I recently deleted my Facebook account. I had it for 11 months (I remember because all I posted were Rockets playoff updates). Well, I had to see what all the fuss was about. I didn't put up any pictures, because all of my friends know what I look like. Others (usually the ones with over 600 friends) would post many pictures of themselves every week or so. That's okay. It's hard to stay in touch with everyone when you have that many Facebook friends. Now for the ugly. Facebook has taken the English language, murdered it, dug it up just to pee on it. Now, every time these simps see a well organized paragraph they shudder. Moving on. I know people tend to be self-centered, but facebookers have taken it to another level. Just because Facebook asks what's on your mind you don't have to type in "nothing." The thing that upset me the most was how much time a few of my connections spent on this website. I know a lot of people use it to message each other, but there is a limit. The fact is we are not in middle school anymore, if you have something you need to say call me. How does this tie into the BBS? Well, they are both essentially the same thing. On the BBS, I post when I want to add, or input something in a thread. I know I am not going to be the most popular/famous person on the internet, and that people don't sit around and wait all day for another one of my posts. Facebook users are so caught up in their last status update or what they are going to post next that they could care less if it means anything to anyone else. Facebook is a website that thrives on peoples insecurities and need for attention. That is why I have chosen the BBS. It is much healthier, safer, and the people are more interesting. The obligatory: Spoiler
Some posted a list of all the different types of Facebook users. It's pretty accurate. I like Facebook. But yeah, I hate it when people post one word updates. Like they're so cryptic or clever. And then people have to ask them what it meant in the comments section.
Like you said, this is truly a Cool Story, bro. But seriously, I agree with you in some aspects. Many people are too addicted with Facebook to the point where they would post anything. I guess it's a cheaper way of communicating with your friends, since it's better than sending hundreds of texts everyday. Overall, I like Facebook. Good way of stalking..er catching up with people.
I like FB for the fact that now I know who the attention whores are amongst my friends. It used to be somewhat more challenging before the advent of FB, but now it is pretty easy and easier for me to avoid them. I know this guy who from school who has like 1500 FB friends. He would just randomly add people from his school network who he had never even met. One day I asked him how he knew this girl we both mutually knew (since she was on his FB friends list) and he didn't even know who I was talking about. I am convinced that the more FB friends you have, the less friends in real life you actually have.
Till this day I still have not opened up a facebook account. I think I may be one of the few people left in this world who have never had a facebook account at one time in their life. :grin:
I want to delete my account but for several business reason related things I have stay on FB. I agree about that status update thing I just keep "hiding" people on fb.
I don't use FB much anymore... it's going to die pretty soon... just like MySpace.... Twitter will be done then soon after.
It seems to me the problem would be with how you choose to use Facebook. The whole point of Facebook is to keep up with friends you want to keep up with. If you're reading a bunch of crap you don't care about, you either added too many friends, you pay too much attention to your account, or you have too many things in your feed. All of those are problems you can solve on your own instead of just blaming Facebook for it. The best part about Facebook is not keeping your close friends updated on everything you do every day - those are people you keep updated through your every day life. It's being able to stay in touch with the secondary friends that people generally tend to lose contact with for no good reason other than a lack of time or laziness or distance or whatever . If they don't care about what you're up to, they can remove you from their feed. If you don't care about what they are up to, you can remove them.
Not likely. People above 18 actually use Facebook. If anything it's got more left in the tank than Myspace does. That was doomed from the start with the under 18 crowd.
Agreed. I'm seeing more and more people "cave" and create FB accounts when they previously swore they would never do so. I think FB is great for keeping in touch with people all over the country and world I would otherwise have no chance to talk to on a regular basis.
lol I caught that too. When he said simp I thought he was about to start talking about all these men on Facebook gassing the heads of these average females on Facebook.
It's a good place to keep in touch with people + you can store photos and contact info. If I stored it somewhere else I might lose it.
I doubt that. Facebook was designed much better than myspace. Facebook will always be a popular thing amongst the high school and college aged people. Twitter is just dumb, I can see people following things like news sites or athletes, but why would anyone post anything themselves on there?
Facebook has been very good to me. I was there for the beginning of facebook as a Grad Student. Everybody at the University could see my profile which worked to my benefit. I found out that many undergrads were stalking me. I had a diverse group of fans and it all became very useful: law school, business school, med school, public health ... I wish I took more advantage of it. Not only this, girls that shared a mutual friend were facebooking me and although I haven't met them yet, if I were to go to Chicago or Tampa Bay, it would be an interesting situation. Outside of this, I've traveled internationally and made facebook friends there that I know I can count on to show me around if I were to come back. As people have graduated, I have them as a networking opportunity in different job markets. It allows me to keep in touch with all my graduate school friends who have dispersed around the country and around the world. They've shown me around the city when I am in town. It allows me to friend people from elementary to high school. And of course, I can keep up with how they are doing, any events that they are putting together. It is all much easier rather than telephoning each person. I just entered the workforce so we'll see how facebook will be used then. I have completely cut off outside viewership of my profile, but I still have the friends I've made. There is nothing about these things that thrive on needing attention or insecurity. Its a networking tool, and if someone wants attention then so be it, you can MUTE them. I've never written about my thoughts but I know a few which are the type that constantly write about what they had for lunch... I MUTE them. Its that easy. Oh, and just recently I became aware of some charities that I want to become a part of. Your perception of facebook is VERY one-dimensional. Comparing a BBS to a social network is like comparing apples and.... I think your angst has to do with being thrown into all of this at the same time, an initial distaste for it before you even started, and a lack of diversity in your real-life friends. Facebook has become more corporate and more twitter like, but the things that made it popular amongst university students are still there. Trust me, it really grinds on me when I overhear some 40 year olds talking about their facebook profile, but I did overhear someone talking about their small business and how it had 30% growth once it got on facebook. It won't die like myspace because the initial growth stage is already overcome whereas Myspace never reached that level. Investors are waiting for Facebook's IPO. Microsoft has already invested money into Facebook which gave Facebook a value in the billions! Twitter, on the other hand, is much more vulnerable. I read an article that Twitter's user growth has started to flatten, so it may have reached its peak. Facebook though, will remain.
My point was.. everything comes to an end... AOL was the same way... everyone had it. Everything eventually dies in the social world and then something new pops up, something better.
People said Myspace would never die back in 2006. Everything has its course on the Internet. Look how Hotmail died, when Gmail came out. Look at Friendster and Myspace. Alot of people are already abandoning the FB ship due to the decreased privacy on the site. Everything fades out when a better product comes around. I think the only thing that will be around forever is 4chan, b/c its so odd.
