I like using Facebook to stay in contact with friends who I can't see face to face BUT I really hate these new privacy concerns. It's almost enough to quit altogether. Come on Mark, give me one more reason and I'm gone.
Poll: Do you use/like facebook?
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I use it but there are a lot of things about it which I really dislike*.
I would quit it, but the problem is, so many things get organised through Facebook, I think I would miss out on a lot of social events without it.
It would be ok if noone used Facebook, because people managed for an awful long time without it. However, now that Facebook has replaced certain functions (eg. mailing invites, keeping an address book, writing to/calling people you don't see that often), I think I would lose out if I quit.
*the stupid groups and fanpages and the people that like them, how easy it is to stalk people, increased difficulty of keeping secrets or even privacy, the cheap version of friendship/social interaction it offers, how the relationship status has importance, how some people don't quite realise the impression that they give off online (guys with shirtless profile pictures, girls with 3000 pictures of themselves, people's descriptions of themselves which sound like CVs) etc.
I would quit it, but the problem is, so many things get organised through Facebook, I think I would miss out on a lot of social events without it.
It would be ok if noone used Facebook, because people managed for an awful long time without it. However, now that Facebook has replaced certain functions (eg. mailing invites, keeping an address book, writing to/calling people you don't see that often), I think I would lose out if I quit.
*the stupid groups and fanpages and the people that like them, how easy it is to stalk people, increased difficulty of keeping secrets or even privacy, the cheap version of friendship/social interaction it offers, how the relationship status has importance, how some people don't quite realise the impression that they give off online (guys with shirtless profile pictures, girls with 3000 pictures of themselves, people's descriptions of themselves which sound like CVs) etc.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.152250-Poll-Do-you-have-Facebook#3627084TrogzTheTroll said:
Yea...you used the search bar alright!
/sarcasm.
I think you meant, "Do People Even bother with the searchbar? fuck..."soapyshooter said:
And to stay on topic, no I do not use facebook. If people didn't use myspace except for the first few months, then Facebook will do the same thing shortly. Why bother with it?
Well, seeing as many of my friends are seniors who will be leaving in about a week, I made a Facebook account so that I wouldn't never (yes, a double-negative) see them again.
It's a fun and easy way to communicate and coordinate with friends. If something stupid happens on Facebook, it's because you have stupid friends. There's nothing wrong with it inherently, it's a great system for easy communication with those around you. I love it.
Oh my, you're right, sorry.soapyshooter said:
Let me just fire up my time machine and necro this bad boy right? Oh wait no that would be stupid.
I use it, but that doesn't mean I like it. It's convenient for the way I use it (no extra apps/games) and all my friends are on it, so it's a useful method of communication. I've considered Twitter, but it seems to have too few features in the same way that Facebook has too many.
I use it yes, do I like it? No. Facebook is really starting to piss me off, if someone isn't joining every fucking 'Like' page imaginable, they are making their status some sort of song lyric. The only thing I use it for is chat and the chat function is so shitty and broken, its almost unusable.
