Facebook Loathing
Posted by: GraemeH on 08 January 2012
Why don't you post your views on Facebook?
It is one of the shittiest websites out there I agree.
My nippers are banned from it as it is toss.
Jono
(The king of well reasoned arguments)
Facebook is shit and rock 'n roll is the work of the devil. You are all getting old!
Fair point Graeme! 
I used to loath it, but I've come to enjoy interacting with old friends using it. I don't like the latest style they've created.
Dave
I'm on Facebook ONLY because my kids post piccies/videos etc of my grandkids there, ditto my nieces and nephews. You just have to check occasionally that FB hasn't decided to change its privacy options yet again. Even SWMBO uses it.
I tried it for a while and didn't like it. I guess it's okay for swift comments by busy people, but it seemed indicative of the general dumbing-down of literary abilities and the media. I found it to be predominantly full of irrelevant tripe.
It can of course be argued that the content depends upon one's personal contacts, but here's the thing - eMails seem to encourage much more intelligent and expansive content than Facebook does in my experience; which is exactly why I binned it.
I am reminded of Sarah Silverman's comment:-
"I get confused between MySpace and Facebook, so keep inviting people to come on my face".
John.
I've found Facebook a nice way to get back, and stay in touch with, my family in New York and a few old friends.
If you don't like it, don't get involved and stay away. It's simple really. Nobody's forcing you.
Is anyone else getting pissed-off with the world domination of Facebook and Twitter? They are often the recommended route into non-related web sites.
Unless I've got it wrong, I can't use Spotify without a Facebook account? Fortunately there is the excellent 'Grooveshark' which needs no such nonsense or sign-up.
John.
John, you don't HAVE to sign in to Spotify with Facebook, it's only an option AFAIK.
I admit to having lost interest in Facebook. I guess it's great if you love it, I just don't!
Julian
I'm on it and occasionally I find it interesting to see what distant mates and relatives are up to but I don't go there very often.
The missus seems to love it and a lot of her female mates and mine are far more active on it than the guys are. I think my Brother in Law's reaction was the best though when I happened to log in one night to show him something one of my pals had uploaded 'you've got to be kidding me' he said when he realised that over half the people I was linked to were 20-25 year old female cabin crew who seem to spend much of their free time uploading pictures of themselves on drunken night's out in scanty clubbing gear or in bikinis beside various swimming pools.
Getting middle-aged in the digital age does have some compensations...
Jonathan
Is anyone else getting pissed-off with the world domination of Facebook and Twitter? They are often the recommended route into non-related web sites.
Unless I've got it wrong, I can't use Spotify without a Facebook account? Fortunately there is the excellent 'Grooveshark' which needs no such nonsense or sign-up.
John.
John,
I know nothing about Spotify or Grooveshark but it's not quality or excellence that'll settle this argument it's popularity. Numbers, revenue, however you look at it.
Facebook is crap without a doubt. New features are introduced without any canvassing of users as far as I can see. Stuff works then it doesn't work then it sort of works again. Much of it is clumsy and unintuitive. But it's what people are using.
John.
Facebook is merely the medium and as such is the ultimate classless conduit between all kinds of different people.
It can be used to discuss ....Coronation Street ...the latest Big Brother .... Wayne Rooney's hairpiece......or what Jedward are getting up to .....
......or Amnesty International's latest campaign ...Bruce Springsteen's latest album or...who might get the Republican party's nomination ......
Just like an earlier invention ..The Telephone ....
How come we didn't hate that?
As a side issue:
Imagine if Alexander Graham Bell had invented a device where you could type words into a machine, and transmit them to someone somewhere else, almost instantaneously. Then you simply waited for them to read your words, type a reply in response, or asking for clarification, and they could send this back for you to read. All repeated as often as desired.
Imagine this became the standard, until, a hundred or so years later, someone invented a device that, instead of requiring you to type and read, actually allowed you to SPEAK to your respondent, in real time, and hear and respond to their replies! Just imagine!
What a shame Bell didn't invent email. We'd have all grown out of it by now and got our lives back.
It's much easier to delete a spam phone call.
Still not as bad as this forum as it now is 
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Just had a look at the 'new' Linn forum after several months - what a treat!