Why facebook?

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Thats what happens when you quote from an iPhone...

Voulais tu dire, itéléphone4?

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Facebook is not so different than here.

Same concept, just different execution.

FB is probably very much like the "Stijn" thread. I personally have never been interested in being involved in the minutae of other peoples lives to this degree, nor am I interested in sharing this level of detail about my own life. It's all so terribly banal it seems to me. (no disrespect to the "Stijners" intended here)

I think in the end it's a generational thing. I continue to be convinced that FB is, for the most part, a colossal waste of time. But this generation seems to have grown up with an attachment to this kind of wholly mundane exchange of information via the internet. Call me old fashioned. I'd rather meet my friends in the pub for a drink than tweet or FB with them.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by ronster

... Pelican has more whiners and people who claim to be adults but can't seem to make a decision without asking a bunch of people they don't know what they should do.

Sooooo...should I join FB or not?

I just discovered I was "cheesey" on the tech side, so figured I'd add some "whine"

[Chocaholic]

Am I the only one that has never even visited Facebook (or the Stijn thread either)?

[wdfifteen]

It's been a couple of days so I was expecting to take a massive dump this morning. So far nothing. I'll keep you posted.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Dottore

FB is probably very much like the "Stijn" thread. I personally have never been interested in being involved in the minutae of other peoples lives to this degree, nor am I interested in sharing this level of detail about my own life. It's all so terribly banal it seems to me. (no disrespect to the "Stijners" intended here)

I think in the end it's a generational thing. I continue to be convinced that FB is, for the most part, a colossal waste of time. But this generation seems to have grown up with an attachment to this kind of wholly mundane exchange of information via the internet. Call me old fashioned. I'd rather meet my friends in the pub for a drink than tweet or FB with them.

100% true... It's a form of entertainment to most but it's also a good way to know what someone is really like.
IMHO You can tell a lot about someone by the stuff they post there.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Dottore

FB is probably very much like the "Stijn" thread. I personally have never been interested in being involved in the minutae of other peoples lives to this degree, nor am I interested in sharing this level of detail about my own life. It's all so terribly banal it seems to me. (no disrespect to the "Stijners" intended here)

It originates from the psychological "need" for human connection/interaction, as well as the need for new ideas and inspiration. (reference SNL's Stuart Smalley daily affirmation.)
Not a bad thing, necessarily, but it replaces weekend rituals with a minute-by-minute dependence upon electronic devices. A person becomes incomplete without their "x".

A product of today's two-earner stressed-out parents.
A psychological void in today's children.
A need to be filled by someone else.

These days, that "need' for constant social, human interaction is replaced by sentances and pictures transmitted by the global internet structure, and displayed on an individual's screen in the "privacy" of their comfort zone.

Facebook sought to manipulate these human interactions.
They underestimated inherent consumer resistance, and thought this could be replaced by advertising......... falsely originating from "friends".
This represents the core of human manipulation.

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by Dottore

FB is probably very much like the "Stijn" thread. I personally have never been interested in being involved in the minutae of other peoples lives to this degree, nor am I interested in sharing this level of detail about my own life. It's all so terribly banal it seems to me. (no disrespect to the "Stijners" intended here)

I think in the end it's a generational thing. I continue to be convinced that FB is, for the most part, a colossal waste of time. But this generation seems to have grown up with an attachment to this kind of wholly mundane exchange of information via the internet. Call me old fashioned. I'd rather meet my friends in the pub for a drink than tweet or FB with them.

The stijners and facebookers have a lot in common. I definitely think that they would not share beer at my table unless I paid for it. Definitely a younger crowd. More hip than I am. Sometimes it takes a comment like mine to draw them out of their men caves. I have baited the hook. We will see what happens!

[island911]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

It's been a couple of days so I was expecting to take a massive dump this morning. So far nothing. I'll keep you posted.

I just checked PARF - still nothing? Maybe try more bran.

[AFC-911]

Originally Posted by Dottore

Call me old fashioned. I'd rather meet my friends in the pub for a drink than tweet or FB with them.

Aside from the cell phone, FB is a great way to get people to go out and meet at the pub for a drink.

If it wasn't for Facebook, I wouldn't have gone to a free 1-hour paddle boarding session 3 weekends ago.

It's also great for me since it's easier to keep in touch with all my friends from all over the world who are hard to reach due to the different timezones.

[allaircooled]

I am a traveling tech. I have been in Oregon since August (I do get to go home for 5 days every 8 weeks) of last year and I am from Tampa. My wife, mother, son, sister, and friends all live in the Tampa Bay area. Facebook helps keep communications with the friends since I don't always have time to call. I use the video chat on Facebook to talk to my wife. It helps.

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by AFC-911

It's also great for me since it's easier to keep in touch with all my friends from all over the world who are hard to reach due to the different timezones.

This is what I'm always told. Yet I have friends around the globe and have absolutely no trouble taying in touch by post, phone and email. Why FB? I really neither need or want to know what distant friends are doing 24/7. I don't care if their dog has puppies or their kid loses a tooth. That is too much information in a world already overloaded with information.

But there is a deeper point. I like to communicate with my good and distant friends when it is important. Not just because I can. And I like to do so personally. I don't want the friendship reduced to the exchange of banal and inane things as it so often is on FB. FB has no soul. It demeans people. It devalues the currency of friendship. It reduces friendship to a popularity contest.

I find it all a bit sad.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Dottore

This is what I'm always told. Yet I have friends around the globe and have absolutely no trouble taying in touch by post, phone and email. Why FB? I really neither need or want to know what distant friends are doing 24/7. I don't care if their dog has puppies or their kid loses a tooth. That is too much information in a world already overloaded with information.

But there is a deeper point. I like to communicate with my good and distant friends when it is important. Not just because I can. And I like to do so personally. I don't want the friendship reduced to the exchange of banal and inane things as it so often is on FB. FB has no soul. It demeans people. It devalues the currency of friendship. It reduces friendship to a popularity contest.

I find it all a bit sad.

Not at all.

It is what you make it.

If your friends are of similar mind then nothing changes but the form of communication.

Your argument could have applied to the invention of the phone or email yet you use them.

[tweezers74]

Totally agree with you, stomach monkey. I travel a lot so I always post where I happen to be. Three times now in one year, I have been able meet up with friends who were randomly vacationing or in the same city for business. Two of the three friends I hadn't seen in over five years. We had a nice dinner and caught up just because they happen to see my FB post. That's enough for me to keep doing FB.

[stomachmonkey]

Just learned this on FB.

"One of my most important food shopping tips ever --those annoying stickers on fruits and veggies tell you A LOT! 4 numbers mean they were conventionally grown, 5 numbers starting with number 8 means they are genetically modified (GMO), and 5 numbers starting with 9 means they were organically grown (no pesticides or nasty GMOs)"

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by Chocaholic

Am I the only one that has never even visited Facebook (or the Stijn thread either)?

No

[dan88911]

Originally Posted by island911

I just checked PARF - still nothing? Maybe try more bran.

This was funny.

[mikeesik]

I don't get it either.

News-flash, you are not in the enquirer but this is 2nd best.

I tried it, and then ended it . Why should I post what stupid/great things of seen or done=Americas stupid videos.

I got bored very fast and remembered that I have a phone.

-Example- 'Hey, tards I met this chick and she superhot and gives....'

After the age of 19 -really would you care?

I've had a friend who is 62 and goes on facebook before work to post he essentially 'cut the lawn and ran out of gas-LOL.....yawn and NOT!
Lonely and simple.

My Daughter who has 900 friends, I am very worried about!! Since I am not in her life, what is she trying to accomplish by being this way?

[J P Stein]

My daughter & wife allowed my granddaughters (8 & 11 yrs old) to access FB on my computer....I didn't like the idea.......but what do "grumpy old men know"?

Sure enough, a couple child porn "favorites" end up on my wifes home page. My wife blamed me for them......"things" got real messy & loud.

No more kids on my computer.....cept me.

To paraphrase ancient mariners "There be perverts there"

[JavaBrewer]

A couple years back I created my FB account and mistakenly accepted a bunch of non-family folks. About a year ago I "unfriended" about 50 folks. I am down to 20 now and rarely visit the site. I had to turn off all the email notifications because frankly...I don't want to know what you're eating for lunch or where you are at the current minute. I am pretty confident that I will close my FB account this year.