I can't go on it from my computer because i just had a virus and i don't think its totally gone yet =(. I think they should just stop making changes on facebook. the last time they "updated" it, it took me 1 week to figure out the small icons had a purpose.
Doron wrote:
but individuality would be more fun if you could also edit the background
hell no. thats what made myspace so annoying since everyone overdid it. everytime you'd go to someone's profile there would be a hugeass background + 50m vids & gifs + the lame ass songs playlist -_-.
btw i dont get it, why is Itsun hating on facebook OP isn't asking for your opinions on facebook, he is asking about the opinions of people (who use facebook) on the new profile changes
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Before I started college I tried to look up my roommate on Facebook. I found that he had none, and thought to myself, "@$#*! I have to live with a @$#*ing loser all year!"
Sure enough, he turned out to be a fat, lazy moron who sat in our room 24/7 playing WoW.
If you are 16-22, you better have a damn Facebook account. If you don't, there is a reason for that, and it is because you are awkward and have no irl friends. If I were an employer and was looking to hire a guy out of college today, if they didn't have a Facebook I would have doubts about them. Credentials are only half of anything in life. Your sociability is much more important.
Now, listen up for a second. Try to read what you just wrote.
You're saying that using Facebook is social? I can tell you that playing WoW is just as social, which is very little! Basically in both WoW and Facebook you sit in front of your pc, pressing buttons. Wouldn't it be more social to go out with your friends instead of just sitting there, commenting on a awkward picture of your best friends ex-girlfriends holiday? Maybe I'm just weird but to me that sounds more like it.
Take me for example: I don't use Facebook, which means I have WAY more time for actually BEING with my friends instead of just nerding off at the computer. And you're saying that using Facebook gives you social experience? Well, I can tell you one thing. If you spent the last 4 years of your life sitting on website commenting and thought that was social, then you'll get a huge surprise when you find out that you aren't actually that good at talking with people in real life!
it's like you don't even have a little bit of understanding of what facebook is for when it comes to normal people at least. more time for actually being with friends? huh? "hey man you wanna chill?" "nah bro i'm on fb. talk to you soon" neverrrr, everrrr. it's actually great for making plans.
Before I started college I tried to look up my roommate on Facebook. I found that he had none, and thought to myself, "@$#*! I have to live with a @$#*ing loser all year!"
Sure enough, he turned out to be a fat, lazy moron who sat in our room 24/7 playing WoW.
If you are 16-22, you better have a damn Facebook account. If you don't, there is a reason for that, and it is because you are awkward and have no irl friends. If I were an employer and was looking to hire a guy out of college today, if they didn't have a Facebook I would have doubts about them. Credentials are only half of anything in life. Your sociability is much more important.
Now, listen up for a second. Try to read what you just wrote.
You're saying that using Facebook is social? I can tell you that playing WoW is just as social, which is very little! Basically in both WoW and Facebook you sit in front of your pc, pressing buttons. Wouldn't it be more social to go out with your friends instead of just sitting there, commenting on a awkward picture of your best friends ex-girlfriends holiday? Maybe I'm just weird but to me that sounds more like it.
Take me for example: I don't use Facebook, which means I have WAY more time for actually BEING with my friends instead of just nerding off at the computer. And you're saying that using Facebook gives you social experience? Well, I can tell you one thing. If you spent the last 4 years of your life sitting on website commenting and thought that was social, then you'll get a huge surprise when you find out that you aren't actually that good at talking with people in real life!
it's like you don't even have a little bit of understanding of what facebook is for when it comes to normal people at least. more time for actually being with friends? huh? "hey man you wanna chill?" "nah bro i'm on fb. talk to you soon" neverrrr, everrrr. it's actually great for making plans.
Trust me, I do understand why people use Facebook. As you said, it's great for planning and stuff. However, I don't like how it's BEING used! At least my age group (18-22) are horrible and they spent way too much time on it.
So yeah, I can see the purpose of it if just every people used it like you explained it.
It`s a change, we'll all get used to it. Remember when everyone complained about the "big makeover"? Today, I woudn't feel comfortable FBing without it.
As for Facebook itself, the "im not an attention whore/share my private life" argument is getting old. Most people just use it to stay in contact with friends,organize events,chat,share videos,etc. Sure there's always the ones that spam "likes" group and spam your News Feed with random status, but that's a small percentage.
Plus, I love how you can reach with other people. I'm much more connected to my family in Morocco and Holland now.
ltsune wrote:
Take me for example: I don't use Facebook, which means I have WAY more time for actually BEING with my friends instead of just nerding off at the computer. And you're saying that using Facebook gives you social experience? Well, I can tell you one thing. If you spent the last 4 years of your life sitting on website commenting and thought that was social, then you'll get a huge surprise when you find out that you aren't actually that good at talking with people in real life!
No, you don't get the point of Facebook. Being on Facebook dosn't reduce the time that you spend with your friends, if anything it increases it in some way. Facebook is pretty much a tool to organize "events". See it as something like a texting or calling. Get on Facebook, tell your friends what's up, what you want to do this weekend,etc.
It`s a change, we'll all get used to it. Remember when everyone complained about the "big makeover"? Today, I woudn't feel comfortable FBing without it.
As for Facebook itself, the "im not an attention whore/share my private life" argument is getting old. Most people just use it to stay in contact with friends,organize events,chat,share videos,etc. Sure there's always the ones that spam "likes" group and spam your News Feed with random status, but that's a small percentage.
Plus, I love how you can reach with other people. I'm much more connected to my family in Morocco and Holland now.
ltsune wrote:
Take me for example: I don't use Facebook, which means I have WAY more time for actually BEING with my friends instead of just nerding off at the computer. And you're saying that using Facebook gives you social experience? Well, I can tell you one thing. If you spent the last 4 years of your life sitting on website commenting and thought that was social, then you'll get a huge surprise when you find out that you aren't actually that good at talking with people in real life!
No, you don't get the point of Facebook. Being on Facebook dosn't reduce the time that you spend with your friends, if anything it increases it in some way. Facebook is pretty much a tool to organize "events". See it as something like a texting or calling. Get on Facebook, tell your friends what's up, what you want to do this weekend,etc.
Then you clearly haven't seen how most people use Facebook! People will NOT get more social by being on a website. Well, I guess it's all about how you define social? I do not define social as being on a website, chatting with friends. The largest problem as I see it, is that people does not only use it to text and organize events. They use it to play games on, a lot of games! Now, there are games at other websites too, of course, but lots of my friends gets addicted to lots of those games on Facebook and they keep playing them for months straight, which will take quite a lot of their time, and thereby make them less social. And if not less social, then at least they learn less in the school subjects, as they have to play this game on Facebook in order to reach their friends highscore. If you need a proof, you can take a look at the articles at cnet. They made a post a few weeks ago where they interviewed the maker of Farmville at Facebook. He is Paypals second largest customer, which means he have earned several million dollars. Besides, he said (the maker of Farmville), that they tried to manipulate with people to get them to play more and buy more, and that they were not ashamed of it.
Again, I'm not judging Facebook because of it's games, I simply want to point out what Facebook indirectly does to lots of young peoples lives. Of course people could use it as you seems to use it, but sadly it's only a small amount of people who actually does that.
Then you clearly haven't seen how most people use Facebook! People will NOT get more social by being on a website.
And here's where your wrong.
Last friday, I came home after work and had no plans. Sent out a few text messages, the people I messaged were spending their nights with their partners. Fair enough, I'll just spend the night relaxing then. So I go on facebook for all but 10 minutes, a few people strike up conversations with me and I had 2 invites: one to go drinking at a club and one to crash at a mates place and just play some games/have a few quiet ones. I ended up getting insanely drunk and had a good night.
Please note this happens quite often. A few weeks before that I went for a big adventure to bondi beach, had a lot to drink and made some new friends which I hung with further. Facebook is a medium of communication, of course it will increase your ability to socialise.
Another example. 2 weeks ago I met a girl while I was out with some mates. She was pretty drunk at the time, we had a good conversation and she seemed pretty nice. Add on facebook, friends request accepted, talk talk talk, convo convo convo, hung out in person the other day and we have plans to go to the art gallery this Saturday. I've made a new friend all through the power of facebook. It's a miracle! >_>
It's 2010, learn to break from tradition.
The profile? I dislike it. Too much screen real estate is spent on adverts and those "featured friends" crap. Why do I need 7000 pictures of my friends in a vertical line? Your on my page to look at me, not my friends. I'm pretty disappointed overall, frankly.
Then you clearly haven't seen how most people use Facebook! People will NOT get more social by being on a website.
And here's where your wrong.
Last friday, I came home after work and had no plans. Sent out a few text messages, the people I messaged were spending their nights with their partners. Fair enough, I'll just spend the night relaxing then. So I go on facebook for all but 10 minutes, a few people strike up conversations with me and I had 2 invites: one to go drinking at a club and one to crash at a mates place and just play some games/have a few quiet ones. I ended up getting insanely drunk and had a good night.
Please note this happens quite often. A few weeks before that I went for a big adventure to bondi beach, had a lot to drink and made some new friends which I hung with further. Facebook is a medium of communication, of course it will increase your ability to socialise.
Another example. 2 weeks ago I met a girl while I was out with some mates. She was pretty drunk at the time, we had a good conversation and she seemed pretty nice. Add on facebook, friends request accepted, talk talk talk, convo convo convo, hung out in person the other day and we have plans to go to the art gallery this Saturday. I've made a new friend all through the power of facebook. It's a miracle! >_>
It's 2010, learn to break from tradition.
The profile? I dislike it. Too much screen real estate is spent on adverts and those "featured friends" crap. Why do I need 7000 pictures of my friends in a vertical line? Your on my page to look at me, not my friends. I'm pretty disappointed overall, frankly.
Sure, but not using Facebook doesn't mean that you wouldn't have been able to go and party with your friends, right? And besides, what I wrote has to be written in context. I was writing it in relation to the gaming part.
Anyway, you're saying that it happens quite often that you get an invitation to a party etc. via Facebook ,and that's fine. Just keep using Facebook that way! Personally I believe that's how it's supposed to be used, as you said too, a media to get in contact and keep in contact with friends/new people. But Facebook is so much more, sadly. It's one large money making and promotional stunt website.
A good and sadly true saying;
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If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold!
Of course we could discuss the privacy issues, but that wouldn't make sense as nearly every huge website gathers information about you and sell that information to third party websites / firms.
But to get back t what you wrote, Facebook is not just a way of being socially connected, it's a way of living! Also, if you did not use Facebook, you would be forced to actually talk with people face to face. Please explain to me how writing to people possibly can be more social than talking to them face to face? I'll just end off by posting 7 points, which kinda sums up what I think about Facebook (written by a friend of mine):
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1. They own all of the content you post. 2. People you don’t like from your past contact you. 4. Everyone on Facebook is starving for attention. 6. “Friends” can rob your house if your status is “On vacation!” 7. You leave an internet trail that can be used against you in the future. Can you imagine the mudslinging between future presidential candidates about their facebook statuses from 20 years prior?
But sure, I guess none of you guys have these problems, right?
Even though it might sound like I hate people Facebook, that's not how it is at all. Somebody who does that would have to be extremely stupid. However, again, I'm just simply pointing out that a lot of people uses Facebook as a way of life.
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you realize how much you make yourself look like the facebook people you are speaking negatively of when you spend THIS much time argueing about facebook on a MMO forum???
you realize how much you make yourself look like the facebook people you are speaking negatively of when you spend THIS much time argueing about facebook on a MMO forum???
Sure, but this is the off-topic section, it's not meant to be about MMO games, lol.
But yeah, I spend some time on SRF, but it's nothing compared to Facebook users. And yeah, I know that if I started using Facebook I would probably spend just as much time on Facebook as they do. If not more. That's also a reason why I don't use Facebook
your missing my point and proving it all the more.
I do get your point. You're trying to explain to me that me using this much time on an argument here at SRF makes me just as, if not more unsocial than those guys spending hours and hours at Facebook, right? Well, anyway, I guess we better end the discussion here. I mean, it can go on forever.
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