Failbook

Am I the only person here that does not have a Failbook account?

Let's talk about Failbook -- the pros and cons.

So there are many reasons for me not having a Failbook account. Aside from the privacy issues, which there are many, I just find the jibberjabber that occurs on social media sites to be mostly mindless banter. I mean, who thinks they're so important they need to blab about their private lives on Failbook? From what I have seen, that is what most people do. Furthermore, who cares to actually read that shit?

It seems like in the early 00s they started conditioning people via so-called "reality" shows like Big Brother, where it became cool for people to have intimate details of their private lives exposed (it also acclimated people to the surveillance state we now live in). Then came American Idol, where everyone thinks they're some kind of star and really special. Then came the age of YouTube and internet celebrities. Now it seems like people not only not care about putting their personal information out online, they WANT to put their information out for everyone to see.

So where do you stand on the whole Failbook issue?

Please don't feel as though I am berating those who have a Failbook. I realize some people like to keep in touch with old friends and family. There is nothing wrong with that. Personally, I couldn't care less about talking to people I knew and didn't care much for in high school, or with family I am not even close to. So other than that, I don't see the purpose of having a Failbook, so I am interested in hearing what others think.

Why do you use Failbook?

 

:coffee:

 

No facebook for this guy. Everybody that needs to contact me does so through the old fashioned method of coming and finding me. I deleted mine almost a year ago and life is a lot more quiet. It's noce to not have that impulse to check something all the time just to be disappointed. I read a study that alleged that we get hooked on facebook notices and when we don't get them, we become depressed. That's not for me.

 

Never Have, Never Will, If Somebody Wants To Get In Touch With Me

It's Pretty Easy, Iv'e Lived Here All My Life, And My Number Is In The Phonebook....



Cheers Glen.

 

no

 

No Facebook for me.

 

I see it as a bells & whistles phone book. These days many people are more upwardly mobile and it is easy to lose touch with old contacts. I am trying to find some old contacts and have found some.

 

No Facebook here

 

FB is pointless. The reason I first got an account was when joining a UNiversity's group competition as the members of my group suggested that facebook would be ideal for setting up an account for our group in order to communicate even when we are not physically together. Ever since that time facebook has been no help in any academic or in anay way in general. So it is pretty pointless.

 

i got one, i kinda love it hahahhaha :sunny:

 

I have one for keeping in touch with family and friends overseas lol But so many of my friends are obsessed, my cousin updates from her cel every day, like who the fuck what's to know that you got your results and you will be graduating uni in May. Or how people suddenly do all these great activities and eat all this YUM food...when you don't work??? How the fuck can you afford that(i know because my younger sis tells me since she's hooked2). I have high school friends send me invites and i admit some suddenly look good enough to be on tv, and everyone on there in their photo's look like they lost weight??? then you see them in person and you realize...Cropping and editing photos does that shit.

 

I dont have one purely because if I want to keep in contact with someone, I will, I dont need to contact their brother or some girl from school or the people I live with... And I especially dont want to read about the sandwich they just made.

 

Hahaha...

Great post.

 

I have one, I find it's a good way to keep in touch with a few select people that I probably wouldn't keep up with otherwise. I want to, just life get's in the way, and I move very frequently.

But the odds of people I want to talk to versus the people who just added me are like 1 to 10. I do find it terribly lame, and this is coming from someone who posts on hipforums.

But it's not bad for me the way I use it, which is to occasionally message friends, and to post occasionally interesting anecdotes.

 

Oh I moved on to Spacebook ages ago... :2thumbsup:

 

No. I only send messages via pigeon.

 

It can type very well.

 

Nice save... :2thumbsup:

 

Thank coo.

 

I have never made an account for any reason. When facebook was first came out i remember thinking...well myspace was the biggest waste of time..ill stay away from this new wave of bullshit.

The last conversation i had on myspace was with a girl i dated for a year and half and we hadnt spoke for almost 2 years. Are conversation didn't go well and everything she said just strait up pissed me off. I think all that anger that myspace created that day layed a foundation to never go on another...friend sharing, picture posting drama invested website.

"hey dude you hear about this new facebook?"

"man i just had myspace and not i fuckin hate site"

"this one is better"

"no its not its just a new flame that will die out soon enough"

well it hasnt died out....but from hipforums and other places...now i stay far far away....