Facebook Sucks! And Heres Why

[grandpab]

Meh, my feelings about facebook are always changing over time. For a while I didn't care about it, but last month my uncle was in a fatal accident and facebook has been awesome. Between all the pictures, videos, stories, and condolences...just awesome. I can't even describe it, and it will all be there until my aunt decides to close the account but I don't see that ever happening.

[NotAnOtherUser]

Facebook is as bad (or good) as you make it to be if you have shitty friends you get shitty content easy as that.

by shitty friends you mean the ones that talk crap or spam like shit? lol

[Garkanh]

well, i've been with my current girlfriend for a year next week, and i met her because she added me as friends on facebook, thinking i was hot. We were total strangers, but started writing with eachother, a week later we met IRL and fell in love.

and i find it nice to be able to stay in contact with people you haven't spoken too in a long time. I haven't seen my brother for almost 3 years, but i still know what he is doing.


ofcourse there is some downsides aswell, but there is with everything.

[Csnyder]

All these social networks will die eventually myspace (on life support), twitter, tumblr < one of the main reasons why is because like facebook it's being taken over by 12 -16 year olds who add no credibility to those sites whats so ever.

...I mean really? Why are they even on there? It will go the way of friendster...

Now throw in the egotistical self loathing females looking for some sort of validation from sexually frustrated men who's also looking for some sort of approval.

..Facebook like linkden It does have it's uses like promoting businesses ,volunteering work ect, other than that i don't see no other point to it. That's why I deleted my profile after i realize i had to promote my site through ''it'' which requires me actually being ''on the site'' which i had no interest in. I don't want my IQ to drop after reading someones ''update status'' it's hard enough holding on to what ever i have



Thoughts

I know some people would say ''oh i use it to keep in contact with family'' since the invention of the telephone that doesn't seem like a legitimate purpose for using it.....

i think my iq dropped from reading this.
keeping in touch with family and friends is a perfect reason to use it. some people are social, some like you are not.
if you dont care to keep in touch with your friend then probably best you left it but it most likely wont go the way of the dodo bird. years ago there were hundreds of soda companies and hundreds of car companies now there are just a few compared to years ago when they first started and those all seem to be doing fine......im sure facebook will too. sure their stock isnt as high-priced as some thing but they arent hurting in the least. with the number of adverts and users i think they will be around long after you and your friend are dead.

[IRunSoFarAway]

All these social networks will die eventually myspace (on life support), twitter, tumblr < one of the main reasons why is because like facebook it's being taken over by 12 -16 year olds who add no credibility to those sites whats so ever.

...I mean really? Why are they even on there? It will go the way of friendster...

Now throw in the egotistical self loathing females looking for some sort of validation from sexually frustrated men who's also looking for some sort of approval.

..Facebook like linkden It does have it's uses like promoting businesses ,volunteering work ect, other than that i don't see no other point to it. That's why I deleted my profile after i realize i had to promote my site through ''it'' which requires me actually being ''on the site'' which i had no interest in. I don't want my IQ to drop after reading someones ''update status'' it's hard enough holding on to what ever i have


I know some people would say ''oh i use it to keep in contact with family'' since the invention of the telephone that doesn't seem like a legitimate purpose for using it.....



Thoughts

How are the 12-16 year olds affecting you? Last I checked, you don't even need to associate yourself with them. They're on there because they can be...Hell, people make profiles on facebook and twitter for their PETS, sure it's stupid, but stupid people do what they do. I've never heard of "friendster", but I think you have way too much free time on your hands, try something productive instead of being on every social media site ever made.

I hope english is not your first language, if it is, then I agree that you should not continue to read anyone's "update status" or you may be going on SSI soon.

Do you think that facebook came before the telephone? Because it really sounds like you do. I'm sure some some people have family all over the world where it would be expensive to speak with them on the phone, so they use online communication instead.

[muto]

Facebook is alright to keep in touch with people through messaging, but I don't do the "post" or "like" stuff, and I only have like 3-5 pics on there. I can't believe some people put like 2k pics on their profile; that's insane.

[N-7]

by shitty friends you mean the ones that talk crap or spam like shit? lol

Yes, and the ones who send game invites those disappear from my friend list pretty quickly.

[Uennie]

Uennie, thanks for response. I understand your situation and you make some valid points, however it appears you perhaps misunderstood what I was asking:



I completely agree that phone is no option for daily overseas contact, but my question was why alternatives other than social network sites are apparently no option for some people. If people can use facebook then obviously they have internet access so they can use e-mail or Skype-to-Skype free call too.

You mentioned that you prefer not to receive hundreds of e-mails from hundreds of people on regular basis, so you'd rather have em send all that stuff to facebook, that's of course all fine if that's the way you like it, but I honestly doubt majority of social networking users have that number of contacts they comunicate with on regular basis. Unless they count hundreds of their virtual "friends" they met on facebook.

So you just decided to completely ignore the part of my post about Skype? It's in the SAME sentence as the half you quoted. Unbelievable.

Also, very nice of you to insinuate that because I to you am an extenuating circumstance, that my reasons for using Facebook don't count legitimately.

[Stormcall]

I've already listed reasons why I use FB over Skype, and apparently they don't count either. Skype doesn't work too well when your conversations involve multiple friends in different timezones. On my FB page, I've had SEVERAL conversations(started usually via wall posts) involving myself, an Aussie friend, a Swede, and a Mexican. We're not all ON at the same time, so I might make a post(while simultaneously messaging a local friend in chat), the Swede responds several hours later, the Aussie responds after that and also replies to something the Swede said, and so on. Similarly, I can't post a Youtube link to a song I think my friends would like via Skype unless I'm Skyping with all 5 of them(which won't happen due to timezone issues), with FB, I can post the song, tag all 5, then each of them will see it when they check their own page. And this may well lead to a 5 way discussion about the song/band I posted. Now sure, I could do all that with a forum too, but...why go to the trouble of setting up and maintaining a forum when FB does it just as easily, for free?

Likewise, I can talk to people on FB while I'm at work. I work graveyard shift, and my bosses allow me to use the computer as much as I want(provided I'm not ignoring customers), however, they do not allow Skype, nor do they want me staying on the phone.

[BatteredRose]

All these social networks will die eventually myspace (on life support), twitter, tumblr < one of the main reasons why is because like facebook it's being taken over by 12 -16 year olds who add no credibility to those sites whats so ever.

...I mean really? Why are they even on there? It will go the way of friendster...

Now throw in the egotistical self loathing females looking for some sort of validation from sexually frustrated men who's also looking for some sort of approval.

..Facebook like linkden It does have it's uses like promoting businesses ,volunteering work ect, other than that i don't see no other point to it. That's why I deleted my profile after i realize i had to promote my site through ''it'' which requires me actually being ''on the site'' which i had no interest in. I don't want my IQ to drop after reading someones ''update status'' it's hard enough holding on to what ever i have


I know some people would say ''oh i use it to keep in contact with family'' since the invention of the telephone that doesn't seem like a legitimate purpose for using it.....



Thoughts

"I'm here to complain about something that has no impact on me!"

Yes you did use it, but after you're done with it, it has no impact on you in the least bit. So... yeah. Nothing to see here, folks, just some random person ranting.

Social networking type sites are a quick and convenient way of keeping in touch with friends, family, and the world in general. Belly-aching about it only makes one look silly. Good luck with having all those die out though.

[Uennie]

This isn't a discussion at this point, it's just a bunch of people who are bitter because they can't handle themselves and are looking for any reason to discredit real uses for a piece of convenient technology.

It's fucking offensive that people come in here, demand examples, are given them, and then try to say "well you're not agreeing with me so it doesn't count".

[Linkedblade]

Well I use Facebook to mainly communicate with my firends and family. It also is useful as many Android apps can be linked to a facebook account making it somewhat of a cloud service.

[StationaryHawk]

I know some people would say ''oh i use it to keep in contact with family'' since the invention of the telephone that doesn't seem like a legitimate purpose for using it.....

Unless you call family members once a day, a phone isn't as efficient at keeping up to date.

And while I'm not big on Facebook either, I can at least understand how it is useful in keeping in touch with people.

[tarqeb]

Well I use Facebook to mainly communicate with my firends and family. It also is useful as many Android apps can be linked to a facebook account making it somewhat of a cloud service.

[Deleted]

Why are you posting this on a videogame forum devoted to World of Warcraft? I understand you're trying to make a statement... but here isn't the place. I don't know what IS the place... but it's certainly not here. I think facebook is here to stay for a few more years. It has a pretty solid grip on the market. People have a lot of time invested into it to. People don't want to just change over to whatever thing comes around next. It's essentially the Apple of social networking sites.

You are posting in the wrong section. These are the Off-Topic forums. You might want to try the World of Warcraft -> General Discussion section.

---------- Post added 2013-02-23 at 12:29 PM ----------

Don't use it then? I find it very useful for my intended purposes and anyone with half a brain cell would know what and what not to post

I don't. Because of it, my peers and colleagues think I'm a soon to be serial killer, or a socially awkward freak. This is has caused me to despise that website, and I will stop at nothing to ridicule it until the day it's gone. Easy to understand, isn't it?

[aztr0]

So uh... I don't know about you, but my Facebook consists of people that I grew up with, around my age, and people I actually know. I can't remember a time where I saw some random 12 year old's posts on my wall. So you saying that it is taken over by these youngin'... that is not a valid argument, as your Facebook is your Facebook, you allow what you want to see. Now for your point about the self loathing people and all that other jazz, you have the choice to hide those people's posts or delete them from your Facebook's existence. It is not Facebook's fault that you are associated with people like those. I know people who seem to have a "fabulous" life, because they like to show off what they are doing etc., honestly though, if you spend that much time on Facebook telling people about your life... how fabulous can it really be.

[Deleted]

I quite like facebook the stuff young girls put on there no need for pornhub, humans are quite dark twisted people