Facebook Sucks?

[Ravenholm]

I can honestly say I have never had and never will have an account on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, or any other site of the likes of them. Never saw the appeal to it to be honest. Email, Phone and face to face is how I communicate. MSN annoyed me as well. The whole sitting there waiting on a reply only to get like three or four words as a response. That's not a bastard discussion!. To have a discussion, a proper discussion, it has to be email, phone, or face to face. I think those on MSN and the likes have too many people to chat to at the one time and this is why it's pittiful responses you get in return.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Facey spaceys scare me. I've gotten invitations to join from several people that I've known in the past. The scary part is that along with their message the system showed names of other people with whom I might be interested in connecting with. It showed me people that I have absolutely no idea how it would link me to: it showed my cousin who lives in France, and neither of us have each other's e-mail addresses, nor any contacts in common, hell, the only thing that we have in common is that our mothers are sisters; it showed the owner of an artist management firm where I interned for 3 weeks about 5 years ago, and they didn't have my e-mail address, yet it linked me to him; it linked me to someone that I went to middle school with, before the popularization of the internet, and before either of us had e-mail addresses. How does it know all this? I don't even want to think about all the ways these things collect personal data.

 

[ragincaucasian]

it was cool years ago....now its just duuuuumb

 

[brodkill]

you must have been conversing with that other dude, sqillumz. i think that guy has a fagbook. not me!

*scratches ears*

huh, i always thought you spelled it with an i just to piss me off

 

[prof_porn]

Facebook sucks. All social media does.

 

[joesup3rtramp]

It does get kinda creepy. They started that whole auto tagging thing too. I've been auto tagged in photos and I don't really like it.

 

[squallumz]

Facebook sucks. All social media does.

simple, and oh so fucking true.

 

[brodkill]

Facebook sucks. All social media does.

why? whats are you basing this on?

 

[L3ggy]

You're on it for one.

 

[Da Dude]

So this is a serious question. After years of not wanting to join Facebook I finally caved and joined. I have found the profiles of many of my high school friends and even just people from high school that I knew. They all accepted my friend requests but when I went to say hi they all seem to be ignoring me. Do people pay attention to the messages they get or is it all about friending and posting on walls?

Yeah, same thing happens to me. Weird!

 

[MikeyK]

Most iphones and droids don't show messages very well. If those people are looking at fb on an iphone or droid, they probably don't know you sent a personal message until they get on a pc.

Yeah I figured that must be it. I only have 42 people friended on facebook and most of them I knew well in high school. Most of them actually sent me a friend request once I joined. So I'm guessing that they just aren't seeing my messages because most of them are using facebook via their phones.