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Facebook used to be good when they just allowed college students on. Now they allow everyone on, it's too big and the new layouts awful.

I think it's just a fad like MySpace and Bebo. People will move to a new Social Network Website and leave facebook behind when a new one comes out in a few years.

It's a shame because I thought the social network jumping would actually stop with Facebook as a final destination. But they've done it to themselves, with the stupid timeline and other annoying new features.

They're trying to be too progressive for their own good, and in effect, they're creating a crappier product with which users are increasingly unhappy.

Later guys, I'm off to my google+ hangout.







(just kidding, who the f*ck uses google+ ?) :biggrin1:
 

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I hate facebook but that's just me. People that have to post every move they make is annoying. Others find it to be a useful way of staying in touch. To each their own. *shrugs*
 

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Facebook still doesn't interest me.

Signed up, forgot about it, never contacted anyone there. With all the bad things I have heard about hacking associated with them I can't see any reason to be there. Now that they are big players in the stock market Facebook may meet its end. It will happen at some point, just a matter of when and going public may speed it up.


Enjoy it while you can.


I don't use Twittler either. From what I can tell that is meant to be some popularity contest thing for losers. "Connie Selleca sent 4000000 tweets to all her biggest fans about her latest hair ribbons!"
"Dan Rather tweets to his 2 million followers that he has located both Kenneth and the frequency!"
It's also dangerous as Spike Lee showed when he tweeted an address claiming it was the home of George Zimmerman.(it was not Zimmerman's home, and the people there weren't even related to him but their lives were threatened).
 

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the issue with facebook is that it's become such a hodgepodge of advertising and useless narcissism that there's nothing human about it anymore.... when i first joined, it was so great because people would update their status and start discussions/groups that were original and run by actual people for other people.... it was such a great hub to communicate real messages and have real discussions just like messageboards.... but what's happened now is that every website, product, company, etc. on earth seems to be linked to it.... nobody is actually speaking for themselves anymore.... all they do is 'share' things from other websites, or re-post things that other people have decided to share.... and don't get me started on the corporate stuff.... it's so utterly impersonal and overwhelming that i can literally scroll through my newsfeed for half an hour and not see one original thought.... and then there's the overposters, the drunk posters, the trolls, the activists, the soap-boxers, and people who use their personal profiles to promote other products so they have the chance to win prizes.... the fact that facebook as a public company is losing value comes to no surprise to me because facebook as a social medium is losing just as much value..... eventually someone will create another website of this nature and the whole cycle will start again.... i was kind of hoping that diaspora would finally make a spash, but i'm still waiting patiently.... till then, facebook is just my contact list to my friends around the world, and i will contact them there in private when i need to.....
 

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What baffles me is commercial establishments that open pages on Facebook and expect customers, as they say, to "like" them. (Anyone who is unconscious of the perversion of language in that use of the word "like" should imagine somebody who had been in a coma for ten years encountering a sign on a shop that says "Like us on Facebook" and trying to figure out what the fuck that could possibly mean.) Or rather, what baffles me is that there are customers who will comply, and add the businesses that they frequent to their Facebook social network. I can see what is in it for the business, and I can imagine perhaps doing it for a coffee shop or a book shop to which one has a special attachment. But why would anybody do this for a furniture store, a health club, or the like?
 

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I don't use Twittler either. From what I can tell that is meant to be some popularity contest thing for losers. "Connie Selleca sent 4000000 tweets to all her biggest fans about her latest hair ribbons!"
"Dan Rather tweets to his 2 million followers that he has located both Kenneth and the frequency!"
It's also dangerous as Spike Lee showed when he tweeted an address claiming it was the home of George Zimmerman.(it was not Zimmerman's home, and the people there weren't even related to him but their lives were threatened).

that's why i don't fallow huge names or media whores... i fallow 55 people... the only big names are lance armstrong, brian micheal bendis, ben hoffman and conan o'brien... and other than bendis, they hardly ever tweet... everyone else i fallow are people i know... either real friends, reef buddies, chicken buddies or other forum folk from different forums... that's it... and that's how it should be...
 

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that's why i don't fallow huge names or media whores... i fallow 55 people... the only big names are lance armstrong, brian micheal bendis, ben hoffman and conan o'brien... and other than bendis, they hardly ever tweet... everyone else i fallow are people i know... either real friends, reef buddies, chicken buddies or other forum folk from different forums... that's it... and that's how it should be...
Fallow - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

(An adjective that rhymes with "callow" and "hallow.")

Follow - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

(The word that you want.)
 

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I have had to unsubsribe to a few people. One is just vulgar in his posts, one fucking has to tell me when she is changing a diaper. But I do like chatting with people and sharing pics.
 

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nah, i'm just kidding too...

you know what the worst part is...? i majored in auto tech and english... LOL... i write books... hahhahhahaklsdjfalk;sjf;klasjddfklashahhahahahah
 

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I have never understood this obsession with Facebook or Twitter - why do people feel they have to write about their every move to the World and his wife? Who cares if baby Darcy wore her new pink frock today (she doesn't - she is 3 months old), or about brother Timmy who has a slight 'tummy bug (the aroma peeled the wallpaper off the walls), or about Mary who woke up this morning next to her perfect husband whom she loves so very, very much (this perfect specimen who is flirting openly with the neighbour), or about Andy's hilarious new snapshots of him getting plastered in Thailand (nothing new there - he is an alcoholic). I don't care! I really don't. If it is that important that I really need to know about it, call me, and TALK to me!
 

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Do you really write books?
About what?
And in what language?

i used to write for an online marine aquarium web magazine... i write books, but never got published... i write in english, and mostly scifi action adventure... kinda comic book stuff... but with with real situations and drugs... good stuff IMO, but they always say it's too crazy, or too far ahead of it's time... that's stupid... LOL... one of these days i'll pay for a small publisher to get one book out there at least...
 

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i used to write for an online marine aquarium web magazine... i write books, but never got published... i write in english, and mostly scifi action adventure... kinda comic book stuff... but with with real situations and drugs... good stuff IMO, but they always say it's too crazy, or too far ahead of it's time... that's stupid... LOL... one of these days i'll pay for a small publisher to get one book out there at least...
^^^^^^^
This reads like a native speaker of English writing.
If your Spanish is in any way equal, you are a lucky guy.
 

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I have never understood this obsession with Facebook or Twitter - why do people feel they have to write about their every move to the World and his wife?

If it is that important that I really need to know about it, call me, and TALK to me!

I generally agree with this and have mixed feelings about Facebook. It HAS allowed me to reconnect with some people who I'd lost track of, which is good. But presenting your day-to-day life as online "reality-TV" has always seemed a bit self-obsessed.