Facebook grr - New communication or disaster?

LC2010HIS

I think facebook is ruining normal interactions between people. I have one myself and find it really addictive.
Lately ive found it very irritating though. I cant meet my friends in town to catch up without every fourth sentence being about a "like" on facebook or a status or something!
And plus, alot of relationships etc are being damaged from what ive read in magazines and forums even here(not dragging anyother forum in, just saying:rolleyes:).

Isnt it very damaging to the mind??
Anyone else annoyed or worried about the effects? :eek::eek:


So, great new way of communication or complete disaster??

KeithM89_old

LC2010HIS wrote: »

I cant meet my friends in town to catch up without every fourth sentence being about a "like" on facebook or a status or something!

You need new friends.

WallyGUFC

Great convo starter when ya meet someone for the first time: "Oh, I know you from Facebook winkedy-wink!"

hondasam

you are chatting to people on line, we are not real people.

Ghost Estate

Lemons are everywhere!

chillywilly

Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.

partyatmygaff

It's made people self-centered egotists who seem to think the whole world revolves around them. People treat social media as a news hub for their lives for the most part. It's a great idea in theory but in practical use it's pretty redundant.

LC2010HIS

^^ Dont say that honda, you are real :rolleyes:

Seriously though, I would associate FB as a danger to mental health?
I mean, its a shallow site. All you need to do is eliminate human interaction compeletely and viola, you have your "designer life" ?

I sit down and put on tv, tv presenters talking about facebook. Isnt the world facebook mad??? Its unhealthy! And a bit mental.
I go out on nights out and ive cameras shoved in my face all in the name of facebook!!! I mean, get a grip like??

OPENROAD

01:39 Having cup of green tea. Like

rockmongrel

Just the next step in social interaction. Bebo/Myspace/Facebook/Twitter, it'll eventually die like all things online. Don't like it, don't have an account, simple as.

LC2010HIS

Facebook seems to have the virtual world by the balls over the last few years though.
I dont remember bebo being THIS domineering!

Dangerous Man

Well, as someone who is from the internet myself, I have to say, I didn't like facebook for a long time. I then began using it for work - and the social side of it kind of just came along too. I don't mind it too much. Then again, I don't use it too much either.

seafood dunleavy

I turn to porn for comfort.

LC2010HIS

seafood dunleavy wrote: »

I turn to porn for comfort.

As you do like

Ghost Estate

seafood dunleavy wrote: »

I turn to porn for comfort.

I used to but now even injecting porn into my bloodstream has little effect

Millicent

LC2010HIS wrote: »

Facebook seems to have the virtual world by the balls over the last few years though.
I dont remember bebo being THIS domineering!

Cool little video to prove your point here, OP.

ynul31f47k6b59

Sure nobody's forcing people to use facebook - I don't go on it very often, and I certainly don't discuss it in real life?!!???

Facebook really annoys me sometimes because it feels like you can't p!ss on a night out but some bugger has a camera ready to upload a heap of unflattering pictures. It is handy for staying in touch with friends & family abroad - I wouldn't add my neighbours or anything, sure I see them every day. Baffles me when people have hundreds of 'friends' on it and then their status is them moaning that they're stuck in on a Saturday night with no one to go out with...

Jesus Wept

LC2010HIS wrote: »

I think facebook is ruining normal interactions between people. I have one myself and find it really addictive.

I stopped reading here.
You are not everybody.

Try getting a grip on yourself.

Pauleta

I hate talking about my facebook statuses with people face to face. I find it awkward and quickly change subject. I dont mind discussing pictures though or talking about other peoples pages. Im sure a psychologist would have a field day with that.

Peter Fit Climber

Peter Fit Climber wrote: »

Facebook really annoys me sometimes because it feels like you can't p!ss on a night out but some bugger has a camera ready to upload a heap of unflattering pictures. It is handy for staying in touch with friends & family abroad - I wouldn't add my neighbours or anything, sure I see them every day. Baffles me when people have hundreds of 'friends' on it and then their status is them moaning that they're stuck in on a Saturday night with no one to go out with...

Funny you say that. I don't go out much but the one time I did recently, I was tagged in several photos which now appear at the top of my profile. So if you looked at my profile you'd probably think I was out all the time.

whoopdedoo

I cancelled my fb account recently and i'm glad i did it. the idea behind it is very damaging in my opinion, way too public and before anyone says you can set your profile to private I mean even too public to your "friends"' list. we're not meant to communicate in this manner imo. if ya have nice pics and jokes etc then why not convey them face to face and not online?!? it will die a death soon enough and everyone will move onto the next big thing.

op you should just delete your account and be done with it.

I think it's great in some ways but agree with OP. I won't delete it though because it's my only means off communication with most of the people I know.

Azureus

I know what you mean OP but I really think it depends on the way you use it/type of person you are. I know a woman in her thirties who is on it CONSTANTLY but has very little contact with people outside of it. I would consider knowing her quite well, but when I thought about it I hadn't seen her in months. Still knew everything that she was up to though, because she chose to put it up. The key word is choice,; you have control over what people can and cannot know about you-use it.

I love facebook because it gives me contact to people I wouldnt have the ability to see as often as I'd like because of work etc. and keeps me from losing touch. I know people say why dont you just give them a call etc, but once me and the girls get talking its suddenly 2am and im up for work in three hours! Its also helpful for events, promotion and people who live abroad etc.

That said, I really wish tagging didnt exist...

Run_to_da_hills

chillywilly wrote: »

Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.

You may think its deleted but its NOT.

All the information you built up on your Facebook account will be stored for two years under EU / Irish data retention directives.

Nothingbetter2d

chillywilly wrote: »

Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.

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chillywilly

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

You may think its deleted but its NOT.

All the information you built up on your Facebook account will be stored for two years under EU / Irish data retention directives.

As long as I'm not on it and the pictures of me in bikinis and barearsed don't go public I'm happy

chin_grin

chillywilly wrote: »

Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.

Me too.

chillywilly

chillywilly wrote: »

Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.

Ah you think you deleted your account, you didnt, you cant, you can only deactivate it, all the information is still there

chillywilly

rockdrummer4 wrote: »

Ah you think you deleted your account, you didnt, you cant, you can only deactivate it, all the information is still there

delete:

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

different to deactivate:)

coffeelover

I deactivated my account yesterday and 3 hours later I was back on it again. It's waaay too addictive

chin_grin

chillywilly wrote: »

delete:

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

different to deactivate:)

I cleared everything before deleting though. All my photos and comments deleted them all.

Also it cheekily gave me the option to reactivate my account in 14 days if I logged back in in that time! Feckers! So I got rid of my saved password in my browser too.

It's like leaving scientology!

chillywilly

coffeelover wrote: »

I deactivated my account yesterday and 3 hours later I was back on it again. It's waaay too addictive

again.....

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

if you stay off it for 14 days it is gone and you cannot sign back in. Whether or not Facebook still have all your info is another matter!

sam34

theres a comment on a thread in tll about someone whose boyfriend wont add her on FB, and people are baffled by it - seriously, WTF?

they are in a real life relationship, why the fcuk would they need to communicate via FB, surely they are actually spending time together IRL.?

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Facebook is now an essential, if you don't have one you miss out on so much. I disactivated my account there recently for about a year and k may as well of disappeared off the face of the earth to some people.

What I hate about it though is the pics. It's so fcuking pathetic how almost every girl walks around with a camera in her hand ready to take a pic of anything remotely interesting. I was on the bus home from town recently and there was these three 14 yr olds sitting in front of me and they were chatting away, next thing one pulls out a digital camera and they start posing and putting on them stupid duck-beak lips or whatever... It was so sad like, and to think that's probably the case with so many young ones these days...

Irish Halo

THFC wrote: »

I disactivated my account ... may as well of disappeared off the face of the earth to some people.

Good? If people only keep in contact with you via one medium and have no real interested in keeping in actual human contact then feck them!

Not on it and never will be.

biko

Great thread for our Facebook forum.
From AH.

coffeelover

again.....

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact...delete_account

if you stay off it for 14 days it is gone and you cannot sign back in. Whether or not Facebook still have all your info is another matter!

Ya but I'm friends with many people all over the world and if I delete it for good then I'll loose contact with them

Ghost Estate

coffeelover wrote: »

Ya but I'm friends with many people all over the world and if I delete it for good then I'll loose contact with them

ask them for their number/email first

ReacherCreature

LC2010HIS wrote: »

Seriously though, I would associate FB as a danger to mental health?
I mean, its a shallow site.
I sit down and put on tv, tv presenters talking about facebook. Isnt the world facebook mad??? Its unhealthy! And a bit mental.
I go out on nights out and ive cameras shoved in my face all in the name of facebook!!! I mean, get a grip like??

All these idications point towards you deleting your account. You obviously have more negatives than positives about Facebook. That's the way it is, you either like it or don't. I like Facebook, I understand all the problems associated with it but it fades into the background as I realise its benefits.

LC2010HIS wrote: »

Facebook seems to have the virtual world by the balls over the last few years though.
I dont remember bebo being THIS domineering!

Bebo was always popular in Ireland, England and some aspects of the continent and America. Facebook is global. Last count I remember was 500,000 million. Bebo was/is non-existent in comparision.

LC2010HIS

Yeah the photos side of it is pretty pathetic. One of my friends became so obsessed with documenting her nights out(400 photos were taken on one night out a few months ago, from people to the bar signs...), I stopped going out with her, cause i had to have my pose on every 5mins. Got to the stage where i couldnt have fun without worrying where the camera was. Im not really into taking pics and posting them on a site to let people know ive a "busy life", so its really annoying!
For that reason, ya its a fairly shallow life people my age are living right now.

And in reference to the relationships and FB, as pathetic as it seems to me now, my ex drove me round the bend with vulgar statuses after breaking up. I became a right stalker, trawling through his profile. However, if we didnt have the freedom of posting and tagging, building up an alter ego, I reckon it would all be different. I noticed facebook is a blessing for cowards like that. (wow getting personal, but you get what i mean?)

I think facebook is a huge deal because its been thrown in our faces every day. Its the new craze.

The era we're living in now is we want information, we get it. Its all take take..... :eek:

sam34

THFC wrote: »

Facebook is now an essential, if you don't have one you miss out on so much. I disactivated my account there recently for about a year and k may as well of disappeared off the face of the earth to some people.

no its not an essential.

i dont have a facebook account and i have no problem keeping in touch with my family and friends. i meet them in person, ring them, text them.

it's entirely possible to stay in touch without facebook, it just depends on how motivated the people are.

PhysiologyRocks

sam34 wrote: »

no its not an essential.

i dont have a facebook account and i have no problem keeping in touch with my family and friends. i meet them in person, ring them, text them.

it's entirely possible to stay in touch without facebook, it just depends on how motivated the people are.

I agree completely, and I dislike facebook in general.

However, I do have an account, because it's the only way to hear about certain events (bar the grapevine, which can take significantly longer) and some people I know use it to circulate sample exam questions.

It makes things easier in these regards, but I don't actually use it to keep in touch with people.