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Facebook: Hate it or Love it?

I've never joined; but then I joined here---- so I feel like a hypocrite! -- but that's fine!
 
I deactivated my facebook a while ago. Most of the stuff people posted on there was pretty inane, plus most of my friends live locally so I keep in touch with them via phone or I just visit them in person! Also had a bit of drama with one or two so-called "friends" who started posting shit on my page when the friendship turned sour... I guess some people prefer to hide behind a computer rather than settling things face to face.
 
^welcome back, sweet p! your absence was a little concerning, i actually posted in the lounge "what happened to.." thread to see if anyone knew if you were ok. i hope you are happier than before.
 
^ Sorry for causing concern! I've been okay - I just had some things happening in my life that I needed to deal with.

Overall I'm in a much better space than I was before. It's good to be back! :)
 
I have so many problems with facebook (privacy settings, the way it depersonalizes relationships, subliminal marketing ect) and have deleted it a number of times but keep coming back for some stupid reason. I'm overseas at the moment so it's a good way to keep in contact with people back home but will delete it when i get home and probably ask someone to change my password so i can't be tempted to go back.

Have any of you used Diaspora?
 
It's been invaluable while I've been traveling overseas.. It's an easy medium to post pictures and updates to family/friends.

Plus most people I've met and have become friends with all over the world use it.. so it's easy to keep in contact with them for when I visit their country.

I guess it depends on how and why you use it, when I was at home and not working it was the absolute bane of my existence..
 
I deleted facebook due to the repeat changes in the terms of use and the ongoing privacy invasions. Now that it's publicly owned it's gotten even worse.
 
Facebook is a contributing cause to the decline of society. It breeds narcissism and irreverence, among other horrible, horrible, horrible traits..

I deleted mine a few weeks ago and could not be happier.

To boot: every single click, every single view, every single page you view AFTER YOU LEAVE FACEBOOK, facebook tracks, stores, and sells to the highest bidder. Mark Zuckerberg is an asshole who stole facebook from ConnectU, and is now harvesting your information by means of daily changing privacy agreements, and other cunning things.

I have met Mark Zuckerberg and have some personal experience with him: he grew up in my town, his dad was my dentist. Hes an asshole, and he will fuck you over for a dollar. Don't trust him, dont trust FB, period.

To boot: dont let it make you into a narcissistic asshole who thinks that having 3,000 friends on facebook makes you hot shit, or further, that even 1 of those 3,000 people give a shit that you ate cereal for breakfast. Because thats what FB does: It breeds narcissism. It makes you think other people give a shit about the picture of a blade of grass you took, or about your thoughts on Obama/Romney/Paul. It makes you THINK people value your input, when your input is really nothing more than facebook garbage. If it held water past that, and your input IS important, you'd be giving the input in a relevant situation, to people asking for it. Not spewing it out on facebook. If anyone valued your movie review you'd be Roger Ebert, not John Smith on FB.

And then, you turn around and get pissed when someone whom you friended goes through all your shit.

The contradictory nature of facebook is insane. we have "privacy options", but no privacy! We put everything in the public sphere, but then get pissed when people go through our shit! We want to post about every drink we've had, ever drug we've done, but then get pissed when a future employer disqualifies us for it! We use it to "stay in touch" with people, but then neglect to stay in touch with them in REALITY because we're too busy checking out each others farms on FB!

Facebook is a giant contradiction.
 
lol

Facebook is just the tip of the iceberg... as time goes on the level of interconnectedness on a global scale will only continue to increase. To me this is simply a transition period..
 
lady grey said:
Have any of you used Diaspora?
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I have, actually I like it a lot. The interface reminds me of Google+, clean and minimalistic, and no ads at all (yet).
None of my friends have an account there though, so I mostly use it to get updates on stuff that interests me/share stuff that interests me with complete strangers. I hope more and more people will leave the sinking FB ship and open a profile there!
 
Its a bit of a love hate relationship for me - I hate the day to day/hourly/few minutes posts, I'm walking up the stairs, I'm going into the toilet, I'm sitting down etc. I love it as I am able to log on and see which one of my friends is available in chat. I have to admit I'm very selective and I'm only visible as online to a few people.

I have probably fell out with more friends due to facebook than any other reason!
 
I don't really use facebook much other than to keep in contact with relatives and friends that live in other states that I don't see much. However, I don't give a shit how many friends I have, or update my status every 12 minutes to let the world know what I'm doing. However, as a few others on this thread have noted I think that interconnectedness of facebook represents the direction that the internet and the world in general is going. We are already a global society and are becoming more connected every day.
 
Mildly irrelevant to this conversation, but I haven't been to disney world in ages, but the space earth ride in epcot gives me the same vibe to the interconnectedness concept. Especially the images of teachers in other countries as students and families communicating across the world. Long before skype and android phones too.
 
I love Facebook. I liked it when it began I loved the idea of it connecting you all up with everyone from school, etc

Now it's full of idoits, adverts, bugs/viruses but still liken it.

It's more of a privacy matter. People need to watch out what they post, Facebook seems to be the centre of problems people create. I dislike the logging of msgs too I think can be disabled.

Not tried/used twitter
 
Don't really care for it these days. It puts me in a bad mood when I go on it, why do i care about anything anyone is doing? Why would I assume anyone else cares about what i'm doing? the one part of it i do find useful sometimes is Messenger. Other than that I just don't need it it my life.
 
Deleting my facebook was the best thing I ever did!!!! It was a huge source of anxiety for me. Who wants to stalk people and worry about who is talking with who?! It seriously gave me panic attacks. Especially when I was in high school and would lurk my stupid boyfriend of the month's page and worry about which girls were commenting his pictures... SO STUPID!! I hate social media sites like that. It's like a contest for who can appear to be having the most fun. bleh.
Foreigner said:
I deleted facebook due to the repeat changes in the terms of use and the ongoing privacy invasions. Now that it's publicly owned it's gotten even worse.
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Everyone, when deleting FB make sure you PERMANENTLY delete it, not just disable it. Google "how to permanently delete facebook" for how to do this. It is nearly impossible to find the link otherwise. And make sure you follow the directions correctly! There are all these little tricks to make your facebook reactivate. You have to not log on for 2 weeks after choosing to perm delete, or it will undo your request. IT'S EVIL!!!!!
 
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