Except this one, That's why you see so many wonderful threads started by me
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Except this one, That's why you see so many wonderful threads started by me
Meaning like FB and such?
I've been seriously considering doing the same. Care to share why you decided to cut the cords?
Yes sirQuote:
Originally Posted by Togakure
I did it because I had felt like it had run its course, it was no longer fun.
Not to mention the longer you stay on facebook the more and more it becomes an act. Facebok is really just how we want to be preceived not how we really are. Combine that with the fact I am working fulltime and going to school fulltime having a phone with a mobile FB app was a recipie for disaster.
I also feel it cuts down on actual social interaction, people quite simply don't know how to meet anymore. I try to get back to basics as much as possible, like I really don't text message I will call instead etc.
If you do decide to cut the cord make sure you delete and not just deactivate it took me 15 minutes trying to wrangle my info away
Spot on. That's exactly how I've been feeling about it. The only thing that has been keeping me attached is I have so many friends that live far away. Given the nature of busy lives, I fear those connections will fade even with the best of intentions, and I value them. Some go back over 35 years.
I was curious about the deactivate and whether it was a true delete. Thanks for the heads-up. If there's one thing I hate about FB, it's so insinuous, and once it's got you, it goes out of its way to make it hard for you to change or remove things.
That was my caveat as well, my family is spread all over, but I have a phone, they can call.Quote:
Originally Posted by Togakure
The deactivate is nothing, as soon as you log in ALL the information is right back where it was.Quote:
I was curious about the deactivate and whether it was a true delete. Thanks for the heads-up. If there's one thing I hate about FB, it's so insinuous, and once it's got you, it goes out of its way to make it hard for you to change or remove things.
You should also throw away your cellphone, cancel your landline and sell your car for a donkey, only then are you really oldschool.
I would love to erase my FB, but nowadays all forms of event invitations are through FB so until things move on from that Im pretty much trapped.
Smart move. Facebook is preparing to cash out and is likely headed downhill. Their recent deal with Goldman Sachs and IPO shenanigans don't bode well for the company or it's users, just it's customers (advertisers, not you).
Facebook is pretty boring, but I still check mine for some reason.
I just got an account.
It was to share photos and keep in touch with family back in the states. The time difference is a pain.
9 hours for most of them.
Also found a few old old friends and army buddies but I mostly just check my email before I bother going there.
I have never had much interest in opening a facebook account. There are very few people from my past that I wish to reaquaint myself with. They, I don't beleive, are not on facebook anyway.
I am on facebook right now...
But, I do not have a cell phone, and since my fellow teenagers seem unable to talk...I am stuck using this damn box to communicate.
EDIT: On second analysis, the only reason I am ever on the guild is to kill down time on facebook.
I deleted it sometime ago as well. But frankly I missed every event so I guess I'll just have to keep it until I graduate. Set my privacy settings quite high though.
Yup, mine is basically private. No tagged photos, its only there so I can see when other people leave the state/country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moros
I have 17 facebook friends, and 6 are orgahs, 1 is another gaming friend that I've never met.
I have facebook, and find it useful for keeping in touch with people far away. But I don't "participate" in it and I've never used a single app - nor will I ever. I don't even list my favorite movies, as I see no reason to hand my personal tastes to advertisers on a silver platter.
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FB is quite handy if you know how to use it to organize some projects... such as reminding your fellow classmate to do their team project... and asking homeworks :grin:
I don't really use FB, don't really know what I should use it for. Also got a tagged account and it's fun to add chicks to your collection but I think 90% if it is fake, nobody ever leaves a message.
Haha, I hardly write anything there.
I wrote about getting robbed and got exactly zero replies, so either noone cares or everyone gets swamped with updates and misses it.
I do however use it's chat feature, I got people on Facebook that I don't have on any messenger and since I log on with Trillian, I can chat with them when they're online.
Otherwise I'd hardly talk with many of them due to distance etc.
Thats not fair Husar, I was evacuted at the time.
I commented now though.
So you got swamped with uhm, water. But I doubt all the others got, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by pevergreen
I'm not even saying they all don't care, those who heard through other channels did, seems like a lot is easily lost on Facebook.
Some while ago they changed the frontpage from listing updates chronologically to listing them by importance or whatever, I doubt that helps.
Back to old school. I don't do FB, but I do notice that it has changed the way people meet & date from my step-daughter's FB usage. One seems to learn much about your love interest's friends, hobbies, work, etc... from FB before the first actual date. Don't know if that's a positive or not, people can lie/exagerate just as easily on FB as they can to your face, but it is what it is. I prefer the old fashioned "Howdy" face to face, but then what do I know, I'm old as dirt. :disguise:Quote:
Originally Posted by Strike For The South
Old Guys Rule!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71kcWvOdq-A
Well I had 17 facebook friends. All but 3 I communicate with via games i play/steam, the org or IM programs. Those 3 never talk to me anyway.
Deactivated, since i lost the only person i really kept a presence on there for anyway.
so what? you want a cookie?
just for the record this is how I´m imagining Strike from now on.... :D
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