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This social networking site is, whether you like it or not, a big part of our lives now.
So what do y'all think about it?
I've been tightening my privacy settings ever since last year. I have like 30+ friends lists now.
Just some random musings...
1) I don't get those people who like tragic statuses. I have a friend who "likes" everything - stats like "I'm sick", "Just broke up", and those gory/porn pics that were flooding the site a couple weeks back. Bad taste, mi amigo.
2) I know our pages are all about US, but jeez, some people update theirs too often. I have a friend who posts every time he leaves work, gets home, eats dinner... Hello!
I have another who posts only milestones, but posts them in the most arrogant ways possible. One update was like, "Okay so I don't have a date for this Saturday at my something something event. Who wants to hang out with me and my pretty face?" I am now unsubscribed to his status updates and haven't missed them at all.
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I've been on Facebook since 2007. I still write my status reports in the third person, as they were originally intended to be written.
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I've been on facebook for quite a while now, I go through phases of loving and hating it.
Right now, I'm loving it. One thing I am liking quite a bit is that many sites now allow you to sign in and comment using your FB ID. Super convienent (I just added a FB comment widget to my own site!)
From: Fort McMurray | Registered: Nov 2004
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Although I rarely post on it, I love Facebook in the sense of it being a giant address book.
True, I might never need to contact that guy from my third grade math class... but, then again, I might!
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quote:Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac: Just some random musings...
1) I don't get those people who like tragic statuses. I have a friend who "likes" everything - stats like "I'm sick", "Just broke up", and those gory/porn pics that were flooding the site a couple weeks back. Bad taste, mi amigo.
I think this might be something else. I know I have been tempted to "like" a bad status. It almost is just a way to acknowledge that you have seen the status and are thinking about the person. But then I realize it is probably not a good thing to like someone having an auto accident or just got fired.
Facebook really needs to have a "don't like" button.
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From: Boston | Registered: Aug 2003
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I love FB overall, but some of my friends are annoying in the manner Ibby cites. My best friend, for example, averages 6 or more updates a day. Any bit he finds vaguely humorous, any restaraunt he goes to, any random sports thing...you name it. I feel like hewould be more appropriate for Twitter (which I'm not on) if he feels he has to constantly be seen and heard. I want to gently tell him to STFU! Oh, the dilemma...
Another friend is such a damn grump and potty mouth on FB. He says, for example, REALLY offensive things about rival sports teams and people who are fans of them.
I don't want to drop either from my friends lists as they are both RL friends/acquaintences. I think there's a way to block them from showing on my news feed instead. I might have to investigate...
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From: The Underbelly of Society | Registered: Jul 2003
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You can definitely hide people from your news feed without de-friending them.
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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Love my facebook.
From: elizabeth,nj | Registered: Jul 2003
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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Facebook and Twitter both offer private citizens all the disadvantages of being a celebrity (total lack of privacy, constant appeals to one's own narcissism and insecurity) with none of the advantages (big bucks, plus personal handlers who'll actively discourage one's masochistic urge to behave like a total ass, just because any attention is better than no attention).
Wasn't attracted to the idea three of four years back, when FB was first becoming a Whole Big Thing, and I'm still not.
mr_cleome, OTOH, loves it. Then again, he's generally a mellow, cheerful sociable person and I'm basically an angst-ridden, cranky hermit, so that kind of makes sense.
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From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
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One thing I DO appreciate about Facebook is that it makes event organizing much, much easier.
It usually falls to me to organize reunions, so at least I can just send an invite online instead of text messaging people.
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quote:Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac: Just some random musings...
1) I don't get those people who like tragic statuses. I have a friend who "likes" everything - stats like "I'm sick", "Just broke up", and those gory/porn pics that were flooding the site a couple weeks back. Bad taste, mi amigo.
I think this might be something else. I know I have been tempted to "like" a bad status. It almost is just a way to acknowledge that you have seen the status and are thinking about the person. But then I realize it is probably not a good thing to like someone having an auto accident or just got fired.
Facebook really needs to have a "don't like" button.
True. The problem with "liking" is that it implies approval. When I see a tragic update, I simply post a short note of condolence.
quote:Originally posted by Lard Lad: I don't want to drop either from my friends lists as they are both RL friends/acquaintences. I think there's a way to block them from showing on my news feed instead. I might have to investigate...
Lardy, IIRC try looking for a button on the right side of those friends' status updates. By clicking "unsubscribe", you can prevent them from showing up on your newsfeed. Of course, you'll never see another update from them at all
And as with Reboot, I have serious issues about the lack of privacy that Facebook has! I liked the old settings, but given that Zuckerberg and co. seem to like changing them without warning...!
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