I finally couldn’t stand all the people telling me to sign up to Facebook and started an account. I then spent several hours getting OFF the damned thing, and it’s still there, I just have deleted almost all my ‘friends.’ People can tell me all day how great it is, but I’m a 45-year-old man and simply can’t see ANY benefit to the thing. People post what they’re eating, what they’re thinking, and an old lefty friend posts the most lunatic leftist crap seemingly hourly.
Nothing can convince me that it is anything but a waste of time, and only feeds the narcissism of our culture. People seem to think their every breathing moment, their every stray thought, and their most ordinary activity is somehow validated by putting it there, immortalized forever—as if anyone is going to look at that when they’re so busy posting their OWN ephemera.
You’d do better just sitting in your living room with your dog, enjoying the silence and peace. I am 100% serious.
Never been on Facebook. Never felt the need to. FR is my choice of venue for comments and chatter.
Besides, got more during my tour in Iraq on FR that all other sites combined.
Even if you deactivate your facebook account, it is still there on their servers. The only hope of it getting truly deleted is if the entire facebook building complex burns to the ground, which would probably happen a lot sooner than some facebook drone who works there deleting it at your request.
You’re just like those internts deniers! /s
Why is “forward email” any different?
My young nieces are always on FB it seems. This 55 year old only goes there every now and then. Its too much overload for me and I don’t possess much desire to keep in touch with yesteryears friends and such. All those silly games too on FB-—puhlease. Maybe old geezerhood is creeping up on me.
I get newsfeeds off of it, but that’s about it.
If people had any idea what’s under the hood, they’d run like hell from FB. That thing is one step away from a gigantic crash. It’s spaghetti.
I’ve got lots of real men on my Facebook. My cousin who runs a fire department, for one. There are plenty from my high school class, too.
I’m educating many people on conservative issues, and about Herman Cain, too.
Oh,and I don’t know who the hell most of these “friends” are. I get friend requests from people who I’ve never heard of in my life!
FR is about discussing ideas, not one’s personal life, so facebook and FR have very little in common.
I am a Facebook guy. I am in touch with out of state relatives I rarely see. Friends I went to school with and then lost touch. People I have worked with in the radio business.
I don’t give personal information to people I don’t trust. I don’t allow people I don’t know get access to me.
I feel like I can trust about anyone here on Free Republic. thats the big different between FR...and other sites like FB
Facebook is whatever you want it to be. Too many people make such a stink like it’s so beneath them to use it. It’s the same thing they said about email and the Internet itself. Oh well.
I personally hate using the phone, do not make social visits, and cant remember birthdays for the life of me. For introverts like myself, Facebook has been a lifesaver.
I never had a FB account, and I never will. If a thousand friends tell me to get one, my answer will be still "no." I don't do Twitter, I don't do Google Buzz, I don't do Google Plus, etc. etc.
These are all machines for datamining. These services aren't provided for free; you are paying with every bit of data that you enter. Like World of Warcraft, these companies entice you to spend more and more time there, away from productive life. They want you to play stupid games, they want you to send useless announcements of irrelevant facts, they want you to read those announcements coming from others. None of that is productive; all of it is harmful. You can stay "connected" all day and accomplish nothing.
FR is sufficiently different. There is only one reason to visit the FR - to read good posts and to write a few comments; perhaps to post something truly interesting once in a while. None of these posts are "pushed" to my phone (if I had such a phone.) FR is like a bulletin board - you can walk up to it whenever you have time, read whatever you want and scribble a comment or two on margins if you have something to say. Maybe someone will reply, maybe not. It's a low profile operation.
However FB, Twitter and other time-wasters are here to stay, just like TV and radio. This is because most people are happy to waste their time on useless things - especially when those people are young, immortal and without obligations. Like MySpace, these services will be catering to children. I believe the watershed between childhood and adulthood will be the day when a person willingly deletes her "social networking" accounts and starts living real life among real people, doing real things.
Let’s just say that Facebook is for women, and men can join in if they want to, making no asseverations thereby.
To me their is value in being anonomyous or invisible. Facebook is the opposite of this.
Facebook helps me remember all the girls I once had.
“its purely women that are sending me friend requests and I have no idea who they are.’
Those are hookers...
I enjoy Facebook. Like any other place on the web, there are good things and bad things about the place. I guess much of the value is in how you choose your friends.
I have no ues for Facebook.
I finally broke down though on the social networking and joined LinkedIn. It’s limited to business contacts.