"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message 
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> Have I missed something here?

Most people have nothing to say, and few if any opinions of their own. This 
is one of a small number of human behaviors that I don't understand. I think 
that people hear or read something, feel some sort of emotional impact from 
it, and begin to sound off with the same phrase, like parrots in a forest. 
Copy & paste has, perhaps, made this phenomenon worse; at least, it seems 
more noticeable.

I use Facebook, and hate it; however, it's one of the few methods that I can 
use (and that they will use) to regularly communicate with my grown 
children. The other day, for fun, I posted a status update that said, "If no 
one could post a quote from a book, song lyric, or a copy of someone else's 
status, would Facebook collapse into a void?" The only responses I got were 
from one acquaintance who observed that I was "wierd", and another who said 
she was going to quote me in her status. I think that last one might even 
count as irony.

--
Jack

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