Facebook

Zascar · 13-07-2009 8:55am #1

Facebook gets a lot of slagging on this site, and I really wonder why. I find it quite amusing how people with many thousands of posts on this site, slag off people who spend time on facebook socialising/networking with people they usually actually know. It is a massive social phenomenon and has changed how people interact - 200 million people can't be wrong!

It's a great tool for keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances or just finding out what people are up to via status updates and photos. It's great for planning events or finding out what is going on around you. You have control over who sees what so privacy should not be an issue for most people - bar the tinfoil hat crew.

Do you use facebook, do you like it?

What is it that people hate about it so much and slag it off?

Wazdakka · 13-07-2009 8:58am

It's bloody handy for keeping in touch with Family, Friends, and new people you meet when you're travelling.

Kiera · 13-07-2009 8:58am

I dont get it at all. If i want to talk to my friends i'll ring/email them.

Mr Benevolent · 13-07-2009 9:00am

Would the sudden change of heart happen to be because FaceButt own Boards.ie now?

I use it because my girlfriend's in Australia but don't like the site.

Owen · 13-07-2009 9:01am

Love it - particularly for keeping up with friends abroad, and getting birthday reminders - it needs an option to ban quizzes and gifts though.

Zascar · 13-07-2009 9:01am

It's very handy for sending a message to a large group of people - plus most people are friends with many people they would not normally have a phone number or email address for.

TheZohanS · 13-07-2009 9:04am

Zascar wrote: »

It's a great tool for keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances or just finding out what people are up to via status updates and photos. It's great for planning events or finding out what is going on around you. You have control over who sees what so privacy should not be an issue for most people - bar the tinfoil hat crew.

= Stalking.

All it takes is for one person on your friends list to have their profile set to public and anyone can see what you're up to.

shane86 · 13-07-2009 9:05am

Kiera wrote: »

I dont get it at all. If i want to talk to my friends i'll ring/email them.

pfft. Email died like 3 years ago......

Used to hate Facebook, signed up just to see my mates Australia photos last year, it was some archaic piece of sh1t back then, Bebo was way handier. Eventually it improved a bit, and because I worked with alot of foreigners they kept adding me (tbh regular Joe Irish people only started using Facebook in the last 4 or 5 months, before that any Irish I knew with an account were either abroad or worked with alot of people from abroad). Now Im in Oz, everyone here is on it so Im on it regularly, v handy for keeping and swapping photos, finding out plans etc etc.

Bebo was superior, but I think people just got bored of it and the porn spam, everytime I log in barely anyone can be arsed updating anything and people are deleting their accounts the whole time.

javaboy · 13-07-2009 9:07am

Zascar wrote: »

200 million people can't be wrong!

O RLY?

Go away pedants. I know it wasn't 200 million. Nobody cares.

Zascar · 13-07-2009 9:08am

javaboy wrote: »

O RLY?

LOL! :pac:

nitrogen · 13-07-2009 9:16am

Zascar wrote: »

plus most people are friends with many people they would not normally have a phone number or email address for.

Isn't this quite obvious that they're not really friends.

nayorleck114 · 13-07-2009 9:19am

Wazdakka wrote: »

It's bloody handy for keeping in touch with Family, Friends, and new people you meet when you're travelling.

Totally agree, its really great for keeping intouch.

dr.bollocko · 13-07-2009 9:23am

I think that the twitter thing is much worse than facebook. I just do not see the point to it.

My only problem with it is that people have put pics of me up there, the ****. I dont use it myself.

nayorleck114 · 13-07-2009 9:23am

PaintDoctor wrote: »

it needs an option to ban quizzes and gifts though.

There already is, just turn off the application

WithCheesePlease · 13-07-2009 9:29am

TheZohan wrote: »

All it takes is for one person on your friends list to have their profile set to public and anyone can see what you're up to.

Not true - if your profile is private it can't be viewed through other peoples profiles, even comments you've posted in their profile. If you have yours set up correctly that is.

I think it's great for keeping touch with people you mightn't be bothered with otherwise. And for getting back in touch with people from school or travelling or where ever too. Even if just to say a simple hello again and leave it at that. And for the bit of snooping too.

It does get annoying though; some peoples' status updates just annoy me for some completely irrational reason - "Whoever is really looking forward to the grand opening of some bvll**** club with some talentless z list celeb tonight, whoop, whoop" to be followed with comments like "oh me too hun, whoop, whhop xxx

)" and so forth.

robby^5 · 13-07-2009 9:31am

It's better than bebo at least.

Zascar · 13-07-2009 9:40am

gearoid_healy wrote: »

I think it's great for keeping touch with people you mightn't be bothered with otherwise.

Exactly. As people contradicted above, just because someone is not your best friend it does not mean you should not communicate with them. I'm friends with people I have not seen since I left school 10 years ago, but through photos or status updates, conversations start and then you get back in touch etc.

It's also dead handy for seeing what friends you have in common - its amazing how you can have mutual friends with a person and not realise it!

Mossy Monk · 13-07-2009 9:49am

I do use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends dotted all over the place but I do wonder about people who just add everybody and anybody to their friends list.

RandolphEsq · 13-07-2009 9:49am

It's quite obvious that people who don't use Facebook are not as popular, confident and open as the people who do use it. That appears to be the case with people I know who don't have a Facebook.

monkeyfudge · 13-07-2009 9:55am

RandolphEsq wrote: »

It's quite obvious that people who don't use Facebook are not as popular, confident and open as the people who do use it. That appears to be the case with people I know who don't have a Facebook.

A Facebook profile can reveal the real you

13-07-2009 9:57am

I use it op and I have to be honest and say that I used to knock social networking.

One reason was because you'd hear little fággot emo cúntfaces on the bus talking very loudly about how they were on beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebowww last night saying to your one how she should try sucking this instead etc. It seemed to me it was littered with braindead assholes to be fair and I was strongly opposed to it.

However, since last Sep or Oct or there abouts, I started using Facebook. Loads of workmates were using it and even though Bebo is defo gay, Facebook is cool. You have complete privacy. No one can see anything you don't want them to. I have maintained a lot more friends than what I would have otherwise. Friends in Oz, South America, United States, Canada, Norway - everywhere really! It's fantastic.

Another amazing thing is, I found my cousin on it. A cousin who I hadn't seen or heard from since I was 4, if even that. His mother, my aunt dies in Vienna where he was living and that was it. The father never kept in touch. Earlier this year I searched and bang, there he was, the only person on Facebook with that name! Handy.

watna · 13-07-2009 10:03am

I use it a bit - I'm not big in to it and don't do the quizzes and stuff but if you are living on the other side of the world to where home is then it's great for saying hi to people and seeing what people are up to. Makes you feel a lot more connected.

My best best mates are not on it for some reason - but I just email ad skype them. It's better for keeping in touch with people who aren't super close to but want to say hi and see how they are.

Loomis · 13-07-2009 10:09am

Started with a Bebo account. All through college I used it pretty much everyday keeping in touch with college friends and secondary school friends. It then got to the stage where I was just messaging my girlfiend which I can do by texting for free anyway. I rarely log in anymore.

I also have a facebook account but rarely used it at all. I used Bebo instead at the time. I can see Facebook is far more impressive in functionality, design and aesthetics than bebo ever was but I still can't get into it. I chat to the few I keep in contact with while online on gmail chat so don't really have a use for it.

I'd be weary of uploading many of your personal photos also for those unaware.

nibtrix · 13-07-2009 10:12am

If you were a shoe, what kind of shoe would you be? :rolleyes::rolleyes:

It's fine for keeping in touch with people but it seems to be mostly used for this shite!

javaboy · 13-07-2009 10:14am

nibtrix wrote: »

If you were a shoe, what kind of shoe would you be? :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Loafer obviously.

anniehoo · 13-07-2009 10:17am

I have to admit im a Facebook addict. Its great for seeing what all your mates are up to without having to ring each and every one all the time. The photo element has been getting me in trouble recently as i have friends who flatly refuse to let me upload any pics of them from nights out or events we've been to (even when i tell them theyre private).

nitrogen · 13-07-2009 11:26am

RandolphEsq wrote: »

It's quite obvious that people who don't use Facebook are not as popular, confident and open as the people who do use it. That appears to be the case with people I know who don't have a Facebook.

Or maybe they have better things to do than masturbate their ego.

Heisenberg. · 13-07-2009 11:28am

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Jeanious · 13-07-2009 12:30pm

gearoid_healy wrote: »

I think it's great for keeping touch with people you mightn't be bothered with otherwise.

Eh, can i raise a seemingly obvious question? If youre not bothered with them in general, why would ya want to keep in touch with them at all?

Aidric · 13-07-2009 12:45pm

It's a great tool for nosy people.

markok84 · 13-07-2009 12:53pm

I've a fair few friends abroad at the moment so it's good to keep in touch with them and let them know all the drinking they've been missing out on, other than that It's pretty good for getting the rahoyed or failing that pics of girls you'd like to rahoyed for fapping purposes.

Firetrap · 13-07-2009 2:10pm

I use it but don't take it too seriously or spend hours at it. It's a nice way to keep up with family/friends I wouldn't be in contact with on an everyday basis and the updates can be most enlightening! I don't upload any embarrassing photos of myself though - just ones of my friends boom boom

Ddad · 13-07-2009 2:12pm

i just got back in touch with the lad I sat next to in school. Had a great "good times" chat.

Xavi6 · 13-07-2009 2:15pm

I live on the other side of the world to most of my mates so it's great for keeping in touch.

Sunset V · 13-07-2009 2:18pm

Bebo, facebook they're all the same. When bebo started up, you chatted to people you went to school with and were like "So what are you doing now?" "In college" "Grand so."

Now it's facebook, "So what are you doing now?" "Working" "grand so"

Social networking is what it is be whatever site is popular now. I'm sure there'll be an super amazing alternative to Facebook before the end of the year. I think bebo is very practical compared to facebook but the latter has it's advantages too (people actually use it being the major one!!)

Social Networking sites are now just tools to help drive a company's new product / fantastic event that is coming up. I am a fan of them and I use them but, and I'm contradicitng myself here, I find them utterly crap.

Bill-e · 13-07-2009 2:30pm

Nearly everyone I know is on it and it's great for keeping up with ppl on a huge scale.

The pain in the ass is that 2 of my 5 'core' buddies are not on it. So for holiday pics and parties and stuff i have to post pics up on flick or photobucket for them twits to see. They often seem out of the loop at social events cause most of the gang would have made plans etc via FB and they would be blissfully ignorent to it. Is it cause they don't want to do what everyone else is doing? or cause they are very private? If your so private then what are you hiding? comin out with it!?

I can't understand why they won't get into it. It's not a passing fad, it's something that is required nowadays. Bebo was a bit whorish in that it wasn't very private and you got mangled with friends you didn't want. We learned lessons from Bebo that makes FB better. I think it's like not getting 'an internet' cause it's too difficult ffs like!

Dampsquid · 13-07-2009 2:43pm

I think it's great, i now know all the lads in school i thought were a bit gay... they actually are.

Abi · 13-07-2009 4:16pm

Dampsquid wrote: »

I think it's great, i now know all the lads in school i thought were a bit gay... they actually are.

Thats scarey

Xavi6 wrote:

I live on the other side of the world to most of my mates so it's great for keeping in touch.

^^ For that reason its ok I suppose.

I set up an account, but there is nothing on it. No private info, no photos nothing. I just don't trust these kind of sites, so its pointless me having one at all. If I want to speak to someone I'll email, msn or phone.

Captain Chaos · 13-07-2009 4:32pm

Abigayle wrote: »

I set up an account, but there is nothing on it. No private info, no photos nothing. I just don't trust these kind of sites, so its pointless me having one at all. If I want to speak to someone I'll email, msn or phone.

Same here and for bebo. All my mates were onto me for not having an account. SO I made one to shut them up. I put nothing on it and never updated it as I didn't feel a need or want to do so. Then they got on to me for being a boring **** and not bothering to update it.

I don't consider every little thing that I do or happens to me important to want to post it for all to see online. I just want to go out for a few pints at the weekend without having a camera shoved in my face and being asked to hang from the rafters and look like I'm having a great time.

A thing that bugs me is a few of the people we go out with always have camera with them and constantly take pics throughout the night all the time. It's just a normal night out ffs, get over it. Fair enough if its an event like a b'day etc.

I feel like these people need to send out a message to everyone that they are popular and have loads of friends and a highly active social life. Its like a I have more friends and fun than you contest.

From what I have seen with social networking sites from my friends points of view is that they are trouble waiting to happen.

Novella · 13-07-2009 4:32pm

I HATE FACEBOOK. It's not because I have a problem with social networking sites, I don't. I have a Bebo and a MySpace, both of which I rarely use but anyway! I just don't like Facebook's layout, too many stupid updates and people posting completely pointless replies. I just couldn't be bothered. If I actually wanted to talk to someone, I'd ring them.

Rev. BlueJeans · 13-07-2009 4:54pm

People will move about, and as such, facebook is handy for keeping in touch, be it having one liner conversations, or actually having a chat. Turn off the knacky apps, and it's not intrusive either.

It has taken a lot of traffic from bebo, due to the latter being riddled with kids, and lately porn/sweetheart spam as well.

These things come in cycles. The likes of facebook are just at the top of the bell curve. Boards too, perhaps.

If it's not people's bag fair enough, no need to get elitist about it.

Johnnnybravo · 13-07-2009 4:58pm

Dont use it, I hate all those social networking sites. Personally if I wanna talk to someone I`ll ring em or text em. I had a bebo account, sick a people knowing everytime I had a sh*t so deleted it. Them sites really f&kn annoy me.

sillyputty · 13-07-2009 4:59pm

I have had a facebook account for about a year and its ok but im not obsessed with it, i know friends who are obsessed with getting as many "friends" as possible on facebook she has over 500 - whats the point in that?

Johnnnybravo · 13-07-2009 5:03pm

sillyputty wrote: »

I have had a facebook account for about a year and its ok but im not obsessed with it, i know friends who are obsessed with getting as many "friends" as possible on facebook she has over 500 - whats the point in that?

exactly, thats the kinda shi&e riles me, I had ****%s I went to school with adding me as a frend, if I see these in the street they wouldnt grunt hello.

13-07-2009 5:09pm

Novella wrote: »

If I actually wanted to talk to someone, I'd ring them.

completely disagree.. i can keep in touch with people away for the summer in a very casual way, few lines here and there. these arn't people i'd ring but it's nice to know how they're getting on.

Terry · 13-07-2009 5:12pm

Give it 6 months and it will be bebo all over again.

join the cauze 2 hav glitter nd sparklez on facebook and so forth.

JimmyMolloy · 13-07-2009 5:26pm

I have a facebook. I feel like a celeb with everyone viewing my details.

PrivateEye · 13-07-2009 5:37pm

This is what my bebo looks like now.

Latchy · 13-07-2009 5:51pm

Novella wrote: »

I HATE FACEBOOK. It's not because I have a problem with social networking sites, I don't. I have a Bebo and a MySpace, both of which I rarely use but anyway! I just don't like Facebook's layout, too many stupid updates and people posting completely pointless replies. I just couldn't be bothered. If I actually wanted to talk to someone, I'd ring them.

Exactly ,I have face book account to but the whole format and layout is so tacky and full of as you say ' pointless useless information '

ChewChew · 13-07-2009 6:15pm

I love Facebook. I have 2 sisters, neither of whome live near me so its nice to keep in touch with them via the net instead of the mobile. I'm logged in now and am having an IM conversation with one of my buddies I met from Canada while I was traveling around NZ. great way to keep in touch it is!

cashback · 13-07-2009 6:23pm

Johnnnybravo wrote: »

I had a bebo account, sick a people knowing everytime I had a sh*t so deleted it.

You didn't have to update your status everytime you had a sh*t. They probably didn't want to know that either.

Facebook is grand apart from all the 'What Twilight character are you?' type features. It's always the same people who use these bloody applications too!

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