Well, it had to happen sometime. In these days of the ever-expanding, soon-to-be all-encompassing internet, it was inevitable that there is now a "The Session Dot Org Appreciation Society" group on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12687046593&ref=mf
Join it!
I don't know how many of you are on Facebook, but I'm willing to bet it's quite a few, internet nerds that we are. I think it could be quite good actually, as we would be using our REAL names (gasp), and we could put pictures and videos up, and basically get to actually know each other a bit better. Not saying it's impossible otherwise, but this just makes it very easy.
At the time of writing, there are currently 2 members: me and the creator, Dan (or D.J.F., as he is known here).
Consider yourself invited to join.
Joe
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by Joe CSS
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Oh dear. What is the world coming to? Facebook is taking over the entire internet. They just got a chat program as well, which basically means I will never finish this degree.
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by TheSilverSpear
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"Facebook is taking over the entire internet. "
No, thesesssion.org is taking over the entire internet.
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by granama
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...the entire World.
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by granama
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Don't spill the beans, granama! I don't want to be attritted.
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by nicholas
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Thank you for the Alert. What or who is this "Facebook"? Does one need to take evasive or defensive action?
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by lazyhound
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Hold on tight, or you'll get sucked in, Trevor.
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by granama
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Wow! I'm not the biggest fan of Facebook but I have to admit... I find it quite touching that Dan created this group. And it's up to 18 members already!
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by Jeremy
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yay!
i joined up earlier
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by DubChieftain
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Maybe all the good guys will move to spend time over there and you'll just get left with the trouble makers, Jeremy
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by wolfbird
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I joined Facebook recently to look at some photos of a house an old friend of mine is building and I had no idea what I was getting into. Before I knew it people both here and in Ireland that I know who play ITM started friending me. It's great!!! I'm having a lot of fun with it so far.
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by Phantom Button
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Um, don't know about that ... I'd feel EVER so uncomfortable putting my REAL name up ...
# Posted on April 24th 2008 by benhall.1
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No-one would know who you were, unless your face book name was the Phantom Button or summat.
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by bodhran bliss
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I put my real name up and the people who contact me aren't affiliated with thesession.org.
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by Phantom Button
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I'm in.
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by gw
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I did one for our session:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blythe-Hill-Tavern-Irish-Music-Session/11900853413
Pity the picture is so old though. Must update.
Are we allowed to talk to each other?
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by Key Maniac Lad
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Just for a little balance here for all you happy Facebookers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by Doodle
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Thanks, Doodle, interesting reading. No offence intended, thanks for the invitation Joe CSS, but seems not my kind of venue.
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by wolfbird
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Practically the entire internet is a "Facebook." Who is your ISP? Who owns your internet connection? If you want to be off the grid, lose your computer, credit/debit card(s), bank accounts, social security number (if your in the US), toll fare transponders, GPS transmitters, satellite radio connections, phone/cellphone... Who built you car? Do you know who makes your toilet paper? Etc etc etc...All of these things are rife with investors/owners/shareholders who many of us would disapprove of or perhaps even downright despise politically and/or personally. Facebook is free, and I don't care what THEY or anyone else knows about me. Rupert Murdock owns MySpace (I loathe Rupert), but my band still uses it. Why? Because it's free and it's useful. It's the modern world, and it's a wacky mess...
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by gw
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Facebook is evil. Count me out.
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by sbhikes
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Hmm, I'd say there's a fair difference between keeping an open mind about questionable societal influences on one hand, and complete, unquestioning and uncaring capitulation on the other. Your analogies and comments display all the hallmarks of the latter, gw.
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by Doodle
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Uncaring capitulation to what? Please describe the politics of your preferred toilet paper manufacturer. Odds are you can't. My point is that it's nearly impossible to participate in the modern world without compromising the simple act wiping your arse, let alone your means of communication. I'm extremely progressive (if not downright anarchistic) politically, but I choose to live in the "system." I've been openly active on the internet since the early 90s and I work in the industry--so I know how it works from an insider's POV. I'm not capitulating to anyone or anything as long as I can say what I want to say whenever I want to say it. So far, no one has knocked on my door....
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by gw
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Hm, if I join that I'll have to take down my two fiddle videos. I don't want you guys to see how awful I am
Maybe I'll post some new vids in a year or three...
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by Scott Esch
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Definitely agree with you, gw. What's to lose? Life's too short to hide oneself because you think "someone out there" is going to try to "get" to you!! If you can do it, flaunt it!
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by Mark Harmer
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Well, more fool me for getting sucked into it. I only put up our session thing so I could communicate more easily with the Blythe Hill Fields Festival one which our session is playing at, and also to advertise our session:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=27744317288
I'll be careful about using it now. It's all very well saying "I don't care, if you've got it flaunt it", like we're just a bunch of happy little leprechaun musos, but what if you happen to hold controversial opinions such as those of myself and a few others on here, which occasionally you can't help but express? I don't want the CIA getting a direct handle on it. And also I don't want to be advertised at, as it says in the article (which I find difficult to believe some here read all the way through.)
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by Key Maniac Lad
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Sorry if I inadvertently contributed to a pro/anti Facebook feud.
Obviously, the politics is relevant, but my first reason for not signing up was simpler. I'm already fully stretched with all the sites I visit regularly. It's about those hard choices about the most constructive ways to manage my available time.
) I think it's wise to consider where all this is going. Should the future become as dystopian as some expect, I suggest that authorities that want to exert control will do what previous regimes have done, they cannot control everyone, but they never need to, because fear can be spread easily by picking off a random selection. It only needs about ten percent of the population to be chosen for persecution, and everybody will know someone who knows someone who got 'into trouble'. I'm not talking about paranoia. I'm talking about real regimes, e.g. Burma. I'm amazed how innocent and naive some people are. I got the name of a woman (the context is irrelevant and completely above board) and out of curiosity googled the name. In five minutes, from about 6 sites, I had her address, in a leafy area of England, what she did for a living, her marital status, the names and ages of her children and where they went to school, and more. That sort of info is a goldmine for criminals. I love your line, 'happy leprechaun musos', KML, and aren't leprechauns renowned for discernment and wise insight, nobody's fool ?
As I understand, the NSA has acres of supercomputers that can monitor and screen every site, every email, every text 24/7. GCHQ likewise. If you've got something, er, 'sensitive' to communicate, then snail mail is a lot more private. But even if you're pure as driven snow (like me
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by wolfbird
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And if you take your eyes off a leprechaun for one instant it vanishes.
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by lazyhound
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Whoa! Maybe given the amount of positivity on this site, people would be better of with *this* version of Facebook:
http://www.arsebook.org/
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by Mark Harmer
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I signed up, but not as Bodhran Bliss. You have to use your real name.
Mine is Joe Bliss.
I know, doesn't have the same ring.
I am the good looking elderly gent.
# Posted on April 25th 2008 by bodhran bliss