Yeah, it's pretty miserable browsing Facebook when all I get are awful memes, dumb political opinions, and stolen content. I've seriously reduced the amount of time looking at Facebook.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;51567187]Yeah, it's pretty miserable browsing Facebook when all I get are awful memes, dumb political opinions, and stolen content. I've seriously reduced the amount of time looking at Facebook.[/QUOTE]
As soon as I found out you can kill your account and still use messenger I fucked it right off.
[QUOTE=shakadamus;51567251]As soon as I found out you can kill your account and still use messenger I fucked it right off.[/QUOTE]
Please explain.
One of the reasons I hardly use it. Check it once or twice a day for 2 mins and thats it. I only really have it for messanger and for keeping in contact with people. Besides, most of the people I talk with on a regular basis I chat with through alterative methods of communication.
[QUOTE=Surplus;51567305]Please explain.[/QUOTE]
Facebook and Messenger are two separate entities now, so if you decide to deactivate your Facebook account you get the option to still use the Messenger website and chat with your friends. Mainly because you don't get to delete your Facebook (unless you effectively write to them), which is pretty neat because if you want to go back to it one day, just log in, do that E-Mail activation shit and boom, nothing's changed.
Did it myself, and it's so much better not having to look at shit all day.
Why be miserable on•facebook.com when you can be miserable on facepunch.com?
Pretty fucking accurate.
All i get from browsing facebook is anger because how dumbass people in there doing anything for religion bullshit.
[QUOTE=Scratch.;51567491]Why be miserable on•facebook.com when you can be miserable on facepunch.com?[/QUOTE]
On facepunch, I am reminded that there are people who play video games like me.
On facebook, I am reminded that I got like 3 or 4 friends, of which none is any of the 100+ hot women that seem to go out every night looking like daddy showered them in new sexy clothes.
I prefer facepunch.
"I really don't use Facebook that much. I just like to keep in touch with friends and family. I maybe go on once a day? Couple times a week at most."
Everyone I've ever met when Facebook comes up.
[QUOTE=El_Jameo;51567395]Facebook and Messenger are two separate entities now, so if you decide to deactivate your Facebook account you get the option to still use the Messenger website and chat with your friends. Mainly because you don't get to delete your Facebook (unless you effectively write to them), which is pretty neat because if you want to go back to it one day, just log in, do that E-Mail activation shit and boom, nothing's changed.
Did it myself, and it's so much better not having to look at shit all day.[/QUOTE]
I use FB just to keep in touch with friends of mine because I used to move a lot.
I maybe go on it once a day to see what is going on. I rarely post, but I do use messenger a lot to talk to people. Facebook is like anything else - do you let it consume all your time and make you miserable or do you use as a social media/communication tool?
It's also kinda cool to see people you know progress in life and do well for themselves too. I don't compare my progress with other peoples because everyone has different circumstances and support. I know people who are going to Harvard...does that mean I'm not successful? No. I just don't have access to the type of money, let alone the support they get. So I work full time and take out loans to go to school. But for me I'm making progress and I'm happy. I'm also happy for the people I know to be able to achieve that type of accomplishment and it is good to see them doing well.
I think what makes people miserable is they compare themselves to EVERYTHING and ANYONE. They see someone doing all kinds of things and accomplishing all types of things and don't really think about the circumstances behind said accomplishments. If you don't have any drive to better yourself and set goals for yourself you'll just sit there stagnant while the rest of your friends/people you know meet their goals and progress in life. People got to also understand most of the time people share positive events of their life on FB so while you see a lot of positive events, but people have to know there are struggles and battles behind the scenes.
I try to spend as little time on facebook as possible, but if you must visit, I'd recommend FB Purity plugin to remove Sponsored Posts, auto-playing video, App suggestions, and news articles.
Also You can unsubscribe updates to everyone on your friends list except for maybe the 10 people you actually want to hear from. All of that with adblock at least makes facebook tolerable.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;51567187]Yeah, it's pretty miserable browsing Facebook when all I get are awful memes, dumb political opinions, and stolen content. I've seriously reduced the amount of time looking at Facebook.[/QUOTE]
After years of staying off it, I thought "my girlfriend spends a lot of time on facebook, surely it can't be [I]that[/I] bad these days"
First thing I saw was "HURR MEN ARE WIMPS BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE PERIOD SYMPTOMS FROM BIRTH CONTROL" so I did the right thing and harshly corrected the person who posted it, closed my browser, and bleached my eyes.
[QUOTE=MR-X;51568423]I use FB just to keep in touch with friends of mine because I used to move a lot.
I maybe go on it once a day to see what is going on. I rarely post, but I do use messenger a lot to talk to people. Facebook is like anything else - do you let it consume all your time and make you miserable or do you use as a social media/communication tool?
It's also kinda cool to see people you know progress in life and do well for themselves too. I don't compare my progress with other peoples because everyone has different circumstances and support. I know people who are going to Harvard...does that mean I'm not successful? No. I just don't have access to the type of money, let alone the support they get. So I work full time and take out loans to go to school. But for me I'm making progress and I'm happy. I'm also happy for the people I know to be able to achieve that type of accomplishment and it is good to see them doing well.
I think what makes people miserable is they compare themselves to EVERYTHING and ANYONE. They see someone doing all kinds of things and accomplishing all types of things and don't really think about the circumstances behind said accomplishments. If you don't have any drive to better yourself and set goals for yourself you'll just sit there stagnant while the rest of your friends/people you know meet their goals and progress in life. People got to also understand most of the time people share positive events of their life on FB so while you see a lot of positive events, but people have to know there are struggles and battles behind the scenes.[/QUOTE]
You're bang on really, all of which I already know.
To answer your first question (rhetorical or not) I used to be the former due to the whole envious thing you mentioned, then went into the latter when I was at Uni, now I'm back into the former again. Yeah my life ain't shit, but it's not hunky dory either. I've got goals and whatnot, and I've been constantly setting them in motion as best as I can but sadly mine are taking time (NHS appointments take months to come into action, for example). So I know things are going to work, but right now? It's all a bit sad and boring. I know they're coming up though.
For me it was quite the distraction as well, but I'll be jumping straight back on once I'm secured in real world shit. It feels great because I'm taking control, and I'm sure other people feel the same way too. Like you were getting at, it's a choice: You either take control of it or it takes control of you.
The one thing I understand but don't think I fall victim to is feeling envious of others. I dunno if something changed in me or something but I don't really care what others are doing. I actually have buddies who somehow made it out of Vegas and got to Harvard, and friends who have traveled Tokyo, and friends who have become successful and have awesome romantic partners - none of this bothers me and I don't really feel very much of anything seeing them.
I think if people have a problem of feeling envious or feeling inadequate in comparison to other people's lives, the change has to happen within them and not Facebook. I recognize that Facebook along with so many other applications bombard users with notifications, but all of those things can be turned off and, again, responding to those notifications from the get-go are entirely optional.
I think it's easy to point fingers at Facebook for a lot of things, and I'll gladly join in doing so, but I'm not about exclusivity when it comes to blames. There's no sole proprietor of failure. Perhaps it could be interpreted as depressing, but in my mind we are all failures and all doomed to fail - we can just learn to fail less. Perhaps a good metaphor would be drug dealers and drug addicts - Facebook is providing a source of information and entertainment sourced by your friends and curtailed by them as the "dealer", and everyone has the option to ruin themselves in addiction.
However, at the same time, I also think there are people who are trying to personally ban Facebook and other social media from their own lives in a way that seems more stuck up than anything else. These are the people who instantly assume everyone who's on their phone is completely and permanently disconnected from their surroundings, and are still guilty of looking for constant affirmation from others. Facebook can be seen as a tool - I use Facebook to stay in touch with my brother who's in the Middle East, shoot messages back and forth between classmates for projects, and also use Facebook to catalog my own life with uploaded images. There's nothing inherently wrong with all of that.
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