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2026-08-02 11:24:12 - Paul D. Foy -
OK I'm supporting Facebook now. I'm giving them a bit, just a few modest subscriptions. They don't seem all that good to tell the truth but they meet a small need. I'm giving them a bit so perhaps they can continue to work on the site because there are quite a few issues I feel. For example why is it that, amongst all the social media sites in which I'm active, the text boxes don't seem to accept the characters of my keyboard? Now I deliberated over this, thinking I perhaps got a US keyboard as opposed to a UK keyboard or something like that or there's some strange mapping of the keys that have been set up. It seems to be unique to Facebook so I don't understand what's going on there.

2026-07-31 17:29:36 - Paul D. Foy -
Ok I think I'm going to talk a bit more about Facebook. It has tidied itself up a bit. You can find the comments that you've made and retrieve them and go back to them and that kind of thing but by goodness it is a strange site. I don't think you can believe anything you see or hear on Facebook for example. I think a lot of the posts are fake. They're fake people. They're generated by AI in some way, an AI image, that kind of thing. I don't believe a lot of it. I can't seem to communicate with anybody on it. I message people and you get strange responses or no response whatsoever. It's a very chaotic site so if Facebook is very popular well this is life. This is life, which is very chaotic. To tell the truth I find the pornographic sites, the webcam sites, the people do an explicit thing. They don't say much but they say more truth than is on Facebook for goodness sake. I believe them more than I do Facebook. Facebook may well be real life but real life is a somewhat distorted and artificial entity at the moment.

2026-07-30 02:16:00 - Paul D. Foy -
I think the site still has a lot of problems. For example, it seems to be possible to have identical names. That is, the actual name of the person is identical. Each similarly named person may be distinguished in other ways (properties of their account, etc. ), but the actual name is identical. This is different from my social media account, this blog here, in that a username is unique and has to be unique. I'd have thought that's an easier way of operating, to tell the truth.

2026-07-22 03:22:39 - Paul D. Foy -
It's been a while since I commented on Facebook but I'd like to make another comment because I think the site is maturing and I have more respect for it now. Perhaps because I understand it a bit better. It is a fairly complex site in that there are a lot of menus and areas of the screen to navigate, that kind of thing. It's not completely disorganised and it's easier than some. There tend not to be messages popping up all over the place, as in some sites I've come across, so it's not too bad. It's reasonable and it is fairly comprehensive as well. All your comments and posts are logged according to the time and date, which is very useful. The problem I had was actually finding how to retrieve these, actually finding the menus to select, that kind of thing. This seems to have been done quite well. As the final act of gratitude for my respect to Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg and his efforts and his development of the site, I have given it some money. I have subscribed to the odd subscriber, as they put it. Now I think one of the things Mark Zuckerberg said is that it is not a hookup site. I don't know what a hookup is to tell the truth. Somebody seeing a sexual interaction with somebody, whatever, that is fair enough but there are many people using it for that kind of purpose, if not directly on this site, which I don't think is possible. I'm not sure about that but I don't think it's possible They direct others to other sites where they would like to engage in sexual intimacies. I'm actually thinking perhaps Mark Zuckerberg should rethink this in a way because it's a very grey area between what is a hookup and what is a normal relationship. For example any relation with a woman, you have some kind of sexual intimacies on your mind anyway, often - that is the nature of things. It might not be full penetrative intercourse but it could be all sorts of things so I don't know. I think the site might, as society matures in these respects, certainly British society, perhaps it could have a rethink there. I don't know. It's just an idea.

2025-09-09 04:01:51 - Paul D. Foy -
I think I understand Mark Zuckerberg more now. These Facebook issues throw up intriguing problems, programming challengers. Also problems of aesthetics, of the design of the interface and its ease of use. So these things were not easy to do - perhaps not quite as hard as my group theory contribution judging by how many years of study it took me to get there. Although I have been tinkering with programming for a while.

2024-08-29 09:02:08 - Paul D. Foy -
When I get an invite from a person who describes himself as Elon Musk CEO Tesla on Facebook is that actually Elon Musk wealthy entrepreneur leader of various innovative Companies, electric car maker (including CEO), and vocal commentator or has Facebook failed to carry out due diligence on this person - what a job, ringing up the heads of Companies to see if they've posted on the site - :):). And has it also been Beatrice Egli, famous German pop star or Gisele Buendchen famous supermodel! If only it were true.

2024-08-28 18:31:17 - Paul D. Foy -
With a basic yet simple blog and ('instant') messaging system now in place the focus moves to testing and protection from non-good actors at play. This includes those that can't read a manual and follow simple instructions (!) to those (and unfortunately they don't seem that uncommon in my country) who want to make your life awkward (for a whole host of reasons, from being a commercial competitor to not liking your attitude to pornography or your affairs with ladies), or extract money from you without any contribution, or some other aversion to the cut of you jib. Then there are the people who use your offering to get at other people, or stir them up. I'm not sure how I can be responsible for bad eggs in all eventualities, but that seems to be the lot of 'social media' companies.

2024-08-28 14:31:33 - Paul D. Foy -
All this talk about the evils of social media. The main culprits are the people using it. It�s clear Facebook has bent over backwards to tighten things up - it might have made it worse. You want a simple system and people beholden to what they DO and say - simple as that. How can you have people sitting about checking whether someone who describes himself as male is looking too much like a provocative female. Seems an absurd as - the propensity to get it wrong for innocent reasons also exists!.

2024-08-28 12:26:20 - Paul D. Foy -
I mean your profile pictures are provocative female but the profile text describing who you are ascribing a male.

2024-08-28 12:16:37 - Paul D. Foy -
And what about this one - as a female post pictures (provocative) ones of a female and label your personal profile as being a male. I suppose this would be difficult to stop but it's odd.

2024-08-26 10:06:44 - Paul D. Foy -
I wasn't around at the initiation of Facebook. That is as something that had aroused my curiosity or held any interest to me - I was preoccupied with other things (some might say more weighty things, but that is now debatable). I'd just heard about it from colleagues at work, particularly with reference the provocative pictures their daughter portrayed on it!. There's been much criticism of Facebook for sloppy practices etc. Today it would probably take a few months to get a rudimentary version of Facebook together (with the messaging), even to make it fairly robust. For me that is actually learning several languages at the same time - so I will be a bit scrappy as well. I think it must have been overtaken by its success, problems from the start with scale, the clammer of customers. Why is this? Because people like taking about sexual things, about portraying themselves invitingly, flirting for an encounter or relationship or sexual adventure. That is life, the human condition, and it is natural and its not going to go away. I agree with those that others (the state as well) should not interfere in people's 'bedrooms'. Very bad form.

2024-08-21 19:03:00 - Paul D. Foy -
Previous comment - unless you're speaking to a French man or woman that is ;).

2024-08-21 19:01:10 - Paul D. Foy -
This programming is also not that easy. With a foreign languages you can just blurt out a word or put a rough phrase together and someone might be able to understand you. You can get the spelling wrong no problem. With a human programming languages, particularly the less mature ones that haven't the boiler plate of the implementation and error catching behind them (the majority of the newer Web languages) you can't make a mistake, a syntax error a space where its not allowed. All hell will break out and half the time (with the less mature or poorly implemented ones) you don't know what's gone wrong. Hard work.

2024-08-21 18:24:15 - Paul D. Foy -
You would be surprised how much things are in the hands of the programmer. So when Twitter constrained the commentor to just a brief tweet you could might think that this was because it was some kind of marketing ploy, a feature of the site, hence the name. The REAL reasons may be because there was not sufficient programming techniques available to make a more complicated interface or that it was difficult to do. It may just have been a simple as the fact that only one line comment boxes were available. Obviously the person that has worked very hard or had the idea that was implemented (the Mark Zuckerberg's) have done things early and benefited from an early effort in the scheme of things. The programming landscape in these arenas develops at a pace. New 'languages' develop which are constructs of a more fundamental language, but which are very powerful. They accelerate features and functionality. There seems plenty to do (for women as well!).

2024-08-15 11:35:17 - Paul D. Foy -
How about this one: (vi) create identical posts, which are indistinguishable until somebody comments on one or other post. Of course removing the comment would render the posts indistinguishable again. Why!?!?.

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