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You have a choice...FACEBOOK or BOARDS, Choose carefully...

  • 09-08-2011 6:12pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭


    You have a choice between the two sites, you must give up one for the rest of your life.



    Imagine not knowing which one of your 760 friends is going on holiday or how hungover everyone is on a sunday morning? Life without FB would be hard wouldnt it?

    What about life without Boards.ie for a second... Who would you argue with? Wouldnt you miss reading the posts that make you laugh, the ones that make you cry and the ones that make you want to put your head through the screen? Or maybe you would feel left out , like you have been banished from a large internet family and left to rot on the side of the road?





    What will it be brothers and sisters?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    I have never had a FacePoop account and never will because it is rubbish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    I'd get rid of Facebook.
    I could play poker somewhere else.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Fuck Facebook.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    I have never had a FacePoop account and never will because it is rubbish.

    morning Joe....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,795 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    I have never had a FacePoop account and never will because it is rubbish.

    +1

    Facebook is for nosy people.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Facebook.

    It's gotten to the stage where I get most of my news from Boards.ie. All I get on Facebook is status updates that usually end in ".com"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,357 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Cue many many smug acting Boards users claiming they're too cool for school by saying "I don't use Facebook"!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Kaneda_


    Im getting a vibe that people think there to cool to admit to using Facebook.


    Lettuce be reality here, you all have FB open in another tab dont you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    I use Facebook more now since I've moved away but still nowhere near as much as I need boards!

    Next question


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    I have a facebook account but it's **** and I barely go onto it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Faceboards?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    mickdw wrote: »
    +1

    Facebook is for nosy people.
    And that's why I couldn't give it up, I'm too darn nosey.


    But I love Boards.


    Nooooo, don't make me choose.




    *head explodes*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭audi a4 2008


    facebook is for people with no sence of what real life is:D,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Bucklesman


    Facebook. Feel free to get all mad, fellows.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot




    Only Southpark can say what I really think of facebook .

    I have an account that my wife setup and I seldom use it, but the amount of time people text me (on phone) and ask why I didnt accept their friend request is ridiculous . .

    I also get poked alot!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Boards is what I'd give up!
    (make it clear)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    I'll choose Facebook over boards.

    It's far more useful to me from a promotion point of view.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Boards


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    I do have a facebook account, but I could easily live without it.
    Boards banned me for a month during july for being bold, it was tough! Very tough!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Ghandee wrote: »
    I do have a facebook account, but I could easily live without it.
    Boards banned me for a month during july for being bold, it was tough! Very tough!

    So you like being punished for being a bad boy . .

    Getting poked on facebook doesnt compare with being banned on Boards . .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    If its a choice between reading strangers opinions about stuff that mildly interests me or keeping in touch with friends who have moved away then bye bye Boards. Boards is great and all but its basically other people ranting, talking shíte and occasionally you learn something new. I wouldnt really give up a whole lot for it to be honest.

    But seeing as though I dont have to give up anything - Heya buddies ! What will we moan about today ? Facebook ? BLAST IT WITH PISSS!!!! Boy is my life interesting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    I couldn't live without boards! Even though im not on it much anymore i don't think i could survive without it :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,319 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    So is Facebook going the way of Bebo/Myspace? Lots of people saying it's shít and all that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    facebook is for people with no sence of what real life is:D,
    What about people who live in Australia for example who use facebook to keep in touch with family and friends back home eh:( that makes sense to me. I'm a facebook user who has a life outside of technology:mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    I choose boards.

    I get all my news from AH.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Stuff Facebook Id keep Boards.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    Id give up facebook.

    Simple reason, FB is blocked in work but boards isnt. If I had to give up boards then I may have to resort to 100% productivity!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    I'd give up boards. I love facebook too much :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 tmi


    i'd give up boards because i only just started here and im not too sure about it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    I'd keep boards. Its like the oracle!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Kaneda_


    I'd give up boards. I love facebook too much :D



    I have found myself using FB alot more the past while.I say 'using' but what i really mean is logging in 5 times a day waiting for a little red notification to appear in the top left of the screen, then my day is made.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Boreds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Anyone I consider a friend or anyone who I want to stay in touch with is on my phone, so Id let Facebook go if I had to make the choice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭JD81


    For me, both sites are chalk and cheese, the wealth of information you can get from boards vs people telling you how hungover they are or what they had for dinner.But then facebook is good for someone advertising a business i guess, anyhow to answer the question i'd choose boards 1000%.
    If it were not for boards i wouldn't have had a clue how to apply for college as a mature student and apply for a grant also as the goverment bodies set up were useless compared to the help i had here in the edu section, i also found the photography section which allowed me to share my hobby with like minded people, theres so many times i've used boards for an answer to a question, alright it might not have the gloss of facebook but as a tool its far more powerful.....thats my two cents.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,114 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Since I've never had a Farcebook account, this one's easy. I am trying Google+, but I could do without that. Boards is the real deal, folks. ;)

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    Kaneda_ wrote: »
    I have found myself using FB alot more the past while.I say 'using' but what i really mean is logging in 5 times a day waiting for a little red notification to appear in the top left of the screen, then my day is made.

    I use it to talk to friends in France, America, Australia and others. I share interesting videos and articles I find with other people who would like em. I catch up with people I dont get a chance to meet regularly. Its not just for sad people waiting for someone to like their "awkward moments" like yourself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭madmammy


    i'd give up boards....facebook is for keeping in touch with my family


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    Kaneda_ wrote: »
    Im getting a vibe that people think there to cool to admit to using Facebook.


    Lettuce be reality here, you all have FB open in another tab dont you?[/QUOTE]


    Yep i do but i'd never deny using facebook, so what its only a social networking site ffs. I think its a great way of staying in touch with old long term friends, wishing people a hb and taking the piss out of drunk-in pics. Just last night there's a couple I know who split up a few weeks back and decided to slag each other off on each others wall, f'n priceless

    Then there's boards, makes me laugh makes me cry makes me wana hurt my laptop real bad sometimes. So if I had to delete one, it would have to be facebook.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭eirn


    I'd keep boards. All facebook has done is make me realise that I have a lot of really annoying 'friends'
    It's also a bit too stalkerish, as in we went on a date in 2003 that didn't go well, all other forms of communication have been closed, why would I want to be your friend!
    Theres skype and email if you want to keep in touch with people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Cue many many smug acting Boards users claiming they're too cool for school by saying "I don't use Facebook"!

    I don't use Boards.

    ...

    Wait... NOOOOOO!!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    tmi wrote: »
    i'd give up boards because i only just started here and im not too sure about it

    a few more posts and you,re addicted forever..............


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    I'm not on facebook and i get angry when people put my photo up on it or info about me. I want nothing to do with it.

    i'll vote for boards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    I would give up facebook, ever since i joined here most of my day is spent lurking after hours... the girlfriend isnt to impressed at all:P


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Faceboards?

    I use it all the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    I'd "give up" Facebook.

    Incredibly easy considering I quit using Facebook back in 2006 and haven't bothered with it since.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Boards.ie :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    No contest. Facebook is over rated pish.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Obviously boards. I don't really use facebook so wouldn't be missing out on much!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Definitely give up boards first.
    Least I can remove the retards off my facebook, no control over them here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    Hmm, I love boards but I get most of my work from my facebook business page so I guess I'd have to stick to that...or start harassing boardies to pay me :p


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