Why most people here dislike Facebook?
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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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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.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
The console is a black place [taken from Q&A]
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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:
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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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
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If I had any idea what you're talking about I could answer this.
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[^]
Not sure I can be trusted to say. I have never had a FB account. I hope to never have a FB account. Because of this, I don't even know what it offers, other than a WhiteBoard for me to indicate some status and crap for others to look at...(I don't take many pictures, and I certainly do not want to share them anonymously)... And don't get me started on SCHOOLS making ASSIGNMENTS for the kids that have to create Twitter/Tumblr accounts. Really? Failing so bad at teaching the MATH, that you can CLAIM you taught them to be social? (Something I do believe they figure out on their own). I guess I do not understand how it would save me time/energy, so I don't use it. What I don't like about it, is that everyone seems to think you should be there, and if you are not, it is because you don't know about computers. ROTFLMAO: I am not there because I spend TOO MUCH TIME on computers...
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Things never improve or grow without change.
Jeremy Falcon
Nor get worse.
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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:
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
So it trivialises relationships of all kinds and dehumanises the little that's left. And that's a good thing? The easier it becomes the less point there is to having it in the first place. If it does not involve a little sacrifice and a lot of commitment, what's it worth? Very little, as with everything else in this throwaway, fad driven society that Facebook has done so much to encourage. If the Devil exists, then you can be sure that he is still rubbing his hands in glee at Facebook's creation. It mirrors exactly the insidious, insinuating nature of his best and most successful temptations!
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So it trivialises relationships of all kinds and dehumanises the little that's left. And that's a good thing? The easier it becomes the less point there is to having it in the first place. If it does not involve a little sacrifice and a lot of commitment, what's it worth? Very little, as with everything else in this throwaway, fad driven society that Facebook has done so much to encourage. If the Devil exists, then you can be sure that he is still rubbing his hands in glee at Facebook's creation. It mirrors exactly the insidious, insinuating nature of his best and most successful temptations!
It's not Facebook's fault if in your culture people have been pushing eachother apart and isolating themselves in favor of social networks. Fortunatelly for me, in Brazil relationships are still face to face bases. We are a warm population. Facebook is only an add-on. It helps sharing our moments and connecting with those that are far away. Facebook only gets in the way thwle ammount you allow it. Facebook is only evil if you let it steer your life. Which is not the case of most Brazilians I know. It's all about the culture, not facebook.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia