Are you still on Facebook?

IvaBigWun

It was enjoyable at the start. All those people we'd lost touch with from our past and even some "networking" with some useful people from our working future.

But now it just seems to be a mixture of "click Like to save a baby/win a car/see yore friend's Ma in a bikini" (ok I made that last one up). I just realised that I havent posted anything on it in days nor have I bothered to even log in to check the newsfeed.

Are you still on Facebook?

(cue thanks whoring second post of "I was never on it to begin with" - damn hipsters )

wazky

I was never on it to begin with.

IvaBigWun

wazky wrote: »

I was never on it to begin with.

I tempted to thank you.

You whore

Lennyzip

New Years resolution was to look at it less . Havnt posted anything in a month & don't even check it anymore unless the OH tags me in a post or picture . No loss either....

Augmerson

Yeah but I don't follow 90% of people I'm friends with and only share out information like photo's and comments with a few people. I also figure most people don't want me looking at their stuff so I don't follow them. When I joined back in 2008 it was great because I was in Canada and was nice to keep in touch with people back home. I still post lots of holiday pictures up, but only for family and close friends.

If there's one thing worse than a Facebook addict it's an anti-Facebook hipster: "Oh, you're still on Facebook? I deleted mine months ago. I've freed up so much time to do other important things, like **** to videos of myself ****."

SV

Yes, the 'hide from news feed' on a lot of peoples pages has helped a lot to make it stuff I want to see without insulting people by deleting them for their stupid status'

MagicIRL

I find I'm only using it because of the chat feature. All my friends are on it, and about 90% of people I would need to contact have it on their mobile phones. I use it as an e-mail service more than anything else. It's like free texts but with the ability to send files, picture and video across.

BraziliaNZ

gvn wrote: »

If there's one thing worse than a Facebook addict it's an anti-Facebook hipster: "Oh, you're still on Facebook? I deleted mine months ago. I've freed up so much time to do other important things, like **** to videos of myself ****."

How is it hipster to not use it? My friends are by no means hip but my closest friends from back in Ireland don't use it, not one of them. Maybe we're just that little bit too old for it. But then again my Ma is using it and she's 60 now.
Anyway I don't use it because I think people come and go in your life and there's no need to keep in touch with them all, it's just impossible. The real friends/family in your life should be contactable without this tool via traditional methods like phone, email, pigeon etc.

I like Facebook still - I've my newsfeed set up perfectly, where I follow certain pages (I F*cking Love Science, George Takei, pages that I know only post content I find funny, and other ones like Road Trips, which post up some absolute hidden gems) and people that don't annoy me. My extended family also have our own private group, which photos and pieces of news are regularly posted up concerning our family.

But apart from that, it's only really good for their chat feature.

SV

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

How is it hipster to not use it? My friends are by no means hip but my closest friends from back in Ireland don't use it, not one of them. Maybe we're just that little bit too old for it. But then again my Ma is using it and she's 60 now.
Anyway I don't use it because I think people come and go in your life and there's no need to keep in touch with them all, it's just impossible. The real friends/family in your life should be contactable without this tool via traditional methods like phone, email, pigeon etc.

Such a hipster post.

BraziliaNZ

SV wrote: »

Such a hipster post.

I doff my trilby hat to you

c_man

Yeah, I don't see a reason to get rid of it. People I want to keep in touch with are on it, so why would I leave?

The Pheasant2

I'm fairly young (19) and my friends and I wish it'd just shut down and be gone. However I can't see that happening unfortunately - it's just too useful for organising events/getting into contact with someone you wouldn't know well enough to phone.

It does seem to be dying a death though...nobody makes statuses or uses it for messaging anymore so I dunno maybe with some luck it'll be gone soon.

burnhardlanger

Still on it.

But feel like there ought to be a Dislike button on it.

MagicIRL

MagicIRL wrote: »

I find I'm only using it because of the chat feature.

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

It does seem to be dying a death though...nobody makes statuses or uses it for messaging anymore so I dunno maybe with some luck it'll be gone soon.

Oh

generalmental

Facebook can suck the willknots out of my ar$e

anncoates

The never ending fascination with Facebook from people that hate Facebook.

kneemos

gvn wrote: »

If there's one thing worse than a Facebook addict it's an anti-Facebook hipster: "Oh, you're still on Facebook? I deleted mine months ago. I've freed up so much time to do other important things, like **** to videos of myself ****."

Sounds like a perpetual motion machine.

The Pheasant2

MagicIRL wrote: »

Oh

Hahaha sorry - you should get watsapp messenger, that's the big messaging app at the moment.

hernie

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

How is it hipster to not use it? My friends are by no means hip but my closest friends from back in Ireland don't use it, not one of them. Maybe we're just that little bit too old for it. But then again my Ma is using it and she's 60 now.
Anyway I don't use it because I think people come and go in your life and there's no need to keep in touch with them all, it's just impossible. The real friends/family in your life should be contactable without this tool via traditional methods like phone, email, pigeon etc.

People probably said the same thing when phone, email, pigeon etc. came into use.

Vito Corleone

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

I'm fairly young (19) and my friends and I wish it'd just shut down and be gone. However I can't see that happening unfortunately - it's just too useful for organising events/getting into contact with someone you wouldn't know well enough to phone.

It does seem to be dying a death though...nobody makes statuses or uses it for messaging anymore so I dunno maybe with some luck it'll be gone soon.

Maybe that's more related to your age? The only people I know who generally make statuses are young teens, which eventually they grow out of.

Anyway, I'm on FB because it's a necessity for me now - I find vital info about college on there and having a social life is difficult without it. Sad but true.

Sir Arthur Daley

I am over 20 so no i am not on facebook.

PLUG71

Im on it cus im a nosey fooker! :P

SV

WikiHow wrote: »

I am over 20 so no i am not on facebook.

do you search out facebook threads to post that on? Noone cares.

ronjo

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

I'm fairly young (19) and my friends and I wish it'd just shut down and be gone. However I can't see that happening unfortunately - it's just too useful for organising events/getting into contact with someone you wouldn't know well enough to phone.

It does seem to be dying a death though...nobody makes statuses or uses it for messaging anymore so I dunno maybe with some luck it'll be gone soon.

Out of interest why do you wish it would shut down?

marcbrophy

gvn wrote: »

If there's one thing worse than a Facebook addict it's an anti-Facebook hipster: "Oh, you're still on Facebook? I deleted mine months ago. I've freed up so much time to do other important things, like **** to videos of myself ****."

POTD right there

The_B_Man

Its replaced group emails for me.
I find all the latest funny videos and all that jazz on my news feed. Its more efficient than goin on other websites to find then when I can let other people waste time finding these videos and posting them for my enjoyment. Its like crowdsourcing, except for cat videos.


But I suppose the main reason I use it coz the phonebook on my smartphone is linked to my facebook profile so when I go to ring somebody, it has their contact picture. Ye, thats seriously the main advantage to me.

BraziliaNZ

hernie wrote: »

People probably said the same thing when phone, email, pigeon etc. came into use.

I wonder if people sent pigeons to their Ma instead of their girlfriends by accident etc, or their wife instead of their mistress, lol

Akrasia

I don't know how to work facebook

I can never find anything. if I post a message, I can never find it again

still better than google + though

Metacarpi

I still enjoy it for the sake of creeping though I rarely post anything on it. Joined twitter a few months ago and don't get the hype at all

Penn

Still on it due to friends over in England. Would lose contact with them otherwise.

iDave

Face-Book? Isn't that the thing where colleges put up pictures of their students?

J_E

Nope. It's an absolute waste of time, and that's saying something, me being a frequent user of After Hours. Complete waste now.

gvn wrote: »

If there's one thing worse than a Facebook addict it's an anti-Facebook hipster: "Oh, you're still on Facebook? I deleted mine months ago. I've freed up so much time to do other important things, like **** to videos of myself ****."

Such an Irish thing to call anyone who doesn't do everything the same way to be a 'hipster'...stupid

BrensBenz

Please don't give up on Facebook - Jeremy Kyle's guests won't have anything to quote from. They'll have more time to fit facial hardware and get tattooed, thereby causing a shortage of metal and ink which will really feque up my birthday present list.

P Eth: Whadya think of my tongue thtud. Got it for Chrithmath. Thoooo cool.

Oranage2

Yes I'm still on it though don't use it that often, I'm not in Ireland so It's handy to keep in touch with friends and family.

Khannie

Closed my account about 2 years ago. Delighted with myself I was. Still am.

Mint Aero

I was never on it. I've zero friends to begin with and the thoughts of purposely maintaining some sort of catalogue online of friends just reeks of stamp collecting to me.

irishmover

Said I'd never join years ago. Joined a month before I left for Australia in October 2011. Still use it to keep somewhat of a connection to Ireland and people I know.

Don't have too many people on it and block People Who Type Like This or talk pure ****e.

It's a handy way to stay in touch an an addition to Skype but i'd be deleting it if/when I return to Ireland to start a life here.

Holsten

Nope. Just the same stuff over and over, friends with people I don't even like or care about, and the endless stream of photos of every waking moment of people's lives.

I don't use any social media anymore.

SV

Holsten wrote: »

Nope. Just the same stuff over and over, friends with people I don't even like or care about, and the endless stream of photos of every waking moment of people's lives.

I don't use any social media anymore.

He says..posting on boards.ie

jimgoose

Never had one. I got turned off when I couldn't persuade rn to work with it.

maguic24

IvaBigWun wrote: »

It was enjoyable at the start. All those people we'd lost touch with from our past and even some "networking" with some useful people from our working future.

But now it just seems to be a mixture of "click Like to save a baby/win a car/see yore friend's Ma in a bikini" (ok I made that last one up). I just realised that I havent posted anything on it in days nor have I bothered to even log in to check the newsfeed.

Are you still on Facebook?

(cue thanks whoring second post of "I was never on it to begin with" - damn hipsters )

I deleted mine right after I left college. I felt I was spending too much time doing nothing on it and wasting my life away.

I miss the casual bitta stalking but I'm glad it's gone! I was sick of b*tches posting what they had for dinner and putting up selfies.

maguic24

Metacarpi wrote: »

I still enjoy it for the sake of creeping though I rarely post anything on it. Joined twitter a few months ago and don't get the hype at all

Ditto

IvaBigWun

SV wrote: »

He says..posting on boards.ie

Boards.ie is not a social network. Its a, far cooler, good ol' fashioned internet forum

SpaceTime

I saw the permissions it was requesting on my Android phone and decided I'm not prepared to use their mobile app anymore.

The list it absolutely ridiculous !

I'm actually getting a bit sick of Android apps and their crazy levels of access. It's putting me right off the whole platform.

jimgoose

Metacarpi wrote: »

I still enjoy it for the sake of creeping though I rarely post anything on it. Joined twitter a few months ago and don't get the hype at all

Twitter is pointless bollocks.

J_E

SpaceTime wrote: »

I saw the permissions it was requesting on my Android phone and decided I'm not prepared to use their mobile app anymore.

The list it absolutely ridiculous !

I'm actually getting a bit sick of Android apps and their crazy levels of access. It's putting me right off the whole platform.

Yeah, I find that infuriating too. New update permissions...'wants to access your contacts list, make calls, switch it on and off, turn the camera on, microphone, etc etc' for apps that rarely need it. Makes you worry.

jimgoose wrote: »

Twitter is pointless bollocks.

Absolutely not. Most people just don't 'get' Twitter because they join and expect celebrities to start chatting to them. It's like any social network, you need a few people you know to really get started on it.

jimgoose

Cydoniac wrote: »

...Absolutely not. Most people just don't 'get' Twitter because they join and expect celebrities to start chatting to them. It's like any social network, you need a few people you know to really get started on it.

I might join up just so I can cyberstalk John Waters' beard.

Arrow.

WikiHow wrote: »

I am over 20 so no i am not on facebook.

I'm over 20 and don't have 1,214 posts since last month. What's your point?

COYVB

still on it. use it for talking to my wife while im at work and not much else