I use it for sharing photos and occasional messages with family and close friends. I don't get involved in topical conversations. Don't use it for following personalities, watching random videos, I block lots of those lad bible type pages, product pages to keep FB minimal.
Ditched Facebook - Wish I did this years ago.
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My ex was one of those with her face constantly buried in her phone on FB and pinterest. Annoyed the [censored] out of me.
But facebook is just facebook, as long as the user doesn't take it seriously like all the stupid political posts that is swarming around FB.
But facebook is just facebook, as long as the user doesn't take it seriously like all the stupid political posts that is swarming around FB.
There is pros & cons to Facebook "just" like anything else in life. My situation with having Family & friends abroad all over the United States; its super convenient to keep in touch with them & see/post pics.
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Originally Posted by Danno
Ditch google as well.
"Duckduckgo" for me.
Wrong!
Google is a much more expandable and more knowledgeable search engine.
Ditch google as well.
"Duckduckgo" for me.
Wrong!
Google is a much more expandable and more knowledgeable search engine.
I only have a tiny involvement with FB . More than anything , to avoid hurting the feelings of a few ( very few ) people I know .
Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
Originally Posted by Danno
Ditch google as well.
"Duckduckgo" for me.
Wrong!
Google is a much more expandable and more knowledgeable search engine.
Yes. Knowledgeable in the fact that they know more about you. I prefer to not be tracked by them. DDG is a great option.
Originally Posted by Danno
Ditch google as well.
"Duckduckgo" for me.
Wrong!
Google is a much more expandable and more knowledgeable search engine.
Yes. Knowledgeable in the fact that they know more about you. I prefer to not be tracked by them. DDG is a great option.
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I enjoy Facebook actually, it allows me to keep in touch with friends and family all over the world very easily, and I'm involved in a few different groups on there too (some for Corvettes, some for the town I live in) I don't spend a crazy amount of time on it but if I did, I still wouldn't delete my account, I'd simply use more self control and spend less time on it. I know it's an addiction for some people though.
My ex girlfriend from high school was looking for me on Facebook and couldn't find me.... cause I'm not on Facebook.
So she contacted my older sister on Facebook and asked my sister for my phone number to say hello....
My sister gives her my number and I really wasn't that happy she calls me out of the blue and sister never had the discretion to take ex GF number and not give out my phone number.
Ex GF wants to see a picture how I look. I said I look exactly the same but older.... I'm not bald, not fat or missing any teeth.
So she contacted my older sister on Facebook and asked my sister for my phone number to say hello....
My sister gives her my number and I really wasn't that happy she calls me out of the blue and sister never had the discretion to take ex GF number and not give out my phone number.
Ex GF wants to see a picture how I look. I said I look exactly the same but older.... I'm not bald, not fat or missing any teeth.
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I'm thinking I should sign up and get on Facebook so I can see all the burned out middle aged wannabe still wished they were in high school hags taking duckface selfies haha.
Kind of glad I'm still on dial-up speeds out in the boonies. None of the social media sites will load with all the moving graphics, so essentially keeps me from wasting time on Facebook, Twitter etc.
It is fun to go to my mother's where she has fast broadband speeds and watch YouTube clips but then my mom asks me why I even showed up to visit.
It is fun to go to my mother's where she has fast broadband speeds and watch YouTube clips but then my mom asks me why I even showed up to visit.
Originally Posted by BossMoss
Years ago, I deleted all my posts and pics. Then changed my name to something generic like John Smith. Then deleted every friend. Then deleted the account.
Dial up in 2018? You also got one of those Nokia 3310 too or what.
No dialup but i do use a samsung gusto.
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Years ago, I deleted all my posts and pics. Then changed my name to something generic like John Smith. Then deleted every friend. Then deleted the account.
Dial up in 2018? You also got one of those Nokia 3310 too or what.
No dialup but i do use a samsung gusto.
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Originally Posted by NoNameJoe
You make a good point. Forums like this are focused and the material is usually useful, educational even. If you want to increase your learning you can even choose specific subforums to narrow the focus. You can also ask questions to narrow the focus even more, and people are likely to answer them with answers that build your knowledge.
Social media however, is like you described, somewhat of a cancer. As you said it's overly broad and mostly consists of people showing off, going to great lengths to portray unrealistic lives in some cases. Then that causes other people to either envy them or outdo them. It's not a pretty picture for society.
I feel bad because prior generations never had to deal with things like this. I feel worse for the kids, social media is like peer pressure on steroids. We had peer pressure discussions all the time in school when I was coming up, it was usually centered around drugs, alcohol and smoking. Just think of the stuff kids have to deal with now that aren't even in those categories.
There was a study I saw on the news the other day that parents with young kids who used Facebook ended up spending more money than those who didn't, because they saw other parents with young kids buying stuff for their children.
The politics talk is just poison too. It's not going to help anyone when people air their political beliefs. If it's not the politics, it's the religion. I know someone who tells me his Facebook feed is filled with threads of people arguing about politics, people he knew as extremely promiscuous now arguing as born again Christians, blah blah blah. Then there's Facebook Live and the fact that it encourages a culture of outrageous behavior as long as you can stream it.
^^^^^^
Great, great post here. One of the best of the year in my book.
You make a good point. Forums like this are focused and the material is usually useful, educational even. If you want to increase your learning you can even choose specific subforums to narrow the focus. You can also ask questions to narrow the focus even more, and people are likely to answer them with answers that build your knowledge.
Social media however, is like you described, somewhat of a cancer. As you said it's overly broad and mostly consists of people showing off, going to great lengths to portray unrealistic lives in some cases. Then that causes other people to either envy them or outdo them. It's not a pretty picture for society.
I feel bad because prior generations never had to deal with things like this. I feel worse for the kids, social media is like peer pressure on steroids. We had peer pressure discussions all the time in school when I was coming up, it was usually centered around drugs, alcohol and smoking. Just think of the stuff kids have to deal with now that aren't even in those categories.
There was a study I saw on the news the other day that parents with young kids who used Facebook ended up spending more money than those who didn't, because they saw other parents with young kids buying stuff for their children.
The politics talk is just poison too. It's not going to help anyone when people air their political beliefs. If it's not the politics, it's the religion. I know someone who tells me his Facebook feed is filled with threads of people arguing about politics, people he knew as extremely promiscuous now arguing as born again Christians, blah blah blah. Then there's Facebook Live and the fact that it encourages a culture of outrageous behavior as long as you can stream it.
^^^^^^
Great, great post here. One of the best of the year in my book.
Originally Posted by Mr Nice
My ex girlfriend from high school was looking for me on Facebook and couldn't find me.... cause I'm not on Facebook.
So she contacted my older sister on Facebook and asked my sister for my phone number to say hello....
My sister gives her my number and I really wasn't that happy she calls me out of the blue and sister never had the discretion to take ex GF number and not give out my phone number.
Ex GF wants to see a picture how I look. I said I look exactly the same but older.... I'm not bald, not fat or missing any teeth.
Last paragraph... That's funny
Don't care who you are.. that's funny
My ex girlfriend from high school was looking for me on Facebook and couldn't find me.... cause I'm not on Facebook.
So she contacted my older sister on Facebook and asked my sister for my phone number to say hello....
My sister gives her my number and I really wasn't that happy she calls me out of the blue and sister never had the discretion to take ex GF number and not give out my phone number.
Ex GF wants to see a picture how I look. I said I look exactly the same but older.... I'm not bald, not fat or missing any teeth.
Last paragraph... That's funny
Don't care who you are.. that's funny
Originally Posted by oilpsi2high
I deleted (not deactivated) my Facebook account the other day after giving it a lot of thought. In the end, I just saw it as a colossal waste of time.
I tracked my time and was sickened at the amount of time spent "liking" people's posts, uploading pictures, etc. I wasn't getting any benefit out of it at all.
Everything is one sided on there - it's always people on vacation, people doing this and that to show everyone how they are bettering themselves, etc. You never see the posts "I got fired from work today" or really anything negative, ever.
The nail in the coffin for me, the thing I could not stand at all, was people uploading these absolutely ridiculous political posts, and then arguing about them all day long. I found it funny at first, but it just became rather ridiculous and in the end a huge time waster.
I guess one could argue that forums are a waste of time, but to be honest I gain a ton of knowledge and information on old school forums that I'd never get from Facebook or any other social media platform (aside from maybe YouTube's informative videos.)
I used Facebook back when I started college, to meet people on campus initially. Then people I didn't go to school with started using it (don't forget you needed a .edu e-mail to have a Facebook account back then) and then recently parents started using it to keep track of what their kids were doing instead of being actual parents in real life.
So I gave it a ton of thought, and came to the conclusion that I was no longer gaining anything at all from using the platform, and I was losing a ton of time because of it. Goodbye and good riddance.
Excellent, I think about pulling the plug on it all the time.
How that thing gets in your brain, we are nothing more then lab rats, unable to put down our phone, once your dead they will just say "oh so sad" then move onto the next post, its not real. Yet we keep one of the richest man in the world laughing all the way to the bank everyday.
Who by the way, all of them over there in silicon valley, do not allow their kids on Facebook.
I deleted (not deactivated) my Facebook account the other day after giving it a lot of thought. In the end, I just saw it as a colossal waste of time.
I tracked my time and was sickened at the amount of time spent "liking" people's posts, uploading pictures, etc. I wasn't getting any benefit out of it at all.
Everything is one sided on there - it's always people on vacation, people doing this and that to show everyone how they are bettering themselves, etc. You never see the posts "I got fired from work today" or really anything negative, ever.
The nail in the coffin for me, the thing I could not stand at all, was people uploading these absolutely ridiculous political posts, and then arguing about them all day long. I found it funny at first, but it just became rather ridiculous and in the end a huge time waster.
I guess one could argue that forums are a waste of time, but to be honest I gain a ton of knowledge and information on old school forums that I'd never get from Facebook or any other social media platform (aside from maybe YouTube's informative videos.)
I used Facebook back when I started college, to meet people on campus initially. Then people I didn't go to school with started using it (don't forget you needed a .edu e-mail to have a Facebook account back then) and then recently parents started using it to keep track of what their kids were doing instead of being actual parents in real life.
So I gave it a ton of thought, and came to the conclusion that I was no longer gaining anything at all from using the platform, and I was losing a ton of time because of it. Goodbye and good riddance.
Excellent, I think about pulling the plug on it all the time.
How that thing gets in your brain, we are nothing more then lab rats, unable to put down our phone, once your dead they will just say "oh so sad" then move onto the next post, its not real. Yet we keep one of the richest man in the world laughing all the way to the bank everyday.
Who by the way, all of them over there in silicon valley, do not allow their kids on Facebook.
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I have an account, got one 10 years ago or so to enter a few contests. I won like $250 from it.
Did not use it for years, but when my kids turned 13, they wanted on, so I let them. They are my only 2 friends on there. They spend very little time on it.
My son likes instagram though, watching stupid video clips. I also have an account, again my kids are my only 2 friends.
I get FB requests from people I went to high school with all the time. Those that were my friends I kept in contact with the old fashioned way, calls, visits and even actual letters.
Did not use it for years, but when my kids turned 13, they wanted on, so I let them. They are my only 2 friends on there. They spend very little time on it.
My son likes instagram though, watching stupid video clips. I also have an account, again my kids are my only 2 friends.
I get FB requests from people I went to high school with all the time. Those that were my friends I kept in contact with the old fashioned way, calls, visits and even actual letters.
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