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Listed below are comments made by d_s_hants between Wednesday, 4th February 2009 and Friday, 15th May 2009.

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Did the old PM theme make you feel good? 3:59pm on 15 May 2009 Yes, yes, yes, please keep it! It reminds me of preparing supper while my (then) two-year-old bopped to the theme. She's 18 now. I don't suppose she'd oblige me by bopping but I could try.
'I've never joined Facebook because...' 10:01am on 06 Feb 2009 In answer to many of the comments above, which seem to assume those who don't belong are somehow at war with those who do:

My lack of enthusiasm for joining Facebook is nothing to do with identity theft (though this is, of course, an issue we all need to be aware of). I know I could control who would be allowed to see my profile. The point is that I have no interest in sharing the details of my daily life with anyone except my immediate family (with whom I live anyway) and perhaps the occasional very good friend.

Contributing to a blog like this is nothing like joining Facebook. I can express my opinions but you don't know anything else about me.

I'm neither anti- nor pro-Facebook. My teenage children do have it, and occasionally show me their pages and those of people they know. Good luck to them and to everyone else who enjoys it; it just isn't for me.
'I've never joined Facebook because...' 1:22pm on 04 Feb 2009 I do take the point (though, not having Facebook, I hadn't actually known before) that information such as relationship status is optional, and of course it's up to the user whether you tell people what you've had for tea or upload pictures of the spot on your nose or whatever, and you control who gets to see it. It's just that the discussion point was 'I've never joined Facebook because ... ' and my answer still stands: I don't really understand the impulse to give personal information out at all, except one-to-one and face-to-face (and that not very often). Fair play to those who do, though.
'I've never joined Facebook because...' 11:31am on 04 Feb 2009 ... I can't imagine why anyone wants to tell everyone they know about all their personal information, what they're thinking, where they're going, what they're doing. Worse than anything is the Single/relationship facility, which in the event of a relationship break-up immediately forces you into a position where you have to talk about something you probably really don't want to talk about - either that or you leave everyone misinformed that you're still in the relationship, and even worse your ex has probably used his/her Facebook to let the world know you aren't. What a mug's game.

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