What if Facebook (or other social media) shutdown permanently?

SisterBliss

People aka 'friends' might pick up the phone and even meet up in the flesh again... Nosy individuals would find themselves with time on their hands...
The juvenile popularity contest would stop...

Duggy747

If Facebook shutdown:

• No more seeing people's stupid status which makes me question their intelligence. People who copy and paste those wild accusations, philosophical quotes masqueraded as their own, pure racial ignorance and bullshìt "facts" just make my jaw drop.
• No more requests for stupid games and quizzes.
• No more having my face wind up online from an obscure photo I've no recollection of.
• No more awkward friend requests from people I utterly despise or friends getting thick at me for not adding them...........as a friend.........fùck off, I'm talking to you as a friend right now, aren't I?

It has it's advantages of keeping in touch with old friends but the above shìte leaves me indifferent to Facebook that I don't bother with it anymore unless I get an E-mail from someone who contacted me.

Couldn't care less if the fùckin' thing exploded tomorrow, people had a life before it and they sure as shìt will just latch onto the next "social" horseshìt that'll rear it's head.

mconigol

Meh...

jazzyjayplp

i would be pissed iv moved country nd would have to pay to chat to my mates not cool

ceadaoin.

Adamantium wrote: »

What effect would there be? Would camera maufacturer sales go down, telelphone bills soar, E-mail back in mainstream usage? Workplace productivity?

Its so utterly widespread(600 million) and ingrained into our mindsets so there would have to some major ruckus!
Frankly it would be hilarious and interesting to see how certain people adjust!

I didnt realise email was a niche market now?

This post is typical of facebook users tbh..it's not the be all and end all of life as we know it! Its not like there are no other ways to keep in touch with people

--Kaiser--

Facewhat?

LisaLee

What we did before Facebook et al...

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldp582CP351qddj4so1_500.jpg

STIG83

Well it would stop nosey people looking around on people's pages to see what there up to, i know one or two people like that.

Morag

I'd tell friends & family to just go back to useing livejournal and flickr and if they didnt' use them before to start using them.

jester77

If social media shut down then I would be out of a job

swapple

Only use it to talk to people I see on a regular basis when I've no credit etc so wouldn't be a problem for me. Wouldn't mind seeing less of peoples babies/pets/cars/holiday pics either :rolleyes:

STIG83

Do you know what, it be no harm if it did happen, go back 10 or 15 years ago we were doing ok without social networking sites.

Squirm

'Poking' people would likely get you into more trouble (and be a lot more fun, depending on the circumstances...)

loveacca

People might actually talk to each other over coffee and get back into the beautiful hobby of reading books :eek::eek:

At a concert recently and a few people in front of me spent their tweeting, I'm sure they missed the actual buzz of being there