Posted on 03/09/2009 8:12:31 AM PDT by AreaMan
See you just found why this piece isn’t funny: facetards. If you need to insult people you’re not funny. “Everybody that disagrees with me is an idiot” is not funny. There are some funny bits in here, but they’re under so much condescension that they aren’t worth the trouble to find.
Heaven forbid we should get into logic on this thread. Same with FR...how you use it.
I teach information policy at the grad level and just the other week we discussed social networking. All of my students use FaceBook to keep in touch w/friends and family. I was the only one who was active on sites such as FR (I never mention FR by name.) Many felt they didn't want the opinions of strangers online. Others just weren't interested in following particular causes online. They are all tech savvy, it's not an issue of using technology, it's what they do with it that differs so much from what I do with it.
I wonder if, like many younger people, they enjoy sites like FB because it allows them to continue to focus on themselves - 'here's what I'm doing,' etc. as opposed to interacting with other people about issues outside of themselves. Just a thought.
“Facebook is porn.”
Stopped reading it there. He’s definately a marooon.
“POKE”
That is what I do all day long. I look up hot chicks and send them a poke.
I still do not know what it means, but after watching Beavis&Butthead reruns, it sounds funny.
That pretty well covers it for me, but save from those with a facebook attitude coming here.
Very funny.
Sorry, coulnd’t finish the article...to much whiney opus material.
I would contend that the writer spent way too many words just to tell us that he doesn't really understand Facebook. And FYI...FB doesn't offer the user a customized page quite like MySpace. It's more like a feature-rich rolodex. It's better suited for the creativity challenged.
Of course FR has a presence on facebook too.
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I think the cat is facing a book, hence facebook. It is a bad play on words.
My favorite thing about facebook is beng able to comment on someone’s post and being notified of any responses. Some very humourous threads have come off of people’s posts.
I have a good friend who has the same viewpoint on facebook as this author. But, he’s missing a lot, since pictures and commentary he might be interested in, since I no longer post anything to myspace.
HA! Even though it started as a college thing, facebook has become the grown up’s myspace. I know more adults with facebooks than teenagers.
Does one even talk to that many people if they have hundreds of “friends”? Nobody has that many friends. There is simply no time for them all.
There was an article the other day on freerepublic that described this. It was from The Economist.
I am on facebook and the believability factor that one has 299 friends is ridiculous. One good thing about people with many friends, it is easily to defriend them and they probably won’t notice.
Laughing at people's inability to capitalize gets old.
Boneheads are not funny every time they write like children.
People with so many friends are the kinds who probably are looking for friends. I probably have 50 something. Except for one or two I knew from a yahoogroup years ago, I have met all of the people on friends list at least once. Many I actually do talk to, but the ones I don’t — I don’t think they even notice things I write, but will once in a while get comments from them about the humour of some of my posts.
The Internet's a tool, period. Unfortunately, people have turned it into a substitute community.
Actually, there's nothing wrong with that -- provided people have similar interests or ideas. Which is why I like Free Republic. I can see the value in Facebook for keeping in touch with mutual friends or groups. But without a binding agent, these websites are pointless.
Why do I need to announce every time I'm having dinner? I'd at least charge someone to see it.
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