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Facebook grr - New communication or disaster?

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  • 24-02-2011 2:28am
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    LC2010HIS
    Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭


    I think facebook is ruining normal interactions between people. I have one myself and find it really addictive.
    Lately ive found it very irritating though. I cant meet my friends in town to catch up without every fourth sentence being about a "like" on facebook or a status or something!
    And plus, alot of relationships etc are being damaged from what ive read in magazines and forums even here(not dragging anyother forum in, just saying:rolleyes:).

    Isnt it very damaging to the mind??
    Anyone else annoyed or worried about the effects? :eek::eek:


    So, great new way of communication or complete disaster??


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    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    LC2010HIS wrote: »
    I cant meet my friends in town to catch up without every fourth sentence being about a "like" on facebook or a status or something!

    You need new friends.


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    WallyGUFC
    Registered Users Posts: 2,052 ✭✭✭WallyGUFC


    Great convo starter when ya meet someone for the first time: "Oh, I know you from Facebook winkedy-wink!"


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    #4
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    you are chatting to people on line, we are not real people.


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    #5
    Ghost Estate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Ghost Estate


    Lemons are everywhere!


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    #6
    chillywilly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.


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


    It's made people self-centered egotists who seem to think the whole world revolves around them. People treat social media as a news hub for their lives for the most part. It's a great idea in theory but in practical use it's pretty redundant.


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    #8
    LC2010HIS
    Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭LC2010HIS


    ^^ Dont say that honda, you are real :rolleyes:

    Seriously though, I would associate FB as a danger to mental health?
    I mean, its a shallow site. All you need to do is eliminate human interaction compeletely and viola, you have your "designer life" ?

    I sit down and put on tv, tv presenters talking about facebook. Isnt the world facebook mad??? Its unhealthy! And a bit mental.
    I go out on nights out and ive cameras shoved in my face all in the name of facebook!!! I mean, get a grip like??


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    OPENROAD
    Registered Users Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    01:39 Having cup of green tea. Like


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    #10
    rockmongrel
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭rockmongrel


    Just the next step in social interaction. Bebo/Myspace/Facebook/Twitter, it'll eventually die like all things online. Don't like it, don't have an account, simple as.


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    #11
    LC2010HIS
    Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭LC2010HIS


    Facebook seems to have the virtual world by the balls over the last few years though.
    I dont remember bebo being THIS domineering!


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    Dangerous Man
    Registered Users Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Dangerous Man


    Well, as someone who is from the internet myself, I have to say, I didn't like facebook for a long time. I then began using it for work - and the social side of it kind of just came along too. I don't mind it too much. Then again, I don't use it too much either.


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    seafood dunleavy
    Registered Users Posts: 760 ✭✭✭seafood dunleavy


    I turn to porn for comfort.


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    LC2010HIS
    Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭LC2010HIS


    seafood dunleavy wrote: »
    I turn to porn for comfort.

    As you do like


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    Ghost Estate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Ghost Estate


    seafood dunleavy wrote: »
    I turn to porn for comfort.

    I used to but now even injecting porn into my bloodstream has little effect


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    Millicent
    Registered Users Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    LC2010HIS wrote: »
    Facebook seems to have the virtual world by the balls over the last few years though.
    I dont remember bebo being THIS domineering!

    Cool little video to prove your point here, OP.


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    ynul31f47k6b59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭ynul31f47k6b59


    Sure nobody's forcing people to use facebook - I don't go on it very often, and I certainly don't discuss it in real life?!!???

    Facebook really annoys me sometimes because it feels like you can't p!ss on a night out but some bugger has a camera ready to upload a heap of unflattering pictures. It is handy for staying in touch with friends & family abroad - I wouldn't add my neighbours or anything, sure I see them every day. Baffles me when people have hundreds of 'friends' on it and then their status is them moaning that they're stuck in on a Saturday night with no one to go out with...


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    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    LC2010HIS wrote: »
    I think facebook is ruining normal interactions between people. I have one myself and find it really addictive.

    I stopped reading here.
    You are not everybody.

    Try getting a grip on yourself.


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    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    I hate talking about my facebook statuses with people face to face. I find it awkward and quickly change subject. I dont mind discussing pictures though or talking about other peoples pages. Im sure a psychologist would have a field day with that.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Peter Fit Climber wrote: »
    Facebook really annoys me sometimes because it feels like you can't p!ss on a night out but some bugger has a camera ready to upload a heap of unflattering pictures. It is handy for staying in touch with friends & family abroad - I wouldn't add my neighbours or anything, sure I see them every day. Baffles me when people have hundreds of 'friends' on it and then their status is them moaning that they're stuck in on a Saturday night with no one to go out with...

    Funny you say that. I don't go out much but the one time I did recently, I was tagged in several photos which now appear at the top of my profile. So if you looked at my profile you'd probably think I was out all the time.


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    #21
    whoopdedoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭whoopdedoo


    I cancelled my fb account recently and i'm glad i did it. the idea behind it is very damaging in my opinion, way too public and before anyone says you can set your profile to private I mean even too public to your "friends"' list. we're not meant to communicate in this manner imo. if ya have nice pics and jokes etc then why not convey them face to face and not online?!? it will die a death soon enough and everyone will move onto the next big thing.

    op you should just delete your account and be done with it.


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    #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think it's great in some ways but agree with OP. I won't delete it though because it's my only means off communication with most of the people I know.


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    #23
    Azureus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    I know what you mean OP but I really think it depends on the way you use it/type of person you are. I know a woman in her thirties who is on it CONSTANTLY but has very little contact with people outside of it. I would consider knowing her quite well, but when I thought about it I hadn't seen her in months. Still knew everything that she was up to though, because she chose to put it up. The key word is choice,; you have control over what people can and cannot know about you-use it.

    I love facebook because it gives me contact to people I wouldnt have the ability to see as often as I'd like because of work etc. and keeps me from losing touch. I know people say why dont you just give them a call etc, but once me and the girls get talking its suddenly 2am and im up for work in three hours! Its also helpful for events, promotion and people who live abroad etc.

    That said, I really wish tagging didnt exist...


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    #24
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    chillywilly wrote: »
    Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.
    You may think its deleted but its NOT.

    All the information you built up on your Facebook account will be stored for two years under EU / Irish data retention directives. :p


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    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    chillywilly wrote: »
    Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.

    Nothingbetter2d likes this


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    #26
    chillywilly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    You may think its deleted but its NOT.

    All the information you built up on your Facebook account will be stored for two years under EU / Irish data retention directives. :p

    As long as I'm not on it and the pictures of me in bikinis and barearsed don't go public I'm happy :D


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    #27
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    chillywilly wrote: »
    Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.

    Me too.


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    #28
    rockdrummer4
    Registered Users Posts: 504 ✭✭✭rockdrummer4


    chillywilly wrote: »
    Yes I got sick of it and deleted my account.


    Ah you think you deleted your account, you didnt, you cant, you can only deactivate it, all the information is still there :)


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    #29
    chillywilly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    rockdrummer4 wrote: »
    Ah you think you deleted your account, you didnt, you cant, you can only deactivate it, all the information is still there :)

    delete:

    http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

    different to deactivate:)


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    #30
    coffeelover
    Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    I deactivated my account yesterday and 3 hours later I was back on it again. It's waaay too addictive :(


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    #31
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    chillywilly wrote: »
    delete:

    http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

    different to deactivate:)

    I cleared everything before deleting though. All my photos and comments deleted them all.

    Also it cheekily gave me the option to reactivate my account in 14 days if I logged back in in that time! Feckers! So I got rid of my saved password in my browser too.

    It's like leaving scientology!


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