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.
It seems to be for high school kids and college kids. After that if you have time for it, you should get a life and a job....:O)
I signed up under a phony name a couple years ago just to check out the profiles of some old high school girlfriends (30+ years ago). I saw, I was entertained (for a few minutes), and I left. ...and haven’t been back since. Yeah, that place is narcissist central.
Agreed and twitter as well.
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when I first joined up, I uploaded a bunch of old gradeschool class pics. The old classmates flocked to my facebook and put up all kinds of stuff...old memories and such. It was fun for a couple months.
I am also in my 40s.
I just checked my facebook tonight. It’s like you say. Pointless. Like a bunch of old ladies at church trying to make all the other old ladies look at her wallet of photos. AND, its all women on FB. Then there are the kooks trying to get everyone to sign their stupid petition for saving some dam worthless thing that should be left to die. Then there are the addicted facebookers that are compelled to tell you where they are every couple hours...via iphone or android. I wonder if they actually do that with their phone or if there is an “app” out there that automatically sends a facebook message whenever you are moving?
Same thing with me. Besides my kids wouldn't send me pictures of my great-grandkids in e-mail. They said you can see them all on facebook.
The venue I see is one guy pushing Ron Paul. A women posting cartoon jokes, and people inviting you to play games. Most of the people are playing the games.
Hope you don’t mind if I disagree with you, and continue keeping in touch with my friends through Facebook.
I do enjoy silence and peace, although I have no dog and the silence is found deep in the woods where I go mountain biking, not in my living room...
Ed
Now there's a radical concept. No TV, no radio, no internet, no newspaper, no chatty neighbors. Just silence and a softly snoring dog. I'm going to try it--substituting my cat.
I feel fortunate that I avoided the Facebook trap. One of the reasons I did was because I didn't want to have to ignore friend requests from people I either don't know--or do know and wish I didn't.
I look at Facebook often. My family is spread all over the country and there are new babies and other family news there every day. I have few “friends” and send out an original post less than once a week, but I feel I have gotten to know several family members better, and have reconnected with a couple of old friends from college and highschool.
I have un-friended some people whose private business I did not care to know any more. But mostly there has only been upside, as I have gotten to know the young adults in my family better, as well as some of the retirees.
“Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person”
Also: The stupid person’s idea of a good person.
You have expressed many of my own sentiments about Facebook..I found it extremely boring and very “highschoolish.” It was a total waste of time for me..
I agree 100%.
I'm convinced most people use these devices just to use them with no great need beyond their need to talk to someone about anything. To be sure, I have a cellphone, and I use it occasionally, but I've never turned a corner driving a car with one stuck to my ear. It's crazy.
As a keyboard Warrior, what bugs me is when I go to comment on a newspaper article at the site, I get a pop-up saying I have to join facebook in order to post. A secondary gripe is that on some they want access to your email account. Got around that by setting up a bogus one with no info.
I have no other use for it.
Email is all a sane person needs.