Facebook, do you use it?

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Facebook, do you use it?  

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  1. 1. Do you use Facebook?

  2. 2. If you answer yes, what do you mainly do while on?

  3. 3. If you answer no, would you consider getting an account?

    • Yes
      0
    • No
      14
    • Hell no!! I do not need a stinking social networking account!
      14
    • I have a Facebook account
      76

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Grand Master

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Deactivated my account years ago. Reasons...

  1. People that update their statuses every time they do something, no matter how minute it is. Example: "Just had breakfast, it was yummy" If only Facebook put a "Who Cares" button beside the "like" button.
  2. People that have 10,000 pictures. Are peoples lives so empty that they have time to look through that many pictures?
  3. Watching people, even grown adults, turn into zombies from playing Farm-Ville.
  4. Of course the privacy issues. I don't need my potential next employer checking my Facebook in order to validate my credentials or character.
  5. Stupidity, it's rampant on Facebook. You'll get far more intellectually stimulating reading from even Yahoo Answers.

There are plenty more, but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

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Colin McGregor

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Deactivated my account years ago. Reasons...

  1. People that update their statuses every time they do something, no matter how minute it is. Example: "Just had breakfast, it was yummy" If only Facebook put a "Who Cares" button beside the "like" button.
  2. People that have 10,000 pictures. Are peoples lives so empty that they have time to look through that many pictures?
  3. Watching people, even grown adults, turn into zombies from playing Farm-Ville.
  4. Of course the privacy issues. I don't need my potential next employer checking my Facebook in order to validate my credentials or character.
  5. Stupidity, it's rampant on Facebook. You'll get far more intellectually stimulating reading from even Yahoo Answers.

There are plenty more, but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

#1 twitter

#2 why would you have to look through them all

#3 you can say the same about people off facebook that play wow or xbox or ps3

#4 make your profile private

#5 dont accept stupid people

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sava700

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HELL NO!!! People need to understand the concept of "Social" and a social media site such as what they call this is not that. Kids need to meet up face to face with other kids..go out, hang out etc etc. Back when I was growing up we cruised around to meet girls or have some fun, get out of the house etc. Now kids would rather sit at home face glued to Lamebook all night. Nope, go out and experience life people...stop feeding the pockets of the people that fund this site.

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pepsihabbit

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I use facebook. I HATE Facebook. The privacy issue with facebook is a portion of the hate, but I just cant stand all the crap that gets posted. I feel like im constantly blocking this game or that app. The problem is that everyone I know and care about uses it. Alot of them feel the same way I do. We are all trapped using it. If we could somehow orchestrate a mass exodus of facebook we would all be better off. But none of us will pull the "trigger", because none of us want to be left out of the loop.

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rfirth

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Ya could just call them on the phone....or better yet go visit?

You must be one of those small town people. Everyone you know lives within a couple miles. I have family and friends that live thousands of miles away. And call them on the phone? Sure, that works if you've only got a couple people to keep up with. For a large number of people, you're never going to call them. Out of sight, out of mind.

Why use email? Just put a stamp on it.... or better yet go visit?

Why use the telephone? ...just go visit!

Grand Master

FiB3R

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Yep, I have multiple accounts. The main ones being for personal friends and family, which is great for keeping in touch, and up to date with what's going on in peoples lives. The amount of parties, festivals, and general gatherings I may have missed out on if it wasn't for facebook, doesn't bare thinking about. On the down side, this is the account with all the crap I don't care about, like what somebody had for breakfast.

The another main one is for my main interests, which currently include xbox modding, and recently, "vaping". The point of having a separate account for that is, I don't want to spam my friends and family with stuff they have no interest in, and for privacy.

For the most part, people send me friend requests on that account, so they must be interested in the crap I post. It's also the account where I follow companies and services that interest me. Any company worth its salt will have a facebook presence, it's just to big of a market to ignore. And so because of that, I get to benefit from any promotions they are offering.

I find it to be a great communication tool, and information source (as is twitter), and also a good promotional tool for offering your services. I get contacted via facebook more than any other medium.

It really can be what ever you make it, and you have a lot of control over what you see in your feed, including your own imported rss feeds.

It takes time and a bit of effort to build it into something useful, but I have found it to be worthwhile.

Also, I never really understand why people disable accounts (anywhere), why not just leave it as it is? You don't have to visit the site if you don't want to, but then if at some point you do...

Oh well, each to their own I guess.

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srbeen

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You must be one of those small town people. Everyone you know lives within a couple miles. I have family and friends that live thousands of miles away. And call them on the phone? Sure, that works if you've only got a couple people to keep up with. For a large number of people, you're never going to call them. Out of sight, out of mind.

Why use email? Just put a stamp on it.... or better yet go visit?

Why use the telephone? ...just go visit!

Huh? I don't understand your concept here.

If you don't have enough time for a 5 min convo every week, how do save time by using facebook?

E-Mail is identical to facebook as well, except not as jazzed up. You need email to have facebook, so all your friends have it.. You don't have to always call.

I guess if you didn't have facebook though, you would forget you had friends... out of sight, out of mind.

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srbeen

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Yep, I have multiple accounts. The main ones being for personal friends and family, which is great for keeping in touch, and up to date with what's going on in peoples lives. The amount of parties, festivals, and general gatherings I may have missed out on if it wasn't for facebook, doesn't bare thinking about. On the down side, this is the account with all the crap I don't care about, like what somebody had for breakfast.

The another main one is for my main interests, which currently include xbox modding, and recently, "vaping". The point of having a separate account for that is, I don't want to spam my friends and family with stuff they have no interest in, and for privacy.

For the most part, people send me friend requests on that account, so they must be interested in the crap I post. It's also the account where I follow companies and services that interest me. Any company worth its salt will have a facebook presence, it's just to big of a market to ignore. And so because of that, I get to benefit from any promotions they are offering.

I find it to be a great communication tool, and information source (as is twitter), and also a good promotional tool for offering your services. I get contacted via facebook more than any other medium.

It really can be what ever you make it, and you have a lot of control over what you see in your feed, including your own imported rss feeds.

It takes time and a bit of effort to build it into something useful, but I have found it to be worthwhile.

Also, I never really understand why people disable accounts (anywhere), why not just leave it as it is? You don't have to visit the site if you don't want to, but then if at some point you do...

Oh well, each to their own I guess.

Agreed, facebook is great if you want ads and promotional offers on junk you otherwise wouldn't be overly interested in, and great if you want to promote your own business fairly easily (as well as twitter)

Grand Master

User6060

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what about posting pics and checking up on comments on albums from parties/ pub nights/ etc. like from people you know in real life. are you supposed to email attachments to everyone who attended your bday just so that they can see the pics? this is what facebook is for (digitizing things you dooo in real life)

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mps69

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Used to have an account, then woke up to the realization that I was spending time on FB looking at other people's status, and what was going on, and not taking time for myself and my family.

Shut the account down and never looked back.

Now I have a very small tight knit group of friends who I email and chat will every day.

From what I hear from my wife and daughter who still have accounts, FB seems to be full of people posting needy status's, like Look at me, I'm fun or just a smiley/sad face wanting people to ask them what's wrong.

Grand Master

FiB3R

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Agreed, facebook is great if you want ads and promotional offers on junk you otherwise wouldn't be overly interested in, and great if you want to promote your own business fairly easily (as well as twitter)

Not quite, adblock is fully engaged, the only offers I see are ones that I am interested in, because I have signed up to be notified.

As for regular advertising, people bitch about being tracked for marketing purposes, but I am a consumer, and I want any ads that cross my path to be targeted at me. I do want to know about gillettes new 14 blade razor, I do not want to know about pantiliners with wings. So go ahead and track me, knock yourself out ;)

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