Posted on 10/01/2010 7:26:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Only from Danny H
Well, my word, if he finds Facebook so loathsome, why doesn’t he close his account, and do something that makes him happy?
What a grump.
I accept FB requests only from people I know
facebook is for schmucks.
Facebook seems to be one more path to the collective narcicism occuring in this country, which has made us soft, lazy, fearful, and invaded, etc., etc.
I recently put up a FB page. My kids are both in college and it helps keep the communication up. I really enjoy looking at their pictures and their friends pictures. I also use it to keep track of my racing buddies and events.
FB is like any website, it is what you make of it..
Sounds like he hasn’t opened a facebook account.
Invitations could be the ones that have been
emailed to him, I’ve gotten a couple of those,
not being a facebook user myself.
That reminds me. I need to go and update my FB status.
I think he is upset that Facebook emails him whenever someone who has him in their email address book uses the find friend feature which emails him when someone new joins.
I like FB. Where else can you heckle friends and near strangers for the whole world to see. Oh, and who can decry the joys of drunk facebooking? I sometimes get up in the morning just to see what insults were hurtling the night before.
I had a FB acct for about one month. Got tired of the absolute BS, so deleted the acct and have not looked back.
No, I gave up having imaginary friends when I was five or six.
Geeze, Dude. Lighten up. So you don’t facebook, that’s cool, it’s a free country.
Ditto. I don't facebook, and won't.
It reminds me of the video wall culture from Fahrenheit 451, only miniaturized.
I love Facebook...I’ve reconnected with people I had lost track of and enjoy seeing photos of close friend’s events (weddings, family reuions, etc.) that otherwise I would not be able to view except...it is a useful tool. Do I spend hours on the site, no, minutes is more like it, and I only respond to friend invites from people I actually know.
What I’d like to know, how come all my high school and college friends look so old, while I myself haven’t aged a bit? :)
The guy sounds like a bit of a curmudgeon (not that there’s anything wrong with that). As a previous poster noted, if one doesn’t like Facebook, one shouldn’t BE on Facebook. To post a long rant against it is the e-equivalent of the man who protesteth too much. To paraphrase the Staple Singers, “If you don’t give a heck about the man using Facebook, just get out the way and let the gentleman do his thing.”
There’s nothing inherently immoral about Facebook. You can use it for good, even: I use mine to send out Scripture readings from the Catholic liturgy every day, and Scripture studies every week. And, while Facebooking can be (and usually is) a vacuous activity, it doesn’t have to be. That’s what self discipline is for. Either you are prone to develop self-discipline with your time, or you are not.
As far as “friends” go, I tend to keep my list extremely short: after two years on Facebook, I only have 48 “friends” though I get requests daily. I’m highly selective who I let into my circle: mostly family and people well known to me. If I had narcissistic tendencies, I suppose I could have hundreds of “Friends,” but it wouldn’t be Facebook that would have made me that way, but my own own weak will and insecure personality.
It is so very handy when your friends are spread out across the country. Everyone wants to see pics of the new baby, lots easier to make a FB album than any other option.
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