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Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by michelleclsun »

ovi256 wrote: post #56
planetguy wrote: post #48

I'm considering leaving facebook for the first time, because of the Sponsored Stories thing, which is showing up with disturbing regularity, and frequently winds up as ads for things that make me angry. Nowadays, if you "Like" something, then that something can pay for the privilege to insert whatever stories it likes into your friends' facebook feeds, under the heading "so-and-so likes such-and-such" followed by you…

Facebook already includes tools to solve your issues. Either unfriend the vague acquintances, hide all their posts from your feed, or hide the annoying posts following some criteria.

Agree. Facebook is a tool whose scope of use can be adjusted by each user's needs and expectations. It is true that the setting changes are not the most user-friendly / intuitive. It's also fair that some people want to cut off certain dependency of any tool, but it's not the tool to blame but a personal choice to make.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by dkhenry »

So this is exactly the problem Google+ was designed to solve.

Don't want your entire friends list to see a post only share with with a specific circle.

Don't care to hear useless banter ? Don't include a person in your circle or turn down the volume on that circle. I had a good friend of mine from growing up who decided one day he was going to post nothing but memes. He went into the silent circle and I can check in on him every now and then if I so choose.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by tomflack »

btilly wrote: post #150
Karunamon wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>the answer is an emphatic "Of course, stupid ." Ignoring your patronizing, insulting tone for a bit, somehow I doubt it's that easy for most. If you're addicted to something (and I mean really, truly addicted), and it has negative consequences on your life, the answer is always "Well just stop it doing it, then". However, people do not work that way, and it's at the very least naive to assume it's that simple. >You…

> > Facebook is not communication. > > What would you call it then!? It's a platform where > you share and talk with friends. How is that not > communication? Facebook has the same relationship to communication that Doritos has to food.

You're underestimating the worth of having literally all my friends using the same feature-rich messaging platform. I'm in China and using the opportunity to spend a little time away from western social platforms (not using a VPN) and the only thing I've missed is facebook messenger.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

#154

Post by zvrba »

Karunamon wrote: post #118
peterwwillis wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any bit of information can make an emotional impact, if it's meaningful to you. Maybe you learned that your whole family burned alive via morse code. Doesn't really matter how you got the information, you got it. And you'll probably have an emotional response. That isn't what i'm talking about at all. I said replacement of emotion and social interaction with technology . It's the removal of the human element that tro…

>When instead of sharing, laughing, and crying together, we take, laugh, and cry in a room, alone, our thumbs and index fingers hurriedly typing out replies to communication, missing vital clues and skipping over the common human courtesies we learn and use in the course of physical interaction. You say "human courtesies", I (and others) say impediments to effective communication. Think of the average phone call. Thi…

> My BF on the phone vs Skype vs Facebook vs Twitter. It's all the same person,

Did you meet your BF through Facebook?

> In fact the textual ones have a benefit - I can easily retrieve those later.

Sorry, but this is creepy. The advantage of spoken word is that it's ephemeral, personal and unshareable with others; said things get forgotten and (if they were ugly), forgiven too.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by itgoon »

citricsquid wrote: post #17

> I want us to talk. I want a personal email. I want to find a way to share photos in a way that encourages us to talk about them with each other. Surely you can do this with or without Facebook. Maybe I'm a unique snowflake but Facebook to me is exactly the opposite of that: it's a way to give a quick (often meaningless) insight into my life, what I'm thinking or what I'm doing. It's a way to share something that ma…

Exactly. If it replaces anything, it's because it is more efficient at it. This is all anecdotal, I know...

Since Facebook, my email inbox is almost devoid of "RE:RE:FW:FW" broadcast messages.

I still get plenty of email from family and friends, but they are more selective in what they send. Things that are personal, or detailed, or very specific to me.

I still use my phone a lot, but spend less time telling people how great (or not) my weekend was. If they want to know, they can look. If they want details, they call and ask.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by Karunamon »

Karunamon wrote: post #138

I've really never seen a "facebook sucks" post that wasn't based on one of the following tired arguments: - Ludditism Usually of the form: Technology is *TEARING US APART* don't you see?! (Response: No, not really, perhaps you just suck at communicating?) - Ignorance of use Usually of the form: WTF I got fired for posting all those pictures of me using drugs?! (Response: Learn to use the privacy settings!) or: It's t…

Anyone care to rebut instead of downvote and run?

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by deelowe »

thebigshane wrote: post #66
deelowe wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This argument could be applied to any technical progress. Email for example: "Sure you could dePend on a soulless money making machine to optimize your communications... And hope it does it right. Or you can just take control of the situation and do it the old fashioned way: letters and stamps."

How is email a "soulless money making machine"? You have control over email: providers, client applications, encryption. Sure, many many people use gmail and gmail isn't too different to facebook in this regard, but email itself is an open protocol where you can use a competing service and still integrate with others.

gmail, hotmail, etc...

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by duncan »

briandear wrote: post #101
duncan wrote: post #73

You'll eventually get over being "too cool" for Facebook. It's ok, I did it too. We'll welcome you back when you change your mind. Life is too short to worry so much about these things.

Life's too short to be watching cat videos and sifting through sponsored stories.

All your friends do on FB is post cat videos? ..and this is Facebook's fault? Ha. Maybe it's time to make some new friends?!
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