Why most people here dislike Facebook?
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Now, before start off, here are few things to make note of: 1. You cannot call it bad just because of content. If that was the case, you should dislike CP as well considering amounts of rants about Q & A here. 2. If you have had a bad experience with random friend request, it is not FB's fault. 3. If you are annoyed with game requests, you should consider choosing FB friends carefully rather than blaming FB. 4. If you think content there is just idiotic, remember it is not just for people like you. Kids to old people use it. There will be everything there. Again you need to choose what you want to see. 5. If you do not like their UI, for few things I am with you.
My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]
We could turn the question back to you. Why do you like FB? You could explain in a few posts what you do with it, and there will always be someone to tell that there are others ways to achieve the same. The fact is, that's pointless. Reading all these arguments makes me feel like a FB's representative is sitting in front of me, trying to convince me that I'm wrong to refuse to adhere. A talk about privacy in general, and on social networks specifically, would have been of more interest.
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If you need to ask... Because "liking" something is akin to pinching a loaf. It feels good for a few minutes, then you're left with a somewhat empty feeling. Because reading what people post (ok, there ARE exceptions, but rare) is like watching someone pinch a loaf -- it smells, is accompanied by rude noises, and then you're left with, why did I just read that? Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
pinching a loaf
At first I thought what an odd way to get pleasure, squeezing a loaf of bread and what on earth do rude noises have to do with testing a loaf of bread's freshness. Then I googled it... and read the urban dictionary definition...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Marc Clifton wrote:
pinching a loaf
At first I thought what an odd way to get pleasure, squeezing a loaf of bread and what on earth do rude noises have to do with testing a loaf of bread's freshness. Then I googled it... and read the urban dictionary definition...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
GuyThiebaut wrote:
and read the urban dictionary definition...
:) I first encountered that expression in the Shawshank Redemption[^]. An excellent movie, never did read the novella. Marc
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Now, before start off, here are few things to make note of: 1. You cannot call it bad just because of content. If that was the case, you should dislike CP as well considering amounts of rants about Q & A here. 2. If you have had a bad experience with random friend request, it is not FB's fault. 3. If you are annoyed with game requests, you should consider choosing FB friends carefully rather than blaming FB. 4. If you think content there is just idiotic, remember it is not just for people like you. Kids to old people use it. There will be everything there. Again you need to choose what you want to see. 5. If you do not like their UI, for few things I am with you.
My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]
Because the user is the product.
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GuyThiebaut wrote:
and read the urban dictionary definition...
:) I first encountered that expression in the Shawshank Redemption[^]. An excellent movie, never did read the novella. Marc
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Things never improve or grow without change.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Things never improve
Exactly my point. :-D
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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RyanDev wrote:
I got this friend and he told me that Michael Jackson used his cousins bathroom one time
I'm only gonna tweet that if it was a number two. I have standards.
Jeremy Falcon
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RyanDev wrote:
0. It's fake relationships.
So are most "real life" ones. :)
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
So are most "real life" ones. :)
Only yours Jeremy, only yours. You need to cut back on the oil mate.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Now, before start off, here are few things to make note of: 1. You cannot call it bad just because of content. If that was the case, you should dislike CP as well considering amounts of rants about Q & A here. 2. If you have had a bad experience with random friend request, it is not FB's fault. 3. If you are annoyed with game requests, you should consider choosing FB friends carefully rather than blaming FB. 4. If you think content there is just idiotic, remember it is not just for people like you. Kids to old people use it. There will be everything there. Again you need to choose what you want to see. 5. If you do not like their UI, for few things I am with you.
My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]
I dislike Facebook for the same reason I dislike many of these free services. That is, if you don't pay for it you're the product. I would avoid Facebook completely if I had an option. I avoid Google for many of the same reasons. There are friends and family that it facilitates communication with though. I would rather pay for a service to do this, but many people that I want and need to keep in contact with wouldn't. I'm not naïve enough to think I can avoid these services completely. Instead I try to trust wisely, and I limit my exposure in other cases. I also dislike Facebook, because of things like their game requests which are often sent on the person's behalf (not directly). It's not clear to users what apps like games can do. Granted the people should be more aware, but most people don't care about that stuff. No game or app should be able to access my contacts or perform any action automatically on my profile unless the app specifically has to do with it. (I don't use apps on Facebook.)
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RyanDev wrote:
0. It's fake relationships.
So are most "real life" ones. :)
Jeremy Falcon
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Now, before start off, here are few things to make note of: 1. You cannot call it bad just because of content. If that was the case, you should dislike CP as well considering amounts of rants about Q & A here. 2. If you have had a bad experience with random friend request, it is not FB's fault. 3. If you are annoyed with game requests, you should consider choosing FB friends carefully rather than blaming FB. 4. If you think content there is just idiotic, remember it is not just for people like you. Kids to old people use it. There will be everything there. Again you need to choose what you want to see. 5. If you do not like their UI, for few things I am with you.
My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]
A dysfunctional little git who can't get girls creates an app that's not entirely his own idea to get even and everyone says - "That's great, I'm in?". Not me.
Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Now, before start off, here are few things to make note of: 1. You cannot call it bad just because of content. If that was the case, you should dislike CP as well considering amounts of rants about Q & A here. 2. If you have had a bad experience with random friend request, it is not FB's fault. 3. If you are annoyed with game requests, you should consider choosing FB friends carefully rather than blaming FB. 4. If you think content there is just idiotic, remember it is not just for people like you. Kids to old people use it. There will be everything there. Again you need to choose what you want to see. 5. If you do not like their UI, for few things I am with you.
My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]
I am on facebook, but unlike the most people I don't mainly use it to connect with people from my own country (a lot of close friends of mine don't even have facebook), but to keep the contact with people from all around the world (several CPians, plus some additional 'merkins I happen to know). FaceBook can be used for a variant of purposes, and in the end it is what you make out of it.
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I think we're talking about 2 different things.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
You meant to say 10 different things? ;P
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto) Point in case: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/02/apple_gotofail_lessons[^]
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Now, before start off, here are few things to make note of: 1. You cannot call it bad just because of content. If that was the case, you should dislike CP as well considering amounts of rants about Q & A here. 2. If you have had a bad experience with random friend request, it is not FB's fault. 3. If you are annoyed with game requests, you should consider choosing FB friends carefully rather than blaming FB. 4. If you think content there is just idiotic, remember it is not just for people like you. Kids to old people use it. There will be everything there. Again you need to choose what you want to see. 5. If you do not like their UI, for few things I am with you.
My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]
I do not like the UI and the features. I have always been saying that "Facebook is a bad application" and meant every word. Facebook is an application, not just a site. So far, so good. Facebook's UI is bad, prohibiting, and unintuitive. But I also dislike the way it lets people approach and relate to other people.
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You meant to say 10 different things? ;P
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto) Point in case: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/02/apple_gotofail_lessons[^]
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Now, before start off, here are few things to make note of: 1. You cannot call it bad just because of content. If that was the case, you should dislike CP as well considering amounts of rants about Q & A here. 2. If you have had a bad experience with random friend request, it is not FB's fault. 3. If you are annoyed with game requests, you should consider choosing FB friends carefully rather than blaming FB. 4. If you think content there is just idiotic, remember it is not just for people like you. Kids to old people use it. There will be everything there. Again you need to choose what you want to see. 5. If you do not like their UI, for few things I am with you.
My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]
I like it :) Makes it easier to keep in touch with friends that no longer live nearby, plus it helps "remembering" everyone's birthday :laugh:
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I prefer to pick and choose which changes I get (and when) rather than have them shoved down my throat against my will.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
for software I pay for I agree with you. This is software that is paid for by the advertisers. I think we forget that the users are NOT the customers for Facebook. They are pandering to exactly who they should be pandering too. I don't like FB that much either. But I am on it. Mainly because my kids are on it and I need to keep a close eye on them.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Now, before start off, here are few things to make note of: 1. You cannot call it bad just because of content. If that was the case, you should dislike CP as well considering amounts of rants about Q & A here. 2. If you have had a bad experience with random friend request, it is not FB's fault. 3. If you are annoyed with game requests, you should consider choosing FB friends carefully rather than blaming FB. 4. If you think content there is just idiotic, remember it is not just for people like you. Kids to old people use it. There will be everything there. Again you need to choose what you want to see. 5. If you do not like their UI, for few things I am with you.
My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]
Ok, I mentioned this a reply to someone else but I think this needs to go as a reply to the main thread. Anyhoo, I think we are all missing the point here. - It is software you don't pay for. - This software you use to keep in touch with that old flame from High School and Aunt Betsy from Maine It isn't yours! - FB knows exactly who the Users are and EXACTLY who the Customer is. They are not the same person at all. - FB Customer base are those companies that are paying to put advertising on its site. Guess what people. The rest of us(users) do not get to vote. Do I like FB. Not so much. The Privacy variability, the TOS that say they own my pictures? The analysis they perform on my relationships with my friends, wife, children. That all scares me. Mainly because they sell this information to other organizations. Am I on FB. Yes. Nearly 1000 "friends" I actually do know personally 90% of them. FB is not for us. FB is for the marketing people of the world. Just know this going in.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Now, before start off, here are few things to make note of: 1. You cannot call it bad just because of content. If that was the case, you should dislike CP as well considering amounts of rants about Q & A here. 2. If you have had a bad experience with random friend request, it is not FB's fault. 3. If you are annoyed with game requests, you should consider choosing FB friends carefully rather than blaming FB. 4. If you think content there is just idiotic, remember it is not just for people like you. Kids to old people use it. There will be everything there. Again you need to choose what you want to see. 5. If you do not like their UI, for few things I am with you.
My CP workspace: Incredibly trivial and probably useless code samples[^]
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
So are most "real life" ones. :)
Only yours Jeremy, only yours. You need to cut back on the oil mate.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
Only yours Jeremy, only yours. You need to cut back on the oil mate.
Ironically, I have deeper connections with women that most people ever will, simply because I'm open and honest with them. Most guys aren't. When it comes to guys, they're all fake with me. Go figure.
Jeremy Falcon