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We will be in touch
Had a FB account for a few months a couple of years ago but didn't really 'get it.' Now it feels like the whole world is using it except me. Even my Mum is on FB.
My family and friends are spread all over the world so I reckon it would be a good way of keeping in touch, but I also think that a lot of it is self promotion, a modern version of the school reunion. There also seems to be a whole new load of modern dilema's, such as whether or not to become 'friends' with your boss!
Am I really missing out?
Am I really missing out?
Not at all.
It's great for being friends with people you sit opposite at work.
No - jacked mine in a while back, occasionally wonder if I'm missing out but soon realise it's just reading what someone had for tea or something just as boring.
I'm friends with people I like, and not friends with people I don't like. My closest friends are all over the world, and we keep in touch via facebook. You don't have to poke people, do the school reunion thing, or tell everyone what you had for breakfast. Many businesses are now finding a FB page more useful than a company website, which I'd go along with.
I rarely see any boring shite on there as I suppose my few friends are not boring people. They have quite interesting diverse lives.
I have an account but very rarely update my status. I have a few old school friends on there and all they do is post utter shite. It's shocking. They must be glued to it on a constant basis. Use it for what you want.
I just tend to phone or call round to see people/go for a pint if I want to catch up with mates.
Do you think it will catch on?
Someone once told me;
"It's great for getting back in touch with people you've lost touch with"
To which I replied, "There's a reason I've lost touch with them...."
What's it all about, FB, what's it all about?
People keep asking me 'are you on FB?'. No, I have a telephone, a mobile telephone, email, Skype- why do I need anything more than that ffs?
I was distracted earlier by some nutty Brazillian lass on Skype; sending me pics of herself in a bikini. Lordy, a man could go blind. 😯 🙂 😉
To which I replied, "There's a reason I've lost touch with them...."
And how they all laughed....
Not on Facebook
That's what you think, we've all seen the pictures. 😯
Facebook is quite useful for the business, I have other ways of keeping in touch with friends.
it's a strange one. I've got to meet and get involved with some local mtbers through facebook and internet fora. so that's good. You'd be amazed at the mindless boring crap people (including myself) post though - but that's life. It's been bloody handy for me as I've added a load of workmates, and if I'm short of shifts, I can give a shout out on facebook and get someone or other offering me to do their shift pretty sharpish. It's great if you are a nosey parker. I've found it overall to be a useful social tool. I do wonder what people make of the random crap I post sometimes! (much like here!).
Love the fact everyone who has a mildly aggressive outburst at the very mention of Facebook almost certainly know that if they joined it they wouldn't have enough friends to get them out of double figures and the aggressive stance is just a defensive measure against people trying to get them to join. 😈
To the sociable, friend-rich among us, it's great!
weren't people asking the same thing about mobile phones a decade or 2 ago? It's a tool to be used wisely or foolishly - iDave has it spot on, be selective about who you associate with
although if you find that someone bores the 'nads off you, it's quite satisfying to unfriend someone cos they don't know about it
It certainly makes organising a stag do easier. 😀
I'm FB 'friends' with friends, colleagues, family, MTB people and ex-students. Apart from one or two, they're all people I've met in real life, and those are people I've 'known' online for years and are friends-of-friends.
I block every app the first time I see it, so I escape most of the crap.
"To the sociable, friend-rich among us, it's great!"
Says he, straight from da interweb!
😉
To which I replied, "There's a reason I've lost touch with them...."
...and hopefully they retorted, "That's an extremely broad statement and who are you and get out of my house."
I'm pretty selective about who I add though, I add people that I like and am friendly with in one way or another, and not just people I know. I do think it can easily be a double edged sword and I try not to go on FB when I'm too pissed!
🙂 @ Jamie!
There's an app called 'Better FaceBook' which makes it easy to cut out the drivel.
Yeah but how does it differ from just sending block emails to everyone? Kev; none of that stuff you mention can't be done via email or 'phone.
weren't people asking the same thing about mobile phones a decade or 2 ago?
No, they weren't actually. Most folk were thinking 'how handy, a mobile telephone I can take out with me'.
I mean, why do I need to bung up stuff like what music or films I like, on some internet bulletin board type thing?
And as for Twitter, well...
[i]10.00 Feel better now. Having some muesli.
9.55 Had a big poo
9.35 Need a poo
9.15 Feel a bit bunged up. Having a coffee.[/i]
Please.
[url= http://twitter.com/cherylkerl ]I do like Cheryl Kerl though.[/url] 😀
"To the sociable, friend-rich among us, it's great!"Says he, straight from da interweb!
Does this mean we're all friendless losers? 😉
And as for Twitter, well...10.00 Feel better now. Having some muesli.
9.55 Had a big poo
9.35 Need a poo
9.15 Feel a bit bunged up. Having a coffee.Please.
Nothing like being fair and balanced. Yes there is a backwash of mundanity on Twitter that would make your eyes bleed, but it is also an extremely efficient form of communication when used right.
I use facebook. I tend to use it with my real world friends who are nowadays a bit scattered.
"Does this mean we're all friendless losers?"
Pretty much.
I know. Believe me, I'm pretty cynical. but a mate is currently organising an "Event", a Snowdon walk, which he has posted up on FB, so loads of people that are "friends" of the "Group" can check it out, and decide to attend or not. and it can be adjusted, or updated as the event comes closer. It's really quite cool. so you can see who's coming, not coming, who makes suggestions for pub or food, you can comment on their suggestions. You can reccommend the event to other friends, etc. all in one space. So, I'll go on this walk, and meet friends of friends, that are interested in walking up mountains that I may have already chatted to online.
Yeah but how does it differ from just sending block emails to everyone?
It's much easier, quicker, and has more aesthetical betterness.
If you think you have very boring friends maybe it's a reflection on who you attract in life?
My family and friends are spread all over the world so I reckon it would be a good way of keeping in touch, but I also think that a lot of it is self promotion
All facebook does is let you talk to your friends. If they are into self promotion, then that's what you'll see. If they are just keeping in touch and sending nice messages every so often, then that's what you'll see.
Might as well complain about being in a room with your friends.
Yeah but how does it differ from just sending block emails to everyone?
Because stuff you put on facebook is less important and direct than an email, and it's very easy for people to skim read and pay no attention to unless something jumps out - more so than email. Your friends can filter out certain kinds of stuff but not others if they want to cut down on spam. You get to share videos, pictures and links with anyone on your list who cares, but if they don't care it's not intrusive.
Some people's stuff I like reading about, some I block.
I have practically no apps either.
It's a tool, don't blame it if the results aren't to your taste.
Another advantage of having a wife - she has the FB account; most of our friends are mutual; she gets to waste half her life on it (giving me access to the TV when required); I get the useful info filtered by a real human so don't miss out on socials etc without having to trawl through all the guff.
I have thought about getting my own account, but am quite convinced I'd use it for no good digging up past daliances with the opposite sex and as I don't think I could avoid being friends with my own wife it'd only end in trouble. Or can you have secret "friends" that other "friends" can't see you are friends with?
I've said it before - it's great for being friends with the person sat opposite you at work.
I've said it before - it's great for being friends with the person sat opposite you at work.
I would say it a third time, people need to be made aware of your genius.
I've said it before - it's great for being friends with the person sat opposite you at work,
There.
😉
Yeah but it does nothing I can't do via email. It's just like having a website where everyone has their own page, I spose.
S'just yet another password to bloody forget.
If you think you have very boring friends maybe it's a reflection on who you attract in life?
Where did I say I have boring friends?
I've resisted FB for years. I have only 40-50 friends, who are really friends or family. But in the last couple of months I've reassessed that view. Fact is, social networking is the future. I feel like I need to play catch-up in my field of work (media) and there's a good chance I'll have found my next job through FB. I don't like it but I know when I'm wrong.
Just look at the companies who are letting their corporate websites lie fallow while all the action takes place on their FB page. I think seeing it as a school reunion or for stalking old flames is out of date. I think you need to see it as another mode of communication, up there with radio, TV etc.
Do you send out a couple of emails a day telling people what's happened in your life?
judging by the amount of time you spend on STW spouting b0ll0x Elfin I should imagine most people are glad you don't do the same on fb... 😈
I am a friendless looser and thats the way I like it!
That's not very nice is it naedeyw? 😥
Do you send out a couple of emails a day telling people what's happened in your life?
There's on particular mate I keep informed about my daily bowel movements, as I know it amuses him.
I don't keep many friends and have little family. And I like to partition my life. Classic introvert. It's not for me.
It's just another way of communicating with people,bit like on a MTB forum,only you actually know the people(or should do) on FB...
So how many anti FB people post on here a fair bit......? 8)
Yeah but it does nothing I can't do via email.
Common retort this: "I just call/email/text/speak to my friends" as if having other channels of communication makes this one invalid. People said the same thing when email/texting/mobiles/landlines/telegrams were invented.
The thing is, if my mate specifically called/texted/emailed me to say that his baby had just said his first word or done his first unassisted poo then I'd think he'd gone a bit soft. But I still like to know, and that is somehow the right level for fb.
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Are there folk on Facebook asking: Not on STW, am I missing out?
I like this.
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[i]There's on particular mate I keep informed about my daily bowel movements, as I know it amuses him.[/i]
there's a couple of guys at work that use their jesus phones to take a picture of their shits-at-work and send 'em to each other, with comments, etc. I thinks it's really funny, this amazing modern technology is used for such childish purile behaviour 😆 I saw one pic :o, it was a huge thing, sprawling over the water... 😯
That's not very nice is it naedeyw?
No, you're right, hence the wee devil. I'm just surprised you aren't embracing fb as a social networking tool since you do seem to spend a lot of time each day on the internet and by your own admission use email and other tools to 'keep in touch'.
fb's a bit like flicking through the red tops of your life rather than reading the broadsheets.
Common retort this: "I just call/email/text/speak to my friends" as if having other channels of communication makes this one invalid. People said the same thing when email/texting/mobiles/landlines/telegrams were invented.
Why would you phone someone when you can send them a telegram?
Actually why would you send a telegram when you can dispatch a messenger, with a message on parchment sealed with wax?
I posted this here using semaphore.
I thinks it's really funny, this amazing modern technology is used for such childish purile behaviour I saw one pic :o, it was a huge thing, sprawling over the water...
Did I tell you about that poo I seen in the bogs in an office when I was a courier? Oh it was enormous. I tried flushing the bastard, but then the bog filled up with water and it started overflowing pooey water and fragments everywhere. I had to run out and tell the receptionist to give Dyno Rod a call, I weren't taking the blame for that one. Poor lass walked in there to check, ran out screaming. Traumatised. 🙁
I tell you how big it was; it was like a fair sized baguette, chopped into sections, but made of poo. It can't have bin the work of one person alone, surely? One bit were poking above the level of the seat!!! Ooh it still gives me the horrors now, just thinking about it...
If it were now, I'd've taken a snap on me 'phone. Cooduv posted it on FaceBook, if I had an account...
(Starts to see the appeal of FB...)
naedeyw don't be nasty please.
It's not just for personal use and telling the world what you had on your toast this morning. I am using it to promote my soon to be published book, and as a communications tool it is excellent in that way. Also I feel that it is great for when you are living abroad and just seeing photos of what your friends have been up to. Its a flexible thing and there are some good uses for it I feel.
yeah, that description on facebook would just blow all boring shit out the water lol!
but Simonralli, everyone is a self publiscist now, can put there stuff out there. Where is the quality control! 😉
I just tend to phone or call round to see people/go for a pint if I want to catch up with mates.
I use it a fair bit, there are friends who I don't see very often for various reasons, but I can keep in touch easily via FB. Most I don't have email addy's for, and wouldn't email them anyway. More often than not I post up pics I've taken, and friends can see them easily and comment if they want. Where I find it much more useful is keeping up to date with what various bands are doing. MySpace is clunky and most users hardly ever update their pages. There's one particular singer/songwriter who I saw several times in the mid 90's and met, who dropped out of sight, but I found on FB via her old MySpace site, and she's now finding great encouragement from her old fans as she's recorded a new album and is going to tour. Having been out of the music biz for more than a decade, she's been asking for venue ideas, and also posting links to new music on Soundcloud and writing a blog about her old career. I'm certain that without FB she'd be finding it much more difficult to spread the word. Twitter's the same, there's endless bilge, but I never post, but I follow certain people, including a Japanese journalist for the NYT who lives in Tokyo. Her Tweets over the last couple of weeks have been very enlightening, as are many re-Tweets from William Gibson, who's always posting interesting things. As does Cory Doctorow, who's Blog Boingboing I find endlessly fascinating. FB and Twitter are like STW: there's lots of rubbish posted, you just have to be selective and filter the crap out.
I have a FB account and have no friends whatsoever ;-(
I use it to keep in touch with people who are now in various parts of the globe such as Australia, Canada, USA, Japan, Spain and France, also with people who I may only see a couple of times a year.
I don't have anyone on FB who I see regularly.
🙁
I'll be your friend, Redthunder.
Here, this'll cheer you up:
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I'll bet you post up some great pics, though, redthunder.
Its pants is FB. I had it for ages and found it a completely useless tool. So deactivated my account. Im 16, what sixteen year old doesnt have FB nowadays? Me! cos its shite. Got twitter though, Follow people like Steve Peat, Gee Atherton, Rob Warner, Lance Armstrong and the like.
Preffer twitter. Less clutered. Much more intuative to use.
There are so many spelling mistakes in that I'm sure, But my phone doesnt spell check on Opera.
I use it a bit, I find some things like the event organising useful, and it's helped me get back in touch with people I'd lost contact with and regretted, or people who're far away... Takes a bit of work to keep the signal to noise ratio good.
But it really is a terrible piece of crap. I'd say badly designed but I think the truth is more that it wasn't designed at all, it just happened.
No!
no.
it's bull.
I rapidly realised that most of the people i have nothing to with i want to keep that way.
Giving them free rain to see what colour my wee is does not appeal.
[i]I rapidly realised that most of the people i have nothing to with i want to keep that way.
Giving them free rain to see what colour my wee is does not appeal.[/i]
it is your own choice who you add as "friends".
I mean, why do I need to bung up stuff like what music or films I like, on some internet bulletin board type thing?
I miss you on FB Aziz 🙁 I'm sure you'd be very entertaining 🙂
Giving them free rain to see what colour my wee is does not appeal.
is there an app for that ??
Well then,Frank..
whudda ya say? Do you [i]wanna be a part of it[/i] or not?
depends really , i was found and indeed found some long lost army friends, so keeping in touch with them is good for me, prolly not a good thing to be friends with yer boss tho, its come a long way over the past few years, yes theres some crap onit as well.
If you have wide and varied circle of people that you consider to be your friends outside of your nearest and dearest.. or your nearest and dearest are scattered far and wide.. then you may find facebook a welcome addition to your quiver of communication technologies..
Just look at the companies who are letting their corporate websites lie fallow while all the action takes place on their FB page
FBs terms mean they can use anything posted for pretty much any reason they want. They could turn your page of without warning too so we tend to suggest not putting all your eggs in one basket by ignoring your more traditional online presences as a company.
A lot of valid points on but I'm still not convinced.
I reckon I can go without a bit longer. Summer evenings are on their way and I think I would prefer to be out on the bike rather than reading about 'friends' bowel movements
what about reading about yer "friends" brilliant rides after work nearby that you hadn't tried Frank? I'd say that is informative and interesting!
but Simonralli, everyone is a self publiscist now, can put there stuff out there. Where is the quality control
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and I think I would prefer to be out on the bike rather than reading about 'friends'
you're still allowed to decide when you will or won't browse FB 🙂
Ok I'll do it then.
What do I need?
What do I need?
at least one imaginary friend ?
I'll be your friend and they don't come much imaginarier than me 🙂
No I fell out with them yesterday. 😥
Is it just me, or is it slightly ironic that people are complaining about facebook on an internet forum.
Sure it is, Alanis.
everyone who has a mildly aggressive outburst at the very mention of Facebook almost certainly know that if they joined it they wouldn't have enough friends to get them out of double figures
Into double figures or out of double figures? If you have triple figure friends on Facebook then I doubt they're all actually friends. It was actually for this reason that I deleted my account - I wanted to be selective but within fifteen minutes of joining I got pinged by five vague acquiantences (sp?) and I just cbf'd with the drama of not accepting them.
I just cbf'd with the drama of not accepting them.
Drama?
Elf, I'll friend you if you join up 🙂
I just cbf'd with the drama of not accepting them.
You can always accept and delete them later.
Or just Ignore their posts.
If you don't want them to see your posts then you can create lists of friends and choose which lusts get to see which posts. I use this to let me post rude stuff without offending the in-laws. 🙂
If you have triple figure friends on Facebook then I doubt they're all actually friends.
Over two hundred and counting. I think you are right though, but they can always wish.
You can always accept and delete them later.Or just Ignore their posts.
Yeah but they're people I know in real life. They'll whine and bitch about it to others. If they were just people I don't know, it wouldn't matter if I ignored or blocked them.