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The time has come,' the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —
Of cabbages — and kings —
And why the sea is boiling hot —
And whether pigs have wings.'
A
month ago I opened some martial site posted on FaceBook and was hit with an
infections. My PC system defaulted to black background on every application.
Likewise all my PC passwords where wiped out. It took time to locate and
reenter those passwords to access outlook, youtube bogspot and many other
sites.
However Facebook was the most difficult.
Now
I had been using Facebook daily for over a decade.
But
it took me two days to enter a new password, then the kicker was Facebook
needed additional verification that I was me. Very personal things, I chose not
to give them to Facebook, because I did not want Meta to have access to them.
In
reality I do not like the way Meta does business. For example several times
they kicked me off for two days for posting news stories from the British
press. Their doing so was to intimidate me from allowing others to think about
those things.
For
those reasons I choose not to go back with Facebook.
A
friend posted that for me on FB, he also sent messages to other friends
informing then what I was doing, suggesting they send me their email address.
The reality out of all those I
was sharing with on Facebook only 2 individuals took the time to send me
their email addresses.
I
enjoyed seeing what people were sharing, but the truth is none of it means much
to me in reality. Instead I turned to files I saved over 30 years ago and
discovered what I already knew.
Back
then on the prior Yahoo Groups there were far more interesting discussions.
Individuals went into far greater depth than anything on FB. And many of them
had serious time training on Okinawa in
multiple systems. Giving a much more detailed idea of what they experienced on
the ground.
I
have not looked at those files in over 20 years.
I
have more than enough to keep me busy for a long time. Some for my Isshinryu Concentration the Art blog. Some for my
former students for private messages (I am up to 393 at this time. Some I am
not sharing because I promised long ago to never do so.) Only 2 individuals
choose to share their email address with
me.
I
started my Blog just for 10 of my students. To remember and to share the many
things I never had time in Class (even
35+ years) because their own training was always more important every class.
They
did not need what I shared for their own training was really enough. But it was
shared in case some future date that knowledge would become useful.
However
I believe information need not be kept
secret ( for the most part) and have always allowed others to view it.
To
date I have shared 2,236 posts, and as I
shared many of them on FB many have viewed them (now 1, 079,235
individuals have checked them out) I never made money on them. I just wanted to
give others to think about.
Now
being off FB the daily viewers have dropped from 500-600 a day considerably
lower, Just reality.
But
a lesson I learned on YahooGroups long ago, when I shared much information from
my inquiry into the meaning of the Bubishi, while there were a few serious
individuals who did share with me, for the most part people never asked
questions of remarked about that. Of course for all I shared most never did so
either. In this Facebook share the same.
I
have never looked for students. I only would train those who actually trained
with me. I never wanted followers. Only
hoping I would encourage discussion.
I
do not consider myself a great martial artist, just that I tried to do an
honest job with my own students. Many know more than I do, but reality is few
share what they really know.
I
still am making entries to my blog, I still have much to share, And I continue
to give more private information directly to my students.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
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