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Hi there,
Just a straw pole for your do you you like direct e-mail or myspacew e-mail. As some people are just too lazy to use direct e-mail when it comes to sorting out travel. Oh well such a shame and what happennnedc to direct e-mail and being LAZY on these social networking sites. Even if you are visiting Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England and all points west!
Cheers,
John.B
We can have a good old giggle about the terminal 5 baggage system at Heathow. But if some people can't get above the old social networking site it's very sad indeed!
Ta,
John.B
There is e-mail on mysace? I've never tried my space.
I never bother with myspace myself. So I would be a diret e mail
person. I understand your frustration as I know of a few people who will only use Myspace and half the time they don't reply when you send it there. It can be very annoying, after all how hard is it to open outlook or Thunderbird or whatever one may use.
Kevin
I myself like a direct email coming to my place in my own space.
Mever bothered with MySpace. Not my age group!
I've never used sited like myspace, I prefer normal mail.
My email program is always open, sites I only check once or twice a day maybe.
I prefer IM, really, if we're online at the same time. Else, normal email. Messages via MySpace or other forums are iffy. I leave a tab open to gmail while I'm online, and I can check it at work. Over normal people's weekends I'm at work, so I may not make it to a particular forum or networking site from Friday morning to Sunday evening, and some sites I may not go to for weeks if they don't have much traffic or I don't have many friends on them.
I have my own web site which includes a mail server, and anyone can find my site on Google. I don't need to belong to some silly site for people to find me. Any of these Google searches will land a page on my site in Google's top ten:
bill longhair
bill san francisco
bill choisser
bill and larry
K9AT
I know how to make web pages (that's part of this hobby, guys) and I disdain advertising so I pay for my web site and I create all its pages myself, rather than having some for-profit corporation create it and bombard my hapless site visitors with commercial messages. I only have one e-mail address which I've had for almost ten years. That is the only place I ever check for mail. Why confuse people with multiple addresses when they all would go to the same guy?
I have a few profiles at places I frequent, but I put little on them, other than a note to visit my web site. That way I don't have to revise those profiles, and I seldom do. If a site collects mail for me but does not forward it, it will pile up there unread, so in any profile I also mention that, and that correspondents should contact me as stated on my web site instead.
I also no longer make lists of my friends who are on the Internet. I had that back in 1997 when few people were on the Internet and we counted on links a lot more to find kindred spirits because web groups were few and search engines were poor. At some point I realized that, to show all of my friends on the Internet would be like showing all my friends who have telephones, so a friends page looked kind of silly and I took it off. Also, having a list of friends can seem very juvenile when you start sticking gold, silver, blue, green, and red stars on them to show who are better friends than others.
Bill