My Rants against MyFace

[TheAnimus]

Ok first and foremost I'm sure my anti-facespace policy has cost me all sorts of things, I've been told its cost me invitations to parties and even at one extreme casual sex.

But I still can't see why so many people embrace it so.

When Facebook first came to my attention they where still using the Eric Cartman school of marketing (so much to do at cartmanland but YOU CAN'T COME!), and like most patsies I had a look at what it was as soon as I was able.

This is the killer thou, at uni I was spending 12-15 hours a day on a computer, or soldering, or doodling in lectures. I'm a geek thou, I like learning new programing languages just for kicks, making an ANN AI that plays a game which has perfect play strat is an enjoyable challange, BUT....

The last thing I wanted was to remove the great way of keeping up to date with the gossip, finding out the latest news, grabbing a brew, and sitting together in a room, squandering our lives.

But myface tried just that, rather than have proper physical contact it removed all the best news, leaving behind it the noise of "omg I'm eating toast in the bathroom".

My life is full enough of machines, I think thats why I keep fish, why I love skillfully made wooden furniture rather than the efficient reconstituted stuff. I want physical, tactile real experiences.

So to all those people who are complaining I have no facebook to be bragging about my latest life games on, come out for a chuffing beer instead you miserable computer slaves.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rNgCnY1lPg

[Lucio]

I'm really conflicted on this subject, having a FB account has meant I've reconnected with friends who had drifted away (as in physically meet up with them), on the other, the over-sharing and quite frankly odd updates makes me wonder why on earth I bother with it. Not to mention the crazy amount of information that periodically gets leaked to random strangers...


Of course, going out for a beer would be preferable, but I live miles from any mates and I'm discinlined by reason of mild social anexity from making new ones

[IronWarrior]

U mad? (had too lol)

For many years, I hated social sites as I always believe you should keep personal information to yourself, but ever since I started Kendo, I started to use my account and make use of it. Facebook has to be one of the best websites I ever use, I get all my world news, gaming news, tech news and Kendo news, hobby news, anime, releases, 100's of other things each and every day.

[TheAnimus]

U mad? (had too lol)

Heh, I'm begining to wonder if I'm missing out more by not been on it, than I'd loose out by being on it.

(The casual sex for instance, double jointed, 4 years younger than me, but damned filthy and practised from all accounts.... My morals have a price!)

[Ross1]

even as someone who doesnt use facebook, and feels it brings out the worst in people..... your diatribe needs a lot of work.

[Dareos]

I quite agree mate, and 4337 of my friends have posted on my wall about it, nearly 3000 of them liked it and 353 of them shared your post that i pasted in my profile..

I might even start a group about it...

[IronWarrior]

Heh, I'm begining to wonder if I'm missing out more by not been on it, than I'd loose out by being on it.

(The casual sex for instance, double jointed, 4 years younger than me, but damned filthy and practised from all accounts.... My morals have a price!)

It's great to always catch deals and sales and competitions.

One of my rules in using it is only add people that I met in person, people who I think are good for networking and close online friends, anyone else, strangers or random invites, I just ignore.

[BlauLicht]

dude hit me up on facebook, i will buy u a beer sometime lol, i use it to talk to ppl get new and stay in the loop, i oten arrange meeting with mates nd stuff like that, watched an episode of QI the other week nd it said in life we actually only have about 150 friends, nd my facebook does represent that dont have so many friends on it 193 to b precise, thing is i grew up in germany till the age of 13 nd since facebook i have gotten bk in contact witha lot friends i had in germany i had nearly forgotten about. yeah i was anti facebook in the beginning too but now im on it everyday, i still go out nd talk to ppl u know nd i dont post crap like omg i have toast nd dont c stuff like that on my new feed.

[b0redom]

dude hit me up on facebook, i will buy u a beer sometime lol, i use it to talk to ppl get new and stay in the loop, i oten arrange meeting with mates nd stuff like that, watched an episode of QI the other week nd it said in life we actually only have about 150 friends, nd my facebook does represent that dont have so many friends on it 193 to b precise, thing is i grew up in germany till the age of 13 nd since facebook i have gotten bk in contact witha lot friends i had in germany i had nearly forgotten about. yeah i was anti facebook in the beginning too but now im on it everyday, i still go out nd talk to ppl u know nd i dont post crap like omg i have toast nd dont c stuff like that on my new feed.

.....and again in English? TXT SPK is frowned upon here.

As to the OP. I just don't get social networking sites. A lot of my family and friends seem to like them, but really I'd prefer to pick up a phone or go meet in person.

[Ferral]

Me and my wife actually had our Facebook accounts deleted about 3 months ago, I had disabled mine Christmas before last. Wife had re enabled hers though.

Now though they are gone for good thankfully. Wife was spending most days all day on Facebook, caused severe problems between us and put strain on our marriage.

We have just opened a new Facebook account and set up a page on it, this however is for business use only, none of our personal friends are being accepted on it and when we log in it goes straight to the business page. Literally now we are using it for free advertising, Google adwords is getting quite expensive now as we get so many hits per day, business has only been live since about November last year and our Google bill for adwords is hitting around £50 every 3 weeks.

Also done the same with Twitter, set up an account so we can put offers up that we have on there.

Other than that, I HATE Facebook and social networking.

[peterb]

.....and again in English? TXT SPK is frowned upon here.

Is it Welsh?

[Larkspeed]

I use facebook and don't really have a problem with it.

Some of the status updates get a bit tiresome but you can black those anyway so no big deal.

I have friends and family spread out all over the globe so the easiest way for me to keep in touch with all of them is facebook.

[Cozwin]

Facebook has its uses, yes plenty of idiots on there, but the uses outweigh the bad side. As much as I'd like to think I could do without it, quite a few things about it are pretty much useful to me day to day, such as asking someone a question about uni or such that yes I could text, but why pay?

[shaithis]

I have a FB account but only use it to sync pictures to my phones directory I actually hate it and a number of people I call friends have actually been the ones to make me hate it!

I always thought it was due to spending a long time as admin for a large CRM but maybe it's a broader techy thing.

[Lee H]

That is why you can hide updates from people that post boring posts all day long from showing up in your feeds.

Simple to do, takes the whole of what 3 minutes and I guarantee this will reduce your stress and anger for FB tenfold as it did for me after I did it.