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boobar

lazygal wrote: »

Anyone? I think its a total waste of time, recently deleted my account. Wrecked my head.

Not for me,

But I can see why many people use it. Constantly updating their 4000 friends on what they're watching on telly, eating is essential.

I have only a handful of friends and they couldn't care less what I'm watching on telly or about my diet.

Giruilla

I find how everybody thinks facebook is a good thing f*cking wierd.

manutd83

Old Tom wrote: »

I'm not. Never was, never will be.

same as myself,more trouble than its worth

A0

Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »

I love it so much, i have two accounts.
One for me, one for my alter ego.

Cool thing, you can "like" each other and comment on your own pics. Smart.

leggit

http://thinkthink.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mp-non-conformist.jpg?w=620

Gummy Panda

Abi wrote: »

I "like" your avatar every night Gummy, who needs facebook

durty! :pac:

blatantrereg

Dont worry. I didnt send that message to 15 comments and it's days later and I'm still alive.

edit: huh? When I wrote this the previous two comments on the page were about the chain mail....I must have had the window open ages or something.

MagicMarker

bb1234567 wrote: »

Hardly had to delete your a/c? Why not just not go on as much or never at all, but if you really wanted to talk to some long lost friend or family abroad you still have the ability to do so? Never understand why people feel the need to delete their accounts., why would you limit yourself, its great for talking to family members abroad etc...

How are you limiting yourself? Ever heard of a pen & paper? A phone? An email? Skype? Fúcking smoke signals?

You do realise people communicated perfectly well before Facebook came into existence?

flanders1979

I had an account. Its been invaded by children in the past few years.

Sean.

bb1234567 wrote: »

Hardly had to delete your a/c? Why not just not go on as much or never at all, but if you really wanted to talk to some long lost friend or family abroad you still have the ability to do so? Never understand why people feel the need to delete their accounts., why would you limit yourself, its great for talking to family members abroad etc...

The trouble with leaving your account open, is that people will think you still use the site. If you decide to stop using Facebook, and leave your account open, eventually somebody will try to contact you through the service, unaware that their message is bound not to be received. My Mam was surfing through Facebook a while back when she found the account of somebody she used to be very good friends with. She sent the person a very long message, in an attempt to catch up. She waited for a reply but never received one. This person could easily have set their account up in 2005, and stopped using the service soon after, but because they left their account open, they have inadvertently caused upset. I think if your going to give yourself an online presence, you should always maintain and watch over your presence, to avoid lapses in communication. I'll use an allegory to better describe what I'm talking about:
If you were invited to a party but had to leave after 5 minutes because of sickness, you'd tell the host you were leaving, so that the host knows you're no longer present and won't be insulted if you fail to come forward and chat with them throughout the night.

Micky Dolenz

Watching all the facebook members feeling put out is funny :pac:

bb1234567

MagicMarker wrote: »

How are you limiting yourself? Ever heard of a pen & paper? A phone? An email? Skype? Fúcking smoke signals?

You do realise people communicated perfectly well before Facebook came into existence?

That is limiting yourself , yes of course there are other alternatives to fb but closing your fb account for good is taking away one of many possible ways of communication. Taking something away= limiting yourself, why get rid of something that you can get quick access to ,to talk to people or free?

MagicMarker

bb1234567 wrote: »

That is limiting yourself , yes of course there are other alternatives to fb but closing your fb account for good is taking away one of many possible ways of communication. Taking something away= limiting yourself, why get rid of something that you can get quick access to ,to talk to people or free?

Firstly, if you close your account, all you have to do is log in again to reactivate it.

Secondly, taking away a kidney is limiting yourself, taking away facebook is not. Skype offers the exact same method of communication for free and is just as easily accessible, likewise with email.

the_syco

Jesus Nut wrote: »

Anyways, its in a bubble like bebo and its going to pop over the next year or 2 in my opinion because some new site will come along just like what happened to bebo in 2008.

I doubt it'll die as quick as Bebo. With Bebo, you only update your page, or someone else's page. With FB, there's a constant stream of updates from everyones Facebook account, which allows you to see what's happening without constantly looking at everyones page.

AngryBollix

gashbook would be better

woodoo

I'm not on it. I went in for a look through someone else's account there recently and couldn't believe people with thousands of friends but who only have one or 2 in real life.

It just seems to be a photograph viewing session and finding out a little about people you haven't seen in years. I'm too private for all that.

Sean.

bb1234567 wrote: »

That is limiting yourself , yes of course there are other alternatives to fb but closing your fb account for good is taking away one of many possible ways of communication. Taking something away= limiting yourself, why get rid of something that you can get quick access to ,to talk to people or free?

I accept not having a Facebook account is in some ways "limiting", but there are also many aspects of having an account that limit people, and without an account, you are free of these things.
Without an account...

1. You don't have to worry about "Facebook courtesy".
2. You have more of a reason to communicate with people face to face.
3. Your life is substantially simplified.
4. For those who are "hooked", you save yourself time and brain-space.
5. Your personal details are no longer stored on servers (although this doesn't directly impact your life, it's creepy and undermines the human right to privacy)
6. There is such a thing as "too much information", not having a Facebook account frees your mind from filling up with personal information about people who mean little to you, or who you haven't seen in years.
7. Facebook is constantly changing, without it, you no longer need to get used to new layouts/preferences.
8. Facebook is a legal contract, have you ever read the terms and conditions? Without Facebook you have your name on less documents.
9. A Facebook account needs to be maintained, so that it complies with your current position in life, if you don't have Facebook, you don't need to worry about maintaining it.
10. It's culturally essential on Facebook to accept, not just friends, but distant acquaintances, without Facebook, you no longer face the awkwardness of that "Pop" sound accompanied by a random name appearing on your chat bar. i.e. "Hey, it's me from primary school!"
11. Life is less structured, i.e. parties don't have neat formal lists online, with fancy words like "pending" etc. You may not like unstructured living, but I love it!
12. You don't have to worry about future employers seeing your teenage drinking pictures. I know about the lovely privacy features the site has, but an employer only needs access to one of your friend's (or mutual friend's) account to see you're personal info.

bb1234567 wrote: »

Taking something away= limiting yourself

Wrong, taking something away= freeing yourself.

guitarzero

I recently deleted mine, kinda got fed up being a completely different person.

cynder

Love fb, great for keeping in contact with my mommy in the UK I take a photo upload it she has it 30 seconds later.


Also I can spy on my daughter's fb page... Which I have too, she knows I keep tabs on it.

Giselle

I had an account and deleted it. I feel liberated.

I spend my time and effort on actual friends, rather than reading the rubbish that spills in from everyone I've barely any interest in, but would be rude to reject as a facebook friend.

If I care enough about someone I'll speak to them or actually see them, and free my mind from all the mindless updates, snaps, stupid links, and the requests from strangers I've met once to befriend them.

efb

you need friends and a social life for Facebook.

MistyCheese

efb wrote: »

you need friends and a social life for Facebook.

Not really. You can just invent a social life and bore people to death with the inane details.

Princess Peach

I have a Facebook and I don't really want one. But I find I can't really live without it. Recently moved to a new place and started in college and its really the only place to find out about events happening, and use it make new friends so. It's totally necessary for me right now.

Stopped caring about Facebook "social rules" though. Delete and reject and friends I want and block a lot of people, which made them upset, but sure they never talk to me anyway

kerry4sam

Giselle wrote: »

I had an account and deleted it. I feel liberated.

I spend my time and effort on actual friends, rather than reading the rubbish that spills in from everyone I've barely any interest in, but would be rude to reject as a facebook friend.

If I care enough about someone I'll speak to them or actually see them, and free my mind from all the mindless updates, snaps, stupid links, and the requests from strangers I've met once to befriend them.

yeah this part here annoys me. Every new person I used to meet would ask if I'm on facebook and now I try to awkwardly avoid the topic.

I remember once after being asked to speak to a group of youngsters about internet sites & varying dangers etc etc that a few found me afterward and started adding me :eek: Needless to say, privacy settings immediately changed!

Xim1

efb wrote: »

you need friends and a social life for Facebook.

true .. that is why I deleted my FB account ..kind of sad to dont have a '' good number of friends'' seems to be all about having more friends than your friends haha:rolleyes:

DEFTLEFTHAND

I use it pretty infrequently really, its not compatible with me anyway as I'm a private person and I don't care what anyone else is doing with their lives.

NIMAN

Not on it, and never intend to be.

Jesus Nut

A0 wrote: »

Anyone not on Boards?

Ooh, but that was a brilliant comment! It made me laugh very much LOL

And for the record, I am not on boards <

MysticalRain

Never bothered with it.

Kirby

Never bothered with it either.

Anybody who I am actually close to, I can talk with face to face or ring them or chat on xbox live. I can see why it would be useful for somebody, but not me.

Father Damo

Being honest I view people who refuse to have one the same as people who refuse to have a mobile phone.

MyKeyG

MagicMarker wrote: »

How are you limiting yourself? Ever heard of a pen & paper? A phone? An email? Skype? Fúcking smoke signals?

You do realise people communicated perfectly well before Facebook came into existence?

People communicated perfectly well before email and skype too. Should we get rid of them? Social networking is merely the next step in communications technology. It has your Email, Skype, Chat all in one. Not only that it's a great way to keep in touch with friends and share their experiences.

People I think are put off by those who abuse the facility. No I don't care to see twenty photos a day of your new born baby asleep and I don't give two ****es which Greek god I am!

Blatter

I'm on it, but I rarely use it. The amount of time people waste on it is amazing and for what, to score a few likes with a catchy status now and then? I feel sorry for those people.

MyKeyG

Blatter wrote: »

I'm on it, but I rarely use it. The amount of time people waste on it is amazing and for what, to score a few likes with a catchy status now and then? I feel sorry for those people.

That's a bit of a pompous presumption wouldn't you say?

Blatter

MyKeyG wrote: »

That's a bit of a pompous presumption wouldn't you say?

Well obviously not everyone does it, but there are a fair few at it. I would say the people that only use facebook constructively (contact distant friends/chat with close friends occasional) are in the minority. Most are mainly like whores and/or photo merchants.

WindSock

The Facebook status updates over the last few pages are real crap

batistuta9

yeah they shouldn't have merged the thread about do you use facebook into this one

Giruilla

Anyone ever hear anyone refering to themselves in third person? Weird right?
Its one of the first signs of psychosis.

How do people not see that using facebook, - and trying to define yourself as a person, or a certain type of person -is detrimental is beyond me.

There more you try and catagorise yourself as someone, the more like that person you will become.

Life is about being free, being who you want to be... not having boundaries, being whoever the fu*ck you want to be each day. each morning. each afternoon. each evening. If you commit yourself to an online persona, feed yourself to the status quo, you will lose this.

Thinking people of the world... rest, be assured, be yourself and be free.

Have confidence in yourself that you are not them.

Giruilla

MyKeyG

Giruilla wrote: »

Anyone ever hear anyone refering to themselves in third person? Weird right?
Its one of the first signs of psychosis.

How do people not see that using facebook, - and trying to define yourself as a person, or a certain type of person -is detrimental is beyond me.

There more you try and catagorise yourself as someone, the more like that person you will become.

Life is about being free, being who you want to be... not having boundaries, being whoever the fu*ck you want to be each day. each morning. each afternoon. each evening. If you commit yourself to an online persona, feed yourself to the status quo, you will lose this.

Thinking people of the world... rest, be assured, be yourself and be free.

Have confidence in yourself that you are not them.

Giruilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6U2cNu9tEM

The King of Moo

"RESPECT the emotions in sumone's heart , Rather then the expressions on sumone's face , B'coz expressions are just the formality . But emotions are the reality..There are people out der who make ya feel like ****e sometimes...And guess what..I call them?...I call them Mong's...coz they haven't der tongue connected to their brain....Der a biteen slow... LIKE....."" DUH... :-|[/

superstoner90

The King of Moo wrote: »

"RESPECT the emotions in sumone's heart , Rather then the expressions on sumone's face , B'coz expressions are just the formality . But emotions are the reality..There are people out der who make ya feel like ****e sometimes...And guess what..I call them?...I call them Mong's...coz they haven't der tongue connected to their brain....Der a biteen slow... LIKE....."" DUH... :-|[/

Christ all mighty, thats stupid.

leggo

I love when people give out about others on Facebook giving out about others on Facebook.

Sean.

MyKeyG wrote: »

People communicated perfectly well before email and skype too. Should we get rid of them? Social networking is merely the next step in communications technology. It has your Email, Skype, Chat all in one.

The internet and email were breakthroughs in communication technology; Facebook is a website on the internet, so you can't really compare it to its superior. Yes, Facebook has email, Skype and chat all in one place, but so do Google Plus and Gmail. You don't see people using those though, this shows that Facebook's success isn't merely based on technological breakthroughs, it's also based on coincidental popularity, meaning eventually it will drop in popularity like all social networking websites do.

tok9

WindSock wrote: »

The Facebook status updates over the last few pages are real crap

Saw the thread was updated, went back 5 pages to see what I missed, turns out it was only about the advantages and disadvantages of facebook!

Bring back the statuses!

superstoner90

Sean. wrote: »

The internet and email were breakthroughs in communication technology; Facebook is a website on the internet, so you can't really compare it to its superior. Yes, Facebook has email, Skype and chat all in one place, but so do Google Plus and Gmail. You don't see people using those though, this shows that Facebook's success isn't merely based on technological breakthroughs, it's also based on coincidental popularity, meaning eventually it will drop in popularity like all social networking websites do.

Are you seanbiker?

keith16

Saw a status of a friend of a friend earlier announcing the birth of their offspring...went something like this...

Little ball of joy arrived this morning weighing in at xlb!! Blah blah, delighted blah both blah doing well blah. With [other halves name tagged] at [hospital name / location].

Sad how people feel the need to check in / tag people in statuses at times like that.

Sean.

keith16 wrote: »

Sad how people feel the need to check in

Yeh, it's absurdly formal, posting on the internet whenever you change location. It's a whole new culture the world is taking on.

superstoner90 wrote: »

Are you seanbiker?

No, my first name is Seán though.

leggo

I dunno.

My big bugbear with checking in is when it's grossly abused. For example:

'Josephine Twatface has checked in...snuggled on my luvvly blue couch eatin sum wine gums n drinkin red wine'

Then they later checked into 'the land of nod' despite clearly being awake enough to feel the need to beat their Facebook friends over the head with pointless information about their lives.

But if they have somewhere interesting to check in then it's another story. A childhood friend of mine is now a professional footballer, and I become obscenely excited when he checks into the likes of Highbury or Elland Road ahead of a game. Notsomuch Anfield though.

If you're gonna ask "why check in?", then by extension you have to ask "why social network at all?" Why use boards even? Why do randomers need to know what you think about travellers? Why talk to colleagues in work...do they really care how your day is?? Don't say nuthin' to nobody unless it's absolutely essential you do so!

But that's a bit boring then, isn't it?

As with everything, the key is moderation.

superstoner90

Sean. wrote: »

No, my first name is Seán though.

Ok, carry on.

Our President for Life

So THAT was the only spelling correction you wanted to make? Really???