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nib95 said:
Really not funny. Was expecting clever counter arguments to Facebook and instead it was a juvenile one. I use FB and I hate all these FB games. Nor am I persistent on questioning whether everyone has a FB account. I still know people who don't, and that's fine.
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There's a couple of things that bother me about FB. Employers using it to scope out your life/lifestyle. Insurance companies using it to calculate deductibles. Credit companies, same thing. The potential for horrendous datamining is definitely there. Not to mention, as a hacker target. Even if FB had all the very best intentions in the world – and I don't think they're evil, but they definitely have a specific view when it comes to privacy – I'm not sure they actually can keep that info effectively locked up forever. Governments struggle with that.

In contrast, I like Twitter because it doesn't want a whole profile of me. It doesn't even insist on a real name.

I really do get why people love FB, but I simply didn't need or want what it offered, or that I couldn't get elsewhere while not giving up a whole detailed profile about myself in exchange. I don't feel particularly strongly about the issue though, because I find it really easy to ignore FB.

(Gaming is probably the worst argument for FB. All that shit is on iOS or Android, or Flash, and usually better from my understanding.)
 
Eggo said:
If you don't have Facebook these days, you should be looked at like you have a third eye. Everybody is on Facebook chat, and social gaming is the future of the industry. You're only hurting yourself by holding out.
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Are posts like this the reason the :lol was taken away? Not that I find those kinds of views funny in general, but the third eye remark got to my sides pretty quickly.
 
Facebook is as stupid as the people on your friends list, and if your friends are stupid, Facebook isn't the issue.
Raynes said:
That's great and all, but I doubt my reasoning for not liking facebook will change. I don't like seeing flaws of my friends, and I most definitly don't like seeing facebook drama. You would see none of the clutter which goes on in facebook in real life. Seeing how self-important people become a social networking sites is definitly not my cup of tea.
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Well Jesus, it's not as though you could become any me self-important without collapsing upon yourself like a dying star, anyway.
BlueTsunami said:
The "I'm a snowflake in a world of raindrops" people are just as bad as the denizens of farmville
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I need to use this.
 
To those who hate stupid people post on FB, please, just delete them off your friends list. I pruned like half my list away when I went to college and I don't have to deal with seeing that stuff anymore.
 
I just remembered one of my friends, who absolutely refuses to get a Facebook. For whatever reason.

Dude is struggling to make friends because he's so busy with school and work. I urge him to get one, as people use it as a major mode of communication. People forget to invite him (he's been gone for a while, just came back recently) because he doesn't show up on their list when they make an event.
 
FlightOfHeaven said:
I just remembered one of my friends, who absolutely refuses to get a Facebook. For whatever reason.

Dude is struggling to make friends because he's so busy with school and work. I urge him to get one, as people use it as a major mode of communication. People forget to invite him (he's been gone for a while, just came back recently) because he doesn't show up on their list when they make an event.
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Sounds like good people, utter nonsense.
 
I have a problem with the popular assertion that people 'make friends on FaceBook' in lieu of real life interaction. You don't make friends on FaceBook, you make friends in real life then you add them on FB to keep in contact with them because you otherwise wouldn't see them on your regular routine. It doesn't limit real life social interaction and in some ways it actually might enhance it because you may find out something about your friend you otherwise wouldn't know through regular conversation at a party or event. I don't really see why people who don't use FB or publicly abstain from it would have a problem with that.
 
Seraphis Cain said:
People ARE self-important. Facebook is an outlet for that self-importance. You're not seeing anything that wasn't already there.
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Completely short sighted. People weren't self-important before the outlets and encouragements to be self-important existed. The culture creates the man that creates the culture. People didn't feel the need to write in diaries before they were invented. People like myself didn't feel the need to post shit online until the opportunity arose. The world created me and my desires. I didn't want to play kick the can when I was a kid and I'm sure you weren't interested either.

There's nothing different in the water or DNA (for the most part) between an american man born in 1874 that just wants to by himself a nice cot and have a couple children and the man of today that thinks his opinion is gonna change the world forever and that those pictures on his computer translate to friends and allies, or the overweight son of 3rd world nation's king that thinks he's worth more than his entire nation's people combined. You would too if you lived in his shoes and was brought up within the culture he did all his life.

Our egomaniac culture is creating egomaniac people. It wasn't "in us this entire time." It's being sculpted into you every day you live in the world that you live in. We aren't snowflakes, we're sponges.
 
Tears For Fears said:
Sounds like good people, utter nonsense.
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Eh, you'd be surprised at how easy it is to forget to invite someone for a party if you don't see them everyday, and they're not part of your regular circle, or they don't make regular appearances at other events. It doesn't mean you don't like them, or they're not important, but it gets tough juggling twenty to thirty invites to an outing, or a function, or something of the like. Facebook makes it quite a bit easier.
 
Smision said:
wow great

facebook is what you make of it. it can compliment your actual social life very nicely. Or you can get caught up in the hype, features, games, friend counts, etc. and see it as evil.
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This. As much as I don't "get" facebook, I wouldn't go as far as to ridicule people for using it.
 
I quit facebook a couple of months ago and I don't regret it. I started to use twitter and it pretty much covers all the information and news I'm interested to follow. Much better to keep myself updated in local events rather than learning of the activities of all my friends and facebook contacts at once. I gave up on that overwhelming ammount of tidbits and gossip.

Feels good man.
 
It seems that the creator of the video only knows a 16 year girl who uses facebook and thats his basis for understanding what it is.

Let me sum up my thoughts on people like the "smart guy"

-They complain about a social networking service and how people waste time in front of a monitor by complaining about it on a social message board and a social video network.
-Completely close minded to accept various important aspects that facebook has.
-Only think of Facebook as a trendy way of keeping in touch with people.
-Act like people actually make their friends on facebook and not in real life.
-Think of it as being necessary to read through drama that they don't want. When really what most people do is just check up on close friends to see what they're up too.
-Just because some bitch is complaining in her status and its on my news feed (which you can block them form the feed) doesn't mean you have to read it. I don't read the whole fucking newspaper. Just parts of interest.
-Use counter arguments that a 16yr old teen would use.


Ahh I could get more serious into this but there's really no strong argument to go against. All points made by video/op are pretty fucking bad. There is however valuable facts why Facebook is bad but none are made here. Just some relentless hate.
 
ant1532 said:
Wow. What a terrible video. Horrible points made.There is so much that could be said to express downsides of FB and they missed it all. It seems that the creator of the video only knows a 16 year girl who uses facebook and thats his/her reason for hating it. Seems very childish/unnecessary hate.

Let me sum up my thoughts on people like the "smart guy"

-They complain about a social networking service and how people waste time in front of a monitor by complaining about it on a social message board and a social video network.
-Completely close minded to accept various important aspects that facebook has.
-Only think of Facebook as a trendy way of keeping in touch with people.
-Act like people actually make their friends on facebook and not in real life.
-Think of it as being necessary to read through drama that they don't want. When really what most people do is just check up on close friends to see what they're up too.
-Just because some bitch is complaining in her status and its on my news feed (which you can block them form the feed) doesn't mean you have to read it. I don't read the whole fucking newspaper. Just parts of interest.
-Use counter arguments that a 16yr old teen would use.


Ahh I could get more serious into this but there's really no strong argument to go against. All points made by video/op are pretty fucking bad.
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One of us hive mentality. You're cultivating a false reality that you want me to accept. You're points are nothing more than subjective feelings that you force yourself to believe in. If it works, good on you. At least I did it in satire, way to miss the fucking point.
 
Tears For Fears said:
Not my fault you wish to follow the crowd. More power to you.
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LOL, You WOULD totally say that. That was so cliche of you.

Tears For Fears said:
One of us hive mentality. You're cultivating a false reality that you want me to accept. You're points are nothing more than subjective feelings that you force yourself to believe in. If it works, good on you. At least I did it in satire, way to miss the fucking point.
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After reading the written garbage in bold, i realize what I'm dealing with and have no further care to continue "arguing." Keep complaining about a social network on a social network.
 
I don't use Facebook, simply because I have no use for it. And I am kind of a private person. But I don't hate on those who do, I just hate those that act like I am weird for not.
 
I love seeing the progression of people's opinions on things on forums and the internet in general over a span of years. This is bascially the sequence of what has happened.

Facebook is started, is cool to a select group of people.
Myspace is still the most popular thing but facebook is growing.
Now facebook is the cool thing for most people to get onto, myspace dying/dead.
Facebook gets so popular that it's now cool to hate on facebook, and most 'internet' people hate on it (this was sometime last year).
Now facebook has become so popular and instrumental in daily social lives that it's now okay to view it as just a normal everyday thing, so now everyone likes it/defends it again. (ie the backfire in this thread.)

If this topic was made 1-2 years ago a lot more people in the topic would be like haha yea he's right facebook is so lame har har, but today everyone on the internet generally gathers in acceptance of facebook, and the people who publicly vocalize against it are seen as the douchebags.

There isn't really any point to this post, but it does kind of note how fair-weather a lot of people are on the internet. I suspect a large amount of people who post defending facebook and/or the yawn posts are people who 2 years ago were one of the ones who made jokes against facebook, but now they've conformed and use it, and because so many internet people thrive on being rebellious/anti establishment etc. they feel insecure about their decision and try to justify their usage of it by pretending they were always pro-facebook.

tl;dr version - ardent anti-facebook people are lame, and fair weather people who used to be anti-fb people but now defend it because they use it are lame as well.
 
Angry Fork said:
There isn't really any point to this post, but it does kind of note how fair-weather a lot of people are on the internet. I suspect a large amount of people who post defending facebook and/or the yawn posts are people who 2 years ago were one of the ones who made jokes against facebook, but now they've conformed and use it, and because so many internet people thrive on being rebellious/anti establishment etc. they feel insecure about their decision and try to justify their usage of it by pretending they were always pro-facebook.
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I would be interested to see some evidence of this fairweather hypocrisy. I was there when Facebook was the awesome, cool new thing. I'm here now where it is nearly ubiquitous. I was also there at all the moments in between when MySpace died, Facebook opened up to the general pubic, and Twitter exploded onto the scene. And honestly, the evolution of my opinion of Facebook during these years has basically been from "hey, this is pretty neat," to "eh, the novelty has worn off and I don't use it nearly as much, but it still serves a purpose."
 
Smision said:
wow great

facebook is what you make of it. it can compliment your actual social life very nicely. Or you can get caught up in the hype, features, games, friend counts, etc. and see it as evil.
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This.

If you're a friendless loser, you'll hate it for sure
 
Slayven said:
I don't use Facebook, simply because I have no use for it. And I am kind of a private person. But I don't hate on those who do, I just hate those that act like I am weird for not.
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Angry Fork said:
tl;dr version - ardent anti-facebook people are lame, and fair weather people who used to be anti-fb people but now defend it because they use it are lame as well.
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Can't people just change their mind? I had a friend who was very anti facebook, who finally got a profile, and he told me he was impressed by how useful it was, and now really likes it.
 
Mr. B Natural said:
Completely short sighted. People weren't self-important before the outlets and encouragements to be self-important existed. The culture creates the man that creates the culture. People didn't feel the need to write in diaries before they were invented. People like myself didn't feel the need to post shit online until the opportunity arose. The world created me and my desires. I didn't want to play kick the can when I was a kid and I'm sure you weren't interested either.

There's nothing different in the water or DNA (for the most part) between an american man born in 1874 that just wants to by himself a nice cot and have a couple children and the man of today that thinks his opinion is gonna change the world forever and that those pictures on his computer translate to friends and allies, or the overweight son of 3rd world nation's king that thinks he's worth more than his entire nation's people combined. You would too if you lived in his shoes and was brought up within the culture he did all his life.

Our egomaniac culture is creating egomaniac people. It wasn't "in us this entire time." It's being sculpted into you every day you live in the world that you live in. We aren't snowflakes, we're sponges.
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Eh, that could be arguable. If things are constantly being sculpted into us then why is there always that acception? An example would be two kids in a bad neighborhood with similar upbringings. One ends up making nothing of himself while the other one tries to get away from that lifestyle.

I just don't think its fair to say its all culture and environment and nothing is on the person. Its a combination of both. You could say no one felt a need to write until diaries were invented, well I could say they expressed their thoughts in other ways until a more productive way was brought into light. To say "It wasn't in us this entire time" is a bit out there, especially when you put two people in a situation and both of them react differently. You put too much weight on culture and even less responsibility on man.
 
Steve Youngblood said:
I would be interested to see some evidence of this fairweather hypocrisy. I was there when Facebook was the awesome, cool new thing. I'm here now where it is nearly ubiquitous. I was also there at all the moments in between when MySpace died, Facebook opened up to the general pubic, and Twitter exploded onto the scene. And honestly, the evolution of my opinion of Facebook during these years has basically been from "hey, this is pretty neat," to "eh, the novelty has worn off and I don't use it nearly as much, but it still serves a purpose."
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It's just from what i've seen on various places either here, or gawker sites, youtube comments, etc. it's been a kind of weird back and forth. It's almost like the facebook movie was the defining point, before that it was still a niche thing internet people hated on because it was getting popular and so on, but after the social network it's now become synonymous with daily lives like google so people don't hate on it as much anymore because it's okay to say you like it and stuff.
Hilbert said:
Can't people just change their mind? I had a friend who was very anti facebook, who finally got a profile, and he told me he was impressed by how useful it was, and now really likes it.
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I don't mind that, I get more annoyed at people who switch teams just because the majority of people are on the opposite team now kind of thing. This happens a lot with games too. There'll be a huge majority of people that hate a certain game, but then for some reason over time some people will switch over, then more people will, and eventually the majority of people like the game for some reason and vise versa. Then anybody who openly voices their discontent with said game will feel the wrath from the majority of people who like it, even though a year ago most of these people also disliked it.
 
I've noticed that from the people I've met who don't have facebooks, they're generally shut ins who hate going outside and interacting with other people.

Unless it's something like WoW. So pretty much they're fat nerds who have a superiority complex and you must KNOW at all times that they do not and will never have a facebook.

Cause they're superior.
 
Tears For Fears said:
Not my fault you wish to follow the crowd. More power to you.
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Nekofrog said:
I've noticed that from the people I've met who don't have facebooks, they're generally shut ins who hate going outside and interacting with other people.

Unless it's something like WoW. So pretty much they're fat nerds who have a superiority complex and you must KNOW at all times that they do not and will never have a facebook.

Cause they're superior.
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What in the hell?

This is quite possibly the most moronic thing I've seen posted in awhile.
 
Nekofrog said:
I've noticed that from the people I've met who don't have facebooks, they're generally shut ins who hate going outside and interacting with other people.

Unless it's something like WoW. So pretty much they're fat nerds who have a superiority complex and you must KNOW at all times that they do not and will never have a facebook.

Cause they're superior.
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How do you meet shut-ins exactly? Do you go to their rooms?
 
Nekofrog said:
I've noticed that from the people I've met who don't have facebooks, they're generally shut ins who hate going outside and interacting with other people.

Unless it's something like WoW. So pretty much they're fat nerds who have a superiority complex and you must KNOW at all times that they do not and will never have a facebook.

Cause they're superior.
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Nekofrog said:
I've noticed that from the people I've met who don't have facebooks, they're generally shut ins who hate going outside and interacting with other people.

Unless it's something like WoW. So pretty much they're fat nerds who have a superiority complex and you must KNOW at all times that they do not and will never have a facebook.

Cause they're superior.
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I've found that I've spent more time with people since I got rid of my facebook. I got rid of it because I was substituting facebook time for face-to-face time. Now I keep in contact with fewer people, but instead of a brief facebook chat here and there, I'll hit them up for one-on-one lunch/coffee/dinner more often.

To each their own I guess. Facebook will satisfy some, but not others. Making an issue out of it is quite petty and pathetic.
 
Why are they cats? No one bothered to ask why these cats have Facebook?? Woooahhh

I mean I have a Facebook, but you gotta admit, some people(ie most) post some really dumb things on it. Inside jokes for one friend spammed to your entire list? Quotes that they'll never really follow? Sympathy posts about relationships or being lonely? Ridiculous, only a couple of my friends post anything worthwhile, like cool pictures and links I can follow.

Sometimes you read those kind of posts and you just have to smile and nod. Meanwhile my latest MLP video link got 5 likes!!! (Likely ironic but whatev) :D
 
FTH said:
I mean I have a Facebook, but you gotta admit, some people(ie most) post some really dumb things on it.:D
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I'll say. I enjoy FB for the most part, but I cannot stand co-workers / friends posting meaningless, personal stuff about themselves. i.e "I'm sad today, still not over her"....etc.

Can make that next face-face encounter very uncomfortable.
 
Hasn't this been posted before?

Yeah facebook sucks but I can talk to friends on it. I guess that's lost on people who have shitty friends and family, or none at all.
 
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