Facebook culture

I use it for how I want to use it and only get involved as much as I want to. To me it's a good tool for speaking to some friends you haven't seen in a while or seeing what they're up to.

It's nice to have some pictures up on it to share with your friends who were there as well. I don't think I know anybody that obsesses over it plus thats pretty sad if they do. Its just an online address book for me with added extras.
 
Amp34 said:
Organising holidays is easy without facebook, you talk to each other face to face, or on the phone or IM. The most annoying thing ever is waiting hours for a reply. It's like using these forums to organise it, useless is a word I can use.
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why would I want to upload them full size to a complicated site. They are for looking at online and remembering or having a laugh.

FB is much easier to organise holidays. You can chat about it and post up diffrent things. Not send out 6 million texts every 10 mins, when something changes. Not always possible to meet up as we stay in touch with people who live all over the Uk, but still all go on holiday together and meet up for birthdays etc.
 
R5Rich said:
I often see people on my facebook that take over 150photos from one night out all with the same people, all with same poses all in same location, and this happens week in week out!
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LOL and those poses as we both know 149 of those pictures are men looking "hard" with their fingers up, and women loooking "sexy" either pouting their lips or standing with their legs apart and their fingers in a v-sign sideways from their heads. The other one is a picture of the floor or ceiling, taken in error but they couldnt be arsed to edit the folder prior to upload.

But other than that, it does have a point, like for me who has lived 300 miles from home for 8 years, keeping in contact easily as a group for example.
 
It is just stupid how people generally share things with the world as soon as it happens. I see people updating their relationship status all the time and then the next day its back to normal??

Sharing photos is fine, if they are worth while. When people are going to the same places every weekend with the same people just out drinking which is nothing special they feel the need to take a kagillion photos? No, its not needed at all.

Dominicstar you got it in one!

Acidhell2 pick up a phone saves 100000s of text messages?
 
DominicStar said:
LOL and those poses as we both know 149 of those pictures are men looking "hard" with their fingers up, and women loooking "sexy" either pouting their lips or standing with their legs apart and their fingers in a v-sign sideways from their heads. The other one is a picture of the floor or ceiling, taken in error but they couldnt be arsed to edit the folder prior to upload.
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I think that says much more about your social network then Facebook.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
How'd you work that out?
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Perhaps because for some it supplants "strong ties" relationships? What i mean is i accept the argument for "weak ties" connections (in terms of business/career etc) and their existence But a facebook "friend" is not the same as a real friend (not very helpful way of putting it!)

havent read all the article (30 pages) i'll read when i get home.

Lots of other reasons as well but thats a starter :D
 
me227 said:
I think if thats the case then the friendship in question probably wasn't that strong to begin with.
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On the contrary IMO, A proper friendship is one that you can spend months apart and instantly get back into the swing when you see them again. Having to throw little snippits of info at them every so often and not talking to them properly shows you are insecure about it.

AcidHell2 said:
why would I want to upload them full size to a complicated site. They are for looking at online and remembering or having a laugh.

FB is much easier to organise holidays. You can chat about it and post up diffrent things. Not send out 6 million texts every 10 mins, when something changes. Not always possible to meet up as we stay in touch with people who live all over the Uk, but still all go on holiday together and meet up for birthdays etc.
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Exactly, to glance at once and never look at them again, pretty pointless TBH. A complicated site, such as flickr or others like that? Where I can right click and "upload to flickr" with about 2 clicks of the button. That's not complicated in the slightest.

I wasn't talking about texts, they are as bad as FB, actually talk to someone via the phone or IM, where you can debate over a few things and it will take 10 minutes, instead of 2 days. If something specific is needed then email is just as easy/easier than facebook and quicker.

Whatever did people do without facebook? Talk to people...:p
 
R5Rich said:
No, its not needed at all.
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Photos like represent memories. The pictures may be crap, but it reminds people of the night and other funny anecdotes.

Just because you see no need it doesn't mean it doesn't have value to other people within the network.
 
R5Rich said:
Anybody hate this? I have just deactivated my account after thinking to myself what the hell do I care what people who I rarely talk to have been upto and doing at this precise moment?

Everytime I go out drinking I see groups of people huddled together taking group photos pouting with the camera pointing down on them WHY?!?!

I often see people on my facebook that take over 150photos from one night out all with the same people, all with same poses all in same location, and this happens week in week out!

Also pretty annoying how people tell you everything via facebook, yeah I have a mobile ring me or txt me thanks bye!

Anyone else hate how this appears to be the norm now adays for people from about 16-25?

Having used the inet since I was about 13 I never felt the need to update my status and let the world know what I am currently doing until facebook!

*rant over*
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You don't have to have everybody you've ever met as "friends" on facebook you know... :rolleyes:
 
Amp34 said:
I wasn't talking about texts, they are as bad as FB, actually talk to someone via the phone or IM, where you can debate over a few things and it will take 10 minutes, instead of 2 days. If something specific is needed then email is just as easy/easier than facebook and quicker.

Whatever did people do without facebook? Talk to people...:p
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Yes talk to 15 different people about dates and what's going on. before Fb I would have had to make a thousand phone calls. FB is easier yes you don't get instant replys, but are instant replys needed. I don't think so.

Yes flicr is complicated because it is now here near as easy for friends of yours to look at it. It is not all nicely packaged all into one integrated things. And why would you look at a photo every day. You glance at them when you want to..
 
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I hate facebook as a concept and I hardly spend any time at all on it. I'd much prefer it if someone text me or better just rang me. Unfortunately, everyone uses it and because it's so widespread, if you don't use it, you miss out on everything.
 
I have Facebook but I don't use it religiously like my sister. I tend to check it once a day, if someone really needs me they can quite easily text/ring me. I do not see the appeal of sitting on it for hours.

My main gripe with Facebook is it reveals the whole 'youth' culture nowadays, which is a load of tosh. I'm most likely just a 30 year old in a 17 year old's body, though :p

They also claim my real email address is "invalid" somehow, which annoys me :mad:
 
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i do agree with people putting every single bit of detail in the "what your doing now" space,that make me laugh...but i only use facebook for speaking to the people i see on a regular basis...even though i have over 300 friends i only regulary speak to about 50 of them
 
i like the possibilities of facebook - but i dont like that you put all those "possibilities" and information all in a nice box - easy to control, manipulate and exploit. Its a means of control. It works as an apparatus on different levels. Lots of good benefits on one level but on another level (which you might be unaware of) it has disadvantages.
 
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