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Sums up my feelings on facebook.
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Warm Machine
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People who take Facebook seriously should probably not be on there anyway. I just use it for little updates, have a laugh, and to keep myself in the loop.
One Ok Rock
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I don't use zee facebook but I manage to not feel superior or inferior for it. Friends give me shit over it and I return the favour, but it's not really a big deal.
I did rage at the anime avatar comment though. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU BUDDY.
EDIT: The video wasn't funny. The iphone 4 one was great though.
I did rage at the anime avatar comment though. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU BUDDY.
EDIT: The video wasn't funny. The iphone 4 one was great though.
If you have mouth-breathers and perverts for friends as the video says, then of course you Facebook is going to be full of them.
Those of us that have friends that we actually want to talk with like myself love Facebook - anyone who sincerely hates Facebook needs to get better friends or change whatever it is about them that keeps attracting these kind of people.
Those of us that have friends that we actually want to talk with like myself love Facebook - anyone who sincerely hates Facebook needs to get better friends or change whatever it is about them that keeps attracting these kind of people.
triplestation
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Cool video. I think bookface is stupid, too.
lolez2matt
Member
i only have 42 friends, I am doing it wrong????
My friends have 200 + friends
My friends have 200 + friends
astroturfing
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could someone make a completely neutral not-for-profit social networking site that wouldn't create such polarizing attitudes? please!
i fucking hate Facebook and i've never wanted to use it (i already have enough profiles online), BUT because every damn person i know tells me to join there i guess i finally have to, just so i won't appear to be some rebel douche or weirdo for not having Facebook. how did it come to this?? FUCK. and if even one person criticizes me for not using my real name i am going to flip so bad..
i fucking hate Facebook and i've never wanted to use it (i already have enough profiles online), BUT because every damn person i know tells me to join there i guess i finally have to, just so i won't appear to be some rebel douche or weirdo for not having Facebook. how did it come to this?? FUCK. and if even one person criticizes me for not using my real name i am going to flip so bad..
Devolution
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Skilotonn said:
It's pretty handy for managing events and trips when everyone is on different schedules too.
thesoapster
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Bitched in the comment section and I will here, too. This meme is so fucking old and was not funny the first time. "Oh hay let's use shitty old computer voices on stupid looking animated characters and strawman the shit out of something!"
astroturfing
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what do you mean? every single man and woman on the site are just internet personas, carefully picked photos and so on.. they're not 100% realistic representations of the people behind them.Roto13 said:
I've pretty much come full-circle on Facebook over the last year, and social networking in general, in that I enjoy it and have zero qualms with it. It's just become another part of my daily routine. I get up in the morning, check my email, then check Facebook, then I move on with my life. I actually occasionally upload my artwork to Facebook so my friends and family can check it out since they're always bugging me to show it to them.
I agree that there are people who go a little too far with certain aspects of it. My sister, for example, has 5,000+ friends. I shit you not. She's a world-traveler and part of her job is to network with a lot of people, but still, really?.
I also agree that there are points where people need to take a break from it, especially in the college world. My Biology class last semester was in a lecture hall, with about 75 students total. We were allowed to take notes on our laptops (I opted not to since I'm just a loud typist
) but most of the people who did (I'd say about 40% of the students) just spent the entire class period on Facebook. When it gets to that point, yeah I too will call bullshit.
But again, that sort of thing comes down to the individual, not the site itself.
I agree that there are people who go a little too far with certain aspects of it. My sister, for example, has 5,000+ friends. I shit you not. She's a world-traveler and part of her job is to network with a lot of people, but still, really?.
I also agree that there are points where people need to take a break from it, especially in the college world. My Biology class last semester was in a lecture hall, with about 75 students total. We were allowed to take notes on our laptops (I opted not to since I'm just a loud typist
) but most of the people who did (I'd say about 40% of the students) just spent the entire class period on Facebook. When it gets to that point, yeah I too will call bullshit. But again, that sort of thing comes down to the individual, not the site itself.
krypt0nian
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Smision said:
First post ends thread.
thesoapster
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astroturfing said:
What? No one presents bad photos of themselves in real life, either. People put on a face in real life, the internet just allows a couple steps further. I mainly use Facebook for communication with many different people, some of which I talk with in other ways, also. It's convenient.
Apple Sauce
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I hate how everyone, everywhere has a digital camera, snap, snap, snapping away, then uploading all the pics to Facebook and tagging me in them.
Can a man not get embarrassingly drunk-off-his-ass in public without having a dossier of photographic evidence published on the internet the next day?
Can a man not get embarrassingly drunk-off-his-ass in public without having a dossier of photographic evidence published on the internet the next day?
SouthernDragon
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No, your shame must be recorded for all time.Apple Sauce said:
Also, the dude I mentioned earlier? I'm the closest contact he has nowadays, as most people barely remember him from the beginning of high school. He wants to reconnect, but he doesn't want a Facebook. Madness.
Apple Sauce
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dudeworld said:
They're still up there somewhere...
krypt0nian
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DR3AM said:
Facebook is not MySpace.
CoffeeJanitor
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It's what you make of it. Me, personally, I don't really describe myself a lot on there, but the people I'm friends with know me well enough anyways. Also, I don't give two shits what pictures get posted as long as they're of me.astroturfing said:
Depends on the person.
To the dude with 40 friends, you're not doing it wrong. I am not friends with like 300+ people, I just went to a pretty big high school and added people when I was there. I bet I could crop my list down to around that number.
lolez2matt
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no one got my joke post :/
Warm Machine
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astroturfing said:
The only way anyone can get a realistic representation of anything is to be witness to it all the damn time. Any time a photo or a status update is put up anywhere that you are not a party to you will read in to it what you will.
Hot girl holding a glass of wine photo and you'll think she's a swinging sexy lounge hotty. 2 seconds after the pic was taken she dumped out the wine left the set, put on her normal clothes and grabbed a Dr. Pepper, but your impression of the photo lives on.
Video was shit. It taught me that the creator of it couldn't be bothered to proof read his bullshit or even watch it back once before posting it. I use facebook regularly and it's helped me to make a whole new circle of friends within a couple of years of moving to a new state. Considering that my pre-facebook circle was accumulated over about 20 years, that's pretty good.
I also have no problem admitting that I play Zuma and Bejeweled on Facebook. They are a good way to unwind during phone calls and teleconferences.
I also have no problem admitting that I play Zuma and Bejeweled on Facebook. They are a good way to unwind during phone calls and teleconferences.
WrathOfOtaibah
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I have very few friends these days that are active on Facebook.
I myself have only accessed mine three times so far this year and two of those times were to e-mail a friend that I was texting with.
Four or five years ago, they were all over it. I think it reaches a saturation point in people where they get to the point where they'll still have it and check it once in a while, but have moved on. While I don't think it will go away, I'm just saying that people, given enough time, will move on from using it. I think it will always stay around just because I'm not really sure if there is a way to improve on the formula.
It wasn't easy to take MySpace down because every other MySpace page would bog down high end PCs from how much everything was tricked out on their page. Facebook succeeded simply by being clean, simple, and accessible. MySpace is none of the three.
I myself have only accessed mine three times so far this year and two of those times were to e-mail a friend that I was texting with.
Four or five years ago, they were all over it. I think it reaches a saturation point in people where they get to the point where they'll still have it and check it once in a while, but have moved on. While I don't think it will go away, I'm just saying that people, given enough time, will move on from using it. I think it will always stay around just because I'm not really sure if there is a way to improve on the formula.
It wasn't easy to take MySpace down because every other MySpace page would bog down high end PCs from how much everything was tricked out on their page. Facebook succeeded simply by being clean, simple, and accessible. MySpace is none of the three.
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