Are you still on Facebook?

IvaBigWun · 22-01-2014 02:16PM #1

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

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wazky · 22-01-2014 02:18PM

I was never on it to begin with.

IvaBigWun · 22-01-2014 02:19PM

wazky wrote: »

I was never on it to begin with.

I tempted to thank you.

You whore

Lennyzip · 22-01-2014 02:19PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:19PM

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.

22-01-2014 02:20PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:20PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:23PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:24PM

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.

22-01-2014 02:27PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:28PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:29PM

SV wrote: »

Such a hipster post.

I doff my trilby hat to you

c_man · 22-01-2014 02:30PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:30PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:34PM

Still on it.

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

MagicIRL · 22-01-2014 02:34PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:35PM

Facebook can suck the willknots out of my ar$e

anncoates · 22-01-2014 02:38PM

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

kneemos · 22-01-2014 02:38PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:38PM

MagicIRL wrote: »

Oh

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

hernie · 22-01-2014 02:39PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:39PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:41PM

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

PLUG71 · 22-01-2014 02:42PM

Im on it cus im a nosey fooker! :P

SV · 22-01-2014 02:44PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:45PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:47PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:51PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:51PM

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 · 22-01-2014 02:58PM

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 · 22-01-2014 03:03PM

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

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