Facebook or Boards....

voz es

Seen that I am on a University rebound eight years after saying I will never ever, ever ever set foot another lecture room I made the decision to delete the Facebook. I must say its comparable to a release from some sort of internment, i have time to do things and stuff as opposed to watching other people doing things and stuff and I might just make a go of this long shot dream of mine... wellll anyhow I need a bit of procrastination now and again and well boards is where i'm finding myself. But really this is far better than facebook at least there is a general theme of honesty in this place where people with the aid of anonymity are having a true / true'ish debates on regular occasion it is enertaining with a bit of depth. So here go's my question would any of you put Facebook over boards and why.... My vote go's to boards.

hufpc8w3adnk65

I de activated my Facebook 3 years ago! Don't miss it at all

eternal

Bo'rds for me.

voz es

My apologies in advance spelling and grammar Nazi's. It was wrote a little too quick.

eternal

voz es wrote: »

My apologies in advance spelling and grammar Nazi's. It was wrote a little too quick.

I couldn't resist. Sorry.

ToddyDoody

When's boards.ie going public? (who owns it now?)

I voted Facebook. You cant stalk cute young people here.

Ruu

Fjords!

Th0mas Shelby

You now have time to do stuff because you deleted Facebook?!

Could you not just not use it as much instead of this grand gesture of deleting the entire thing and following it up by this attention seeking for doing so. The sort of thing I'd expect to see on Facebook.

shamrock55

Fb is the biggest heap of ****e ever to go online

Sky King

Deleted my boards account 2 years ago and now I go out and enjoy myself on Friday nights instead of sitting in on my own like a weirdo talking shyte on the internet with people I have never met

Brian from Bray

Facebook only because of the boobs

Cold War Kid

Ruu wrote: »

Fjords!

Faceboards!

slangamerican

Twitter

wil

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Faceboards!

Facepalms

LETHAL LADY

Has to be Boards as there is always a posters comment that makes me laugh. Facebook just irritates the life out of me.

Insect Overlord

Ruu wrote: »

Fjords!

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?
See the løveli lakes.
The wøndërful telephøne system.
And mäni interesting furry animals
Including the majestik møøse!

DivingDuck

I hate Facebook to an unreasonable degree. It's not as simple as "don't use it if you don't like it", because it has become so ubiquitous that you become a burden to your friends if you don't use it whether you like it or not.

The majority of news/invites/info is posted exclusively to FB these days, and most people can't be arsed with email anymore. Expecting or asking people to take the time to text/email you when they can reach everyone else for free and with one message is arrogant and thoughtless, so because I don't use FB much, I miss out on a lot.

I spend a fair bit of time on Boards, however, since I find it's a lot better for obtaining informed opinions on factual things, and at least here even the morons make an effort to communicate properly.

Ken.

If I didn't have family in other countries with bad time differences I'd be gone off facebook. It is handy to leave a message and know they'll get it whenever rather than texts or calls each way which are expensive and might wake one of us up.

wil

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Has to be Boards as there is always a posters comment that makes me laugh. Facebook just irritates the life out of me.

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lulu1

Getting very close to stopping facebook fed up looking at one persons countdown to the big 50. Its been going on this past month.
I just check in now and again. My oh hates it with a vengance he refuses point blank to even look in its direction.

petrolcan

I've never used facebook.

Unless you count the time I signed up to stalk someone, it was brilliant then.

EoinAFC

Facebook had its peak around 2010/11 slowly dying off.

Ken.

There is a guy who has a brilliant add on for facebook. It's a bloody godsend for getting rid of crap. Search facebook for fluff busting or google for fb purity. I've got so much stuff blocked on facebook that my home page is blank 99.99% of the time.

I've nothing to do with it myself. It has just returned my sanity to me.

Cold War Kid

DivingDuck wrote: »

I hate Facebook to an unreasonable degree. It's not as simple as "don't use it if you don't like it", because it has become so ubiquitous that you become a burden to your friends if you don't use it whether you like it or not.

The majority of news/invites/info is posted exclusively to FB these days, and most people can't be arsed with email anymore. Expecting or asking people to take the time to text/email you when they can reach everyone else for free and with one message is arrogant and thoughtless, so because I don't use FB much, I miss out on a lot.

Still though, you could avoid Facebook other than the times when you get a message notification. You can block people from writing on your wall too, and if there are people whose posts annoy you but whom you're still friends with (and that can happen) just unfollow them.
I don't mean that in a smart-arsed way, but there are ways to be included in things without having to look at Facebook any bit more than the minimum requirement.

I have friends on Facebook who never post or like anything and I wonder why they're on it at all, but it's for the reasons you outlined. Just a fallback.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Full time mad bastard.

wil

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Full time mad bastard.

Thanks for taking a few moments out of your busy schedule to share:p

Brian from Bray

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Full time mad bastard.

Studied at - School of hard knocks

Work as - Full time mammy and lovin it

DivingDuck

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Still though, you could avoid Facebook other than the times when you get a message notification. You can block people from writing on your wall too, and if there are people whose posts annoy you but whom you're still friends with (and that can happen) just unfollow them.
I don't mean that in a smart-arsed way, but there are ways to be included in things without having to look at Facebook any bit more than the minimum requirement.

I have friends on Facebook who never post or like anything and I wonder why they're on it at all, but it's for the reasons you outlined. Just a fallback.

I do avoid it as much as possible-- I only check it once every other week. I can't remember the last time I posted, though I occasionally do comment on other people's posts, and it's nice to be able to read people's news.

I don't like to unfollow people because I would still like to see their "big news" when I check in (new job, engagement, baby, etc.), but it's made harder by needing to wade through all the posts about their cat that they've made in the last fortnight. Naturally everyone should post whatever they like to their own page, but it is annoying (to me) to have to skim the dull minutiae of someone's life to find out if they got that job they applied for or if their mum recovered from her operation all right.

My objection to it is not based out of any personal addiction but the fact that it's been the stake in the heart of one-to-one communication for all but the closest of friends. Obviously I still have regular other contact (email, text, face to face, etc.) with my nearest and dearest, but those less-close friends who would have emailed me with their news now use FB to post it just the once for all their less-close friends instead, and because I check so irregularly, I don't see it for ages afterwards.

I realise that's my own choice, but I can still dislike the circumstance that led to that choice being necessary.

MightyMandarin

Brian from Bray wrote: »

Studied at - School of hard knocks

Work as - Full time mammy and lovin it

Don't forget the 'University of Life' either.

Junkyard Tom

Ima facebook supastar! :cool:

MightyMandarin

DivingDuck wrote: »

I don't like to unfollow people because I would still like to see their "big news" when I check in (new job, engagement, baby, etc.),

Do you actually give a ****e about any of this stuff though? If someone gets a new job, gets engaged, or has a baby, then they can tell me about it themselves.

If someone wants me to know that something big happened to them, they can send us a text or else tell me when I see them in person. Other than that I couldn't give a sh*t.

DivingDuck

MightyMandarin wrote: »

Do you actually give a ****e about any of this stuff though? If someone gets a new job, gets engaged, or has a baby, then they can tell me about it themselves.

If someone wants me to know that something big happened to them, they can send us a text or else tell me when I see them in person. Other than that I couldn't give a sh*t.

Of course I do...? Plenty of old friends of mine live in places where there's a chance that I might not see them in person for a couple of years. We're not close enough that they'd text me to tell me, but we would have exchanged emails once a month or so back in the pre-FB days, or sooner if they had something exciting to share.

Now (in my experience, at least), people only text or call their closest friends with news, but also share it on FB in the belief that everyone else will hear about it very quickly. I'm not talking about a huge number of people here, but yes: there are people I'm not close enough with to expect a personalized text these days considering people only do that for their very close friends, but I do still care about their lives and have an interest in knowing how they're doing.

Maybe my position is unusual, I don't know.

MightyMandarin

DivingDuck wrote: »

Of course I do...? Plenty of old friends of mine live in places where there's a chance that I might not see them in person for a couple of years. We're not close enough that they'd text me to tell me, but we would have exchanged emails once a month or so back in the pre-FB days, or sooner if they had something exciting to share.

Now (in my experience, at least), people only text or call their closest friends with news, but also share it on FB in the belief that everyone else will hear about it very quickly. I'm not talking about a huge number of people here, but yes: there are people I'm not close enough with to expect a personalized text these days considering people only do that for their very close friends, but I do still care about their lives and have an interest in knowing how they're doing.

Maybe my position is unusual, I don't know.

I dunno, I usually just unfollow/unfriend anyone who keeps appearing on my newsfeed with annoying stuff, or likes and shares Cian Twomey videos (I can't stand that pr*ck).

To be honest, unless someone is a good friend of mine, I don't really care what happens to them unless it's something really big, like dying or something. So if they have a child or something, I'll hear about it if I'm a good friend, and won't if I'm not.

I like it this way.

voz es

DivingDuck wrote: »

Of course I do...? Plenty of old friends of mine live in places where there's a chance that I might not see them in person for a couple of years. We're not close enough that they'd text me to tell me, but we would have exchanged emails once a month or so back in the pre-FB days, or sooner if they had something exciting to share.

Now (in my experience, at least), people only text or call their closest friends with news, but also share it on FB in the belief that everyone else will hear about it very quickly. I'm not talking about a huge number of people here, but yes: there are people I'm not close enough with to expect a personalized text these days considering people only do that for their very close friends, but I do still care about their lives and have an interest in knowing how they're doing.

Maybe my position is unusual, I don't know.

That for me is another thing, Communication is assumed, people are posting about what is happening in their lives and if there is no reply it can neither be assumed that the particular friend seen it or that you even would have been too pushed to share that information with them in the first place. Also the personnel element of communication is lost the direct interaction of a mail, call or an actual physical interchange is lost it is basically somebody broadcasting into a full room.

Their are levels of friendship too in life, for instance there is a good 50 percent of my past friends list that I would not have been comfortable sharing certain bits of information with. I found that more detailed conversations were being saved for whatsapp groups .

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I find the fact that anybody can consider Facebook a means of meaningful communication, or use it as their primary means of disseminating information of interest to their families and friends, absolutely staggering. And the whole notion of "friends" on FB has to be one of the saddest twists in modern society.

NachoBusiness

'You have more friends on Facebook than you think!'

Ehh, how do you know what I think, Zuckerberg? Well??

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

NachoBusiness wrote: »

'You have more friends on Facebook than you think!'

Ehh, how do you know what I think, Zuckerberg? Well??

He doesn't. And he doesn't seem to know what a friend really is either.

strelok

it seems a lot of people don't know how to hide things on facebook

every time i see one of those buzzfeed/unilad clickbait meme factory websites I just hide it. facebook is grand now. i dont know if people still play facebook games because I don't see them. I don't know what 10 amazing things this horse did that'll make you cry or how the way you chew gum can tell whether or not you have ass cancer.

I've hidden the guardian, the sun, the daily mail, huffpo went very early on. These pages have no automatic right to be on your feed and you lose very little by removing them.

Rubberchikken

never been on FB so i guess i'll stick with here:)

shugy

both

osarusan

Right click - hide post.

Right click - Hide all posts from X.

Right click - turn off notifications.

Right click - unfollow X.

Go to profile - left click - unfriend.



Andybody who can't do these very simple steps should be moaning about their own stupidity, not facebook itself.

Boring username

To give facebook credit, they don't delete your posts, try to control the narrative, or relegate opinions to some obscure corner of the website.........unlike others I could mention.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

osarusan wrote: »

Right click - hide post.

Right click - Hide all posts from X.

Right click - turn off notifications.

Right click - unfollow X.

Go to profile - left click - unfriend.



Andybody who can't do these very simple steps should be moaning about their own stupidity, not facebook itself.

That doesn't stop the attitude of many that by posting something on FB they are communicating with family and friends. The notion that social interaction can be replaced by a FB post is the underlying flaw.

strelok

Karlee Delightful Venom wrote: »

That doesn't stop the attitude of many that by posting something on FB they are communicating with family and friends. The notion that social interaction can be replaced by a FB post is the underlying flaw.

how is it any different from a letter or a phone call?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

strelok wrote: »

how is it any different from a letter or a phone call?

I think that just proves my point.

strelok

Karlee Delightful Venom wrote: »

I think that just proves my point.

letters are destroying human interaction?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

strelok wrote: »

letters are destroying human interaction?

What? Now that makes no sense, nor is it what I said, and you know it. FB is not the same as writing a decent letter to a friend.

osarusan

Karlee Delightful Venom wrote: »

That doesn't stop the attitude of many that by posting something on FB they are communicating with family and friends.

I used to live in a different continent. I used facebook to send messages and photographs to my family and friends in Ireland.

If there were no facebook, I'd have sent an email with the photos as attachments to my family and friends in Ireland.

If there were no email, I'd have written a letter and enclosed the printed photographs.

What would have been the difference?

strelok

Karlee Delightful Venom wrote: »

What? Now that makes no sense, nor is it what I said, and you know it. FB is not the same as writing a decent letter to a friend.

and writing a letter to a friend is not the same as meeting up and sharing a personal human interaction

personally I find this modern obsession with "literary communication" dangerously narcissistic. in my day we had to wait several years before we met up with a close friend again and we had actual experiences and feelings to communicate. not like today where you can just stick a piece of paper to a horses arse and it will reach them in weeks.

I worry for society sometimes, I really do.

Hitchens

They can both be puerile, tbh ......when you think about it



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endacl

TwitFace is the best. Better than Bobo was.

No idea op. Not on Facebook. I used to be but I couldn't tolerate the daily torrent of daft and inane.