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From: Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:08:48 GMT
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For some reason (probably finger trouble on my part) I just found
I'd dropped off fj.l.i-j. I rejoined, and found:

Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Mar 12, 7:41 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote: 
>>Declan Murphy wrote:
>>
>>>is the name of a facebook group I've just stumbled upon...
>>
>>Aren't you a bit long in the tooth for that kind of site?  All of those
>>locations seem just so juvenile in concept ...
> 
> The concept didn't appeal at first. Started using FB (only) about a
> year ago, and once I'd stripped away all the crap, found it pretty
> useful and sometimes fun.

I joined Facebook a few weeks back, but so far have managed not to get
sucked into it too far. It's got me back in contact with a few former
students, which is good, as well as providing some insight into the
lives of some nieces, nephews and at least one of my kids...

The "Jim Breen is my hero" Facebook group is a hoot. What's the etiquette?
Should I join it?

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学