[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Is Facebook worth doing? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/10/2010 9:20:10 PM EDT
| Is Facebook worth bothering with? I feel like I'm literally the last person in the world not on Facebook. Is there any real upside to it, or is it just a big time suck? |
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Quoted: You aren't the last, I do not use facebook either. I still use the somewhat old fashioned telephone to talk to and update friends and family on what I am doing. Some people still write letters. I use both myspace and facebook to keep in tough with my army buddies, many of them are in other states or overseas. I also use the social networks as a soapbox on 2nd Amendment political issues. |
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depends if you have friends or not? so it's worth it if I do or don't have friends? just razzin' ya' 
basically, you control how much you want to involve yourself. you can show your profile to nobody if you want to and choose how are friends. it's decent, but ARF is far funner. 
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Quoted: Quoted: depends if you have friends or not? so it's worth it if I do or don't have friends? Worth it if you do. Easy way to keep in touch. If you like being a hermit, by all means stay off Facebook. If you're concerned about privacy you can control how private or open your profile is, who can find you in searches, etc.
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Quoted: Quoted: You aren't the last, I do not use facebook either. I still use the somewhat old fashioned telephone to talk to and update friends and family on what I am doing. Some people still write letters. I use both myspace and facebook to keep in tough with my army buddies, many of them are in other states or overseas. I also use the social networks as a soapbox on 2nd Amendment political issues. Honestly, I would probably end up hating half of my family because of the soapbox stuff. I have seen my wifes FB postings by family members. A bunch of dumbfuck liberals posting all sorts of bullshit. |
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I'm newly single, is it going to help me in any way meet women? Not really, no, but it might be useful if you meet a woman elsewhere who has a page. It's been really helpful for me for staying in touch with high school friends and acquaintances after graduation. |
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Quoted: I'm newly single, is it going to help me in any way meet women? Best bet is to take some classes at a local junior college, especially if they have a nursing program. The facebook is handy as you can exchange emails and send friend requests to their facebook accouts. |
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For the life of me I do not understand anyone being on these social networks-
There is nothing social about it at all- Its just taking all of them further and further from face to face communication, interacting with each other- young people thinking they are communicating when they text email etc.- brave new world when they have to meet someone-joke Further, where is the up side? How will it ever actually benefit you? Either you or someone else post a pic or says something and you are going to be harder to employ- believe it. You can not ever unscrew yourself on the internet. I have tried to explain this to my kids- They didn't listen-hope it doesn't bite them in the ass too- I only say things once |
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You can block that stuff out. I block out any all games available on FB, such as Mafia Wars, Aquarium etc etc. Fvck that stuff with Farmville, some stupid lost cow who give strawberry milk, I would like to turn that sucker into hamburger.I used it for about a year, then I stopped using it. Trust me after your 500th Farmville or Twilight shit quiz invite you will lose interest and forget you have one. 
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For the life of me I do not understand anyone being on these social networks- There is nothing social about it at all- Its just taking all of them further and further from face to face communication, interacting with each other- young people thinking they are communicating when they text email etc.- brave new world when they have to meet someone-joke Further, where is the up side? How will it ever actually benefit you? Either you or someone else post a pic or says something and you are going to be harder to employ- believe it. You can not ever unscrew yourself on the internet. I have tried to explain this to my kids- They didn't listen-hope it doesn't bite them in the ass too- I only say things once Are you serious? unless you become a shut in you will always have face to face communication with people. It benefits me tons in staying in contact with family I have not seen in years and live thousands of miles apart from. I post up alot of pictures of my son on there and everyone in the family can see them even download and print them off if they want to. I put up new pictures of him all the time so his aunts and uncles that only see him once a year can have a window into his life. As far as you putting up a stupid picture and screwing yourself, if you are stupid you are stupid. No one else can put up a picture on my FB account and no one that I dont accept as a freind can see my pics. |
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Facebook is worthless. Its the new myspace. It used to be for college kids and alumni to get together...then around 2006-07 they opened it up to everyone. Then the apps showed up. I dont want to play fucking Mafia Wars or Farmville, yet I get 200 invites a day asking me to play those shitty web games. If I want to play browser games, I'll go to armorgames.com! |
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Is Facebook worth bothering with? I feel like I'm literally the last person in the world not on Facebook. Is there any real upside to it, or is it just a big time suck? It's just a networking metric. You can use it as much or as little as you'd like. Turn off all the farm, mob, question, poll and other bullshit notifications, and it's pretty easy to live with. That said, at least of people my age in college, if you're not on facebook it's a MAJOR social faux pas, and people look at you like you have 2 heads. Not that it matters but ... there's no reason not to have it. So get it. It's cool. You can catch up with old friends, you can stalk people, you can get updates on friends activities, get invited to parties and stuff you would otherwise miss out on, etc. I have about 350 friends of FB, almost all of whom I actually know and who I am on at least a friendly acquaintance level with. The rest are people I've met online who I have talked to for years. Were it not for FB, I would have lost nearly all of these friends. When everyone goes to different colleges and different directions, it's hard to stay in contact with 350+ people. FB makes it easy. |
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Depends on what you use it for. I'm in college. I can get a hold of classmates and such about homework and htis and that. GF just used it because a comapny she was interviewing with set up presentations that they had to give with another interviewee. So she tracked her partner down on there. If you have friends near and far that you don't see much but want to stay in contact with its worth it. How many times do you lose touch becuase you don't have enough to talk about to just call them? In my case its fairly regular. I don't do 30sec phone calls.
Bottom line is its a social networking site. Always was, still is, with a few time wasters. If you don't want to network with anyone don't bother. |
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You will reconnect with some old friends. People you havent thought about in years.
Some of them however may be people you dont want to deal with
These forums are my main online thing. I didnt do the myspace thing but finally gave in on the facebook. So far so good but havent fully decided yet. |
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Quoted: Facebook is worthless. Its the new myspace. It used to be for college kids and alumni to get together...then around 2006-07 they opened it up to everyone. Then the apps showed up. I dont want to play fucking Mafia Wars or Farmville, yet I get 200 invites a day asking me to play those shitty web games. If I want to play browser games, I'll go to armorgames.com! QFT |
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Quoted: Quoted: Is Facebook worth bothering with? I feel like I'm literally the last person in the world not on Facebook. Is there any real upside to it, or is it just a big time suck? Turn off all the farm, mob, question, poll and other bullshit notifications, and it's pretty easy to live with. So get it. It's cool. You can catch up with old friends, you can stalk people, you can get updates on friends activities, get invited to parties and stuff you would otherwise miss out on, etc. this |
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No it's not worth it. All you get is stupid post about some stupid games you've never heard of. And it's usually from people you really don't want to hear from. I don't think you've ever even used facebook. 1) - You can ignore any post or feature you don't like 2) - Why would you be friends with someone you don't like? 3) - The privacy settings let you go super OPSEC mode now, so people can't find you. 4) - It's totally worth it ... if you have friends. |
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Facebook is worthless. Its the new myspace. It used to be for college kids and alumni to get together...then around 2006-07 they opened it up to everyone. Then the apps showed up. I dont want to play fucking Mafia Wars or Farmville, yet I get 200 invites a day asking me to play those shitty web games. If I want to play browser games, I'll go to armorgames.com! QFT Sigh. You can block every single app from showing. You can set your privacy levels so that nobody can even find or see you unless you find them and invite them. It's just as useful as it ever was, it's just less exclusive now and thus demands higher privacy settings be set if you're looking to be left alone. |
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it can't suck unless you let it. think of it as a lower security level than your phone. just meet someone interesting, but not someone you want to give your phone number to? that's what facebook is for. want to keep in touch with what's going on with your friend in des moines? you see his status every day on your homepage. if he says something interesting, respond. if not, not. there's no drama on facebook that the owner of the page doesn't allow to happen. keep your profile private, and don't friend anyone you haven't dealt with personally. there is absolutely no downside as long as you're conscious of what you put on there. |
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Is Facebook worth bothering with? I feel like I'm literally the last person in the world not on Facebook. Is there any real upside to it, or is it just a big time suck? If you join... use a fake name to see if you like it or not. If you do, you can always start again with your real name. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Sigh.Quoted: QFTFacebook is worthless. Its the new myspace. It used to be for college kids and alumni to get together...then around 2006-07 they opened it up to everyone. Then the apps showed up. I dont want to play fucking Mafia Wars or Farmville, yet I get 200 invites a day asking me to play those shitty web games. If I want to play browser games, I'll go to armorgames.com! You can block every single app from showing. You can set your privacy levels so that nobody can even find or see you unless you find them and invite them. It's just as useful as it ever was, it's just less exclusive now and thus demands higher privacy settings be set if you're looking to be left alone. It's gone commercial and mainstream, it's over. |
