• Is Facebook a good idea?
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Don't start playing Facebook games either.
Whenever I'm at home I have a facebook window open. It hardly consumes any time whatsoever though; it's just there in the background. It's irritating that everyone claims we're all [I]addicted[/I] to social networking. I like it because it helps me talk to my friends and shit. That's all.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;24195108]Whoa whoa whoa, why don't you tell me something I [B]don't[/B] know?? :downs: My point is, if I can avoid keeping in contact/relating with said people, the better off I am [editline]07:55PM[/editline] Another reason why I dislike Facebook: I'm a grammar Nazi (but shhhhh! don't tell anybody) and I can't fucking stand reading floods of never-ending, unintelligible posts created by people with no brains at all... real-life zombies. That's one of ze reasons I like FP so much, ze grammar of the people here is flawless[/QUOTE] Don't add them then. Just because your too much of a lazy bitch to sift through "hundreds" of friend requests (not true, i presume you have 50 friends max) doesn't mean facebook is the problem. Guess what, you probably had like 50 friends, who were all 13/14 because you come across as being a tiny little angsty kid who thinks he's more mature than his peers. You probably got sick of their shit like us older users get sick of kids posting shoop da whoop in photoshop contests or pedobear at the slightest mention of anything sex related. But do we blame facepunch? Do we say "FUCK GARRY WHY ARE PEOPLE POSTING SHOOP THE WHOOP! THEY ARE SO DUMB, FUCK FACEPUNCH I'M LEAVING". No, because he has nothing to do with it. Facebook is a great idea. It allows easy and fast socal networking; and is highly useful for organising large events, parties, meeting up with friends, finding out what people are up to, generally keeping in touch with friends over long distance (talking to my friend who was on a round the world trip for example), keeping up to date with family, and generally being social and outgoing and putting yourself out there in terms of social outings, trips to the movies, paintballin, anything, i dunno. But i guess you just don't understand that because you weren't invited to some chick's party or you rejected invitations to the movies or to go get pizzas. Just because a percentage of the userbase is all "i luff u babes xoxoxoxoxox MA GURLLSSS xxx" doesn't mean facebook is to blame. That's like saying "I crashed my car, i'm going to find the rotting corpse of the man who invented the car, and kick his ass", same goes for online gaming shouting at a games designer because people are asses online; it's dumb as fuck, the community is the problem not the website. And if you get "addicted" to facebook then you're stupid, same with WoW, Anime, going to the gym, sex, watching movies, drugs. Anything done too much is addicting, why does being addicted to something like working out get less attention than facebook addiction? You're just as weak as the facebook addict if you can't stop lifting weights, or eating, or fucking anything that moves, or even drugs. All in all... DON'T LIKE IT? SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DON'T POST.
[QUOTE=Fosty99;24206242]Don't start playing Facebook games either.[/QUOTE] Also this.
I'm on facebook, used to love it. I'm now sort of over it. I've never played Farmville or anything.
I like facebook. I have a bunch of friends who like to hangout together, and its kind of hard planning events without it.
[QUOTE=ketchup;24206226]Having to read this post was worse than reading anything I have ever read on Facebook.[/QUOTE] Who was the idiot that forced you to read it :frogdowns:
In my opinion Facebook is a very good site. It's the best way around at the minute to keep in contact with everyone. The site itself, is also very well built - it is clean, and functions really well. (No shit like modding pages like bebo and myspace while leads to sparkles and seizure endusing backgrounds.) The only problem with it is the way some people use it - constantly liking stupid groups, constantly taking stupid quizzes, and constantly playing stupid games. It's a very good website if you use it wisely, and be selectful on who you add as a friend. If you do this you should get minimal "person likes this"; and for the people who do it, why do you care anyway, it's not you?
I use facebook for organising days out with friends, group discussions and the like. And recently I was chatting to a friend via facebook while he was on holiday. Obviously you can't install chat programs on a hotel computer, but you can chat via web-based things like facebook.
Deep down I get the feeling that the only people who dont like facebook are the ones without any friends.
I have facebook, but dont use it, because the first day I used it, I got 50 farmville requests, havnt logged back in since.
[QUOTE=Essex;24190215] 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 [b](Social Anxiety Disorder?)[/b], 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.[/quote] sounds like me 'cept the FB part. [quote] 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. People can also see how much time you spend online (which is pretty much most of the time you spend logged into facebook) which I think is pretty personal.[/QUOTE] nao yur just being paranoid.
One of the things that annoys me about Facebook is those people who have 1500+ friends.. There's no way you could be friends with them all. I have ~80, my girlfriend's cousing has ~900 If I died I'd expect all of 80 of my people to come to my funeral. [editline]09:18PM[/editline] or wedding.
[QUOTE=Snail562;24190450]I quit facebook because all I see is a million girls who don't know how to spell, never stfu, and think they're cool because they have 2k friends (most of which they don't know) and constant "omg, ur so beutifull Rachael, dont let any guy think ur not :) :) :) :) :)" Forgot to mention, this Rachael is an attention whore who also sleeps with every person she comes in contact with and then bitches of how no-one ever calls her pretty.[/QUOTE] Wow the second part of your post makes you a total douche. As for the first part, I agree with some dumb posts. Like how having a facebook account means you can copy paste lyrics, dumb over simplified philosophy and retarded views on politics that show you have no idea what you're talking about. Those aren't the majority though, if they were I wouldn't be on Facebook [editline]11:52AM[/editline] [QUOTE=ColdWave;24206023][B]No FB is not a good idea in the fucking least, first we have the bad spellers. (My text in bold)[/B] at MX 207 ^_^ hqaha im on mii dads computer.. wel labtop :P haha itsss sssoooo ttiiinnyyyy ((: [i love/miss you ): [B]Then we have the people who NEED to post how they feel about love this repeats every fucking day until they break up then they are so sad.[/B] You do so much for me, and I do pretty much nothing for you. Your always there for me, and I'm not usually there for you. I don't deserve you. But I'm so glad I have you. I don't see how you can put up with me, I'm lazy, annoying, I bitch and complain. Yet you still say you love me everyday. Your everything a girl would ever dream about. I hope people are jealous ;p. Ty Scott Shanholtz, I love you♥ [B]Then we have the ones who must post lines from poems this too repeats a lot![/B] I'm still here to explain the darkest hour never comes in the night [B]Then we have the normal blogger I am okay with this type of person.[/B] There is some kind of loud firey explosion happening out side. [B]Then we have the person who goes to every god damn like site in the world liking everything that makes sense to them (This brings in the spam)[/B] likes ''K'' IS THE MOST ANNOYING AND POINTLESS RESPONSE EVER. on Facebook Pages. [B]You have been educated.[/B][/QUOTE] This.
You only get addicted to facebook if you don't have enough going on in your life; if you were busy all day, you wouldn't spend hours on that site. Think about it. You are suggesting that people turn into mindless antisocial zombies merely because they have access to facebook? That's like saying: "Oh look, I have access to food, watch me gain 800 pounds". Just because there happen to be people who don't have enough going on in their lives to stay away from facebook for more than an hour, doesn't mean that nobody should use it. EDIT: Furthermore; if you can't stop bitching about people posting about their lovelives and whatnot, why don't you just remove them as friends?
Facebook got me my girlfriend, kinda. I'd seen this girl in a place I hanged out in so I thought I'd add her on facebook. We got chatting, and now I'm in a relationship with her and have been for 9 months
[QUOTE=Benf199105;24206343]Don't add them then. Just because your too much of a lazy bitch to sift through "hundreds" of friend requests (not true, i presume you have 50 friends max) doesn't mean facebook is the problem. Guess what, you probably had like 50 friends, who were all 13/14 because you come across as being a tiny little angsty kid who thinks he's more mature than his peers. You probably got sick of their shit like us older users get sick of kids posting shoop da whoop in photoshop contests or pedobear at the slightest mention of anything sex related. But do we blame facepunch? Do we say "FUCK GARRY WHY ARE PEOPLE POSTING SHOOP THE WHOOP! THEY ARE SO DUMB, FUCK FACEPUNCH I'M LEAVING". No, because he has nothing to do with it. Facebook is a great idea. It allows easy and fast socal networking; and is highly useful for organising large events, parties, meeting up with friends, finding out what people are up to, generally keeping in touch with friends over long distance (talking to my friend who was on a round the world trip for example), keeping up to date with family, and generally being social and outgoing and putting yourself out there in terms of social outings, trips to the movies, paintballin, anything, i dunno. But i guess you just don't understand that because you weren't invited to some chick's party or you rejected invitations to the movies or to go get pizzas. Just because a percentage of the userbase is all "i luff u babes xoxoxoxoxox MA GURLLSSS xxx" doesn't mean facebook is to blame. That's like saying "I crashed my car, i'm going to find the rotting corpse of the man who invented the car, and kick his ass", same goes for online gaming shouting at a games designer because people are asses online; it's dumb as fuck, the community is the problem not the website. And if you get "addicted" to facebook then you're stupid, same with WoW, Anime, going to the gym, sex, watching movies, drugs. Anything done too much is addicting, why does being addicted to something like working out get less attention than facebook addiction? You're just as weak as the facebook addict if you can't stop lifting weights, or eating, or fucking anything that moves, or even drugs.[/QUOTE] You don't get it, I can get in touch with my friends and organize stuff without using a Facebook account; I have a cellphone and that's more than enough for me :colbert: [QUOTE=Benf199105;24206343]All in all... DON'T LIKE IT? SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DON'T POST.[/QUOTE] Hurr durr you don't have a FB account, you're probably a mouth-breathing neckbeard with no friends!! Get out of your momma's basement!! :downs:
No I fucking hate it. I'm addicted to it still
[QUOTE=_nonSENSE;24207391]You only get addicted to facebook if you don't have enough going on in your life; if you were busy all day, you wouldn't spend hours on that site. Think about it. You are suggesting that people turn into mindless antisocial zombies merely because they have access to facebook? That's like saying: "Oh look, I have access to food, watch me gain 800 pounds". Just because there happen to be people who don't have enough going on in their lives to stay away from facebook for more than an hour, doesn't mean that nobody should use it. EDIT: Furthermore; if you can't stop bitching about people posting about their lovelives and whatnot, why don't you just remove them as friends?[/QUOTE] True. Remove the friends you don't even know, and keep a very select few.
I don't have enough friends to even bother :smith: But more importantly, if you look into the psycological tactics they use in advertising and games on facebook, it's incredibly scary. I just don't want to get involved with that stuff.
I would never join such a disregard to Privacy.
The retards on facebook piss me off. [img]http://anyhub.net/file/fuckinrage.png[/img] Adding a gradient and words in paint.net to a whore picture that everyone will masturbate to makes you an artist now.
Social Networking is something to be avoided. No I am not interested into joining the "PEOPLE WHO WEAR BLUE FURSUITS AT 19:02" group. No I don't want every retard on the internet to know who I am, where I live and who I am friends with. No I am not interested in having imaginary friends. No I don't want people to know when I am peeing, shitting or farting. That pretty much sums it up.
[QUOTE=AlienCreature;24210678]Social Networking is something to be avoided. No I am not interested into joining the "PEOPLE WHO WEAR BLUE FURSUITS AT 19:02" group. No I don't want every retard on the internet to know who I am, where I live and who I am friends with. No I am not interested in having imaginary friends. No I don't want people to know when I am peeing, shitting or farting. That pretty much sums it up.[/QUOTE] I like the way this man thinks
[QUOTE=AlienCreature;24210678]Social Networking is something to be avoided. No I am not interested into joining the "PEOPLE WHO WEAR BLUE FURSUITS AT 19:02" group. No I don't want every retard on the internet to know who I am, where I live and who I am friends with. No I am not interested in having imaginary friends. No I don't want people to know when I am peeing, shitting or farting. That pretty much sums it up.[/QUOTE] Wanna be my virtual friend? :buddy:
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;24210746]I like the way this man thinks[/QUOTE] Thanks. [QUOTE=SEKCobra;24210760]Wanna be my virtual friend? :buddy:[/QUOTE] Sure :downs:
I have a Facebook because I'm never in contact with any of my friends. Since most of my friends stopped using AIM and MSN because of Facebook, I decided I might as well create one too. I created one the beginning of this summer. Thanks to Facebook, I can ask many of my friends if they want to go to movies or hang out or something. I would be sitting on my ass in front of the computer every single day of the summer if it weren't for Facebook. Also, I had this huge crush on this one girl in school. Summer vacation started but I never got the courage to talk to her, I'm a pussy. When I created a Facebook, she sent me a friend request; most exciting day of my summer. I didn't even think she knew my name. Turns out, she had a crush on me too. Fuck yeah. Then we got to know each other and all that. Sure, there are stupid and annoying people on your friend's list, just block them or hide their status updates. Not that hard. And for all you Facebook haters out there, if you don't like it, don't use it. It's that simple. Just because you have no use for it, doesn't mean everyone should stop using it. There are people who actually have friends/want to talk to their friends you know.
What if I defend stupid ppl's privacy who dont even know how much it is worth?
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;24211256]What if I defend stupid ppl's privacy who dont even know how much it is worth?[/QUOTE] Don't protect stupid people. Let Natural Selection have its way.
People don't like Facebook on here because they got no friends, am i right?
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