We are doomed! (Another Facebook rant)
 

I admit it, I am on facebook. Primarily to see pictures of my 2 year old niece who lives in AZ. Yes, I have a few friends -- mostly friends from my post-college years.

While most of my 'friends' will post interesting links, discuss various topics, or at times post humorous pictures, once in a while, I get something lke this:

No offense to the person who posted this, but this is not news worthy! Why on God's green earth would you post such unnecessary drivel for all your friends (and the NSA) to see?!? Has our desire to keep people informed about ALL of our day to day life come to this? Does anybody really care?!?!

And then there are those people who constantly post pictures of what they eat for breakfast/lunch/dinner (isn't there a thread here on that?!?) -- really? What's next? Posting a picture of the 'aftermath?" (I've seen that too, btw). Granted, I have posted pics of food I'm eating in two scenarios -- 1: when Mrs. Z is away (visiting our niece in AZ), I post pics of what I've cooked so she doesn't need to worry. 2: When I am travelling and am eating sometihing different -- last week, I was in Germany, and posted a pic of my dinner: Filtepfannchen mit Kasespastzle und champignonrahmsauce which I ate at a typical outdoor beer garden in Triberg, Black Forest. I don't travel there much, and neither do most of my friends -- so I'd say that qualifies as a little more 'news worthy.'

Then there was my friend (who is now on facebook ignore list) who, every night, before going to bed, would post, "'Night neverland." Ok - that was maybe cute the first 100 times -- on second thought, that was NEVER cute. Ok - you are going to bed. Whoopieee. I don't really care when you go to bed, what your agenda is for the day, or what you are eating for dinner.

I understand the use of hash-tags on twitter. But -- don't use them on facebook, or here, and DON'T FREAKIN' HASHTAG everything!! Hashtags are supposed to help by tagging/grouping important things together. So tell me, why would someone want to group things that have the word, "#the" or "#and" in them?!?

One more thing -- for the love of all things sacred -- just because you took a picture with your smartphone, that doesn't mean you have to post it -- especially if the picture came out blurry, fuzzy, or under/over exposed. (Side note: why do people insist on saving such pictures as well??)

I really have no interest in reading about someone's miserable pathetic life -- I have my own miserable pathetic life to keep me entertained. I guess the noise to information ration on the internet just keeps getting worse and worse...

I know I have posted stuff like this here before -- maybe I should have just added this to the pet peeve thread....

People should focus on more important things, like what the real answer to 48÷2(9+3) = n is...

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Getting off my soapbox.
-Zoltan.

I 'had' a 'friend' that posted the same crap...omg you did laundry and put your kid down for a nap, how exciting!...multiple times a day everyday. i don't need the mundane details, repeatedly.

Please - help me out here -- feel free to post needless posts here that you have seen on other social media websites. Maybe we should start a contest.... (For the sake of all Pelican members, let's not post the drivel from PARF.... :D )

well, they are all pretty needless.

Total waste of time. That's why I visit my Facebook page maybe every six months and haven't updated it in over a year. I have real friends that I see in person.

Remember the old days…when you used to have dinner…then grab the camera, focus it, and take a picture of your food? You’d then take the roll out of the camera, drop it off at the Fotomat place, and you’d pick it up a few days later…. Then, you’d pick out the best photo of your food, go back to the Fotomat, drop off the negative, get copies of the photo made….then, pick them up a few days later. You would then take the photos, put them in envelopes, add stamps, then run down to the post office and mail the pictures of your dinner to all your friends. Remember all that?

Of course not! You didn’t used to take photos of your food – why are you doing it now?

Because my cooking is sublime?

LOL
i dont facebook, never have, never will. i will say this, things in my life are on facebook before it even happens to me. if i want to know if i am going to have a good day, i should just check facebook in the morning, its already there.

the ONLY time i have done anything on facebook is when i was bike riding. i had to have my daughter join the local bike shop facebook because they did not post the rides on their web page, it was on facebook. the fun thing about it was NOBODY new who my daughter was and it was fun to hear everyone asking at the rides who this person was and the talk on FB about her trying to figure it out. finally i had to let them know.

facebook....get a life. oh, i dont twitter either. i wouldnt text but sometimes its the only way i can communicate with my brother or kids. i have been getting messages off and on today from my daughter, been kinda nice. they are usually funny.

Domed...


KT

my cats breath smells like catfood

Lets get back to that salad - were those chopped walnuts or halves? Fresh blueberries or frozen? How about dressing? Yogurt or oil?

(edit) I see now it was an Asian sesame dressing.

Well, she(?) did more work in her description than most. Maybe not newsworthy, but an accomplishment.

I made this:

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KT

This too:

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KT

A former co-worker got fired for posting on FB about her kid's b-day pool party while she was playing hookie from work. Her boss had been trying to reach her (both work from home) and she wasn't picking up the Blackberry. Boss is on FB, saw her post and posted back, "Are you working today?" She was canned. True story.

The only thing worse than the meaningless, attention-whore posts are the constantly political ones. I have plenty of friends whose politics are opposite my own. If I cared about their political persuasion, they'd not be my friends. Some folks love to rant about politics on FB and will never change anyone's mind.

Check out the homemade baked brie:

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These are some of the things I post.
I try to keep things interesting and new.


KT

You can choose to read these mundane posts or not. My baby has been up all night and I have not slept etc etc. Very sad but could be considered a cry for help.

I do not consider these posts useless but sometimes help is needed but of course it is easy to get a reputation on the net and you have to consider the source. Crying wolf too often may get you written off as being a whiner....

I think you need to get off facebook and spend more time on PARF.

I would stab myself in the eyes if dinner was some cheese and vegetables with no meat.

Those I certainly can commiserate with but, " I woke up, I ate a bagel, I cant wait to do laundry all day" lame...I'm sure I've got my own lame ones but, not every single hour of every day.

In other news my favorite food picture post of mine...
My homemade wonton soup.

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Calm down, it was just a light lunch...http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/wat4.gif


KT

Oh thank God. I was going to go out and eat a pound of bacon to make up for your lack of dietary fat and salt.

I got off of Facebook a few years back, went through the exercise of insisting they delete my profile (not just disable it). It took about 4 months, multiple emails, a fair degree of me pounding the table (electronically of course) before they finally sent me a note which read something like "Just in case you change your mind and want to return to the borg, we are keeping your account for a further 30 days, after which if you have not contacted us or logged on, your account will be deleted and all your data deleted".

Haven't entered the URL since, refuse to even consider it and actually consider frequent posters with a fair degree of disdain for the same sort of reasons that Z-Man is doing his rant.

Seriously, people, get a life. Go interact with real humans. Do your own stuff and if it isn't all that interesting, then make it more interesting. Go play in your garage, go play with your kids, go play with your spouse, break out the whips and chains....whatever, don't really care, just be human. Quit the self aggrandizement that seem to be prevalent on social networking.

Geez, I even feel guilty posting this and posting to my threads on the Technical Forum, like anyone really cares that I fabricated and welded on a new rear antiroll bar mount on the Porkchop....

Dennis

I have a facebook account. I also have a couple of friends from various times of my life and a few family members. I really got it years ago for "networking" with colleagues. It's worked, when I've needed or wanted jobs over the years, folks that I'm "friends" with have referred me. In the past 10 years, I think I've posted 2 updates, one when I went skydiving and one when I rode in the 3 seat F1 car. I very, VERY rarely read anyone else's updates (once or twice a year will I get on and actually read anything). I get emails about everyone's birthdays and wish them a happy birthday. I did just happen to check it out a day or two after my uncle, at the range with my cousin, accidentally shot himself in the leg while trying to clear a round that didn't fire. I was able to tell my mom about her baby brother.

Just don't read what gets posted.

I had a Greek yoghurt and a banana for lunch. Listened to some Bruno Mars. That was a good trip to NYC. Now I'm in Sea-Tac waiting for a connection. My, that girl's shoes are neon. I wonder where a water fountain is? How come I never get driven to my gate on the golf cart thingy? Hey, I think, somewhere on the Internet, there are grumpy old men whining. Maybe I'll go show them some mushrooms. Here are some mushrooms.

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They look like lips, don't they? You know. Doesn't that feel better? Not so grumpy now? No? Here, see a beet salad.

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Gosh those look like, yeah, too. Wow. Well, here's a fish. It just looks like a fish.

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I'm going to find a water fountain. When I come back, I'll tell you all about it.

I would stab myself if dinner was just some meat and vegetables with no cheese.

I have never even logged on to Facebook. I have enough life sharing with people in the real world.

dam you, I wuz gonna post that.

Not that I'm an expert on this subject cause i doan do facebook, but I believe that whole thing is free and optional.
Iffn I was doing one of them social media things voluntarily and if I didn't like it, I'm pretty sure I would just stop doing it.

I say close the account and ask the relatives to e-mail you the pictures.

BTW the reason facebook is free is because you aren't the customer, you are the product.

veggy-tables are what food eats.

Pretty sure most users don't realize this. MZ didn't become a billionaire overnight by accident.

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Now on FB: I'm hungry (after seeing all the food).

I thought facebook was were people posted their size and quantity of bowel movements.

"Wow... I just **** a brickload... Didn't think it would flush...When was the last time I had Corn?"http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...eys/pain30.gif

Never done Facebook, twitter, etc. I'm in IT and I know how these "social Media" platforms will steal your privacy and never be taken down. I have no want for personal fame, if I want to communicate with someone I'll see or call them.

I just don't understand the need to share every dump you take with the world?....

Live life, don't write about it

Hmmm... I like Facebook. I have a life, the two - three minutes a day I spend on the site normally include enough pics of family, friends and cool cars that it brightens up my day!!! I don't get worked up by the narcissistic posters....they become nothing more than slightly irritating banner ads. My friends and I (some I see almost daily, some I haven't seen in years ) use it to share things like cool bands, and concert announcements we think the others may also be interested in. (I logged in there this morning before coming here....this site serves a very similar purpose for many of us here I think....I for one spend more time in "off topic" now than I do in Tech....)

This makes me giggle...

Funny this was posted this morning as I browsed FB this am, first time in quite a while...

Wondering how all of the morons who feel the need to take pictures of themselves, their drinks, and the debotchery that ensues were enjoying their massive hangovers this morning :)

I proceeded to get up, walk my dogs, go to Starbucks for the wife and I, and get outside to detail her car for a show tomorrow... Wait, that sounded like a "status update" DOOGHT!!

The irony of me starting this post on a social media website filled with useless threads, including some that I have participated in does not escape me.

There's a saying, "Coffee -- letting you do stupid things faster. " I believe the new phrase is, "The Internet - letting you do stupid things at the speed of light!"

Carry on,
- Z

^^This. I was going to politely remind you of the irony, but you outed yourself. ;)

I actually like FB. I mostly lurk in there. Post once in a while. Mostly all useless stuff in the grand scheme of things, but honestly...isn't this what it was meant for?

I go mostly for the cats...

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KT

I sense that there is a vast difference between the FB feeds of people in large cities with lots of friends and acquaintances all over the globe and people living in the heartland who go to the same job everyday and find most of the people in their life boring.

FB is a brilliant site that is largely a waste of time, (like most of the web), but in the last week, I found out that a friend died hours after it happened, (it might have been a week otherwise), got invited to my cousin's art show in MN. that I otherwise would not have known about, a graduation party or three, plus some great photos submitted by people I care about but otherwise would never see their travels, etc.

No one I know posts what they had for lunch. YMMV, as they say.