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Posted on 10/21/2011 10:07:09 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
When I first got pushed into signing up for facebook 3 years ago, I thought it would be a waste of my time. after a month or two, I decided it was kinda fun. Then I started hearing bad things and started worrying about security and my use of it tapered off. Now, 3 years later, I don't look at my facebook much but when I do, I notice two things:
its almost purely women that put things on facebook and make comments on stuff.
its purely women that are sending me friend requests and I have no idea who they are.
Is facebook dying off, drying up, wasting away? Is it turning into a ladies book club or ladies cribbage club? If so, how long before the same thing happens to FR?
Sure.
Just like writing all in capitals or all in small letters.
Let me tell ya about my cell phone experience.
For years I had the old fashioned rotary dial phone(black) with no answering machine, then around 1996 I switched to the push button version of the old fashioned rotary dial phone(beige). I’ve never owned a cordless phone or anything that takes batteries.
One day around the year 1998 I had an argument with my phone company about my bill. I felt they over charged me one month and I refused to pay the extra(it was like 8 bucks) and they refused to drop it from my bill. They started charging me fees and penalties for not paying that 8 bucks. This went on for many months. I continued to pay my bill but ignored their BS crap and all the extra fees and penalties. It multiplied until it was something like $200 bucks.
They turned my phone off. I called them from a pay phone and was so mad I called the girl every name in the book and told them I will never do business with them again and to delete my account for good. I never did pay the bill and I never heard back from them.
I lived for about 2 years I think with no phone at all. Maybe it was a little longer than that. Maybe 4 years.
Then one day I was doing some last minute christmas shopping in a mall and I walked past a cell phone shop with nobody in it and a nice sales girl sitting there all alone. she was about my age. I just started talking to her. I told her my phone story. She showed me her personal cell phone. I ended up buying the top of the line phone that had just come out by motorola(they called it the “megapixel” and a 2 year contract. She put her name and phone number in my phone.
It’s been cell phone only for me ever since. I have no use for a land line. I never even use half my minutes in a month and I have the cheapest plan I can get, except with the addition of text messaging. I even use my cell as a business phone and STILL never even use half the minutes. I’ve been a loyal verizon customer all this time because I travel a lot to small towns and rural areas for work and verizon works in the boonies where other carriers do not.
hilarious
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.
Of course, there's also generational bias. Most old people, regardless their cohorts, tend to consider their generation better than the younger ones. This happens in the 50s (when the olde people looked down upon rock & roll), in the 60s (against the Beatles), and so on. So, now you see people look down upon Facebook simply because they don't get it (due to the generational difference) or don't like it (because they think it's useless). Neither generation is wrong in liking something that the other doesn't. It's just the way it is.
Good for you, but my post concerned people yakking on their cellphones for what seems like no useful purpose. Let me put it his way: since the origin of telephones up to about twenty years, society managed to survive without seeing and having people yak all the time on their cellphones. I’m not a Luddite, I have and use one myself. I’m just extremely curious to see what all the yakking is about. Vital matters or someone just using something to use it. Especially when people are operating large vehicles and turning corners one-handed while yakking.
Hyperbole ?
Read the fine print in the EULA.
You post it, they think they own it.
Seriesly.
I use it for my business, which is generally based around college kids. Over the past year I have seen a transition from hits coming from MY marketing pieces, and from redirects from my facebook page.
Yes, the younger folks are using it more. Aside from business, I do use it to keep up, informally, with my siblings who are all over the country. I am not much for picking up the phone and making a call, but it is nice to keep in touch with family.
Aside from that, I see that a lot of people are just bitching about life. THAT is a sign that folks have too much time on their hands.
I use a cell phone.
I don’t have a problem with technology, high-tech, or any specific technology per se. I think when folks like me admit to not liking Facebook, Kindle, etc. people assume we’re Luddites.
Not true. I take each particular type of technolgy and evaluate it for its usefulness. My problem is with folks who just hop on the new technology because it’s there. (Again, what they do is their business, just saying this is my opinion of the value of those choices.)
I use the Internet, obviously, because I get to go where I like, find out what I want to know, get what products I want to get. Facebook? There is nothing there for me. Kindle? Nothing there for me. (The one thing I like about it is that old folks and others with poor eyesight can adjust the size of the type.) Cellphones? Well, I have one because I’m on a friend’s plan, but when that ends, I’m getting a land line and getting rid of the cell phone. I don’t have kids or a wife so I don’t need it handy in case of emergencies from them, and my current job requires I have it in case of an emergency on the job. But if I didn’t have to have it, I’d dump it.
It’s all about using the level of technology that fits my lifestyle. What other folks do doesn’t impact me at all, and they can do what they like as long as I’m not forced to join in. I just don’t see any value in these other things. They just seem to add clutter to life, not richness, and if something is draining the value from life, I don’t want it.
I'm glad you enjoy and get a lot of good from Facebook--seriously. But your point above is one reason I dislike it. Because it's not a neighborhood or real community, in my view, but a fake one, a simulation.
Obviously I don't know your specific case, but I think this exact point sums up what I find alarming and Orwellian (or Huxleyan) about this stuff. No offense.
And you're concerned that Free Republic will dry up and waste away?!
Dude, you need to go get laid.
If a guy asks if Facebook is for effeminate men and then talks about his Facebook account at length, I’d say “self evident” applies.
Frankly, I think that sobbing into your apron about your stupid, irrelevant, piddly life-woes via vanity posts is *thisclose* to turning FR into Facebook.
Talk about irony.
He can’t.
He just dumped his beautiful, greedy, superficial, p*ssy-whipping girlfriend.
I know a pro bono shrink. He tends bar at a local watering hole. He doesn't work on Sundays, though. We'll have to wait until next week. Is this something that could wait?
The cold dry weather is giving me split ends.
I think I’ll start a whiny vanity thread about it.
[and my aquarium filters need cleaned...separate thread]
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