Face Book like it or hate it

[jamie_01930]

was curious about this. people don't talk as much there as there do here.

I come from a small family that is spread around the world and even if we are dircetly related to each other no one gives a rats ass

 

[hylas]

jub is a pleasant distraction. im currently spending a lot of time here, and you guys are swell and all, but i wouldnt miss it too much if it went away. its entertainment.

facebook is, at least for me, a very practical communication tool, like skype, mobile phones, or e-mail. if it stopped working, id have to tediously reorganize a part of my social life. i wouldnt want that.

 

[JetSetJake]

I like Facebook, but don't use it very much. In fact I recently deactivated my profile there - it seems you actually can't delete yourself completely, you can only deactivate the profile. [If anyone knows how to delete it, I would appreciate the tip ]

JUB I like for entertainment and discussion, talking about various things with people who share your interests or who interesting - or even contrasting - views.

Obviously, life would go on without either of them. However, I don't care much about FB cos I can email and call my friends etc.

 

[altlover85]

I use Facebook to connect with people I know in real life. I use JUB to have discussion about interesting things with people I don't know in real life.

I like Facebook and JUB.

 

[Adhesion]

I use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends who live elsewhere--and since I've worked telecommute for a good decade, I've developed a lot of distant friends.

JUB is in an entirely different category for me.

 

[rareboy]

It is horrible and I look forward to the day when it becomes obsolete.

I'm so sick and tired of everyone living their entire self-obsessed life in public.

 

[Sha-Rok]

I use Facebook to keep up with family and friends.

 

[wooffy]

I left Facebook over a year ago, never going back to that hellhole.

 

[mbamike]

I closed my Facebook account. What does that tell you?

 

[CowboyBob]

I like Facebook. I use it to stay in touch with family and friends, but use it with limits.

 

[metta]

Whether you like it or hate it FACEBOOK is Down right now...

http://www.centernetworks.com/facebook-down


Facebook Is Down Again, Cause Unknown

http://www.pcworld.com/article/206088/facebook_is_down_again_cause_unknown.html?tk=hp_new


I just get:

"Service Unavailable - DNS failure

The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
Reference #11.17d154b8.1285275554.10fe389e"

 

[metta]

^

never mind....looks like it is back up...

 

[wooffy]

I like it, don't see reasons to hate it. Easy way to keep in touch with friends and family.

Reasons I hated FB

1- Invasions of privacy, both by FB and by other users
2- Closed system. For example, I can use any email client on any device to access a POP3 or IMAP server, not so with FB
3- Too many apps, games, and other crap. I have better things to do with my time than delete unwanted invitations and find ways to block future ones.
4- Yet one more place to have to check for messages.
5- People not respecting/understanding that I did not want business messages on FB, nor did I check it daily (I lost clients over this, for "ignoring" the urgent request they sent on FB).
6- Just added more background noise to my life.

We're moving to a much more closed, privately owned, Internet, and we will al pay the price for that some day.

As for family and friends - I have a cell phone w/text messaging, a business phone to use on public ads etc., and one email account. That is plenty to keep up with people.

 

[shainski]

I don't like facebook.

It may be okay for keeping up trivially with lots of people.

But i enjoy having in-depth conversations with people - using just one or two at time. There are not many things of interest that i would announce to everyone at a party, for example.

So if i am at a party - the more people that can hear me, the more generic and trite i become.

But if i am talking to you one-to-one, then i am thinking about you. I will ask and answer more personal questions. if it appears that we are not on track, i can correct what i meant.

It's almost like the difference between what i might say in a postcard verses a letter to someone.

And when i look at what some people say on facebook, i get embarrassed for them. Some things don't seem like they are meant to be shared to everyone.

 

[wooffy]

1-Don't really know how this is.

Uhm, Facebook's privacy violations have been in the news for most of the year, and got them in trouble in several countries, including Canada.

On a personal level, I consider much of what is "shared" on FB without explicit permission of the subject to be a violation of basic privacy. Eg a friend got up one morning to find photos of himself making out the night before all over FB, tagged with his name. While he did not consider it a big deal, that is to me a good example of how few personal boundaries people have now.

Long story short, FB did nothing for me but give me the creeps and add to my daily workload, so I killed it (after looking up the draconian process needed to really delete an account). Email is free, anyone can contact me that way.

 

[rickycub87]

I like it. It's good for keeping up with friends / relatives. I check it everyday...

 

[Kester]

I like it.

Especially once I blocked all those stupid farmville, mafia wars games from always showing up.

 

[Adrock-JD]

Facebook is basically a less efficient, cliquish version of twitter.

with Farmville

 

[Speeds]

I'm over Facebook. Waiting for the next big thing. Hahaha

 

[Críostóir]

Well, the question as posed in the thread title gets the answer "both," but the actual survey gets a firm "no."

Facebook hardly ever has porn on it.