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Just wondering how many of you have quit or not to vent joined Facebook. I was on it for years and I was visiting it constantly reading posts, updating, etc.

Recently it has gotten very political and I found myself getting very angry and miserable from it. All the anti cop videos and posts, people offended by everything, posting drivel bullcrap, and so on.

My favorite podcaster Jim Florentine has a series of Awful Facebook post rants and he helped me see reality, he said that people he meet that aren't on Facebook aren't stressed out and are generally happy. He says that Facebook is for 16 year old girls and soccer moms.

I finally lost it when I started seeing friends changing their profile pictures to that dumb rainbow overlay. I started deleting everyone who did it then just said screw it and deleted my account.

I'm finding myself spending my time more constructively and not getting wrapped in drama.

Anyone else feel the same way about Facebook?

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Not really, and if the gay pride avatars bother you, delete your account

The ugly truth is, no one cares, you, I or anyone can't change a thing.

Gay pride avatars don't bother me, and I mostly use it to keep in contact with family half a world away

Edit, if one thing does bother me, I would say it's the narrowmindedness I have seen there from time to time, it's the 21st century.

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What's bugging me is they are now spamming my newsfeed with things my friends like and comment on. I want to see WHAT THEY POST -- not when they like or comment on something someone else posts.

 

So I'm rarely checking my feed these days. If I need to contact someone, I'll go directly to them (at least as long as Facebook doesn't kill app integration on my Windows Phone). But as for browsing the feed to see what my friends are up to, no more.

 

-Forjo

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Never had one, never saw the point in having an account. I actively block anything related to Facebook through Firefox, I do not want to be bombarded by the BS like us so we can give you something. No thanks.

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The trick to Facebook is not to defriend everyone, but to follow only the people you care about. I have a little over 250 friends but follow only about 15 of them. I don't follow the idiot that posts random crap 15 times a day.

 

As to the friends rainbowfying their profile photos ... ya ... I was like... alright then..... good for you!

 

True story, so there was this friend that was posting the random crap 15 times per day just burring my timeline. So finally I went to her profile and unfollowed her. I then went to my timeline .. refreshed it and all of the stuff I wasn't seeing due to this idiot constant posting of junk came to the top. The 1st of which was one of my female friends in a bikini at a lake! :laugh:

 

Now I don't mean to offend or shock anyone (Yes I have to say that .. because people think I say things just to shock)  ... but what is with the rainbow anyway? I mean I know its about gay marriage, but I always though when a rainbow was in reference to someone who was gay it meant they were flaming.

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My favorite podcaster Jim Florentine has a series of Awful Facebook post rants and he helped me see reality, he said that people he meet that aren't on Facebook aren't stressed out and are generally happy. He says that Facebook is for 16 year old girls and soccer moms.

 

I agree 100%.  

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I agree with you, patseguin.  I was on Facebook for a very short period of time.  I found it to be pretty useless.  Like one poster said, it's for 16 year old girls and soccer moms who want to seem hip using computers.  I got off and refuse to be on it. 

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Looks like you have a problem with your friends and not Facebook

 

My thoughts exactly.

People that usually dislike FB are getting to old for hashtags/trends/online activity... it's not Facebook's fault.

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Can you edit that and resize those images?

 

I though the images automatically scale like on the monthly desktop thread.

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I though the images automatically scale like on the monthly desktop thread.

 

Not sure you post a lot of images or not. But I personally got a flickr account which allows you go to in and select the size of image you which to post . Its the best thing since sliced bread!

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Not sure you post a lot of images or not. But I personally got a flickr account which allows you go to in and select the size of image you which to post . Its the best thing since sliced bread!

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My thoughts exactly.

People that usually dislike FB are getting to old for hashtags/trends/online activity... it's not Facebook's fault.

Facebook friends are not your real friends. Sounds like you are still living in a fantasy world. Facebook has become a cesspool of idiots trying to be hip, cool, and pc. Then there are the morons who think they are so cool putting a couple dozen hastags in their posts.

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Never had one, never saw the point in having an account. 

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This and I figured it was just another passing trend that would fade away and had no interest in.

 

@the OP: Jim Florentine is a funny dude and a metal head too. :punk:

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Facebook friends are not your real friends. Sounds like you are still living in a fantasy world. Facebook has become a cesspool of idiots trying to be hip, cool, and pc. Then there are the morons who think they are so cool putting a couple dozen hastags in their posts.

 

My Facebook friends are my real friends and not just people I met once and asked or was asked "are you on Facebook?". I see them and hangout with them if they are in-town or out-of-town. Not living in a fantasy world.

 

What types of people did you friend on Facebook?

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Yeah he's hilarious.


My Facebook friends are my real friends and not just people I met once and asked or was asked "are you on Facebook?". I see them and hangout with them if they are in-town or out-of-town. Not living in a fantasy world.

 

What types of people did you friend on Facebook?

I didn't mean you man. That is what Jim Florentine says and he's right. I had 400 friends and probably 10 real ones.

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The posts come from YOUR friends. You added em. Don't like the posts, block them, or get rid of your contacts, simple as that.

I use Facebook to keep up with bands I listen to, see pics of hot chicks, and see other stuff Ive subscribed to.

I barely have any actual contacts, and theyre only close friends and family members. No strangers.

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Facebook friends are not your real friends. Sounds like you are still living in a fantasy world. Facebook has become a cesspool of idiots trying to be hip, cool, and pc. Then there are the morons who think they are so cool putting a couple dozen hastags in their posts.

 

Real life is pretty much the same, everyone tries to outdo the other, just has no hashtags.

Unless you're away from cities, you can't really avoid social media.

 

As for FB friends, I don't have much, a bit over 50.. half of which have a RL connection to me one way or another. I only follow few and some pages I like. You just seem to have an issue with the way Internet seems to swallow people and many lack the ability of diferentiating between web and RL. I had a childhood w/o the web, so I judge things different and I admit that plenty people are morons online, but I can live with that fact.. I mean they usually have 1 issue or another in their RL and discharge online. Humanity always had its cesspool of idiots as you call it, the Internet just gives them a voice now.

 

Have you seen Dan Bilzerian's page? :D That's what would upset you I assume, doesn't bother me one bit.

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The trick to Facebook is not to defriend everyone, but to follow only the people you care about. I have a little over 250 friends but follow only about 15 of them. I don't follow the idiot that posts random crap 15 times a day.

As to the friends rainbowfying their profile photos ... ya ... I was like... alright then..... good for you!

True story, so there was this friend that was posting the random crap 15 times per day just burring my timeline. So finally I went to her profile and unfollowed her. I then went to my timeline .. refreshed it and all of the stuff I wasn't seeing due to this idiot constant posting of junk came to the top. The 1st of which was one of my female friends in a bikini at a lake! :laugh:

Now I don't mean to offend or shock anyone (Yes I have to say that .. because people think I say things just to shock) ... but what is with the rainbow anyway? I mean I know its about gay marriage, but I always though when a rainbow was in reference to someone who was gay it meant they were flaming.

Mostly about the lgbt marriage equality, I simply call it gay pride, as the gay pubs in my city centre all have rainbow motifs and flags, Just to make it clear, I have no problem with a person, and their lifestyle choices, or with whom they fall in love with, some facebook, is just a bandwagon at the moment, and like I mentioned in my op, I mostly use it to contact family in Canada and India.

Edit, lol I just counted, 16 fb friends and that includes family members lol

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Facebook itself is fine. In fact I think it's implemented and operated rather well as far as social networks are concerned.

 

It seems to me that the problem you've got is with people.

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Yeah he's hilarious.

I didn't mean you man. That is what Jim Florentine says and he's right. I had 400 friends and probably 10 real ones.

 

And that right there is your problem.

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I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family. I have family all over and many of us seldom meet in person. Facebook is what most of us agreed to. I actually tried to quit Facebook last year, but apparently it upset my mother, so it isn't an option for me. Using it less, is, but I need to check in at least once every couple days, and I have to interact with my mother every so often, or she'll take it personally. And it's far less work to hit Like or make a comment or post something similar back than it is to make a call and smooth things over.

 

All of my Facebook contacts are real life friends. A few I haven't met in person and are friends of friends. They aren't just random people I added just because.

 

If you want a real reason to hate Facebook, don't blame them for your friends' politics. Blame them for deleting pictures of women breast feeding, when they allow child porn and bestiality. I've reported the latter two, and they come back and say that these images are not violations of their terms of service or whatever. Their terms of service might openly or secretly allow child porn, but that doesn't make it legal. I think they have some very sick individuals working for them and that there should be some way to escalate the reports. It just really bothers me to see that kind of thing. And it's rare to see it on Facebook but it does happen. Usually because someone posts it as a comment on a public (fan) page, so it's not like it's my friends posting it. Oh, and I'm not talking about pictures of babies being bathed or changed, or kids playing in the water in their backyard on a hot summer day. I'm talking about pictures of people actively abusing children, that Facebook says is okay. I don't want to see either, but if someone posts a picture like the former of their own kid, I'll usually message them privately and tell them the danger of putting that online (mostly that it will be downloaded and shared by perverts). It's the latter I'm reporting, that strangers are posting in public conversation threads.

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I only use it to view clips from The Simpsons posted by a couple of groups I follow. As a Simpsons clip viewing medium, it functions just fine. 

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I barely use it, have some family and 3-4 real friends on it, spend more time on G+ where you can have semi competent conversations and discussions 

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