Facebook and opt-out apps, ridiculous?
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I did the 'turn off all apps' after you posted this, checked my Facebook just now:
Doesn't make any difference, still get this blooming spam and another 'App' added to my ban list.
edit: My misses just showed me her list, it has 282 blocked apps. 282!!!
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Soldato
Facebook like a lot of things, is only useful when you use it properly.
Most of my friends will organise days/nights out on Facebook and it's good to chat and see who is attending in one thread, I've found the 'create event' extremely handy when organising stag doo's etc.
Like someone said furhter up, if you add any old Tom, Dick or Harry you're going to get idiots posting what they are having for tea or asking how to wipe their arse.
I like how toon mad doesn't like Facebook as he's not a sheep but will quite happily log in here to see the **** people post
The problem is it gets completed, once you have facebook everyone you know expects to be on your/their friends list, if you single someone out it can sometimes be problematic, I honestly hate facebook, when I signed up (quite a while ago mind) I even had idiots from school adding me, also I know all the girls in work use FB to vet potential dates, it's pathetic, what happened to getting to know a person first instead of checking a person's FB CV.
I think ultimately why I dislike a lot of these social sites is that I personally find them to be anti-social, it gives people an excuse not to talk and communicate properly, I like to chat with people over the phone or in person but soo many people now are like "yeah mate, just message me on FB", errr, no, that's not being sociable imo, that's being rude.
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Soldato
I understand the pit falls of Facebook but I think it's daft to assume it's used by idiots everywhere to tell everyone everything about their lives, what they're doing etc.
My point being that it is a piece of software that you can utilise to your own needs, you don't have to add people you went to school with, you don't have to add people you work with, you can use it how you feel fit and if that means keeping discussions in one place and having a thread of replies from different people posting at different times then it works perfectly well as a social network.
Maybe it's different generations and you can probably put text messaging into this argument, years ago you would ring your mates up to go to the pub, now it's done by text, nowadays everyone communicates through Facebook to arrange things.
Facebook is great like I said for getting big groups of people together and organsing something that would take an age to do by phone. That isn't anti-social, in fact it's the opposite. It's a great tool to use to get people together wherever they are in the country/world.
The only people in this thread that seem to have a problem with it are people that have idiot friends by the sounds of it.
Maybe you should consider what kind of people you add
Soldato
i dont want to start an argument, as i neither like or dislike FB. but you could argue, i get a lot more junk emails than i do proper ones, so by this logic, so do you FB haters also not have email accounts?
point being, just because something is capable of doing something, doesnt mean everyone has to do it. i can see why FB can be usful, but i do not myself have enough friends to warrent a need for it. but i can also understand how incredibly annoying it would be to have people doing 10 minute status changes.
point being, just because something is capable of doing something, doesnt mean everyone has to do it. i can see why FB can be usful, but i do not myself have enough friends to warrent a need for it. but i can also understand how incredibly annoying it would be to have people doing 10 minute status changes.
Soldato
I understand the pit falls of Facebook but I think it's daft to assume it's used by idiots everywhere to tell everyone everything about their lives, what they're doing etc.
My point being that it is a piece of software that you can utilise to your own needs, you don't have to add people you went to school with, you don't have to add people you work with, you can use it how you feel fit and if that means keeping discussions in one place and having a thread of replies from different people posting at different times then it works perfectly well as a social network.
Maybe it's different generations and you can probably put text messaging into this argument, years ago you would ring your mates up to go to the pub, now it's done by text, nowadays everyone communicates through Facebook to arrange things.
Facebook is great like I said for getting big groups of people together and organsing something that would take an age to do by phone. That isn't anti-social, in fact it's the opposite. It's a great tool to use to get people together wherever they are in the country/world.
The only people in this thread that seem to have a problem with it are people that have idiot friends by the sounds of it.
Maybe you should consider what kind of people you add
I actually wasn't critiquing you personally, I was just posting off the back off your comment, of course their are people that use FB productively, like you seem to, but for the most part I think for the most part FB promotes and provides an avenue anti-social behaviour, you may disagree which is fine.
"Nowadays everyone communicates through Facebook to arrange things."
No they don't, I'd argue that more people still use 'conventional' means of communication over FB to arrange things.
Also assuming that people on here that disgree with FB are "people that have idiot friends by the sounds of it." is an insult disguised as poor assumption on your part, insulting people because you disagree with their points of view is petty.
Grow a spine. Or if you can't do that, then you can just hide. Every single one of there messages with two clicks of the mouse and they are non the wiser.
Soldato
until you bump into them and they say 'why didnt you come to *****?' with a puzzled look on your face, they continue 'i mentioned it on on FB several times'
until you bump into them and they say 'why didnt you come to *****?' with a puzzled look on your face, they continue 'i mentioned it on on FB several times'
If its done through setting up a group you can still see it, and you can still see other mates messages and so that shouldn't happen and if it does, comes back to growing a spine and saying, stuff you, you post **** on FB.
It's simple with me, I refuse to add workmates, I don't want anything about work on Facebook.
People from school and stuff I accept, first time they post ****, they get deleted.
People who post **** but I speak to IRL and might invite to an event, their messages are blocked.
Soldato
lol ok, my bad. i dont use FB so i am unaware of how it works. i do have a FB account, and i use it to message people (but no via wall) and to see pics mum and dad put up of my dog. but that about it.
Soldato
wow people really do get defensive if your anti facebook, yeah, no, I think I'll decide not to hide mate and continue to make time and contact people in person like I've always done, I just prefer that avenue of communication, I'm sorry if my dislike of FB offends you in any way, like I said to G|mp, there are obviously people that use it productively to engage in 'real' social activities but for the most part I don't believe this to be the case.
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Caporegime
I did the 'turn off all apps' after you posted this, checked my Facebook just now:
Doesn't make any difference, still get this blooming spam and another 'App' added to my ban list.
edit: My misses just showed me her list, it has 282 blocked apps. 282!!!
I get that trending stuff but don't see anyone else that does when i mention it. How do I stop that? Now that I do want to know!
Woah there Betty!
I've not insulted anyone and if you think that was an insult you obviously don't know me very well.
In fact, aren't you the bloke who's neighbour was going to beat him up if you didn't give him your wifi password?
Like I said, choose your friends better and it might not be such the horrific experience you're making it out to be
So you think, because we use Facebook. We don't continue to talk to people?
This is the problem with a lot of "haters" there opinions are twisted and silly.
It's not your dislike of FB that offends me, it's your opinions and assumptions, which are totally wrong.
*nods*
Soldato
Woah there Betty!
I've not insulted anyone and if you think that was an insult you obviously don't know me very well.
In fact, aren't you the bloke who's neighbour was going to beat him up if you didn't give him your wifi password?
Like I said, choose your friends better and it might not be such the horrific experience you're making it out to be
When you make assumptions about people on here who you don't know and accuse them of having 'idiot' friends I class that as an insult, maybe you don't.
I didn't choose that neighbour as a friend, he was a 'past' friend who I choose many years ago to disassociate myself with, if he was my friend I would have shared my internet connection with him, again, don't cast derogatory aspersions on people just because they don't like facebook.
Am I talking about you personally?
That's the problem with many people on the internet, they only think in absolutes, I've said a number of times now that there are some people I believe use FB productively to engage in real social activity, if you are one of them then I'm not referring to you am I.
The problem is some people here hate FB, myself included, we're not insulting anyone personally but you've taken it upon yourself to be offended, we are the 'haters', you are the 'defenders' in seems lol, could be a anime in there somewhere.
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Caporegime
I talk to a lot more people via FB than I would if I wasn't on FB. Not just people I know that live a long way away but also groups of people I might be involved with in some way
Sigh.
I made the assumption due to the OP and several other comments about people not wanting to see their friends status', updates, apps etc, like I said and I'll explain it again, THAT IS NOT FACEBOOKS FAULT.
It is the fault of people with idiot friends, my friends don't post **** on facebook or feel the need to tell me what they are having for dinner with a picture of said meal and tagged where they ate it, if they did they wouldn't be on my friends list.
You see where I'm going with this?
You then implied that I was insulting you whilst knowing nothing about you, when in reality I know more about your friends than you do mine, (you post threads going into detail of how **** your friends are) your 'friend' wanted to beat you up over a wifi password, then I remembered that you struggle to find different couloured pasta so I decided against having a reasonable discussion with you
I talk to a lot more people via FB than I would if I wasn't on FB. Not just people I know that live a long way away but also groups of people I might be involved with in some way
Friends of friends you can have a bit of banter with?
How strange, wouldn't you prefer to have met someone briefly and to then not involve the 'anti-social network' and just call them up out of the blue?
Far more sociable!