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Steven 12:34 pm UTC 12/15/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Facebook - The_wolf_with_the_red_roses 09:16 am UTC 12/15/10 |
| Haha, no, you have obviously no idea. Regarding Facebook: I am a man with ideals and I prefer living my life staying true to my ideals. I dislike the construct that is Facebook and I despise opportunism, which is why I have never joined Facebook in the past and do not wish to in the future. Now Jim letting out info on Facebook only puts me in a position in which I have to choose between either staying true to my views and ideals or stay informed about Jim's activities. As far as I am aware one has to become a member of Facebook in order to be able to follow the things posted there. So unless I betray my ideals, I have to forgo information about Jim. -- The moment I became aware of that, it made me feel a certain unhappiness, and that spontaneous emotion is the content of my post. Period. As for me supposedly moaning about the kind of info provided: Since I am not a member of Facebook I do not know what kind of info Jim is currently sharing, so I can obviously not moan about it not being what I wanted to hear because I did not even hear it. Apart from that: Staying informed about Jim is a matter of being patient over many years, putting together tiny snippets of info and reading between the lines of message board rants et cetera. I have never expressed that there was something wrong with that, on the contrary. I have tried to keep informed about Jim's activities and creations for many years now -- I started with scanning obscure record stores, LP cases and strange music encyclopaedia (there was a time before the internet era, you know), continued with spending my then ridiculous savings on the annual Rockman Philharmonic membership fee, reading a zillion (and generating some ;) ...) posts as a member of the jim@gospel mailing list and following the message board from when it was brand-new up until today. I have never participated in any "it's about time Jim provides us with this or owes us that" action, because I do not believe Jim owes us anything or we deserve something from him just because we happen to like (or sometimes dislike) the music or lyrics he writes. Sometimes I feel that being a Steinfan involved much more challenge and "adventure" and therefore more fun and appreciation before everyone started to get everything served right to their seat just by clicking on it on some websites and nagging about how the message board's background colour prevents Jim from selling records to spoilt victims of consumerism. It had definitely more to do with being a community and generously helping each other with rare info and lost treasures, then and I enjoyed it. Anyway, I am definitely not bitching and moaning, but I can still be unhappy about being faced with the choice between two similarly unattractive options. The end. | |
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