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Facebook is bad for you: Get a life

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Re: Facebook is bad for you: Get a life

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Post by danneu »

Every time Facebook is brought up, some of us attempt to enumerate the reasons why we ostensibly hate Facebook.

But frequently our list just looks like an inventory of our own self-limiting beliefs, bitterness, and narcissism. Perhaps we really hate Facebook so much because it so effortlessly unmasks us and our conflicts with the world.

In an impressive dance of culpability evasion, we come here to re-convince ourselves that the deactivation button is a secret transcendental portal into social nirvana instead of acknowledging the possibility that the deactivation button is our only chance to turn the tides of a personal battle we are merely losing against ourselves.

Re: Facebook is bad for you: Get a life

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Post by quantumpotato_ »

agumonkey wrote: post #35
smsm42 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why I practically stopped taking photos on vacations. I discovered I am replacing actual experiences with attempt to record the experience for some future myself, thus sacrificing my present enjoyment for the shadow of future recollection of the enjoyment that I didn't actually have because I was too busy trying to record it.

Yeah, a bad analogy would be throwing a party vs being invited. All in all it feels very weird how this 'data' era is twisting our conception of 'existing'. It seems like a gigantic ball of noise, no signal. Too much content of lowered moments. Very unsettling. Slightly digressing, I'm also having a non-digital reaction. I used to love the unaltered quality of digital data versus fragile analogical mediums. But now I…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

Re: Facebook is bad for you: Get a life

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Post by quantumpotato_ »

zxcvvcxz wrote: post #36

Alright, here are my honest gripes with facebook: - Professional contacts. I can't share anything I consider "funny" (in the stupid, I'm-in-my-early-20s way) with friends because I have investors and recruiters and these other professional fucks ready to judge me. - I'm tired of seeing your achievements. God damn just wait until I get some, okay? I don't care if you just started med school and are posting pics of you…

Since you "hate everything about FB" then what, exactly, do you use Facebook for and how often?

> "Therefore I don't post anything and keep my best photos up".

You don't want pictures of you and girls, and you don't want facebook of you and other guys so.. pictures of just you?

If you have professional contacts, writing about android apps you're working on seems like a good idea - it shows your expertise, shows your productivity.

Overall your post makes me think of this: http://deoxy.org/media/The_Social_Network_Scam

Re: Facebook is bad for you: Get a life

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Post by staccatomeasure »

volokoumphetico wrote: post #63

I've deactivated facebook permanently (I changed my password to something impossible to remember before deactivating). This works very well, since facebook is about having higher number of friends, when there's zero, there's no point in going back to it. It's value at one point was very high (when I could still tolerate the level of bullshit amongst my peers on fb; most are insecure little instagram addicts) but now…

I was off Facebook for a year and felt as free as you described. The problem is that girls use FB as a vetting tool. It's weird to not have FB and introduces a barrier to entry in the dating world (pun absolutely intended).

Re: Facebook is bad for you: Get a life

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Post by meddlepal »

zxcvvcxz wrote: post #36

Alright, here are my honest gripes with facebook: - Professional contacts. I can't share anything I consider "funny" (in the stupid, I'm-in-my-early-20s way) with friends because I have investors and recruiters and these other professional fucks ready to judge me. - I'm tired of seeing your achievements. God damn just wait until I get some, okay? I don't care if you just started med school and are posting pics of you…

I do not mean to be an ass here, but I am going to sound like one... You must live a shallow and trite life if you're THAT concerned about keeping up appearances.

Are you sure you have friends and not just acquaintances you're tying to impress?

Re: Facebook is bad for you: Get a life

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Post by agumonkey »

quantumpotato_ wrote: post #82
agumonkey wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, a bad analogy would be throwing a party vs being invited. All in all it feels very weird how this 'data' era is twisting our conception of 'existing'. It seems like a gigantic ball of noise, no signal. Too much content of lowered moments. Very unsettling. Slightly digressing, I'm also having a non-digital reaction. I used to love the unaltered quality of digital data versus fragile analogical mediums. But now I…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

I wish you'd say a little more but thank you anyway I forgot that book existed, now I have a stronger desire to read it.

Re: Facebook is bad for you: Get a life

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Post by Sam_Odio »

volokoumphetico wrote: post #63

I've deactivated facebook permanently (I changed my password to something impossible to remember before deactivating). This works very well, since facebook is about having higher number of friends, when there's zero, there's no point in going back to it. It's value at one point was very high (when I could still tolerate the level of bullshit amongst my peers on fb; most are insecure little instagram addicts) but now…

> Now I chuckle whenever I hear some idiot snapping shots of their receipt or food, it's not the camera shutter, it's the sound of insecurity.

It's common to take photos of receipts for business purposes. Is there a situation where that type of behavior indicates insecurity?

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