Originally Posted by
Old_pie
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Yes, I'm pretty sure I'm older than you. We didn't have a landline at our home until I went to University so Button B to try and get my money back was common place. Even the first landline was a party line.
Farcebook "It began at Harvard University in 2003 as Facemash, an online service for students to judge the attractiveness of their fellow students. Because the primary developer, Zuckerberg, violated university policy in acquiring resources for the service, it was shut down after two days." The internet is your friend if you want to know more.
Facebook is fine, just limit it to really your friends if you're going to use it. Twitter is great for getting the attention of large organisations and for seeing up-to-the-minute information. Don't post what I had for tea or how many times I need to go to the bathroom during the night. Don't have either as apps on the smartphone.
WhatsApp was great, still ok - just dislike Zuckerberg so I've switched to Signal. If you don't want to make expensive calls especially overseas what else is there?
As I've said, why get het up about someone you don't know saying something you don't like? In fact why get het up about someone you do know saying something you don't like? In this current world anyone who stands out a bit for whatever reason becomes a target - bullying by any other name, whether injured, black, white, big, small etc. Always has been the case but now they can be anonymous keyboard warriors and very brave with it.
One system that disappointingly failed was FriendsReunited - it didn't know really how to make money and found that subscribers weren't that prepared to pay.
As far as I can see Cal's mum must have closed her account but his sister is still on though not discussing publicly anything recent.
Finally I do hope he will be ok but starting to look like one of those cases of long Covid, unusual in a male of his age but something is baffling the experts.