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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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just kidding Mr Ralli 😀
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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.
It's like anything, if it works for you then great - it's just a system which you can use for telling people about your poo or selling your stuff or enlightnening the world or being enlightened in return.
I'm not on there for two reasons.
The first is that everything is so hideously public - we all know someone who's had some difficult breakup made exponentionally more difficult by the fact that it now has to be broadcast to everyone that they know. For me, Facebook tends to result in too much information being published and collocated.
The second is the frankly staggering scope over and beyond basic social networking that Facebook have (unless you're very careful) for tracking your activity on the Internet. That's "on the Internet", not "on Facebook". The data harvesting capabilites are eye-opening.
BookMyFace is fine as an interwebs toy until people start thinking it serves a useful function or is in some way important.
It's the current fad in a long line of fads.
At some point it'll be superceded by something different but equally pointless.
It's not pointless.
It has a point for me.
Yeah but they're people I know in real life
Then you accept them and filter out all their posts 🙂
Google are looking over their shoulder at Facebook - they are creating more and more features and functions every day (Places, Deals, Search, email, Questions). Facebook, I think, will be here to stay. For a time Twitter appeared to be catching it up but they moved on and left it (and especially MySpace) in it's wake.
if it weren't for facebook, i'd not be sat in the alps running an adventure travel website (which also has a strong presence on FB)...
works for me (and seemingly half a billion other people).
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.
I think this about sums it up.
Ultimately, if what's being posted is puerile drivel, it's a fault of the posters, not the medium.
Dismissing Twitter by going "who wants to read '9:15, went for a poo'?" is easy enough, but does that actually happen, ever? I've never seen it. But then, I don't follow halfwits.
Facebook is annoying with its spammy apps, but I've blocked the most prolific apps and dropped the most annoying users, and the signal-to-noise ratio is now surprisingly high.
If you're a serial follower / friender, one of these people who thinks "he's following me so I *must* follow them back" or "I can't un-friend her, she'll be offended / upset" then, really, you've only got yourselves to blame.
It's not fair to blame the medium for your own shortcomings after you've gone out of your way to surround yourself with the intellectually subnormal.
if it weren't for facebook, i'd not be sat in the alps running an adventure travel website (which also has a strong presence on FB)...
And there you have it! It's morphing into another marketing tool to increase google ratings and SEO placement.
I've not signed up for it either.
Part of the reason is that when i talk shite on the internet i like to do so behind a username rather than my real name, prefer the degree of anonymity it allows. Back when i first started using the net (around about 1997) i contributed to a few websites using my real name...alot of what i said is still around and the top google results if i search my name are book reviews.
The first return is Mein Kampf, the review was originally about how crap the writing was, that nazis are bawbags and how they should follow their leader and shoot themselves. But the text of the review is gone, what that remains is a link "Mein Kampf reviewed by...." so it probably makes me look like a nazi 😐
You don't have to sign up with your real name... Nor do you have to put a real photo up...