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Poll: When you use Facebook, how do you feel?

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Re: Poll: When you use Facebook, how do you feel?

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Post by tptacek »

lukeqsee wrote: post #30
tptacek wrote: post #24

I love it, I don't care, I hate it? What if I, uh, like it just fine?

My thinking "I don't care" = "like it just fine". Perhaps a better choice of words was "I like it".

I don't "not care" about Facebook. I wouldn't be devastated if it vanished. I like it fine. It's useful.

Re: Poll: When you use Facebook, how do you feel?

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Post by graue »

jazzychad wrote: post #8

None of the above. What I feel is a sense of deep personal sadness . Most of my friends on FB are from college (when FB first launched), and most of them still live on the East Coast. Since I moved to SV, I have not added many new friends on FB (mostly because most SV-type people are not prone to use it that much). So, when I launch my FB news feed, I am bombarded by news and stories and pictures from friends of old…

That is exactly what happened to me after I moved from the east coast to the Midwest. Every login to Facebook was a reminder of the abundant (real-life) social network that I had left behind to be in a place where I knew virtually nobody. It eventually drove me to close my account. Much as I'd like to rationalize closing my account in terms of privacy or principles, it was really mostly this phenomenon.

Re: Poll: When you use Facebook, how do you feel?

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Post by graue »

savrajsingh wrote: post #19
jazzychad wrote: post #8

None of the above. What I feel is a sense of deep personal sadness . Most of my friends on FB are from college (when FB first launched), and most of them still live on the East Coast. Since I moved to SV, I have not added many new friends on FB (mostly because most SV-type people are not prone to use it that much). So, when I launch my FB news feed, I am bombarded by news and stories and pictures from friends of old…

wait, what do you regret?!

Moving away from all his friends, I'd assume.

Re: Poll: When you use Facebook, how do you feel?

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Post by wilfra »

arjn wrote: post #11
jazzychad wrote: post #8

None of the above. What I feel is a sense of deep personal sadness . Most of my friends on FB are from college (when FB first launched), and most of them still live on the East Coast. Since I moved to SV, I have not added many new friends on FB (mostly because most SV-type people are not prone to use it that much). So, when I launch my FB news feed, I am bombarded by news and stories and pictures from friends of old…

Maybe you're feeling sad because you're using social-media more than you should. See the following article : http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/01/the_a...

No, it's not because of using social media too much. I have the exact same feeling. Most of my Facebook friends are people I met in grad school in Thailand. I dropped out and moved back to the USA. Thai people are about 20x more active on Facebook than the average American and they had the time of their lives after I left and the party is still going - and they document every second of it on Facebook. Deep regret/sadness is exactly how I feel every time I see their photos filling up my feed.

Re: Poll: When you use Facebook, how do you feel?

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Post by graue »

arjn wrote: post #2

Stopped using facebook (and orkut) back in late 2007/early 2008. Never looked back and am much happier for it. However, I've taken some flak from friends for not being visible.

Quitting Facebook in 2007 must be the modern equivalent of quitting email in 1990.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html

Re: Poll: When you use Facebook, how do you feel?

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Post by zackhall »

joe_the_user wrote: post #23
simonsarris wrote: post #16

Man I love facebook. Every time a Facebook usage topic comes up there's the usual round of scorn usually backed up by a strange display of plumage involving the sentence, "I just deleted my facebook yesterday/last month/last year/never used it." And that's okay. But I feel compelled to make the same post in response, and so I want to point out to my fellow HN-ers why I think Facebook is so wonderful. There's also a n…

Every time a Facebook usage topic comes up there's the usual round of scorn usually backed up by a strange display of plumage involving the sentence, "I just deleted my facebook yesterday/last month/last year/never used it." Indeed, I find it remarkable that virtually everyone I've ever known either has a Facebook account or has had a Facebook account. Which is say that Facebook has been the gateway drug to the Inter…

"Facebook has been the gateway drug to the internet." I have never thought of it put that way, but it is such a true and insightful statement. When I began high school, almost none of my adult family members were on the internet (less one aunt who did a lot of internet shopping). Here I am closing in on my graduation from college and my entire family has adopted the internet -- grandparents of both sides, my father, aunts & uncles, etc. -- and in every case their first experience was making a facebook account.

Re: Poll: When you use Facebook, how do you feel?

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Post by kstenerud »

I have an account so that relatives who don't use email can contact me, and for those annoying event apps that require a facebook login. Aside from responding to private messages, I log in about once a month to turn off whatever invasive feature they've added and automatically enabled.

Twitter is actually more annoying because they keep sending me "you haven't logged in recently" emails.

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