Is anybody on FaceBook?

[eastofeden]

I was on Facebook for awhile and I hated it for many reasons.....It took me awhile and a little effort but I finally succesffully deleted my account.

The term "Like me/us on facebook" really makes my skin crawl.

 

[Rolyo85]

I'm frankly weirded out by this topic... EVERYONE I know in real life is on FB, and nobody has these strange notions about it...

 

[Scealle]

I have mixed feelings about it, since most of my college friends are on there. I had to. And our lecturers generally post on there regarding any events, class replacements, trips or competitions etc. So if we don't have one we would be left out. One of my groupmate don't have one and he refuses to use any social media except Skype. It can be very frustrating sometimes, because we have project group there and sometimes we want him to see it, but he don't have facebook so...

However there are times when Facebook can be problematic when people insult someone, or arguments directed at one person, and or your friends force/ ask you to like their opinions

 

[xbuzzerx]

I'm frankly weirded out by this topic... EVERYONE I know in real life is on FB, and nobody has these strange notions about it...

Yeah it has seemed to me for quite a few years now like it's not the odd man out ON facebook, it's the odd man out who isn't. This intensive paranoia about facebook is something I haven't run into very widely before. Some jobs even require a facebook and twitter account nowadays.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I was on Facebook for awhile and I hated it for many reasons.....It took me awhile and a little effort but I finally succesffully deleted my account.

The term "Like me/us on facebook" really makes my skin crawl.

I agree... although I do have a FaceBook, I didn't use my real name. There's people I went to high school with, family... that I don't WANT to find me, and the whole concept just seems too "Big Brother" to me. I know it has settings so you can delegate whom can see what, but seriously, who has time to do all that and figure it out?

You'd think as a fan of The BORG, I'd be more open to a collective conscious.

 

[xbuzzerx]

I use Facebook on a semi regular basis. Yes it has changed since I joined a few years back and I don't like the timeline. Yes it works for some people but just not my cup of tea.

However, like any social networking tool: even here, if you use it unwisely then in the end of course it could be used against you. It's now common place to hear/read about about people who have posted something extremely personal or unprofessional on a social networking site and then for there to be serious ramifications.

Personally I never put anything up of FB that I wouldn't mind my employer seeing or a family member viewing. Either way I use FB but I use it wisely.

I completely agree with that. It's all about how you use it.

What puzzles me is the belief that being on it at all somehow exposes you to great risk or invasiveness. If I DID go snort coke with a guy regularly at parties on the weekends-- I don't, but if I DID-- I would either not add him or I would set it so he can't share or tag photos of me, lol. So when people talk about these stories of being caught cheating or whatever else via photo postings, it's just lazy careless use of Facebook.

 

[eastofeden]

I'm frankly weirded out by this topic... EVERYONE I know in real life is on FB, and nobody has these strange notions about it...

I think it is an age thing. None of my friends in my 3-D world are on it...maybe 1 in 10....and I have quite a few casual friends and acquaintances. Most of my friends and acquantainces are over 50 though.

The strange notions...think about it ....McCarthy's communist withchunt...Hitler rounding up people...can you imagine if either one of them had access to facebook? OMG. Revealing everything about yourself to the whole world has some possible horrible consequences. There will be another madman (or woman)...you can count on that.

 

[xbuzzerx]

I think it is an age thing. None of my friends in my 3-D world are on it...maybe 1 in 10....and I have quite a few casual friends and acquaintances. Most of my friends and acquantainces are over 50 though.

The strange notions...think about it ....McCarthy's communist withchunt...Hitler rounding up people...can you imagine if either one of them had access to facebook? OMG. Revealing everything about yourself to the whole world has some possible horrible consequences. There will be another madman (or woman)...you can count on that.

Well yes, if you reveal absolutely everything. But revealing absolutely everything there is probably as unwise as doing it on a porn site. The most sensitive stuff anyone could get on me there is my name, where I went to school, and my cellphone number. My cellphone number is there in my profile because I only add friends and people I feel pretty comfortable with, over 90% of whom had the number anyway, but this way it's there if they wanna call me and lost the number or got a new cellphone or whatever else.

You could not get my party affiliations, the name of my employer, my address or anything else from it.

Facebook doesn't "tell everything about you unless you take it off", it's the other way around. Only the information you put on there is going to be there.

 

[Rolyo85]

I agree... although I do have a FaceBook, I didn't use my real name. There's people I went to high school with, family... that I don't WANT to find me, and the whole concept just seems too "Big Brother" to me. I know it has settings so you can delegate whom can see what, but seriously, who has time to do all that and figure it out?

You'd think as a fan of The BORG, I'd be more open to a collective conscious.

Again, the point of fb is to make a profile of yourself, not a potentially fake avatar with a handle like on a forum. And the privacy settings allow for people not finding you as well as most anything else you might be worried of.

 

[JustMe5]

I'm frankly weirded out by this topic... EVERYONE I know in real life is on FB, and nobody has these strange notions about it...

Young people use Facebook day in, day out. Some of us older folk however mainly use it as an optional means of communication, particularly to keep up with friends/relatives who live in other parts of the world. I first joined FB in 2009, and back then I would visit it several times a day. Eventually, the novelty effect wore off and now I'm mostly sick of FB. One thing about FB that turned me off (as I mentioned in my previous post) is that your friends can see whatever you post on fan pages, and there's no way to "opt out" of that. A few years ago FB did a change to the site which caused people's fan pages and groups to be visible to the public even if their account was set to private. Eventually a lot of people complained about it, and it got changed back to how it was before. If a social network offers a privacy option, why the hell would they even think that users with private profiles would want the public to see part of their profiles? That defeats the whole purpose of it being private. That's one thing I really despise about FB, that by default it assumes that you WANT to share (with everyone) every single thing you post.

 

[cgymike]

I agree... although I do have a FaceBook, I didn't use my real name. There's people I went to high school with, family... that I don't WANT to find me, and the whole concept just seems too "Big Brother" to me. I know it has settings so you can delegate whom can see what, but seriously, who has time to do all that and figure it out?

You'd think as a fan of The BORG, I'd be more open to a collective conscious.

Your like button isn't working.

 

[G-Lexington]

I'm most confused by the people who post "Please like my page", or when I get the "So-and-so has invited you to like his page". Really? I'm now INVITED to like you? If I had liked you before the invitation, would that have been premature liking? Would you have been upset? Would you have told me "NO! Not YET! You're throwing the timing WAY OFF!!!"

Lex

 

[xbuzzerx]

I'm most confused by the people who post "Please like my page", or when I get the "So-and-so has invited you to like his page". Really? I'm now INVITED to like you? If I had liked you before the invitation, would that have been premature liking? Would you have been upset? Would you have told me "NO! Not YET! You're throwing the timing WAY OFF!!!"

Lex

I preferred when there used to be thumbs up AND thumbs down.

 

[DeafFoxDemon]

I do have a facebook account, mainly use it to stay in touch with my friends and family since it is easier than reach me via text messages... and btw, i was not aware that JUB have facebook account until no

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Again, the point of fb is to make a profile of yourself, not a potentially fake avatar with a handle like on a forum. And the privacy settings allow for people not finding you as well as most anything else you might be worried of.

Young people use Facebook day in, day out. Some of us older folk however mainly use it as an optional means of communication, particularly to keep up with friends/relatives who live in other parts of the world. I first joined FB in 2009, and back then I would visit it several times a day. Eventually, the novelty effect wore off and now I'm mostly sick of FB. One thing about FB that turned me off (as I mentioned in my previous post) is that your friends can see whatever you post on fan pages, and there's no way to "opt out" of that. A few years ago FB did a change to the site which caused people's fan pages and groups to be visible to the public even if their account was set to private. Eventually a lot of people complained about it, and it got changed back to how it was before. If a social network offers a privacy option, why the hell would they even think that users with private profiles would want the public to see part of their profiles? That defeats the whole purpose of it being private. That's one thing I really despise about FB, that by default it assumes that you WANT to share (with everyone) every single thing you post.

Rolyo, Justme answered my sentiments exactly. Even if you take the time to go through and block this or that group/family/friends from seeing the other groups, FaceBook comes along and changes something up, and fucks it all up so they see it anyway. To them it's an "Oops!", to me it's a "OMFG What the hell did you just do? Did my Grandma see THAT???"

 

[Rolyo85]

I'm most confused by the people who post "Please like my page", or when I get the "So-and-so has invited you to like his page". Really? I'm now INVITED to like you? If I had liked you before the invitation, would that have been premature liking? Would you have been upset? Would you have told me "NO! Not YET! You're throwing the timing WAY OFF!!!"

Lex

Actually, "liking" something moves it up everybody's newsfeed, so more people see it. There's a practical reason for someone to want stuff liked.

 

[Rolyo85]

Rolyo, Justme answered my sentiments exactly. Even if you take the time to go through and block this or that group/family/friends from seeing the other groups, FaceBook comes along and changes something up, and fucks it all up so they see it anyway. To them it's an "Oops!", to me it's a "OMFG What the hell did you just do? Did my Grandma see THAT???"

Actually, I'm about 96% certain that nothing you made invisible can become visible due to design or settings updates. And you set things once, not for every new thing you post.

 

[xbuzzerx]

I don't post pics of my dick or anything I don't want my coworkers or relatives to see on Facebook.

I don't know why people act like it has to be used that way and that's why Facebook is BAD and will come back to damage you in the future.

 

[G-Lexington]

One of my friends was ranting about how she thought her privacy was going to be compromised, and how her photos could be stolen, and how her enemies could blackmail her...and finally my other friend (who has a way of cutting through the BS) said "Missy, you're simply not that interesting."

Lex

 

[USEDCAR]

I use facebook, I use it to keep up with friends and family and i made a few new friends on the way. I just find the website extremely annoying with the trends and "Like if you against Cancer" or the stupid quotes that people post in big colorful boxes or the "Someecards"You know those "jokes" with stupid old timey pictures from someecards.

I deleted my account and started a new account with a few people who i talk to all the time. I was tired of seeing the quotes,e cards,thirsty people etc flooding my news feed.