Not having Facebook
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lollipop103
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Lol~ Facebook is a nice way to talk to people without awkwardness in person--if they reply to you that is. :3
Silvox Black
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To hell with all the social ignorance and bigotry is supports. Nothing good comes from that place. Why would any of us need such a listless, shallow gathering place anyhow when we have this glorious forum?
Satine
Well-known member
I honestly can't see why anyone would give two hoots what I get up to, and in return I don't care what they get up to. If I actually go out with someone socially then I'll care, but I don't want to sit and read about it.
Anyway, I prefer just my own company, anyway.
And there's so much else to read on the net, so why focus on Facebook?
Anyway, I prefer just my own company, anyway.
And there's so much else to read on the net, so why focus on Facebook?
wayfarerfree
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Ive only found Facebook to be really useful in finding people Ive lost contact with (lol! - then I rediscovered that that wasnt such a bad thing after all in the first place - I'd let them go for a reason).
I dont agree with the Fbook culture of being able to call 500-1000 people "friends", it all seems like a some sort of competition.
So who would need to prove themselves like this?
I do have a fbook page, but I say well done to those that have resisted getting one.
I dont agree with the Fbook culture of being able to call 500-1000 people "friends", it all seems like a some sort of competition.
So who would need to prove themselves like this?
I do have a fbook page, but I say well done to those that have resisted getting one.
DownInAHole
Well-known member
I have one, it's a good way to keep in touch with family and current or past friends.
What'sHisFace...
Member
Meh, one could argue for or against the dern thing. Like anything, it depends how you use it.
There are friends that insist that it's a great way to keep in touch with people from home/high school, and I believe it (from them). Ideologically, it's not at all a flawed site.
The flaws come in with how most people use it, spending hours facebook-stalking other people, organizing the most ridiculously stupid moments of their lives into albums to flaunt in other peoples' faces... All-in-all I love the site because it proves that everyone is just as pathetic as everyone else, and we all feel the need to prove that they have friends, to over-compensate for our lonely condition. =)
Oh sad sad world... It's for those exact reasons that I don't support the site, at the same time. Forget how we all feel in the here and now, we can be sure that the state of our world and our society today is the result of all the preceding actions enacted by our predecessors. In such a way, what we do now will, of course, affect future generations. So if this big old snowball called facebook is allowed to keep rolling indefinitely, who knows how big it could get? Big enough to swallow up the totality of everyone's interactions. And if that happens... well we can rest assured that this will be far from the only forum of its kind anymore. =P
But anyway, take pride in not having one. I do. =) Thoreau would give me a big, friendly pat on the back for it.
There are friends that insist that it's a great way to keep in touch with people from home/high school, and I believe it (from them). Ideologically, it's not at all a flawed site.
The flaws come in with how most people use it, spending hours facebook-stalking other people, organizing the most ridiculously stupid moments of their lives into albums to flaunt in other peoples' faces... All-in-all I love the site because it proves that everyone is just as pathetic as everyone else, and we all feel the need to prove that they have friends, to over-compensate for our lonely condition. =)
Oh sad sad world... It's for those exact reasons that I don't support the site, at the same time. Forget how we all feel in the here and now, we can be sure that the state of our world and our society today is the result of all the preceding actions enacted by our predecessors. In such a way, what we do now will, of course, affect future generations. So if this big old snowball called facebook is allowed to keep rolling indefinitely, who knows how big it could get? Big enough to swallow up the totality of everyone's interactions. And if that happens... well we can rest assured that this will be far from the only forum of its kind anymore. =P
But anyway, take pride in not having one. I do. =) Thoreau would give me a big, friendly pat on the back for it.
facebook is ridiculous! thats why im on it 
i hate to see all those smiley happy bastards though! it gets right on my nerves!!
i just delete the folks i dont want on it! (its my profile, i can do what i like with it)
someone above sais its like big brother! (i agree) its like stalkers anonymous sometimes
i hate to see all those smiley happy bastards though! it gets right on my nerves!!
i just delete the folks i dont want on it! (its my profile, i can do what i like with it)
someone above sais its like big brother! (i agree) its like stalkers anonymous sometimes
Dronee
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I only know about facebook a couple of years ago... I only had an account on it a week ago or so... lol... yeah I know, I never was good at keeping up with these kinds of applications.
Now that I do have it though, I feel a bit overwhelmed with the amount of information on it. It's interesting to see what friends are up to, but at the same time, I find it a bit time consuming and I feel like I'm being stalked sometimes... (not really, just feels like Big Brother thing)...
Not to mention that I've no idea what many of the buttons and functions do...
Now that I do have it though, I feel a bit overwhelmed with the amount of information on it. It's interesting to see what friends are up to, but at the same time, I find it a bit time consuming and I feel like I'm being stalked sometimes... (not really, just feels like Big Brother thing)...
Not to mention that I've no idea what many of the buttons and functions do...
Tweak
Member
I like Facebook. I only update my status every couple of months or so but I log in at least once a day and see what everybody's up to. I figure it also might help for career networking one of these days. You never know who's going to land a job with some super company that you'd never know about had you not had Facebook to keep an eye on them.
very_shy
Well-known member
I used to have an account, but I deleted it after 1 year. I didn't feel using it anymore. And I don't feel less sociable person.
Now with Facebook, Twitter and various Messengers, it seems easier to contact people. Indeed. But it is also easier to be left out of social contacts, to be a "black sheep" if 4 out of your 5 colleages have FB and you don't. So they for example arrange, talk, chat within FB. They can share holiday pictures, but in order you to see them, they must send them to you by other channel (mail/Picassa...). They may be "insulted" as you always write them by e-mail, but you failed to see or reply to their invitation to chat on Gmail.
Times do change and we change with them.
Now with Facebook, Twitter and various Messengers, it seems easier to contact people. Indeed. But it is also easier to be left out of social contacts, to be a "black sheep" if 4 out of your 5 colleages have FB and you don't. So they for example arrange, talk, chat within FB. They can share holiday pictures, but in order you to see them, they must send them to you by other channel (mail/Picassa...). They may be "insulted" as you always write them by e-mail, but you failed to see or reply to their invitation to chat on Gmail.
Times do change and we change with them.
redski
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As do I. Personally I think it is lame to have one. No offense.
no offence taken, its PISH!!! with a capital P
the stalkers on it is fkn hellish!! (BEBO is worse), ive cancelled my bebo account loads of times, and i only add certain folks to my facebook carry on!
and i still dont know 3/4 of them
so i reckon its time for a new site, called SPW/FACEBOOK
FOR REAL
I do feel that those online "social" networks promote superficial comments, and it stops people from bothering about going in depth and getting to know people.
For people like us, the last thing we need to see is the local school bully and all their fun times.
I do agree we need to find friends in real life, but its such a hard task when people seem so disinterested. And if they are interested, they are usually hyper, non caring types.
I have a facebook, because online I feel I can represent myself better than in real life. It's a chance for my friends to see me when I have the opportunity to actually think things out, rather than come across as uninteresting in real life, cause I hate thinking on the spot.
Bemzy
Well-known member
So what if you have only three friends that would message you regularly
It's better to have three real friends on Facebook than 5,000 fake ones IMO.