Facebook culture

wormwood said:
The amount of pics from nights out is another sign of people desperate to show other people they have a wonderful life. They must spend their entire nights out taking pictures to basicly prove to old friends and random people on the internet that they have a life. It does seems that in the facebook world appearance is everything.

It does work though as despite the fact that I could never be arsed to make the effort to look as fun or popular as these people I do get slightly bitter and jealous when I see how full their facebook lives are.
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Exactly. I feel jealous & down when I see pictures of other people 'livin' it up'.

Then I think to myself why are they sad enough to post these pictures and then I think, why I am so sad to be looking at them. :D
 
Surfer said:
only if you use it as a replacement for a "strong ties relationship" online virtual communities cant imo replace an STR. A WTR can help maintain a STR though that would otherwise fall into dis-use (e.g. long distance between close friends)
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Ahh, the sound of an educated man :D
 
On the photos thing; we've always taken tonnes of photos on nights out, parties at friends... they just go up on facebook so everyone can see them now...
 
The concept of Facebook is good, I de-activated my account a while back now though as it just started to annoy me. I dislike the 'falseness' of it, and the 'hey everyone look at me' of it.

I phone or text my real friends, and there's zero chance of me ever needing to organise a holiday for 50.
 
Hxc said:
What's the definition of "real friend" in this instance?
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Friends who you can depend on, friends who wont gossip about you behind your back.. friends that you see regularly and actually care about.

not people you went to school with who youve never seen in 2 years, who you dont even know.. and barely knew even through school
 
Right. I don't think I'd have more than a hundread but I'd honestly say 50+ I have 2 large groups of friends. (school/the city)
 
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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My on/off gf (currently off :o) is really bad for this, pictures that are pretty much identical from the same venue weekly, think there's like 14 albums like that :eek:

Other then that, I think facebook's great, sure it shows up attention whores and people begging for attention...but who cares lol
 
Hedge said:
Friends who you can depend on, friends who wont gossip about you behind your back.. friends that you see regularly and actually care about.

not people you went to school with who youve never seen in 2 years, who you dont even know.. and barely knew even through school
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Indeed, but that's not what the Facebook friend is showing. It's showing people you have both strong ties with (Friends) and people you have weak ties with (acquaintances). That's not to say both aren't important though.
 
Morba said:
there are a couple of applications that you can use that will tell you who is showing as online while you stay offline, saves you needing to go online to see who is on :p
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Sounds useful, whats it called? :)

crunchman said:
My on/off gf (currently off :o) is really bad for this, pictures that are pretty much identical from the same venue weekly, think there's like 14 albums like that :eek:

Other then that, I think facebook's great, sure it shows up attention whores and people begging for attention...but who cares lol
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I only really like looking at people's holiday photos so they are the only one I tend to put on facebook. Don't really see the point in taking photos on a night out.
 
Also pretty annoying how people tell you everything via facebook, yeah I have a mobile ring me or txt me thanks bye!
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Most annoying thing for me. People arranging get together's / meets / parties / whatever all on Facebook. When you see them at some point they ask: "So are you coming?!", to which I would reply "To what?" and they would respond "We're going bowling on wednesday, didn't you get the Facebook invite?". Ugh. Why not just use a phone, please.....
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Indeed, but that's not what the Facebook friend is showing. It's showing people you have both strong ties with (Friends) and people you have weak ties with (acquaintances). That's not to say both aren't important though.
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Also think about people who go travelling , it must be good send for parents and family a like to be able to see what is happening in there kids life in a nice concise website.

Now you mentioned facebook applications now that would be a different story :o
 
I quite like facebook, what I don't like is the invites I get bloody sent to join in little games over facebook or this human gift shizzle ! rawwr.

Side note, I don't like the "emo" culture, and I see a lot of emo people on facebook. This makes me sad.
 
I've just met a really lovely girl on there. She's very hot and has sent me some suggestive photos via msn, but when we get to Uni in october I think we'll be good friends.

Nothing wrong with facebook imo.
 
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