| | facebook whats the deal?Page 8 of 10 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) | I use facebook everyday if i have the time, but only for games on there.
When i first joined a few years ago, people from school were adding me and i couldn't understand it, seeing as some of them bullied me!
One guy from school added me, the following week i saw him on the street and he blanked me! So immediately got deleted. Most of the time it's for popularity, to see who gets the most friends on there. Can't think why else people would add people they don't like, or whom they'd blank in real life.
As for statuses. It's interesting to see who's doing what...but some people bore me with their statuses. They let you know when they've got a headache, or when they're off to bed, or what they're eating...stuff no-one's really that interested in. So many attention seekers on there.
I'll always use it though, it keeps me in touch with friends i have in other parts of the world/country, but mainly for my games too. | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 12:11:22 AM |
One guy from school added me, the following week i saw him on the street and he blanked me!
Yes Ive had that and its usually the people that have put in a friend request for you and not the other way round! | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 12:51:34 AM | Every now and again I have a cull on mine lol!!
Funny though I had a stalker at one time (no innuendos please lol) someone I work with who wasnt on FB knew about all my statuses etc.............didnt twig lol! Had a good idea whom it was so I started posting what I was doing literally lol going to the loo, just had a cuppa, just going to get dressed etc.............it stopped!!  | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 2:04:40 AM | For those who have not been changed over to the 'new look' Facebook, have you discovered that you now get restricted unless you upgrade. A couple of things my daughter posted that had links, when I tried to read the full story I found that unless I changed over I wasn't allowed to view.
I am holding out until the bitter end though - I hate the new look | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 4:16:35 AM | timeline ???? its horrible , i hate it , i dare them to change my profile !!!! i never want it  ,as for the whole facebook debate i hate being tagged in photos , especially unflattering ones , im very fussy about photos ....... you cant even remove them ( verymad ) | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 8:14:48 AM | loulaloulou, the timeline has improved Facebook. You may not notice it on the first look of it, but you'll realize that it's made much more 'smoother' to go through yours or anyone else profile. You can 'highlight' certain posts so they appear larger, you can hide things from your timeline but just clicking it and clicking 'hide from timeline'. I recommend starting right from the beginning and work your way up, hiding stuff you dont want people to see. Sure it'll take an hour or two but then you wont have any worries. :)
Also! The Timeline is very ..erm...'stalker' friendly. If someone add's me, then can click 2008 and go right to my 2008 posts, who I was dating, where I was in my life, what I was up to. The previous version of Facebook made it hard to do that, you had to constantly scroll down, now it's all done by the click of a button!
Either way, I like Facebook :) Albeit it's a bit weird though, it sometimes doesn't even let me add my own friends. Weird! | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 10:14:25 AM |  if you say its improved it , i dont agree im afraid , unless someone has double vision when looking at a friends page , they,ve made a right mess of it , mine is staying the same , i to shall fight to the bitter end  and why would i want to hide anything ??? from friends ???? and most people dont have " an hour or two " to spare to play around with that mess facebook im sure will force apon us soon ....... | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 11:10:09 AM | at least you're a lot more free to speak your mind on facebook (and twitter) as well.
Just be sensible, don't use your surname (mine is my first and middle name) and don't add anyone from work. I don't have any family on mine either | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 1:25:40 PM | For the most part I never wanted to go to Facebook at all, ever. But the sheer number of people who were on it meant I felt like I would have been missing out if I wasn't, and in a sense, that is true.
Facebook would be a great idea but for many of the people that are on it and how they use it, sadly. It theoretically provides a way to keep in touch with people but four things generally become obvious.
1. Certain people naturally attain "followers" like they are part of some cult. Every banal post (and there are many) is liked by half their network and every random musing is heeded as a philosophical masterpiece, despite the poster being totally oblivious to the outside world or how it works (much in the fashion of Liz Jones from the Daily Mail - urgh). This is almost certainly a leftover symptom of crappy sites like Myspace where the function was to metaphorically brown-nose people in exchange for attention. In case you have no idea what I'm on about, on Myspace people would exchange picture comments ("pc 4 pc? x" they would say *shudder*) among other things.
2. A handful of people on your network write every single detail about their kids. It's like they weigh their kids every day and need to tell everyone how much weight they have lost/gained. Now there is nothing wrong with posting details on how your kids are getting on, most manage to do that fine. But some just go over the top with the inane everyday details that nobody, not even the closest family and friends, needed to know.
3. There is always someone who posts "funny" internet pictures and sayings made by other people. And spend their entire time on Facebook doing just that. It's banal, pointless and clogs up your wall so you can't keep informed of how people are getting on but for all the junk in your way.
4. You really learn how intolerant, misguided, hateful and bigoted some people are when you have them on your social network. This is especially true when they copy and paste horrible political opinions they borrowed from the internet, phrased in a way that make them sound better ideas than they really are, like bringing back capital punishment or something. The potential of the media to misinform becomes greater with the internet, and there is some potential for mindless, mob mentality to develop. The other side of it is you learn the ugly truth about people you know that you would have been blissfully unaware of had you not seen their Facebook page. People don;t take their own comments on social media seriously enough either - one person here in Stonehaven, south of Aberdeen was quite rightly arrested for saying we should petrol bomb a Travellers camp.
A couple of examples, of the cut and paste variety: one on Bebo a few years back about the Bulger killers and how they should be pilloried and hanged, their secret identities revealed so people could attack them etc.
The other was about someone burning a Qu'ran being arrested. Apparently this was an "injustice" because there were Muslims making slurs in an angry response British soldiers killing Muslim civilians in Iraq. They chose to symbolically burn the religious text of another group, which was obviously against the law. These people didn't get it, it would seem.........
Thus the potential for angry, irrational, reactionary hate is greater amplified because these people are hidden behind a computer screen, which is hardly a new problem with the internet but is exacerbated slightly by mob mentality of social media, and that worries me a little.
Don't get me wrong, there are obviously positives i.e sharing important news like engagements, births and so on, sharing various books, video clips, music etc. on sites such as YouTube and connecting with people that way. During the riots, contrary to the belief of many conservative political commentators, Facebook was not most commonly used to set up riots, but statistics show there were more posts about cleaning up the streets. In fact there was more condemnation from my own network than anything, although the fact some people failed to question why the riots happened and decided to launch into tirades of abuse at "chavs" and the working class instead is quite disturbing.
In conclusion, it has it's good and bad points, but much of it depends on the society using it. As it happens, in the UK we seem to be a nation of egotistical, reactionary bigots demanding people listen to our rantings (slightly unfair generalisation, of course - but it does occasionally give that rather misanthropic conclusion). Not so in countries like Syria, where they used what little internet freedom they had to plan resistance to their oppresive government.
p.s apologies for the long post, I feel I needed to get it off my chest. | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 1:30:05 PM |
im very fussy about photos ....... you cant even remove them Actually there is an option remove tag. Do this and they are deleted from the photo's in your profile. | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 1:38:06 PM | It's quite easy to have your settings so that tags don't appear untill you approve the tag request.
That's how I have mine, so if someone tags me and I don't like the photo, then I simply deny the request and the photo will never be tagged with my name in the first place | |
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Posted: 4/3/2012 3:54:19 PM |
Its the only book some people have in the house. I also have three bibles. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 3:23:49 AM | | I really think i've just seen the status to beat all status updates. One of my FB friends has just passed a kidney stone, photographed it next to a ruler and posted it up.. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 3:25:30 AM | | not getting the new timeline :-/ . , a jumbled up mess . i want my old profile back :-(((( , cant figure out the security settings , and half off my statuses seem to be missing can you remove and un tag photos ???? even if there on someone elses page ??? whitey ... be great if i could ..... | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 3:30:01 AM | | It is very rare i go on facebook , i am actually thinking of deleting my account , infact i wont think about it , i will do it later today . | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 4:40:04 AM | I go on FB every day to keep in touch with my kids/grandkids and friends in Australia and my family up North, I did resist for about a year after I first got it, I thought it was a load of old cobblers but now I can't do without it.
It's great to catch up and see what's happening in all their lives and I love looking at the photo's too old and new.
Lulu when you log on if you go to the home icon it will take you back to the old look FB page. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 6:07:49 AM | | People use it for different things. People post different things. And people certainly read to much into things. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 8:38:03 AM | | ladyvibes ??? really it will ??? because i really would love my old profile back , does everyone not have to change to timeline tho ??? i hate it , its awful , and im still trying to figure out privacy setting s . , cant make head or tail of it ... | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 8:52:32 AM | i myself have an account...... but my daughter set one up for me......
1)she put some of her friends on ... as do not have any....which for me is real nice!!!! he he
2) not been on there at all .... which is nice to!!!!! he he
3) got better things to do most nights than sit on facebook and tell the world there problems!!!
4) if i new how to delet i would...... just real nice!!! | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 9:35:02 AM | | FB passes the time basically, little else, i do chat to the occasional friend on there, but these days, its become a gallery of funny pictures of cats, dogs and any number of other animals...oh, and the old..."anyone need anything down the shop? "...hmmmm ?? :O) | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 10:16:40 AM | | I used to view my fb without timeline by replacing the www to m when you are on your facebook page , on your browser it will say http://www.facebook.com i replaced the www with m , was less annoying than the timeline. | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 10:24:35 AM | | I'm back in touch with lots of people from school and the past and we have some great banter. We obviously weren't that close that we would phone / see each other or we woudn't have lost contact, but it's nice to see what they are up to and keep in touch. Also organised a school reunion and a nightclub reunion through it, both massive successes. It's not for everyone and some of the posts make me cringe but I've really benefitted from it and continue to do so... brb bejewelled blitz is calling... | |
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Posted: 5/3/2012 11:15:42 AM | | I'm finding it difficult to find a use for facebook now.. I look at how others use it and i wish most would shut up or at least change their tune. So i try to be varied in what i post on there. | |
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