Problem is Facebook has taken over the world and most of what you're looking for (and the rest of us too) can now pretty much only be found there. It's a real bummer. I hope this site stays up despite low traffic, what is it , about twenty years old now?
Amen. I am resistant, even antagonistic with just about every place I go online, annoyed with them 'front loading' what THEY think I should see, wanting to link me or refuse access if I don't use fb, twitter or gmail as the portal to get in.
Hate having my phone's location on and some site/s wanting to know how I enjoyed Aldo's Pizzeria or some such thing/place.
Annoyed I have never done fb, but if I want to buy something for myself, or a gift for her, products I looked at show up on her fb page--we use the same router.
Even google ' incognito' browser page is NOT nearly as incognito as people think. Read the small print...
I mean, leave my daily life, preferences, habits and privacy alone, but continue to let me and other citizens to have venues to speak, research and share, without mandatory membership restrictions otherwise blocking me.
Guess I'm kinda what like Groucho Marx said:
"I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."
Change 'have me' to basically 'forcing my hand' to join or risk being somewhat a hermit or dinosaur..
That's not to say young people are as enamored of fb as before or that it's forever.
One of my sons is as active and normal a college (UGA!) Senior as you're likely to meet. He graduates this December, has an interview with google for his 1st post college job and he almost never messes with fb, and just occasionally uses Instagram.
Beyond professional usage, he sees it as a shallow, vain ocean of poser wannabees.
He knows I find the google experience to be bad and getting worse month by month, but when I asked him "Who scares you the most, Google (Alphabet) or Microsoft?"
He replied "No Dad--It's Jeff Bezos, Amazon--they control the CLOUD"
They control more of the cloud than everyone else put together. Once they have their 3426 satellites orbiting planet earth via their Blue Origin space program (Elon Musk's SpaceX also plans on launching 3426) there won't be a place on earth they can't reach, dictating access, content and price to commerce/political/media content.
Think about it.
Just as for centuries military history has taught repeatedly: He who holds the high ground wins the day" --I predict orbital space dominance will do the same for corporations.
And Govts like the USA, Russia and China CAN'T compete, can't afford such plans. SpaceX and Blue Origin launch most of THEIR satellites already.
And Amazon controls most of the US Govts cloud storage/access.
Bad enough companies like fb/google run rampant over consumer and internet access, but they buy out new companies, and not just big outfits like whatsapp, Instagram etc. Google does it. Verizon is running a similar game.
As the malls killed main street mom and pop owned shopping experiences, Amazon is killing the malls. Wait and see, or just ask Sears.
I'm not begging govt 'big brother' not pushing for making internet access, say to people at work, illegal, but do you ever wonder:
How much work productivity is lost to people twittering (on their own private phones) their work days away on social, entertainment and porn apps?
Sure 48 states are pressing for govt action stopping monopolization like corporate behavior by fb and google but the smartest minds say at best they might be 'dialed back' a bit --that they----like those criminals at Bank of America, who were criminally lending sub prime money, then foreclosing on the victims when the bubble they so much helped create collapsed, they're now like the US Govt called Bank of America:
--> """Too big to fail."
Fine them, chastise them, but kill them? They dare not!
I want some site that along with PL, while mainly male focused, isn't stone age, bonehead male focused--not mamby pamby, but not flying off the handle to the left or right of anything, but a venue for "spirited discourse" or questions and commentary. NOT a bunch of sheep.
Don't know much about 'blogging' and while I'm green on knowing about that venue, my wife seems to think that might be a good outlet for my ramblings.
But again, I don't like joining up with stuff and what little I've seen of blogging doesn't seem to have action, reaction--the 'give and take' that PL has..
Suggestions?