So you used it to communicate with family. Horrible site.
Now I'm getting friend requests and email updates hourly from every Tom, Dick and Harry. Seriously, This morning I have a friend request from a High School girl that is dating my very distant cousin, that I met at a funeral for the first (and only) time 4 years ago.
Decline the request. That was hard.
Also, because of Facebook a girl my husband dated 22 years ago (When we were 18) showed up at the Hospital during family visitation when my mother-in-law was in ICU. Apparently she's been “occasionally” checking in on our family via my sister-in-law’s Facebook page for years, and when she saw we were going through a really difficult time, she sped to the hospital... to show off her new boob job.
Facebook made her a shallow idiot? Weird.
Facebook stinks.
Facebook is a communication tool.
Email is a communication tool. Facebook is an invasion of privacy and a cookie tracking advertising scheme. :p
But to each, his own! Haha.
>>Facebook is a communication tool. <<
No, Facebook is a catalog of what’s in the warehouse. Idiots expose their most personal data on the in-stock sheets for advertisers/investigators/pedophiles and perverts to scan through using corporate algorithms.
Facebook is the world’s most profitable social engineering program to date.
Agreed.
Much like a telephone or TV or the printing press, Facebook makes it easier to communicate, and once people communicate, things get found out that might not have been found out in the past.
I fail to see how openness is a problem for those who have sense to engage their brains before acting.
For those who don't... well... they have bigger problems than Facebook. Facebook just makes their stupidity easier to detect.
29 posted on Sat Oct 13 2012 10:47:07 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by socal_parrot: "In the book The Facebook Effect it says this in one of the intentions of founder Mark Zuckerberg, for people to live life as an open book with no secrets."
I did not know this. If accurate, it's good.
A good case could be made that Facebook is bad for people who have no sense and good for society as a whole because it enables people who like to research to do work that in the past it took a private detective to do.
That sounds like Zuckerman's view