[shudder]
Just reading that makes me re-live my FB phase in all of its sordid non-glory. Glad I backed out when I did.
Just reading that makes me re-live my FB phase in all of its sordid non-glory. Glad I backed out when I did.
FaceBook: I love to Hate You
Found this on Craigslist and thought I would share. I got a good laugh from it, as I deleted my account awhile ago (Though not for the reason mentioned here).
best of craigslist : Facebook: I Love to Hate You
best of craigslist : Facebook: I Love to Hate You
Facebook: I Love to Hate You
Date: 2007-06-30, 2:18PM EDT
Dear Facebook,
I love the way you have connected me with old friends from high school and I love the way you allow my friends to keep me up to date the with the weekends activities. Ever since I signed up for you I am no longer a social misfit but a prima donna in the world of drunken cottaging and the Queen of Underground Karaoke parties at the Bytown.
But facebook, there are a few issues that we need to resolve in order to maintain a healthy relationship.
First of all, you allow people from high school that I've never even spoken to add me as their friend. I dont know them other than the fact that we were apparently in the same homeroom together in grade 9 before I got the braces off. Its creepy that they remember the overalls and the plaid raincoat I was wearing the first day of high school. Please do not allow these people to seek me out.
Secondly Facebook you've now allowed not one, but TWO ex boyfriends to seek me out and attempt to add me as their "friend". We are not friends. We broke up because one was banging groupies while touring with the Matthew Good Band and the other was nailing his boss in the Royal Oak's beer room. These are not friends, these are men who couldn't keep their dicks in their pants and I wish them nothing but the most degenerate veneral diseases whores like that can come by.
Facebook, I have also become addicted to you to the point where I display withdrawl symptoms if I am away from you for longer than a couple hours at a time. If Im working I break out into a cold sweat wondering who's added me, who's messaged me and what party invites am I missing. If I go longer than a day without checking you I almost seizure. You are worse than heroin.
Facebook you have also gotten me into trouble by allowing me to log on completely **** faced to the point where Ive spilled my poutine all over my laptop. As you already know, drunken Facebooking is considerably worse than drunk dialing. I can deny calling people on purpose when Im loaded I cannot however deny writing self sabatoging messages on peoples walls and telling a booty call how much I enjoyed his throbbing cock last week on his comment page. Please do not let me log onto you when I am this drunk, clearly Im not thinking properly and the Jager-demon has possessed my body / mind.
As well Facebook please stop with the fortune cookies, hugs, smilies, horoscopes, "which family guy character are you" quizzes and other inane bull**** that I must weed through evetytime I log on. Seriously, its annoying and it must stop.
Now Facebook, Im not trying to bring you down, I do love you, I just think we need to communicate with each other to remedy these paticular issues. Especially the drunk one, Sara is still not talking to me. If we can set aside our differences you'll see that we are a match made in virtual Heaven.
Hugs
Me
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One doesn't 'delete' an account, apparently; one 'deactivates' it--difference being that you can simply 'reactivate' your account to find it never really went away. Facebook keeps it cosy for you. It's kind of like a social networking cache/catch.
LOL! It is rather ironic that in a previous thread I shot my mouth off against sites like MySpace and Facebook only to relent and end up on Facebook myself due to the gentle urging of friends and family.
Oh, I know it never really goes away, does it? I took careful steps to methodically delete all of my photos, comments, friends, messages, etc... one by freakin' one... took some time to do. However, it's all there on their servers somewhere, I'm sure.One doesn't 'delete' an account, apparently; one 'deactivates' it--difference being that you can simply 'reactivate' your account to find it never really went away. Facebook keeps it cosy for you. It's kind of like a social networking cache/catch.
FB creeps me out.... in the end I decided the benefits were outweighed by the creep factor. Too cozy for comfort, if you get my drift.
Facebook, Myspace, et al., meh. Ain't my cuppa, and never will be. 
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Amusing quote from Craigslist though.
tptptptp Amusing quote from Craigslist though.
I found Facebook to be very useful. You get unlimited storage for your pictures and videos that can be shared with whomever you choose (amongst other useful tools.) Even over the web to non-facebook users via a link given for you to forward.
If you don't like someone, simply ignore them (there's a button for it, too.) It's really easy and you don't have to suffer the indignity of awkward half-assed conversations with people you really don't like.
If you don't like someone, simply ignore them (there's a button for it, too.) It's really easy and you don't have to suffer the indignity of awkward half-assed conversations with people you really don't like.
You might want to check the agreements before posting all your pictures to Facebook. If I recall correctly, I saw a statement to the effect that FB gets full use privileges to any photo you put there. Folks going on photography groups and posting their own copyright material could loose control of their product. Keep your pictures limited to snapshots of no commercial value.
There's nothing that says anything of the kind--that I can find at least. Maybe it's buried somewhere? It does warn people to respect copyright holders of any and all content you post and/or share (articles, photos, videos, etc.).
However I don't have anything in my FB profile that would be deemed valuable to anybody but me or my family/friends.
However I don't have anything in my FB profile that would be deemed valuable to anybody but me or my family/friends.
Reminds me of something I was reading in the Globe and Mail some time ago - for some reason Canadians have really taken to FB - per capita in significantly greater numbers than our American friends. Wonder why that is.
Like Max, I joined, took a look around and got the hell outta Dodge.
Know what it was for me? I felt like I was reliving the 70s... the whole me generation thing.
Get to know me. It's all about me. Let me tell you about me, my mind and its fascinating workings, my navel and the fine lint occupuying it. Oh, and did I tell you about my navel? It's really great and it's mine.
Get to know me. It's all about me. Let me tell you about me, my mind and its fascinating workings, my navel and the fine lint occupuying it. Oh, and did I tell you about my navel? It's really great and it's mine.
Personally, I think it's a stalkers paradise. It has all the information you could ever want on somebody, including what they are doing this weekend.
I don't think anybody should know that much about their friends personal lives, really. If you want to know what they are up to this weekend... ASK!!!!
I don't think anybody should know that much about their friends personal lives, really. If you want to know what they are up to this weekend... ASK!!!!
I found it to be rather stupid, in so many ways. Like how it tells you what someone is doing at some given time. Or the number of stupid little social groups that have no purpose. Or perhaps the worst, the length of time it takes to load a page because of people posting stupid graphics (rather than any meaningful messages). It is perhaps less infantile than MySpace is, but that does not say much. And this junk was developed at Harvard??? Goes to prove that after all of these years, Yale is actually superior!
There are a few positives, I suppose, because it does give a place on the Internet for people to "reconnect", but that is not enough reason for me to put any actual effort into the exercise. There is too much emphasis on the whole high school reunion kind of thing, and surely I have less than zero interest in what old girlfriends are up to. It is amazing to see how many people do like to make fools of themselves on Facebook, full proof that **** Sapiens has not attained the apex of the evolutionary ladder. To each their own.
There are a few positives, I suppose, because it does give a place on the Internet for people to "reconnect", but that is not enough reason for me to put any actual effort into the exercise. There is too much emphasis on the whole high school reunion kind of thing, and surely I have less than zero interest in what old girlfriends are up to. It is amazing to see how many people do like to make fools of themselves on Facebook, full proof that **** Sapiens has not attained the apex of the evolutionary ladder. To each their own.
I understand if you're older than 30-years of age.Like how it tells you what someone is doing at some given time. Or the number of stupid little social groups that have no purpose. Or perhaps the worst, the length of time it takes to load a page because of people posting stupid graphics (rather than any meaningful messages).
For the most part, FB appeals to the 12-25 age group. Their perspective of FB and life is much different. Facebook isn't as "useful" as it is "fun." You just have to have that perspective to enjoy it, though it does have its useful aspects as well. (i.e; organizing events via FB works very well, as well as sharing photos from events, etc.)
I don't add anyone to my 'friend' list that's a stalker. One's profile is not accessible to non-Facebook users, nor Facebook users that aren't approved friends. Therefore, saying it's a 'stalkers paradise' holds no ground unless you have your profile privacy settings relaxed to the maximum level possible.Personally, I think it's a stalkers paradise. It has all the information you could ever want on somebody, including what they are doing this weekend.
Facebook users are now searchable via Google, whereas before they were not. You can apparently set your search privacy so that this is not the case.
Too bad that so many people will just add anybody that asks to their profile. There was a study done, and 68% of people that were asked for a friend request (From a made up profile with no pictures) accepted without question.I don't add anyone to my 'friend' list that's a stalker. One's profile is not accessible to non-Facebook users, nor Facebook users that aren't approved friends. Therefore, saying it's a 'stalkers paradise' holds no ground unless you have your profile privacy settings relaxed to the maximum level possible.
Not to mention that most of the FB population has no idea how to set their profiles to private, and their information is open to everybody. Stalkers Paradise.
Stupid people deserve what comes their way.Too bad that so many people will just add anybody that asks to their profile. There was a study done, and 68% of people that were asked for a friend request (From a made up profile with no pictures) accepted without question.
Not to mention that most of the FB population has no idea how to set their profiles to private, and their information is open to everybody. Stalkers Paradise.
If you set your privacy preferences accordingly, stalkers aren't a threat. Although really, if you think about, privacy settings by default should be maxed out, not by default set wide open with the option of increasing your privacy. Particularly for those people who don't know and will never find out that their profile is wide open for the world to see.
It's not in FB's interests to max out users' privacy settings at default, precisely because the people behind FB want you to be as public as possible... they're using your info, after all, to build consumer and political profiles. That's the seedy underbelly of all popular social networking life. It pays to go into the whole thing with an awareness of just how vulnerable you can be.
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