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dowie said:
that is a different subject though, facebook enhances social interaction it doesn't necessitate you have to spend all day on a smartphone
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How does it enchanted social interaction? People spam **** to one another, social interaction is a conversation and whilst other things can help stay in touch great but that isn't an enhancement.

dowie said:
only for people who refuse to adapt to new technology when the rest of the world uses it... like people who don't use the internet despite so much information being online, companies switching to paperless billing etc..
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Are you employed by Facebook? There are a myriad of ways to run your life and if people find an actual conversation and face to face interaction better than living life through a screen,. Well each to their own but look around and it is normally obvious who comes out better adjusted.
 
dowie said:
I don't understand why people are anti-facebook, you don't have to share anything on it and things you do share you've got control over. It just seems a bit weird like people who don't have internet access/use e-mail or don't have a mobile phone.



that is a different subject though, facebook enhances social interaction it doesn't necessitate you have to spend all day on a smartphone
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Social interaction you say? Why do so many employers list that so many people are bad at communicating? There has been many documentaries on this.
 
Malevolence said:
Short story short. Got to 2nd interview and the interviewer asked for access to my Facebook account. When I told him that I didn't have one he basically called me a liar and ended the interview.
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He shouldn't have asked in the first place. Your employer, or potential employer, has no business asking for that.
 
No1newts said:
How does it enchanted social interaction? People spam **** to one another, social interaction is a conversation and whilst other things can help stay in touch great but that isn't an enhancement.
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Fair enough, you're based in the 'North East' so maybe that explains the poor news feed from your circle of friends :p

Are you employed by Facebook? There are a myriad of ways to run your life and if people find an actual conversation and face to face interaction better than living life through a screen,. Well each to their own but look around and it is normally obvious who comes out better adjusted.
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Well yeah - people who adapt with the times.

It is perfectly possible to live without an internet connection too or without a phone even, you could still keep up the old ways and take the time to write a letter to friends or go and knock at their doors unannounced since you don't use phones and that is your thing. I mean perhaps if you're a person who doesn't like talking into an electronic box because you value a face to face conversation or you've decided you don't want e-mail or phones because you keep getting spam and nuisance calls.

But it is a lot easier when you've kept up with technology that allows you to communicate with family and friends more efficiently. When everyone else has telephones then being that one guy who turns up unannounced at doors because, well, you don't like the talking into electronic boxes thing is a faff and also means people need to go to additional effort to include you in things. Now that people organise events on facebook then being the guy without it again causes extra faffing for the event organiser. Sure if you use telephone or e-mail then they will have to remember to contact you separately from everyone else. If you don't have a phone then they'll have to write you a letter or call round at your house.
 
Malevolence said:
Lucideon.
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You should perhaps consider making a complaint about the interviewer pointing out that handing over account details is breaching facebook terms and conditions. It is also compromising the private correspondence of people who have messaged you. You might then want to escalate it to their data protection officer, get an official reply from them on the matter. Plus let them know you're going to report them to the data protection registrar because you've got concerns about how they are handling the personal data taken from facebook accounts of interview candidates(or phone the daily fail for a story where you'll have to be photographed with a sad face whilst standing outside their office).
 
dowie said:
Well yeah - people who adapt with the times.

It is perfectly possible to live without an internet connection too or without a phone even, you could still keep up the old ways and take the time to write a letter to friends or go and knock at their doors unannounced since you don't use phones and that is your thing. I mean perhaps if you're a person who doesn't like talking into an electronic box because you value a face to face conversation or you've decided you don't want e-mail or phones because you keep getting spam and nuisance calls.

But it is a lot easier when you've kept up with technology that allows you to communicate with family and friends more efficiently. When everyone else has telephones then being that one guy who turns up unannounced at doors because, well, you don't like the talking into electronic boxes thing is a faff and also means people need to go to additional effort to include you in things. Now that people organise events on facebook then being the guy without it again causes extra faffing for the event organiser. Sure if you use telephone or e-mail then they will have to remember to contact you separately from everyone else. If you don't have a phone then they'll have to write you a letter or call round at your house.
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Maybe said person has no friends?
 
So basically to back up your argument that people should use Facebook you talk garbage about people not using phones or the Internet, that basically domes up the idiocy of your position.

I do not object to Twitter, Facebook etc etc each to their own. I do however prefer a normal conversation, face to face, to however many number of letters you are limited to in a tweet or putting stuff on Facebook. There are countless studies out there showing a direct correlation between excess use of social media and anxiety/unhappiness especially in the young. On top of that there is evidence based studies of shortening attention spans and effects on memory retention. You can see it when you sit in a pub having a pint and there is a table of late teens/early tweens at another table ignoring one another and tweeting on a phone telling people they are having a great time in a pub rather than actually having a great time.

As I say, each to their own, but there is still a lot to come out in the wash with social media and its effects so criticising people for preferring a normal interaction to tapping on a phone is both strange and I suppose indicative of that crowd.

I assume I will now be insulted again for trying to bring the discussion out the gutter?
 
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I used to read a *lot* until the latter end of my FaceBook membership - I found I wasted a lot of time on my commute reading random FB crap or checking up on messages/group posts etc. I have an addictive personality unfortunately so it destroyed my reading and studying on my way to and from work.

Back into reading again now and really enjoying it. :)
 
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No1newts said:
So basically to back up your argument that people should use Facebook you talk garbage about people not using phones or the Internet, that basically domes up the idiocy of your position.
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It was illustrating the point that yes you can value face to face conversation but that forsaking technology because of that is rather flawed. All you're doing by not using a particular method of communication that is in common use by the vast majority of people in the UK from 18-65 is simply making communication more difficult. Just like choosing not to have a phone or not use e-mail. Sure people kept in contact with friends and family before the invention of phones and then before the invention of e-mail etc.. but not having those things because of some irrational reasoning regarding spam is a bit odd.

I do not object to Twitter, Facebook etc etc each to their own. I do however prefer a normal conversation, face to face, to however many number of letters you are limited to in a tweet or putting stuff on Facebook. There are countless studies out there showing a direct correlation between excess use of social media and anxiety/unhappiness especially in the young. On top of that there is evidence based studies of shortening attention spans and effects on memory retention. You can see it when you sit in a pub having a pint and there is a table of late teens/early tweens at another table ignoring one another and tweeting on a phone telling people they are having a great time in a pub rather than actually having a great time.

As I say, each to their own, but there is still a lot to come out in the wash with social media and its effects so criticising people for preferring a normal interaction to tapping on a phone is both strange and I suppose indicative of that crowd.
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Lots of people like face to face conversations, facebook doesn't necessarily prevent that. Just because some millennials apparently overuse smart phones doesn't mean that having a facebook account implies you have to do the same. You're obviously connected to the internet and presumably have e-mail and a phone, yet having those things doesn't prevent you from having a normal conversation your argument there is completely flawed - no one has criticised you for preferring a 'normal interaction'.
 
I've uninstalled it from my last 3 phones so about 5 years. I just log in via my browser on the odd occasion, say once or twice a month and am reminded what a waste of time Facebook is.
 
Narj said:
I used to read a *lot* until the latter end of my FaceBook membership - I found I wasted a lot of time on my commute reading random FB crap or checking up on messages/group posts etc. I have an addictive personality unfortunately so it destroyed my reading and studying on my way to and from work.

Back into reading again now and really enjoying it. :)
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He's onto something here.:) Unless of course all your study groups and reading circles are on FB, in which case disregard.
 
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