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Anyone here NOT on Facebook or Twitter ...

  • 06-01-2012 07:41PM
    #1
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    ... or Myspace or LinkedIn or ANY social network? I just stick to Twitter these days, deleted my Facebook last year due to seeing most of the variations posted that are listed here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056238863


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  • #2
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    \o


  • #3
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    ... or Myspace or LinkedIn or ANY social network? I just stick to Twitter these days, deleted my Facebook last year due to seeing most of the variations posted that are listed here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056238863

    Lord no!
    That would mean I'd have a life! :D:o


  • #4
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    I'm on them all and refuse to join the herp derp facebook bandwagon.

    people should get a life.


  • #5
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Amazing how people who've deleted their facebook run to other public forums to say they've deleted their facebook account.

    So, you've deleted their facebook account. Do tell.


  • #6
    Feeona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Feeona


    I'm on facebook but can give it up anytime. ANYTIME, I TELLSYA!:mad:


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  • #7
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Never bothered with Facebook. I had a Bebo account back when I was in primary school. Thought it was a waste of time back then and still think it's a waste of time today.


  • #8
    stripysocks85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭stripysocks85


    Anyone here NOT on Facebook or Twitter ...

    Eh, no.


  • #9
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I'm not I don't think facebook would be my thing. But I do plat to twitter at some stage.


  • #10
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    stripysocks85 wrote: »
    Anyone here NOT on Facebook or Twitter ...

    Eh, no.

    so you are then :confused:


  • #11
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I'm on LinkedIn, don't think I've ever used it once beyond signing on.

    Don't do Twitter, have nothing to say

    #Having a poo at Pauls. Lol.

    Have a Facebook account but only use it to keep in contact with friends abroad. Half the people I'm friends with I don't even like or care what they have to say. One thing I do find interesting about it, though, is how narrow minded people can really show themselves. Remember that "If you cross the North Korean border...." anti-immigrant shìte that did the rounds a while back?

    Or you know it's time to call quits when the same people who share this around are the same ones who give up every drop of personal information about themselves on the same site.

    Used to have people getting thick at me for not accepting them as a friend. What, is being a friend in real life not good enough these days? :pac:

    /mumble


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  • #12
    AndyC555
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭AndyC555


    oooooooooahhhh Im a couple weeks late for this thread.

    I absolutely refused to give into the social network thing.
    I just didn't see the point and thought Facebook was just for spotty teenagers trying to find there friends from 1st class.

    But recently joined Facebook and I have to say it has been a great way to keep in touch with friends. Essentially, if you can't beat them, join them. Most of my friends have been on it for years and I never was so events/meetings/parties were all being discussed on Facebook and I was always phoned to text or just never knew about them!

    So, there you have it. I've converted.


  • #13
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    "facebook likes that you you gave him more information to make the adverts you get more aimed at you"


  • #14
    yoyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,017 ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    ... or Myspace or LinkedIn or ANY social network? I just stick to Twitter these days, deleted my Facebook last year due to seeing most of the variations posted that are listed here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056238863

    Funnily enough allot more sh!te gets posted on Twitter I find. I'd delete Twitter but its quite handy if you need to contact certain company reps like UPC, Blacknight etc. Hate it otherwise.
    Not saying I like Facebook either though, and why do people use bloody Facebook Chat over the likes of MSN, Google or ones that work argh :mad: .
    I was on Myspace and Bebo, although not logged in in a while and don't use anymore.
    Linkedin is the worst of the lot though, so boring, although thats to be expected :P .

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



  • #15
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I find twitter to be fairly useless

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #16
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    No facebook,no twitter just boards.


  • #17
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    I find twitter to be fairly useless

    You get out of it what you put in

    If you find it useless you haven't realy discovered what it can do


  • #18
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    I find twitter to be fairly useless

    I did too until I bought a smartphone with a live feed on it, now I get the lastest news before they go on sites and other cool oddities like the realtime ww2 twitter and some other things.

    It's not useless at all.


  • #19
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    I find twitter to be fairly useless

    Well it's like any site though. What you put in is what you get out. I'm subbed to the likes of AA road updates and news to get the latest traffic or news updates. It's great for "real time" searches on what's going on (sifting through the txt spk). The rest is pure sh!te though. Haven't logged on in a while.


  • #20
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Don't do Twitter, have nothing to say

    #Having a poo at Pauls. Lol.
    Perhaps if you wrote "I'm having a poo @Paul's", Paul might have something to say.

    I found twitter useless for yonks. Now I mostly find it interesting for finding new articles or stories which escape the mainstream press.

    And of course, Liz Jones's used condom stealing exploits.


  • #21
    stripysocks85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭stripysocks85


    Saila wrote: »
    so you are then :confused:

    Did I confuse you with my double negative? ;)

    I'm on Facebook. I've started deleting people off it though who added me as 'friends' yet wouldn't even look at me when I met them over the Christmas. It's grand for keeping in touch with friends from college/secondary school that I wouldn't see all that often. I don't update my status every 2nd minute though. Nobody needs to know what I'm doing!


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  • #22
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Not on any of them, they just seem utterly pointless.


  • #23
    yoyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,017 ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Another annoying thing with Twitter is random people begging to RETWEET PLZ!!!! and then people you subscribe to actually doing it :S . Whats up with this does anyone know? Just a sad way for people to gain "popularity"? :S

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



  • #24
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    RichieC wrote: »
    I did too until I bought a smartphone with a live feed on it, now I get the lastest news before they go on sites and other cool oddities like the realtime ww2 twitter and some other things.

    It's not useless at all.
    Getting news/info straight away generally isn't a concern of mine and I find the amount of rubbish generally outweighs the positives.

    If something substantial breaks on twitter it appears on other media such as boards soon enough.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #25
    suzzi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭suzzi


    NO NO NO................NO...............


  • #26
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    o/
    Just cba.


  • #27
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 28,274 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I'm on facebook- it's very handy for keeping in contact with people who live abroad. I don't have a clue how people can spend hours a day on it though.. I'd have a look through the updates, wish someone 'happy new year' or whatever, update my status if I've anything to say (which I usually don't, to be honest!) and I've no more to do on it even if I wanted to.
    A girl I work with spends aaaages on facebook and I've no idea how it could keep someone interested for so long. :confused:

    I'm also on twitter but not mad about it so far.


  • #28
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    The only thing I use twitter for is occasional website updates, and earthquake alerts. I dont have any followers or people I actually know and I never post anything myself on it. So twitter seems fine to me, and Saezuri is a nice little program that pops up twitter updates neatly at the bottom of your screen.


  • #29
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Getting news/info straight away generally isn't a concern of mine and I find the amount of rubbish generally outweighs the positives.

    If something substantial breaks on twitter it appears on other media such as boards soon enough.

    What rubbish? if you're not subscribed you don't see it.

    Fair enough about not wanting the latest news, I guess..


  • #30
    tfitzgerald
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Not on Facebook or twitter cant see the attraction myself . But the wife is addicted to Facebook she is on it morning noon and night


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


    I think any one who is fed up with the likes of facebook or other social networking sites isn't using them correctly or gotten the most out of them.

    I did leave facebook, but then returned after realising that it's better to join them!

    You just need to adjust privacy settings, block annoying people, and don't play games (block everything!). Ah, peace of mind. :pac:


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