Is facebook worth the time?

beanie.

scottie pippen wrote: »

thats a pretty good idea, if I was bothered I would do that. but on the verge of deleting my account.

It actually works quiet well, log on to real one and send off the bland Happy New Year and such. Use real account for actually sharing stuff and keeping up. If you do it, make sure all people on your real account know what the deal is, so they won't be recommending you as a friend to others. It's something I ended up having to do the day my father sent a freind request.

af_thefragile

Haven't checked my face book for atleast 2 months now.
It is pretty pointless. I don't care who's taking a **** or who snogged whom last night. If anything is important people call or text me. Neither do I wanna post ridiculous pictures of myself for the whole world to see and find out about me. I keep my personal details to the absolute minimum on the internet.

I prefer blogs and forums personally.
You can have better, more intellectual discussion and you can also troll around better!!

Novella

I don't spend much time on Facebook. I log in when I'm online, reply if any of my friends have said something to me and if I'm really bored, update my status. I generally appear offline on chat, unless there's someone I wanna talk to and I've never played any Fb games. Boards is what takes up the majority of my online time really.

Kiera

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

So what's your name on face book?

Penelope Pissflaps

JohnMearsheimer

I did have a few reservations about it, mainly privacy ones, but I joined it over the summer. I'm happy enough with it. I have increased contact with friends and family abroad and I've met up with one or two people I lost touch with over the years too. I mainly use it for communications and I like when people post interesting Youtube videos or news stories. As for the photographs, I'm a bit camera shy and usually disappear when someone pulls one out, not too many photos of me on facebook but there's the odd few.

Son Of A Vidic

Only joined FB to share wedding pics with friends and family. I rarely use it and it's superficiality sickens me, so I don't waste my time on it.

knird evol

beanie. wrote: »

Exactly, I have an "good" account for family, exes, school friends and work people, and a real account for people I actually talk to.

scottie pippen wrote: »

thats a pretty good idea, if I was bothered I would do that. but on the verge of deleting my account.

You will also need a couple of other accounts for stalking people

Can you prevent others from tagging you in photos btw?

Kiera

rarnes1 wrote: »

Can you prevent others from tagging you in photos btw?

I dont think so. And by the time you next log in there's a pic of you with loads of toilet roll wrapped around your head for the world to see :mad:

coffeelover

Can you prevent others from tagging you in photos btw?

You can untag them but don't think you can prevent them..
Its awful for pictures.. If a pic is taken of you and you're on facebook it will be up in no time.
It can be brill for goss and keeping in touch with people though.

WindSock

rarnes1 wrote: »

Can you prevent others from tagging you in photos btw?

You can remove the tags of yourself in other peoples pics.

ShaneU

It's great for organizing nights out.

Kiera

Kiera wrote: »

I dont think so. And by the time you next log in there's a pic of you with loads of toilet roll wrapped around your head for the world to see :mad:

WindSock wrote: »

You can remove the tags of yourself in other peoples pics.

coffeelover wrote: »

You can untag them but don't think you can prevent them..
Its awful for pictures.. If a pic is taken of you and you're on facebook it will be up in no time.
It can be brill for goss and keeping in touch with people though.

They should make it an option in the privacy imo.

beanie.

rarnes1 wrote: »

Can you prevent others from tagging you in photos btw?

No, but you can make it that only you will be alerted in the news feed, and I think only you will see your name, if it's a pic with 5 tagged people, others will only see the 4 other names, not yours (I think) So effectively, you can be tagged and it doesn't matter.


1) right hand side of profile, click account.
2) go down to privacy settings.
3) you'll end up on a page called Sharing on Facebook
4) towards the bottom of the page, near the middle, you'll see "customize settings" in blue, with a pencil icon. Click that.
5) go down until you see "Photos and videos I'm tagged in", click edit.
6) Click custom edit, and put it to "only me"

Dangerous Man

I caved in earlier in the year and opened an account. I opened the account as I need it for my work but have since come around to the idea of using it as a social tool too. I have to admit though; a lot of it is just a waste of time.

beanie.

beanie. wrote: »

No, but you can make it that only you will be alerted in the news feed, and I think only you will see your name, if it's a pic with 5 tagged people, others will only see the 4 other names, not yours (I think) So effectively, you can be tagged and it doesn't matter.


1) right hand side of profile, click account.
2) go down to privacy settings.
3) you'll end up on a page called Sharing on Facebook
4) towards the bottom of the page, near the middle, you'll see "customize settings" in blue, with a pencil icon. Click that.
5) go down until you see "Photos and videos I'm tagged in", click edit.
6) Click custom edit, and put it to "only me"

Cheers

Dudess

I think Facebook's great. And the concerns about privacy are moot because you have one hundred per cent control over it - you can make it completely inaccessible to non friends, and limit whatever you like (e.g. tagging).

People adding people just to increase their friend count, and people bitching about their Facebook "friends" here are hilarious though. But people who go on about how sh1t it is when there's really nothing wrong with it in and of itself, it's more about who the user is, can be whingey pains in the hole.

Gummy Panda

I don't have one but am understand pressure from friends to get one. Apparently its easier to organise beers on facebook then send a group text

Dempo1

kerryman12 wrote: »

I have been putting off this for as long as possible, although I always guessed I would cave in the end.

The free time I have to date goes on boards & a few other sites, skype, twitter (just to follow news etc) etc. So adding another thing to the mix seems like a bad idea. But to-day I have found out that yet another friend is on facebook - and to be honest I feel left out now

So is it worth the time?

In a word, NO!

I joined facebook a year ago and was initially amused by it as time went on i became bemused by it. Sure friends can search for you, then invite you to link up, a few initial "how have you been", "what have you been up to" posts followed by ZERO apart from mundane posts on your wall which could be best described as surreal. Out of curiosity i waited to see how many "Friends" would share or extend festive greetings and i was not at all surprised to discover not a single one out of 130. I gave up on this nonsense which just seems to be a hypocritical kind of social networking tool! The ridiculous irrelevant and unwarranted advertising was also a Pain in the arse!

anniehoo

I absolutely love it! As Dudess said you can make it as public or private as you like. My account is totally private and once you get your head around the mind boggling amount of settings there are its grand. I have no pics tagged of myself and that setting is turned off so nobody else can either, well they can but it just doesnt come up in News Feed. I "hide" people who wreck my head and post crap all day long,but its great for catching up with friends all around the country/world etc.Go for it!

Im a bit addicted though so between that and Boards i really need to cut down this year.

Jazzy

you can join essential groups such as the Save Total Recall group. a group that wants the "updated reboot" version to f**k off forever and leave good films alone

TeddyTedson

Make a poll!

kerryman12

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Make a poll!

thats what I should have done

Tchaikovsky

If you're in a relationship or dating someone, Facebook will more than likely aid in ****ing it up.

Kimono-Girl

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

If you're in a relationship or dating someone, Facebook will more than likely aid in ****ing it up.

how???

im in a relationship 2 and a half years and facebook hasn't ****ed it up! :pac:

af_thefragile

Facebook is a bit of a social experiment though.

All the hot chicks have 5 million friends. Everyone responds to their stupidest of status updates pretending to be interested in it. And when its her birthday, the whole wall is filled with greeting from people she'ld barely even know.

While for most guys, the only people who wish him on his birthday are his friends and family. Unless he's one of them 'popular' types.

Infact come to think of it, its a very lame social experiment.

It has lowered the meaning of friendship to a the lowest and farthest level. No one can have 100 friends. Acquaintances maybe but not friends. You're lucky if you have 1 or 2 friends in your life. True friends are people whom you can trust, who listen to you, who wouldn't think twice before helping you with anything, who'ld stay by you no matter what. Not people who leave a comment saying "hey, what's up? where have been all these days?!" on your facebook page or leave a happy b'day or some festival greeting message occasionally on your facebook page. Don't even bother with a text message!

Anyway, yeah, this is why I dislike facebook. It makes one believe they have many friends and people who care about them when in reality they're just bored and wasting their time or if you're an attractive girl, they want to "get to know you". You don't need a stupid internet website to keep up with your friends.

Tchaikovsky

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

how???

im in a relationship 2 and a half years and facebook hasn't ****ed it up! :pac:

Just from past experience.

It allows for a lot of insecurities and suspicion because of who your OH is adding and chatting to, also.

chillywilly

I got rid of my facebook account about a month ago. The main reasons for this were:

1. Me and and my girlfriend broke up and I didn't want all the crap that goes with Facebook and a break up(seeing her with other guys in pictures, chat etc....sad I know).

2. I spent way too much time on it. I was getting distracted from things that were much more important like college work.

3. I noticed that my "real life" friendships were very diluted because of Facebook. For example, I would see someone who I hadn't seen in 2 years on the street and I wouldn't really care because I already knew that they had been to Australia, got back, got a car and got engaged. I have actually noticed that since I got off Facebook that when I see people on nights out they are much more excited and interested to see and talk to me because they don't know what ive been up to and vice versa!

So to answer the OP's original question, no, Facebook is not worth it.

Kimono-Girl

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

Just from past experience.

It allows for a lot of insecurities and suspicion because of who your OH is adding and chatting to, also.

its no different to them chatting to people in a pub, or at work, or anywhere really,

nah if you have issues you have issues, its not facebook's fault!

Ghost Estate

Its just boring tbh. For ages I had an account but could never really bother with it. I'm more of a forum type of person, I find boards more useful than any of this social network stuff.

It seems a very crude and automated replacement for actual socialising. For people who can't be arsed with actually staying in touch with friends and are satisfied with just reading a page of their self-advertising once in a while.

Johro

starbelgrade wrote: »

I don't have a Facebook account. I don't see the need for it.

If someone I know wants to contact me, they phone / Skype or email me.

Same here. I had a facebook page til I got fed up with it after about a week. Kept getting friend requests from total strangers, or from people I vaguely knew, and after a bit it just seemed like too much hassle. I'm not really interested in the whole social networking thing anyway. And people put up so much stuff I wouldn't be remotely interested in. I realise you can use things like FB purity to keep most of the unwanted stuff at bay but I can't be arsed i guess. If I want to see what a mate's up to I'll give him/her a ring or go visit them. I go online mostly for info on stuff, downloading music, buying from ebay and amazon and the like and posting the odd thing on boards. Oh and got skype too.
I'm probably the only person in my family who isn't on facebook. They seem to spend half their time on Farmville. :rolleyes:
I'll be okay without it.

TeddyTedson

kerryman12 wrote: »

thats what I should have done

Can't you add one in now?
Someone added one into a thread earlier.
Maybe one of the modders can do it?

AntiRip

I use fb mainly like an rss feeds with lifehacker, mashable, etc, etc. Same as twitter really.

What drove me crazy were ppl looking for sympathy, stupid statements. There's one couple that live together and they wish each other happy birthday and new year ! Drives me crazy that :-)

Tchaikovsky

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

its no different to them chatting to people in a pub, or at work, or anywhere really,

It is though, in that facebook allows these interactions to be broadcast to the rest of the world. You can see what the girl he's just added is saying to him, how many photos she's in with him, whether she's single etc..

You just have to go to the Relationship Issues forum on this site to see the evidence of the problems facebook can create.

Without it, you can have a degree of privacy from your OH from time to time, if you want to go out with your own friends or whatever and vice-versa.

shrewdness

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

Just from past experience.

It allows for a lot of insecurities and suspicion because of who your OH is adding and chatting to, also.

Also you can be tagged in some compromising situations on a night out with other women which your OH then sees! It may look bad or your OH may just get overly jealous, but this does cause unnecessary drama from what I've seen. Another problem with the tagging problem which has already been alluded to.

scoll

I was going away a few week ago to visit a friend in England, realised I didn't have her number, her email and she had deactivated her facebook account. Took me ages to get in contact with her, in the end not through facebook.

It's a seriously annoying and addictive website... Don't do it.

Easily_Irritated

fb definitely has it's place. I've been living in NZ for the past 4 years and fb has been ridiculously handy for keeping in touch with everyone at home.

It's the inane posting of insignificant events that I find intolerable...

"Jimmy just bought a coke zero"
"Mary just had a flake"
"Jaime is at work enjoying a hazelnut, non fat soy late"

Now, I'm all for pretending to care about what my friends and family get up to on a daily basis but I don't appreciate it cluttering up my inbox!!

Oh and don’t even get me started on people I work with posting on my fb then emailing telling me to read it :rolleyes:!

Tesco Massacre

Facebook's a loada me bollix.

blueyedson

Tesco Massacre wrote: »

Facebook's a loada me bollix.

+1

dsmythy

Methinks people who don't be on facebook take it much more seriously than those who do. Do you really think most people actually believe everyone on their profile to be friends? It's just some thing online, who cares

Cook my sock

KeithM89 wrote: »

Also, the facebook chat thing sucks ass... never works properly

From the endless spiral thread I know you have a mac :pac:

in ichat add account (jabber) your fb username, username@chat.facebook.com

works perfectly

KeithM89_old

Cook my sock wrote: »

From the endless spiral thread I know you have a mac :pac:

in ichat add account (jabber) your fb username, username@chat.facebook.com

works perfectly

So it does! Thanks

Irish Guitarist

Just sign up and if you don't like it don't use it again. It's not like it's a big commitment or anything.

I don't use it much because there's not really anyone I want to keep in contact with that I can't email. I certainly have no desire to find anyone I went to school with or worked with years ago.

If you do sign up you should do so with an email address you don't care about or get a new Gmail account because Facebook will pass on your address to other companies.

Tar.Aldarion

love facebook, not on it too much but such a handy tool (not just for stalking) for keeping in touch and for pictures etc, handy for events and so forth.

cournioni

Facebook is rubbish. If I want to talk to a friend, I call them on my phone without some nosey cúnt listening in.

Max Power1

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

It is though, in that facebook allows these interactions to be broadcast to the rest of the world. You can see what the girl he's just added is saying to him, how many photos she's in with him, whether she's single etc..

You just have to go to the Relationship Issues forum on this site to see the evidence of the problems facebook can create.

Without it, you can have a degree of privacy from your OH from time to time, if you want to go out with your own friends or whatever and vice-versa.

Without going into too much details, a massive +1 on this point.

A seemingly innocent occurence often looks different on FB through the eyes of a partner.

chin_grin

I'd really like to think what day to day life would be like without hearing twitter/facebook/myspace (granted I don't hear that one too often!).

How exactly did the human race get on before Facebook? That's right, that thing you now use as a clock or a get-out-of-awkward-situation device. The mobile phone. But now FB and Twatter is on that too so no bleedin' escape.

Me? No I'm not friendless (before the thank whores jump on that), just paranoid that you've basically noted down all your personal details on to a physical server somewhere in the world. And by not having a flaming f*cking clue about privacy settings anyone can look at your profile\posts\pics.

Granted it's probably the same as having an email address. Without the profile\posts\pics\retarded updates from the 'future of the country' writing sh!t like. "OMG dis piza is nom." or something "epic".

I used to have a FB before realising that what used to be a handy tool for getting in touch with people (see email and phone) is now used as some narcissistic spamhole.

ScumLord

I have an account but mostly use it to connect it up to other websites and only visit when it emails me about a message. Everyone I know is on it, I think it's just the biggest small town in the world. If you want to know what it's like to live in a small Irish town, facebook. That's what small towns are like. Everyone in my town is on it, you can hardly say no to them which means I never post anything on it.

Kimono-Girl

shrewdness wrote: »

Also you can be tagged in some compromising situations on a night out with other women which your OH then sees! It may look bad or your OH may just get overly jealous, but this does cause unnecessary drama from what I've seen. Another problem with the tagging problem which has already been alluded to.

1st point i would make about this is: if the degree of the compromising situation is one that would upset your OH, should you be in that position in the first place?

2nd point and its one i cannot stress enough, if your OH is upset because you were tagged in a photo (non-compromising) with another woman, and jealousy issues arise is it a: not better to deal with them there and then, or at least b: be aware you are dealing with someone with jealousy issues...

to be honest i think it helps by bringing issues (e.g jealousy) which could be very problematic later in life when kids and marriage are involved, to the forefront sooner....

pawrick

I just use it to back up photos of holidays etc. it lost it's novelty a long time ago for me.
I do miss the notice board wall thing every country used to have as I made lots of friends on it, some of which became friends in real life. Now I just have people I actually know and would meet up with on my page.