Is it a good idea?

Quote: DJTeddyBear

I'll be 51. Does that qualify for 'Old fart' status yet?

Yes, you too are well into your Farthood.

Quote: Croupier

The thing behind social networking, is peoples need to feel popular and important. .... I dont know why people strive for the most friends....

Some people I used to work with got on a discussion of this topic a few years back. They concluded that while being "popular" seemed to be an extremely important thing in high school, the concept, or at least the term, tended to vanish from our thinking as we got to be 20 or 25. The notable exceptions to this were politicians and entertainers. Most everyone else, once they matured a bit, seemed to be more interested in compatibility and acceptance.

I didn't vote in the poll: I have never tweeted or read a tweet, and I neither have a facebook page nor have ever looked at anyone else's. The whole subject seems irrelevant to my life, so I have no input as to how anyone else should or shouldn't use it. I sorta think it would be great if businesses pushed their marketing programs through those channels and stopped bombarding me with their messages in other forms.

I think I phrased the question poorly to start with. What I meant to be asking was whether or not it would be a good idea for the Wizard to promote the site via Facebook and Twitter, and if so which method would be preferred.

I don't get the whole sociel network thing either. It's a recurrence of the bluetooth and push syndromes of a few years back. Everyone's talking about it, there are articles all over the place, but when you want to know what it is no one can give you an naswer that makes sense.

I swear, all I get about Facebook is that "it's a place where you can list your friends." I do ahve a subscription in Tweeter, but I've yet to find a use for it. I mean, something it does that you couldn't otherwise do with tools already available on the internet.

It bugs me because I was using the internet as far back as 1992, long before most people even knew it existed, and so far I've kept up with it.

Quote: Nareed

It bugs me because I was using the internet as far back as 1992, long before most people even knew it existed, and so far I've kept up with it.

in the late 80s when i was a little kid, i was using the internet on our amiga 2000 :)

it took like 12hrs to download a game that couldnt have been more than a couple mbs.

Quote: rudeboyoi

in the late 80s when i was a little kid, i was using the internet on our amiga 2000 :)

You win. In the late 80s I was struggling to get a computer.

Quote: rudeboyoi

it took like 12hrs to download a game that couldnt have been more than a couple mbs.

More than a couple hundred kbs, you mean :)

Quote: Croupier

I think I phrased the question poorly to start with. What I meant to be asking was whether or not it would be a good idea for the Wizard to promote the site via Facebook and Twitter, and if so which method would be preferred.

Well if all you're interested in is a new way to promote the sites, I think those decisions are for the Wiz and JB alone to make - unless you're planning on volunteering to do the work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Sodan

i remember this being my favorite game on the Amiga back in the day.

i wonder how much memory this game took up.

Quote: Nareed

Quote: rudeboyoi

it took like 12hrs to download a game that couldnt have been more than a couple mbs.

More than a couple hundred kbs, you mean :)

Naw, I think he probably meant a couple millibytes. Games were really small back then.

Quote: Doc

Naw, I think he probably meant a couple millibytes. Games were really small back then.

I think it's amazing that any program so small could run, much less do something.

BTW I once owned a Radio Shack Color Computer with 4 KB RAM and a tape recorder for storage.