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Decline of BA

To: Tom Wilson <>
Subject: Decline of BA
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:57:53 +0000
As in life, It certainly not compulsory to have friends on FB, you can have 
enemies, I have several of those. At least on FB,  you can get rid of those 
with the click of a button.

Carl Clifford

> On 6 Jan 2016, at 10:01 PM, Tom Wilson <> wrote:
> 
> As far as I am aware it’s not compulsory to have friends on FB, to accept 
> friend requests or do anything other than what you want to do – so you don’t 
> have to do anything on FB other than join and read posts for groups that 
> interest you – you don’t even have to actively participate (in the same way 
> that quite a few BA subscribers over the years have admitted to being 
> “read-only” members most of the time).
> Cheers
> Tom Wilson
> 
> From: Allan Richardson 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 3:50 PM
> To: John Leonard 
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Decline of BA
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> You don’t have to divert your FB notifications into your email bin you can 
> set up FB so that you don’t get email notifications - it was cluttering up my 
> emails as well.
> 
> The good thing about FB when set up this way is that you can peruse your 
> friend’s posts or favourite FB page when you like and otherwise it doesn’t 
> interrupt your peace.
> 
> Allan Richardson
> 
>> On 6 Jan 2016, at 2:24 pm, John Leonard <> wrote:
>> 
>> The elephant in the room, of course, for me is how utterly cretinous 
>> Facebook is. I have an account, but no page, or is that wall?, or timeline? 
>> Or something.
>> 
>> I have diverted all Facebook notifications into the bin of my email, but I 
>> am aware I get about 200 a week, and I hardly use it.
>> 
>> If it had been designed to be more annoying it couldn't have been.
>> 
>> John Leonard
>> 
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