old facebookers
for some of y'all who are a bit older...
how do you feel about your old friends (like high school) who don't use facebook?
do you care?
are you suspicious of them?
are you jealous of their will?
do you somehow feel like they are out of touch in some kind of way?
how do you feel about your old friends (like high school) who don't use facebook?
do you care?
are you suspicious of them?
are you jealous of their will?
do you somehow feel like they are out of touch in some kind of way?
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i am an ex-facebooker, if that helps at all? are you suspicious of me? am i out of touch?
to be fair, i dropped it for about 3 or 4 months last year, and was pretty eager to get back on it in case i had missed anything. once back it was as if i'd never been away - every day the same old shit, and i was pretty glad that i'm a real internet citizen, and not reliant on the watered down shite that comes through FB. it's the internet for people who don't internet.
it's just weird. like a new Lambo owner telling a licensed Lambo mechanic how to fix the car.
so many people think of FB as the internet now...that is so fucked up.
And the Packers suck.
and yes, the packers suck this year. time to clean house. capers' head on a pike is a must in my front yard. i will settle for nothing less.
If you do well, everybody hates you.
Id you do worse. People look down on you.
After years in UX, social media has been a toxic experiement on society.
There are certain orgs I'm interested in, and friends, advertise their event through it, almost exclusively, so I stay... for now...
i don't think social media is a very good thing. it may be just because i've come to that conclusion, but i think i'm noticing others leaving it for some older-school type stuff (forums, and the like). not on a huge scale by any means, but ya know...
A couple of years ago I met one guy, at a social media networking event (friends were working in the field at the time), and he'd become unhealthy 'addicted' to Twitter. To the extent that he ended up on medication (depression and anxiety)! I guess like other things, our personality type has an impact but that's where social media in its current form can be quite pernicious, I think.
Bosco's just deactivated his FB account.
I've got about 200 FB 'friends' but I've muted all but about 20, from my feed, and only that 20 or so see what I post unfiltered (inc the peeps here :!: ).
oh, ummm...
The only thing i miss on FB is Bill Brewster's (DJ History) posts.
hola meskmon!
(social decay, by Andrei Lacatusu)
Developers of platforms such as Facebook have admitted that they were designed to be addictive. Should we be following the executives’ example and going cold turkey – and is it even possible for mere mortals?
Yes, maybe something could kill it off, then we'd all be free... until the next...
i'm half tempted to actually reactivate my account in order to request a deletion (do they even delete shit? sure, it's all already been sold 100-times over, but for, like, next time, innit!)
a list of all the people i unfollowed. and another list of all the people i declined to follow.
and records of EVERY login i've ever done on the site.
there is also a list of all the advertisers who have my 'personal' info.
i think my footprint is pretty small...
My deactivation isn't so much to do with the recent stuff, I've been wavering for a while, but it did help to have it in the news this week...
I heard an interesting comment this morning from a UK politician - ha - not sure what I think of it yet but he was proposing that, perhaps, these companies making money of our data should be sharing the profits of that work with us....?!
...if I shut up shop permanently, I'll probably log back in to download my data and request deletion.
Off at a tangent, slightly: with all the relative that died a few years ago, it did make me think about my online footprint after I die. I pity the sod who has to deal with that... but then, unless it happens some time soon, the world will have changed yet again and it may not be relevant!
"Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has used Twitter to tell its 44,000 followers that it is quitting social media.
The firm's head office and 900 pubs will quit the micro-blogging site, alongside Instagram and Facebook with immediate effect, it said.
The pub chain linked the move to bad publicity surrounding social media including the "trolling" of MPs."
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"Teens are abandoning Facebook in dramatic numbers, study finds" Of course, that last one is undoubtably more about increased competition for users, than turning off to social media/facebook in any healthy way?