Facebook; a lame, grandiose waste of time-BOYCOTT

I withdrew this post due to the huge misunderstanding of what I said.

I dont think anyone should boycott Facebook. I just find many of its aspects annoying.If anyone shares this view or otherwise, please comment.

 

I don't like some of the things I have seen on their, like my brother pretending to hump a dog, my cousin in a speedo and a friend from elementary school holding a dildo......Too much information!

 

if it's such a waste of time then why are you checking it every day.




sounds like the only thing you hate is yourself

 

Yeah, thats not really true mark! . I dont hate myself, but I do regret the addictive urge to check my page. Its not hate anyway, its annoyance and please dont get on my back about saying hate ,because I WAS ranting.... And if you didnt "get" the post I will clarify; I check it because I think it may produce something interesting, but am constantly dissapointed by the shallow goings on there....It had a purpose once but it has gone to shit. I am boycotting it for greener pastures...namely here

 

No, I think Mark has a good point.

I'm wondering when the rant about this place will come.

3 months?
2 months?

 

I personally don't think that everybody should boycott some site that you find to be a waste of time but actively continue to use. If like me, you find Facebook and all those other networking sites a complete fucking waste of time, then it really is simple. Don't use it.

It's not a drug, and I doubt that it is addictive. If you however have some problems overcoming boredom in your life, it may have at one stage filled that spot, and now leaves you feeling like you are missing out on something if you don't log on.

I'll leave you with some very practical advice. Do not log on for a week. Then go back and see if anything so important happened, it would justify you having to spend so much time on there as to end up angry enough to make a post like this.

The choice is yours.

 

I can see my thread was misunderstood-I dont go to that site anymore!
Its funny how I havent checked it since before I made the thread and people still pick it apart.I havent checked it in over a week but thanks, it was good advice. I jjust created the thread so others who wanted to rant about the imperfections of Facebook could. so if you have something to say about it, fine. If people are going to pick apart some ranting post I made after something inflamed me, dont please.

 

hmm. i remember when i was on myspace. checked it quite a bit. refreshed the page every couple minutes. and after a couple years, just like marksup123 said,

it just made me absolutely hate myself.

me and my girlfriend deleted our pages probably a year ago, and i have never been happier. its such a waste of shit time and mental capacity. it actually caused me stress (i have no idea how). there is no reason to constantly be in other peoples shit. nor is there a reason to update your page or post bullitens for every minor change or event that occurs in your life. after all, nobody cares. and for those people who act like they care and maybe reply or send you a message, probably just want you to comment them back.

fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk myspace.

(this is probably completely irrelivant to facebook, i have never used it)

 

and to you melody, to completely get rid of any urge or impulse you may have, just delete your profile. just take the big step, and hit the delete button. even if it means getting shit face trashed in order to click it. you will feel 20 pounds lighter as soon as the hangover goes away.

 

I think it's a good thing because it works as an online photo album. I'm traveling now so I can just download my photos onto my facebook page and type up a short explanation or commentary for my friends and family to read at their leisure so they can know what I'm doing, as opposed to assembling a big photo album that would only bore people anyway.

My parents actually started to respect what I'm doing with my life and get interested in the places I've been after seeing my facebook page, before that they had no idea. So that's definitely good.

But when these people I haven't seen in years decide to add me to their friend list and then start up a short-lived e-mail exchange that only goes nowhere, I don't get it.

 

Well. I got a few things to say here, first of all, i DONT have a facebook account, from a personal point of view is a waste of time, why, very simple, I've seen my sister, my friends, a lot of people looking for people that they have not seen in years but not in a good way. they are looking for them to see what they are doing?, if they got married, if they got children, damn , if you want to know something about someone ask the person, dont go to a silly website to gossip.

Even worse is the people that get there everyday to feed a virtual dog, or to get photos of people that you dont know to say "I got xxxxx$ in photos" what the hell is that???????.

Ok, if you want to post pictures for your family, I got to say that maybe you're using it right, but i've seen a lot of people going there just to judge and laught about people, I dont like that at all, ok, maybe someone will say that I am focusing on the bad side of it, well, pittifully thats what I see when people get there, is terrible.

Other thing, some people put so many info on their profiles that makes me sick, with who is related, or her or his actual couple, that is sick, its like leaving the book of you life open to everyone to see, why?.

Like I said before, I dont have one, what I know is what i've seen while other are there or when they pushed me to get mine, I am totally against it, maybe is a great social tool, it could be, but a lot of people use it wrong.

This is not the first time that I got into something like this, well, sometime ago, a lady, a friend, told me give me your email, lets keep in touch, Of course I let her know my email address, but look what happened, she began to send me those horrible and sick chains of love and all that crap, well, several months after that encounter, she said to me "You're mean, you never write me" of course my response was "YOU NEVER WROTE ME ANYTHING", she began to tell me that she did, well, for me if you want to write me, is a mail for me, not to 50 people or your whole address list.

If you want to know something about me or to say something to me, write me, thats why I hate facebook, I hate people gossipping ( that word exist?).

Someone said to me " C'mon open your facebook profile, I want to know about your life", " if you're not on the facebook, you dont exist", well my answer was "I dont exist on your pc, you're right, but you seems to be waisting your time here with me. You're talking to a person, are you?".

 

thanks for that response. it was a more accurate description of the things I hate about it!

 

I think that Facebook is great.

It allows for me to keep in touch with people whom I probably will never see again, old friends, and so on.

It's an easy communication tool, photo storage tool, and so on.

Plus, the new chat function is great. You can just see if any of your friends are online, ask them what they're doing... (obviously nothing, since they're on facebook), and tell them that you should get together instead of wasting your lives.

Plus, you get to discover a whole lot more about people through it than you would in real life.

 

Sorry but that is sooooooo untrue, or no, let's say that you're right, maybe that person dont want you to know all that, have you ever thought about it, dont you think is gossiping?, you're dealing with the private life of someone, if he dont want to tell you something, you should not know what he dont want to share with you. But please, discover is not the word for what youre doing!!!.

P.D. I dont have anything against you my friend, its only the facebook, in real life you can get as much as you want, or let me put it this way, as much as the other person INVOLVED wants, It's fair, isn't?. Thats why I think that your " You get to discover a whole lot more about people through it than you would in real life" is not true at all. If they can write it on the facebook, why you could not get there by talking!!!!! not through gossip!!!!!

 

If a person wouldn't want me to know something about them, then they wouldn't put it on their facebook profile.

Discover is the word for what I'm doing.

Per example someone has "The Beatles" listed as one of their favourite bands. I didn't know that they liked the band. Now I do know. Wow, discovery!

I also suggest learning some English.

 

Thanks for taking it personal.

Ok, you discovered that your friend likes the beatles, good, I dont think that "Hey buddy, just by any chance, do you like the beatles? is that so difficult to ask... COMUNICATE!

Like a said a while ago, maybe is a great social tool, but people are using it wrong.

 

I think you're a loony.

 

You're being a bit harsh, aren't you? Can you really not see his point at all?

 

Its easy to type a friendship.plently of losers do it everyday! To actually make human contact communication takes a much more ambitious spirit. Whether cyber contact allows us to do this or not is a mystery, for people havent left their keyboards......

 

How about both online and offline communication!

The best of both worlds, you bloody pessimists.