Why would I want to?
Posted by: Paper Plane on 25 August 2013
Thanks to Richard I have just ordered an album on Amazon. After I'd placed the order, a note comes up asking me if I would like to advertise this fact on Faceache or ****ter.
Why on earth would I want to do that? Nobody in the world would care, so what's the point?
Incidentally, I do appreciate the irony that I have, in fact just done it here, but, in my defence, it is a principle I'm questioning.
steve
Posted on: 26 August 2013 by Harry
And to day for breakfast I had......
Last night's bowel motions went well....
Right now I'm thinking about.....
As you say, who gives a......
Posted on: 02 September 2013 by Mike Hughes
Social media, at it's best, is a conversation. The rest of the time that's what you're doing. Having conversations. After you ordered that album you told somebody. Telling them via social media is no different to telling them by phone or across the kitchen table. We communicate. It's what we do. New media tends to highlight the inanity of what we communicate because people don't get it's usefulness if it's used for the same old conversations but it's use for those things should hardly be a surprise.
To turn it around - why the heck are you telling us? Why not discuss it with your partner; down the pub or in work? Perhaps you already have?
People tell each other stuff all the time. That new media suddenly highlights the inanity of much of our communication isn't really a surprise but nor is it a problem of new media.
Putting your new purchase from Amazon up on Facebook is no different to adding to a thread about your next purchase; your latest purchase and so on. One could argue it's a p•••••g contest dressed up as communication or you could take it as being all past of life's rich tapestry.
Now, lets analyse in depth why you felt the heed to tell us about how you came to make that Amazon purchase and on whose recommendation. Are you scoring points? Or, is it just part of the way you communicate? Ditto auto posting to Facebook et al.
Posted on: 03 September 2013 by Derek Wright
OK Calm down and take a breath - it is called Face Book rage.
Posted on: 03 September 2013 by Mike Hughes
Ironically I'm not a fan of Facebook. Horridly laid out inaccessible thing unless on a mobile.
Posted on: 03 September 2013 by DrMark
When I used to be on FB, I saw people who were just about as ridiculous as Harry indicates.
I shut it down when I was in between jobs & job huntiing, and found out companies were looking at FB for potential employees. I figured nothing good could happen to my job search on FB, so I turned it off and have never looked back.
And to answer the OP's question, I wouldn't.
Posted on: 03 September 2013 by Mike Hughes
Again though. It's not a Facebook issue. It's a people issue and no different to real life.
Posted on: 03 September 2013 by Willy
Don't bother with it myself but the kids do. They use it to communicate between friends/groups and organise activities. Seems quite useful for that.
On comparison with socialising down the pub* I guess that with Facebook, like in the pub, 90% of what's said is inane drivel to the other 10% of the population. Advantage of the pub is that most of the bollocks I talk is forgotten by the next day.
Willy.
* This is of course based on my increasingly unreliable recollection of pub life as all the pubs around here were sold of to property developers....just before the crash. They're now either abandoned pubs or abandoned new built townhouses.
Posted on: 04 September 2013 by Adam Meredith
I find it rather reassuring not to understand a word of this self-important cock.
http://www.theguardian.com/med...dvertisers-marketing
"So what will be the outcome of the social media shake-up of 2013? Simple, we will start to move away from a bucketed approach to 'social advertising' as brands understand that social networks are able to deliver against all types of brand objectives across all parts of the marketing funnel."
Enema pipe - more like.
Posted on: 05 September 2013 by winkyincanada
I admit to not being able to follow a twitter "conversation" at all. I have no clue who is saying what, nor what the @ or # have to do with anything. Facebook also confuses the hell out of me. I don't know who I am spamming if I use it to "post" something, so I don't do it.
