So uhhh.. who paid her utility bills for that year?
Seriously. I am 15 minutes late with a payment and they are threatening to turn it service off.
Folks managed to be lonely for years without facebook. Life is what you make of it, facebook or no facebook.
Sheesh.
When they tell you you’ll be more “connected”, expect that you’ll be more disconnected.
When they tell you they want to “empower” you, expect them to accumulate more power over you.
Etc.
I don’t Facebook and I don’t tweet. Waste of time.
I don’t know about ronery, but it’s making “us” phony, inexplicably cocky and self-absorbed.
No. Through FB I’ve met cousins I never knew existed and have made great real-life friends, made business contacts, and have gotten invitations to events I would never have otherwise heard of. Facebook has helped me network with coreligionists and fellow conservatives to work for common goals. It’s helped me stay in closer touch with my daughter, who now lives and works some distance away, and see what her friends and coworkers are really like. It’s also let me stay in touch with my own former colleagues after we were all laid off; we would definitely have lost touch after we left the company. So it’s been great and has certainly made our family less lonely or isolated.
Isolation is chosen. You always have the option to reach out to others.
I facebook. My wife and I have a joint account and use it primarily to post pics of the kids and grandkids for out-of-state relatives to see.
I agree with the article, however, and know a few people who are so lonely in their real lives, they spend all day on facebook just ‘fishing’ for comments so they’ll have someone bite and show interest in their miserable lives.
Status updates like, “Wow...that was interesting...”, or “Hmmm...I wonder what that means”, or some other hypothetical question which is only meant to elicit a response to engage a conversation - are incredibly obvious indicators of a lonely life.
I think our sense of community started falling apart long before Facebook.
It seems people post articles either into a black hole or AT one another. Responses are of course so constrained by the character limit, that the service's structure works against real engagement.
I understand their reasons for the design, but ultimately it doesn't foster either valuable interpersonal relationships or meaningful discussion. So what's the point? As a news medium it's good, but calling it social media is an exaggeration. I think it could be improved, however, but I'm unaware of serious changes that have ever been implemented there. So, Twitter largely blows, if you will.
I cancelled my Facebook account Saturday after hearing the co-founder moved to Singapore to avoid US taxes. That and the fact employers are now asking for your ID and password.
My children are not happy because now they must send photos to me and call when there is a family event rather than relying on FB posts
Yvette Vickers (August 26, 1928 – 2010 ?)