Attention Anti-Social Networkers!
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Also I don't bother involving myself in any way with the Twitter accounts of my friends because I firmly believe that no activity that allows you to post that you're doing it on the internet while you're in the process of doing it is interesting enough to share with anybody.
Thank you!Matt_LRR said:
That's another reason why I don't understand why some people just assume that the internet is full of nothing but pedophiles and is therefore the devil. You won't run into any on myspace/Facebook if you only add people people who know, and even then, I have yet to run into anyone like that online anywhere. But my mom still is all like "AAAH CLEAVAGE!!!! TAKE THAT PIC DOWN!!!! THE INTERNET'S GONNA RAPE YOU!!!!" every so often with certain pictures I take. Sorry I have boobs, mom.
I blame Dateline.
Because they're popular. Well Facebook is, not really Myspace anymore...
I personally don't because I don't have a reason to. I don't really have that much of a social life to network with.
I personally don't because I don't have a reason to. I don't really have that much of a social life to network with.
It's similar to a forum except without the anonymity. It's a lot harder for people express their opinions on subjects when the people know your name and a lot of the time know you personally. There aren't generally philosophical debates or anything, but people often say (read: type) stupid things, and it's harder to call them out on being stupid when you know them personally.
I use Facebook and love it, that's just what I think.
I use Facebook and love it, that's just what I think.
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Yup, I'm quite the Gaslight fan
I don't hate it. I've just never found it useful beyond getting notices from the clubs I'm in at school, and occasionally sharing photos. If I need to talk to a friend, I use AIM or Gmail. And everything on there is so public. Say you don't invite someone to a party--you used to just be able to not tell them about it, which was the polite way to go. Now, people make events on Facebook, and even if they don't, someone might post photographs or comment on someone's wall...you get the idea. There's so little privacy.
Also, you can't really have forum-like discussions on a site like Facebook. All the people I talk about detailed topics with hardly use it, anyway, and I wouldn't want to have an extensive discussion through wall posts.
Besides, frankly, I find Facebook really, really boring.
Also, you can't really have forum-like discussions on a site like Facebook. All the people I talk about detailed topics with hardly use it, anyway, and I wouldn't want to have an extensive discussion through wall posts.
Besides, frankly, I find Facebook really, really boring.
It has its uses, like keeping in touch with people that have moved away and things like that, but I have other methods of contacting the people I hang out with. Also all the ads and quizzes and poking and farmville etc. I'm not saying its necessarily a bad thing, I just don't like it.
Most of the problems found on social networking sites can easily be avoided... by not adding the people who would do the things you don't like so much, and not participating in the parts of whatever site that you don't care for. If you're smart and you keep it to your real friends and the otherwise cool-with-you people, and it's not that bad. >_>
It's simple really: Everyone on The Escapist rocks, and people we know in real life suck.
[small]Just kidding, all my friends are great.[/small]
I think the real reason is just that it seems stupid to put SO AND SO: WANTS PIZZA! LOL!!! on a webpage for everyone to see.
[small]Just kidding, all my friends are great.
[/small]I think the real reason is just that it seems stupid to put SO AND SO: WANTS PIZZA! LOL!!! on a webpage for everyone to see.
you say, "know personally" but in truth, the amount of people I would say I "know personally" is very low. and I can talk to those people any time I want over the phone.
Thirty? I'd have... five.JRCB said:
Why bother with social networking when I don't have enough people to socialize with anyway?
Plus I don't like the Facebook concept of "friend or nothing". Why no "acquaintances", "people I know a bit" and "whores I just add because I'm a horny teenager and hope they might one day have sex with me"? The latter one would probably work pretty well for many people.
I'm not remotely narcissistic enough to pretend that the mundane details of my life are interesting to anyone who isn't me, that's why. Anyone who thinks communication via a forum is really all that similar to how the major social networking sites work is not thinking clearly, there's an entirely different underlying paradigm to our interactions here.
Too lazy to join or sign up or whatever. I prefer to view peoples thoughts rather than their pictures of themselves. Also too lazy to sit their and play around with the site. Escapist is easy i reply, someone that quotes me turns up in a mail system, life goes on.TheDoctorsCompanion. said:
Because people misunderstand the purpose of social networking sites. Really, Facebook is simply an easy way to communicate and keep up with friends. In that sense, it's absolutely fantastic. Plus, there's not nearly as much of the attention/friend whoring as on Myspace, and no teenage girls constantly changing their profile name to emo song lyrics.
But regardless of the superiority of Facebook over Myspace, social networking should connect people to their friends easily and constantly. Discussion isn't so much part of the equation in the first place, unless you want to have a conversation with a known friend. The purposes of The Escapist and social networking are quite different, but people hate social networking because it sucks where sites like this excel; but they miss the point. And in terms of the actual uses of social networking, it works well and there's nothing wrong with it.
But regardless of the superiority of Facebook over Myspace, social networking should connect people to their friends easily and constantly. Discussion isn't so much part of the equation in the first place, unless you want to have a conversation with a known friend. The purposes of The Escapist and social networking are quite different, but people hate social networking because it sucks where sites like this excel; but they miss the point. And in terms of the actual uses of social networking, it works well and there's nothing wrong with it.
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I do have a Facebook account but I spend much more time here. Too many stupid little application games/quiz invites constantly besieging my notification box plus the community here is better. I'm not giving up Facebook as it is my only link to some of my more distant friends but I definitely prefer the Escapist.
Oh, and I think Twitter is for bird-brains.
I'm not anti-social networking at all. I use Facebook regularly, although I dislike much of the implementation of it (as I think someone previously mentioned, the coding of it is AWFUL, and the resultant breakdowns, partial or total, are annoying as all fuck). The differences inherent in a forum (and the reason I like them) are the randomness of it, the generally higher intellectual content, and to a degree the anonymity. If you agree with someone, you've found an ally...if you disagree, you've found maybe a challenger or an opponent. (Or just an idiot.) Either way, that's all they have to be unless you and they choose to make it something different. There's none of the baggage of knowing someone personally and knowing their circle of friends that will inevitably show up whenever you have, say, a Facebook fight.
Just my 2 cents, of course.
Just my 2 cents, of course.