Facebook Chat is Stupid
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Just go offline. Mostly I stay offline and just reply to things via the message service if I need to.
It's good for talking to people you actually want to talk to, though.
It's good for talking to people you actually want to talk to, though.
i have friends that i dont really see outside of school, and i talk to them on fb. you seem to be friends with only idiots (on facebook. the ones who chat.)
I only friend people I know in real life or known over the net for years. I don't superficially try to inflate my friend count with people I don't know. Even then I don't frequent FB too often. I've had quite a few meaningful conversations over the FB chat.
I generally don't use FB chat... and when I have, it's usually been for hours on end catching up with people I haven't spoken to in a long time (friends from school/undergrad days etc.).
A lot of it is either political ranting or academic discussion, so it has its uses, I suppose.
A lot of it is either political ranting or academic discussion, so it has its uses, I suppose.
What you've effectively said here is something I see very often. Someone will dislike something simply because the fans, or people who populate the website are, to put it nicely, mildly lacking when it comes to intelligence.TheAztec said:
Your problem with Facebook seems to be with the people. I have absolutely no issue with the chat, I just hate people who have no grammar, and/or talk like "HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII BAAAAAAAAABEZZZZZZZZZZZZ HRU???"
There is actually a way around this though. You can create specific friend groups, and put people in them, then limit your availability, so that you appear online to everyone except the people in that group. It's something I do when I want to avoid people, but not hurt their feelings.
Don't blame the chat, if it's actually your friends that are dumb.
Yes, I have people like that on my friend's list. I'd delete them, but they're actually family and relatives mostly. But yes, I do use the chat for regular instant-messaging with regular people who have meaningful things to say and WHO DON'T TYEP LIEK THIS BAI
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Yes, I have people like that on my friend's list. I'd delete them, but they're actually family and relatives mostly. But yes, I do use the chat for regular instant-messaging with regular people who have meaningful things to say and WHO DON'T TYEP LIEK THIS BAI
PPPPPP
I just hate the whole site and what it does. I got Google+ and while its infinitely better the Facebook I still never use it.
That isn't the chat's fault. I use it all of the time to talk with friends. It is a decent IM system.
Did you know that you can go 'offline' in chat? Play around with the options. That should solve the problem.THEMILKMAN said:
Facebook, the nexus of anti-intellectual behaviour.
You notice how girls always post hearts, "beautiful", "sexy" etc on their female friends' profile pictures whenever they change? You want to know why? Well, the whole point is to be the centre of a close group of friends. So what you do is constant name-dropping, where that name is your own. The whole point is that if you spam other people enough with complements, then they'll feel obliged to comment back. Of course, there is rarely anything interesting to comment on (seeing that most facebook photos are utter crap), so you get more of the useless "sexy", "gorgeous" bull. What you end up with is an endless spiral of approval- and recognition-seeking, where the comments steadily progress to uncharted lows.
A meaningful conversation is not what facebook is about. Facebook is about "staying in touch" with your friends, aka promoting yourself to make sure people can't avoid you, ensuring your position as the person with the largest amounts of comments on your profile photo.
So there you have it. The recipe for facebooking success: Get a good camera.
You notice how girls always post hearts, "beautiful", "sexy" etc on their female friends' profile pictures whenever they change? You want to know why? Well, the whole point is to be the centre of a close group of friends. So what you do is constant name-dropping, where that name is your own. The whole point is that if you spam other people enough with complements, then they'll feel obliged to comment back. Of course, there is rarely anything interesting to comment on (seeing that most facebook photos are utter crap), so you get more of the useless "sexy", "gorgeous" bull. What you end up with is an endless spiral of approval- and recognition-seeking, where the comments steadily progress to uncharted lows.
A meaningful conversation is not what facebook is about. Facebook is about "staying in touch" with your friends, aka promoting yourself to make sure people can't avoid you, ensuring your position as the person with the largest amounts of comments on your profile photo.
So there you have it. The recipe for facebooking success: Get a good camera.
It's not the chat. Find better people. If someone you don't really care for is your friend on facebook then just dismiss them on chat. That's what I do. Or go offline. I really don't think you can blame the chat dealy, though I guess you aren't, really.
If this is your most common experience on facebook, then you must keep some obnoxious company. I the last facebook conversation I had was about existentialist nihilism.