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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?

#41
I don't care if people are going to downvote me because I like FB. Let me clarify myself: I don't like FB as a company because I am a Google fan, but I like FB more than Google+ to be honest.

I like FB because I follow these interesting nature, animal pages. So half of my dashboard is filled with that kind of pictures (oh and memes). I also follow some universities (including mine), and some club pages. I also follow some youtubers like Wong Fu Production and RayWilliamJohnson. Basically, I get most of my updates from FB because the UI on Google+ is really hard to use IMHO. Besides, almost all my friends are regular FB users. They post their life stories on FB.

Privacy? Oh please give me a fucking break. Seriously. As long as FB doesn't steal my money from my bank or credit card I don't care if Macy's gets my likes. I really don't. I might actually end up clicking on that if I find it interesting. Stop those BS privacy critism. If you don't like it, then don't use it. I enjoy my trolling and my fun comments on FB with my friends.

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

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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

Back then I preferred Orkut to FB. It was harder deleting my Orkut account. Didn't like FB then, don't like it now. I thought the interface sucked, its probably better now but I'll never know :)

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

#46
Facebook is the greatest, most powerful weapon ever created. If there was a god of attention, it's name would be Facebook.

Twitter, Google+, WoW, TV, radio, magazines, whatever. They all pale in comparison to the amount of time and effort =wasted= on Facebook. Discussing meaningless things, liking meaningless posts or comments, or pages about meaningless things, photos of meaningless things.

It doesn't matter how many people or pages you subscribe, like or friend who _might_ talk or be about something important in the world, your "feed" will be chock full of rubbish by the thousands of other posts about NOTHING.

Forgive the brutality here, but why do you need to read on Facebook how someone is feeling? If they're important enough to you to care how they feel, shouldn't they be around you? Within arms reach? Why do you need to see what someone had for lunch? Why do you need to share pictures of you and your friends drunk? Why do you need to see scenic photos of places your friends or family have been? Why do you need to know about everyone's birthday?

Why do you care? Really?

For all the time you spend absorbing this information, what good does it do you or anyone else? Is it creating homes or jobs for those with nothing? Is it curing cancer? Is it feeding starving children? Is it teaching anyone anything useful that could improve their life? How about the planet? Is it fixing the ozone? Is it cleaning the air we breathe? Or even you, specifically? Is it putting food on your table? Is it putting clothes on your back? Is it paying your bills? Is it quenching your thirst? Is it?

No.

It's flooded with useless information that everyone wastes copious quantities of time and energy consuming that could be spent on any number of better activities.

You know what I'm talking about.

/rant. waits for the hellban

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

#47

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?!

I regret losing contact with people who were once friends and drifting out of the network of people I spent a lot of time with in the past, but whom I have virtually no contact with (outside of Facebook) now. Most of the in-Facebook contact is not nearly deep or meaningful enough to rekindle old friendships and its tough when you've drifted so far apart. Hell, a lot of these people have moved away - some to other cities, some to other countries and some to other continents. When I log onto Facebook and see what these people are doing, I remember the times we had together in the past and I regret that I lost touch with them.

I mean, not so much that I'll jump on a plane and try to re-friend them in real life - I too have moved on and have great friends around me (new and old), just like they do. But sometimes I wonder what life would be like if I still hung out with that guy or girl in that photograph posted on their Facebook wall yesterday. Would I have been in it?

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