• Is Facebook a good idea?
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is facebook a good idea? ask the 500 million active users
ITT socially inept ~nerdes~
[QUOTE=Essex;24190215]I have to admit, if and when you join Facebook.. within the 1st week you are engrosed with it; +1 friends, event invitations, random group joining's, photo albums.. It's very addictive. To be honnest, the main outlook is to be a social network site and yes it helps me keep in contact with friends, keep-to-date with birthdays ect... [b]BUT[/b] I think it has a more sinnister side; some people turn into Facebook addicts (cant help but to log into the bastard site any chance they get while they are on line) which takes over there life and makes them "un social". So now, you may not have thought about this but because you've spent so much time communicating to people through this 'social' networking site, it may have triggered some sort of 'real life' (not on the interweb) social psycological interfuckup, where it makes you find it hard to communicate with people because you've become shy due to not socalizing enough with people face-to-face. Also I cant help but to think that the government/police are using it against us to gather up infomation and expose more personal things without you realising; like how much time we spend online (which is pretty much most of the time you spend logged into facebook) - All in all I think its a bad thing but I still cant help but to log into the bastard when ever I'm on the net.. What do you think? .. and yes, I am logged in right now.[/QUOTE] Police constantly use Facebook. They know when you throw your parties, etc. Facebook also sells your personal information to companies.
Half the people that add me on Facebook aren't even people I'm friends with and almost nobody talks to me or comments on anything I post on there anyway. I just use it to lol at drama.
[QUOTE=Cuel;24190572]is facebook a good idea? ask the 500 million active users[/QUOTE] Same goes for the hundreds and hundreds of people doing Speed and Meth all day long, and that doesn't make it a "good idea"
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;24190544]Facebook is swarmed with retards and attention whores, people I hardly relate to. Show me a reason why I should create myself a FB account, a good one :colbert:[/QUOTE] Again, you can hide people from your news feed. Accept friend requests of annoying people out of courtesy, then hide the people who bother you. Then, you can keep in touch with the people who don't bother you.
i hate facebook, nothing to do there except try to gain attention by updating your status and and playing shitty games that steal peoples money.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;24190652]Same goes for the hundreds and hundreds of people doing Speed and Meth all day long, and that doesn't make it a "good idea"[/QUOTE] hey guys lets compare a social networking site to drugs
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;24190544]Facebook is swarmed with retards and attention whores, people I hardly relate to. Show me a reason why I should create myself a FB account, a good one :colbert:[/QUOTE] Talk to your friends about stuff and organize gatherings and shit And don't fucking add them goddamn I hate the people who avoid Facebook because it's "swarmed with retards" If you don't fucking add them in the first place then you wouldn't have to read their retarded bullshit now would you?
[QUOTE=bltsponge;24190525]There is a "hide from news feed" feature. It's pretty useful.[/QUOTE] But my point is is that that is 90% of facebook, 8% more are cool people but on [i]rarely[/i] do anything, and the last 2% are good friends but never go on facebook.
[QUOTE=ketchup;24190689]hey guys lets compare a social networking site to drugs[/QUOTE] Because, for some people, they are in fact addicting (click [url=http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/183191]here[/url] and [url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9172378/Social_networking_addicts_updating_from_bed_bathroom]here[/url])...
It's good if you are going off to college or moving away or something and you want to keep track of your friends/teachers/etc.
GUIDE TO USING FACEBOOK 1. DON'T ADD RETARDS the end [editline]08:02PM[/editline] I mean I have like 100 friends requests but I only have 40 friends
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;24190741]Because, for some people, they are in fact addicting (click [url=http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/183191]here[/url] and [url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9172378/Social_networking_addicts_updating_from_bed_bathroom]here[/url])...[/QUOTE] I check Facepunch every day/night, same goes for sites like Digg, Twitter, and a few other not as popular sites. That doesn't make me addicted to them. Everyone has a routine and usually getting on the computer in the morning/evening is apart of it.
I have FB to stare at girls tits.
[QUOTE=Jund;24190794]GUIDE TO USING FACEBOOK 1. DON'T ADD RETARDS the end[/QUOTE] Got it, I won't add anyone on facebook. Also the only non-attention whore friends I have I just talk to on Steam anyway.
[QUOTE=bltsponge;24190668]Again, you can hide people from your news feed. Accept friend requests of annoying people out of courtesy, then hide the people who bother you. Then, you can keep in touch with the people who don't bother you.[/QUOTE] I hardly want to spend time accepting or blocking annoying people, I'd rather spend my time and energy doing something useful :colbert: [QUOTE=Jund;24190720]Talk to your friends about stuff and organize gatherings and shit[/QUOTE] Or I could just text them...
It must be a good idea if the creator has made Billions of moneys off of it.
[QUOTE=L'ordinateur;24190836]I have FB to stare at girls tits.[/QUOTE] I have pornhub to do that. Also I'm assuming Pretiacruento and I both have the same views about FB.
[QUOTE=Snail562;24190844]Got it, I won't add anyone on facebook. Also the only non-attention whore friends I have I just talk to on Steam anyway.[/QUOTE] Then get better friends
My mother is disabled and Facebook enables her to speak to her friends much easier. I'd say it's a great idea, used properly.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;24190854]I hardly want to spend time accepting or blocking annoying people, I'd rather spend my time and energy doing something useful :colbert: Or I could just text them...[/QUOTE] What if you want to tell someone something but they're not on their phone? You don't have to block anybody ffs It's not like once you create an account you're automatically friends with everyone on Facebook
[QUOTE=ketchup;24190832]I check Facepunch every day/night, same goes for sites like Digg, Twitter, and a few other not as popular sites. That doesn't make me addicted to them. Everyone has a routine and usually getting on the computer in the morning/evening is apart of it.[/QUOTE] That's the thing, you understand you have a routine to attend to, addicts [I]don't[/I]
[QUOTE=Jund;24190866]Then get better friends[/QUOTE] I have great friends, they don't use facebook!
I love Facebook, and I really can't find any reason not to use it
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;24190903]That's the thing, you understand you have a routine to attend to, addicts [I]don't[/I][/QUOTE] So you won't join FB because they have addicts on it?
[QUOTE=Jund;24190883]What if you want to tell someone something but they're not on their phone? You don't have to block anybody ffs [b]It's not like once you create an account you're automatically friends with everyone on Facebook[/b][/QUOTE] Yes but if you go off FB for a few days then relog you have 80 friend requests and have to sift through them to tell if any of them are actual friends or just attention whores.
I use Facebook to keep in touch with my old friends, I move around so much that I have friends strung around two continents.
Here is what I do, I update my status "Anyone want to go out today/tomorrow" on days when I'm free and wala I have a social life.
[QUOTE=Snail562;24190939]Yes but if you go off FB for a few days then relog you have 80 friend requests and have to sift through them to tell if any of them are actual friends or just attention whores.[/QUOTE] No you don't they notify you of your most recent friend requests Jeez
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