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    #1772
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    you need friends and a social life for Facebook.


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    #1773
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    efb wrote: »
    you need friends and a social life for Facebook.

    Not really. You can just invent a social life and bore people to death with the inane details.


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    #1774
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    I have a Facebook and I don't really want one. But I find I can't really live without it. Recently moved to a new place and started in college and its really the only place to find out about events happening, and use it make new friends so. It's totally necessary for me right now.

    Stopped caring about Facebook "social rules" though. Delete and reject and friends I want and block a lot of people, which made them upset, but sure they never talk to me anyway :confused::confused:


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    #1775
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Giselle wrote: »
    I had an account and deleted it. I feel liberated.

    I spend my time and effort on actual friends, rather than reading the rubbish that spills in from everyone I've barely any interest in, but would be rude to reject as a facebook friend.

    If I care enough about someone I'll speak to them or actually see them, and free my mind from all the mindless updates, snaps, stupid links, and the requests from strangers I've met once to befriend them.


    yeah this part here annoys me. Every new person I used to meet would ask if I'm on facebook and now I try to awkwardly avoid the topic.

    I remember once after being asked to speak to a group of youngsters about internet sites & varying dangers etc etc that a few found me afterward and started adding me :eek: Needless to say, privacy settings immediately changed!


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    #1776
    Xim1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 17 ✭Xim1


    efb wrote: »
    you need friends and a social life for Facebook.

    true .. that is why I deleted my FB account ..kind of sad to dont have a '' good number of friends'' seems to be all about having more friends than your friends haha:rolleyes:


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    #1777
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I use it pretty infrequently really, its not compatible with me anyway as I'm a private person and I don't care what anyone else is doing with their lives.


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    #1778
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,109 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Not on it, and never intend to be.


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    #1779
    Jesus Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭Jesus Nut


    A0 wrote: »
    Anyone not on Boards?
    :D
    Ooh, but that was a brilliant comment! It made me laugh very much LOL

    And for the record, I am not on boards <


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    #1780
    MysticalRain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭MysticalRain


    Never bothered with it.


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    #1781
    Kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    Never bothered with it either.

    Anybody who I am actually close to, I can talk with face to face or ring them or chat on xbox live. I can see why it would be useful for somebody, but not me.


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    #1782
    Father Damo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Being honest I view people who refuse to have one the same as people who refuse to have a mobile phone.


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    #1783
    MyKeyG
    Registered Users Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭MyKeyG


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    How are you limiting yourself? Ever heard of a pen & paper? A phone? An email? Skype? Fúcking smoke signals?

    You do realise people communicated perfectly well before Facebook came into existence?
    People communicated perfectly well before email and skype too. Should we get rid of them? Social networking is merely the next step in communications technology. It has your Email, Skype, Chat all in one. Not only that it's a great way to keep in touch with friends and share their experiences.

    People I think are put off by those who abuse the facility. No I don't care to see twenty photos a day of your new born baby asleep and I don't give two ****es which Greek god I am!


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    #1784
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    I'm on it, but I rarely use it. The amount of time people waste on it is amazing and for what, to score a few likes with a catchy status now and then? I feel sorry for those people.


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    #1785
    MyKeyG
    Registered Users Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭MyKeyG


    Blatter wrote: »
    I'm on it, but I rarely use it. The amount of time people waste on it is amazing and for what, to score a few likes with a catchy status now and then? I feel sorry for those people.
    That's a bit of a pompous presumption wouldn't you say?


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    #1786
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    MyKeyG wrote: »
    That's a bit of a pompous presumption wouldn't you say?

    Well obviously not everyone does it, but there are a fair few at it. I would say the people that only use facebook constructively (contact distant friends/chat with close friends occasional) are in the minority. Most are mainly like whores and/or photo merchants.


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    #1787
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    The Facebook status updates over the last few pages are real crap :(


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    #1788
    batistuta9
    Registered Users Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    yeah they shouldn't have merged the thread about do you use facebook into this one


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    #1789
    Giruilla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭Giruilla


    Anyone ever hear anyone refering to themselves in third person? Weird right?
    Its one of the first signs of psychosis.

    How do people not see that using facebook, - and trying to define yourself as a person, or a certain type of person -is detrimental is beyond me.

    There more you try and catagorise yourself as someone, the more like that person you will become.

    Life is about being free, being who you want to be... not having boundaries, being whoever the fu*ck you want to be each day. each morning. each afternoon. each evening. If you commit yourself to an online persona, feed yourself to the status quo, you will lose this.

    Thinking people of the world... rest, be assured, be yourself and be free.

    Have confidence in yourself that you are not them.

    Giruilla


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    #1790
    MyKeyG
    Registered Users Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭MyKeyG


    Giruilla wrote: »
    Anyone ever hear anyone refering to themselves in third person? Weird right?
    Its one of the first signs of psychosis.

    How do people not see that using facebook, - and trying to define yourself as a person, or a certain type of person -is detrimental is beyond me.

    There more you try and catagorise yourself as someone, the more like that person you will become.

    Life is about being free, being who you want to be... not having boundaries, being whoever the fu*ck you want to be each day. each morning. each afternoon. each evening. If you commit yourself to an online persona, feed yourself to the status quo, you will lose this.

    Thinking people of the world... rest, be assured, be yourself and be free.

    Have confidence in yourself that you are not them.

    Giruilla
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6U2cNu9tEM


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    #1791
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    "RESPECT the emotions in sumone's heart , Rather then the expressions on sumone's face , B'coz expressions are just the formality . But emotions are the reality..There are people out der who make ya feel like ****e sometimes...And guess what..I call them?...I call them Mong's...coz they haven't der tongue connected to their brain....Der a biteen slow... LIKE....."" DUH... :-|[/


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    #1792
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    "RESPECT the emotions in sumone's heart , Rather then the expressions on sumone's face , B'coz expressions are just the formality . But emotions are the reality..There are people out der who make ya feel like ****e sometimes...And guess what..I call them?...I call them Mong's...coz they haven't der tongue connected to their brain....Der a biteen slow... LIKE....."" DUH... :-|[/

    Christ all mighty, thats stupid.


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    #1793
    leggo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    I love when people give out about others on Facebook giving out about others on Facebook.


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    #1794
    Sean.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Sean.


    MyKeyG wrote: »
    People communicated perfectly well before email and skype too. Should we get rid of them? Social networking is merely the next step in communications technology. It has your Email, Skype, Chat all in one.

    The internet and email were breakthroughs in communication technology; Facebook is a website on the internet, so you can't really compare it to its superior. Yes, Facebook has email, Skype and chat all in one place, but so do Google Plus and Gmail. You don't see people using those though, this shows that Facebook's success isn't merely based on technological breakthroughs, it's also based on coincidental popularity, meaning eventually it will drop in popularity like all social networking websites do.


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    #1795
    tok9
    Registered Users Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭tok9


    WindSock wrote: »
    The Facebook status updates over the last few pages are real crap :(

    Saw the thread was updated, went back 5 pages to see what I missed, turns out it was only about the advantages and disadvantages of facebook! :(

    Bring back the statuses!


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    #1796
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    Sean. wrote: »
    The internet and email were breakthroughs in communication technology; Facebook is a website on the internet, so you can't really compare it to its superior. Yes, Facebook has email, Skype and chat all in one place, but so do Google Plus and Gmail. You don't see people using those though, this shows that Facebook's success isn't merely based on technological breakthroughs, it's also based on coincidental popularity, meaning eventually it will drop in popularity like all social networking websites do.

    Are you seanbiker?


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    #1797
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Saw a status of a friend of a friend earlier announcing the birth of their offspring...went something like this...

    Little ball of joy arrived this morning weighing in at xlb!! Blah blah, delighted blah both blah doing well blah. With [other halves name tagged] at [hospital name / location].

    Sad how people feel the need to check in / tag people in statuses at times like that.


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    #1798
    Sean.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Sean.


    keith16 wrote: »
    Sad how people feel the need to check in

    Yeh, it's absurdly formal, posting on the internet whenever you change location. It's a whole new culture the world is taking on.
    superstoner90 wrote: »
    Are you seanbiker?

    No, my first name is Seán though.


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    #1799
    leggo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    I dunno.

    My big bugbear with checking in is when it's grossly abused. For example:

    'Josephine Twatface has checked in...snuggled on my luvvly blue couch eatin sum wine gums n drinkin red wine'

    Then they later checked into 'the land of nod' despite clearly being awake enough to feel the need to beat their Facebook friends over the head with pointless information about their lives.

    But if they have somewhere interesting to check in then it's another story. A childhood friend of mine is now a professional footballer, and I become obscenely excited when he checks into the likes of Highbury or Elland Road ahead of a game. Notsomuch Anfield though.

    If you're gonna ask "why check in?", then by extension you have to ask "why social network at all?" Why use boards even? Why do randomers need to know what you think about travellers? Why talk to colleagues in work...do they really care how your day is?? Don't say nuthin' to nobody unless it's absolutely essential you do so!

    But that's a bit boring then, isn't it?

    As with everything, the key is moderation.


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    #1800
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    Sean. wrote: »
    No, my first name is Seán though.

    Ok, carry on.


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    #1801
    Our President for Life
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭Our President for Life


    So THAT was the only spelling correction you wanted to make? Really??? :confused:


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