The circulation of current generation after two or three years, who is more into facebook right now, will come to know it is sucking them, there is nothing which adds something into them apart from being cluttered forcefully in so called 'social' stuffs.
Goodbye Facebook
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Re: Goodbye Facebook
#102Not a single comment on that great blog post. Where is the discussion? In a vibrant community like Hacker News. Facebook has something valuable... we've already logged in, so there's no barrier to making a comment that is voiced from our own identity. Fewer clicks, no barriers, and boom - the comment is public. But Hacker News does that for me, since I have a long-lasting cookie that I don't clear... hence this comme…
My fault, I just approved all the comments I received, even the ones that disagree with me. I'm so happy to have had such a response to this!
Doh! :)
Nice article!
Re: Goodbye Facebook
#103I find it humorous that there is such a need to DEFINE Facebook. It's different things to different people. We really don't need one definition of what it is or a nice tidy list of the ways people use it, what the benefits are, what the drawbacks are, etc. Every time I read about somebody complaining about Facebook, I usually just end up thinking "I don't use it (exactly) that way, so this doesn't (completely) apply…
Oddly enough I have the exact opposite take on it. My wife and I both don't have Facebook accounts, and while most of my friends also do not have accounts, many of my wife's friends do. These friends live in the same state as us, and while we don't live in the same city we still manage to get together frequently. In the last few years we have noticed quite the trend: everyone of these people on Facebook would do a do…
It's funny you should mention being married, because that's why I don't have a Facebook account.
I signed up for MySpace because a girl elected to give me her MySpace username instead of her phone number. I haven't logged in since before meeting my wife, and never got a Facebook account because I haven't yet needed one.
It seems to me to be the difference between spending time and wasting it. All I've heard about the site is photo sharing, discussing parties, people being shocked at the drop-down other people clicked for their relationship status, and games that used to be pointless (like that silly game about buying your friends or the vampire game) but have recently become manipulative and borderline malicious (Zynga). It consumes time without providing value. I have enough useless stuff competing for my time against valuable stuff.
So far, the only actually useful social site I've used is GitHub, which is more about adding a social component to doing things. I do enjoy Twitter (which is pretty tolerable and not too demanding if you keep your "following" count low enough), where I read jokes my friends make and occasionally find an interesting link or two. I had high hopes for LinkedIn, but it mostly gets me recruiter spam. ("Do you want to add me as a connection so we can network?", "Do you want to do VB.NET?", "Do you want to move to San Francisco?", "Do you want to take a pay cut and work overtime because our atmosphere is so darned quirky and fun?", and my favorite so far, "Do you want to work for Zynga?"...Nope, none of those.)
Re: Goodbye Facebook
#104We all love to hate Facebook but cannot deny the fact that it has become a part of our lives.
Re: Goodbye Facebook
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't make assertions without support.
The same admonishion should apply to sudont's assertions upthread. We shouldn't take it as a given that friends will resent you for having to compose an email or use IM.
The difference is that sudont explained why one would conflate the two while the child only said "Do not do it" with no explanation.
Re: Goodbye Facebook
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't make assertions without support.
You want support? : The world got along fine until facebook came out all of less than 10 years ago. Since then lots of people have joined it and lots of people have left again, but arguably lots more have joined than have left. Just like there is no obligation to join there is no obligation to leave and those that leave should not be made to feel guilty because "literally everyone else in your social circle is on Fac…
Let's not get caught in a false dichotomy. Not having a Facebook does not necessarily make you anti-social. But if we take "anti-social" to be a measure of one's social availability, not having Facebook decreases that measure. Communicating only by smoke signal or carrier pigeon would make you extremely unavailable whereas communicating by email and telephone would make you very available. In some demographics, users check their Facebook 3+ times per day, so depending on your social circle, being on Facebook makes you highly available.
For the record, I do not use Facebook, but I accept that it makes me less available. Friends who make Facebook events to organize events can invite nearly everyone they want to invite to their event on Facebook, but have to go out of their way to invite me via different means. This makes me anti-social to some (pretty small) degree.
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#107Re: Goodbye Facebook
#108I find it humorous that there is such a need to DEFINE Facebook. It's different things to different people. We really don't need one definition of what it is or a nice tidy list of the ways people use it, what the benefits are, what the drawbacks are, etc. Every time I read about somebody complaining about Facebook, I usually just end up thinking "I don't use it (exactly) that way, so this doesn't (completely) apply…
Oddly enough I have the exact opposite take on it. My wife and I both don't have Facebook accounts, and while most of my friends also do not have accounts, many of my wife's friends do. These friends live in the same state as us, and while we don't live in the same city we still manage to get together frequently. In the last few years we have noticed quite the trend: everyone of these people on Facebook would do a do…
Geeky example, but it's like RSS. Instead of having to manually check every website for updates, they all get pulled in to a central place where you can keep tabs on them yourselves.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook lost in China and Russia because other similar products were already established (and in Russia the product is pretty much better >_>). The regions aren't actually less connected socially, or if they are you can't tell by looking at Facebook's data.
If you are talking about VKontakte in Russia, you are wrong. VKontakte (launched 2006) is a clone of Facebook (even the design is copied from FB). It's criticized in Russia for the same reasons as FB here. FB lost because VK was specifically targeted at Russian audience from the beginning.
Well, I can say that they've copied older version of facebook and it seems more convenient for some people. Also do not forget audio and video sharing applications. It is like Napster since it allows users to exchange their collections.
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#110Does anyone else avoid Facebook because they themselves suck as person? I don't use FB because the activities on it are things I am better off not doing. I felt strange doing anything on it because I felt people were judging me. It was like I had developed this persona of an educated and successful and fun person when I was on it because I hadn't made any new "friends" since beginning grad school and I was so stresse…
i think you'll find more success with Facebook-like thinks if you Think about it less, by which i mean don't strategize or mull over it. try acting from your instincts on what feels right in your core. you'll find yourself taking more honest actions and appreciating how you spend your time, rather than consuming your mind with judgements on yourself and others. "wasting time" sounds to me like a product of taking act…
Actually, this is perfect advice for daily living with others. In other words, stop playing chess with relationships and get out of your own way.