Facebook

Kaminsky

I can do wonderfull things connecting servers and networking across multiple continents but the facebook thing confuses the cr*p outta me. Just spent two hours tryng to sort it out as my blackberry is getting spammed by "Pillowfight" requests whatever the hell they are !

That and mobile phones (mrs put on predictive texting and I couldn't send messages for a week), video machines (where's the record button?), dvd ( had to get my 6 year old to put films on ), washing machines ( WTF ! ) and the heating system ! ( where's the frikkin "ON - I'm bloody freezing" button ? - I live in the UK ... it should know outside of June, July & August ! )


Can someone tell me why we wanted to give technology to the masses again ?

wat08

facebook is what is destroying the world. Do people talk face to face anymore?

Arvean

wat08 wrote:

facebook is what is destroying the world. Do people talk face to face anymore?

Face to face time? It's so 1990... ;P


I agree on it. It's scary how little time we spend in real world....

By the way, how many of you have facebook accounts? Be honest... Just for statistics, I have one, but not used too often...

scheistermeister

Never been a fan of FaceSpace or MyBook...

royal

I use Facebook. It allows me to keep in contact with high school friends, some coworkers that I'm friends with, as well as family out of state and country.

Mrock4

I don't mind facebook. Can't stand myspace..

mamono

I have facebook and it allows me to keep in contact with all my friends that have since moved out of state or out of country. Plus many of my friends are too busy with grad school or their new family, so sometimes its impossible to meet in person. Then again, we still meet in person on occasion. Everyone's priorities are different.

BradleyHU

facebook is so trash now...it started goin down hill last year when they started adding all those apps, and then now, with the new look, its even worse...i stay on fb all of 5 minutes a day...and dont even get me started on the facebook im thingy...random pplz on my friends list im me sometimes...smh....so annoying because i want to go to leave the site, but i feel like i'm being rude if i do that while im'in with them...

and i liked fb when you had to have a college email to join...

oh man, myspace is even extra trash...never was a huge fan of that anyway.

Mmartin_47

royal wrote:

I use Facebook. It allows me to keep in contact with high school friends, some coworkers that I'm friends with, as well as family out of state and country.

Same here with MySpace as well.

tiersten

BradleyHU wrote:

facebook is so trash now...it started goin down hill last year when they started adding all those apps

You don't need to install anything if you don't want it.

BradleyHU wrote:

dont even get me started on the facebook im thingy...random pplz on my friends list im me sometimes...smh....so annoying because i want to go to leave the site, but i feel like i'm being rude if i do that while im'in with them...

You can turn that off.

BradleyHU wrote:

and i liked fb when you had to have a college email to join...

Nothing stopping you from ignoring all those people.

vsmith3rd

Its funny how everyone trashes Myspace, but there are 100 bazillion accounts.

Just for the record, I don't have a Myspace or Facebook account, so I couldn't judge either way. I think some guy in Cleveland and I are the last two in the world without a Myspace or Facebook profile. Its enough for me to live the Myspace/Facebook lifestyle vicariously through co-workers and friends.

dynamik

vsmith3rd wrote:

Its funny how everyone trashes Myspace, but there are 100 bazillion accounts.

And apparently, the vast majority of them are lonely hot chicks that want to be my friends...

Silentsoul

something like 95% percent of people with the internet have a myspace. Numbers seem a little high but then again there are a ton of people. I have never had either, but i have been thinking about getting Linked-in i hear it is more for professional's and helping make business contacts, but who knows.

sprkymrk

What is Facebook?

cisco_trooper

sprkymrk wrote:

What is Facebook?

F'ing retarded.

I use linked in for professional networking. All that other crap annoys the crap out of me.

tiersten

dynamik wrote:

vsmith3rd wrote:

Its funny how everyone trashes Myspace, but there are 100 bazillion accounts.

And apparently, the vast majority of them are lonely hot chicks that want to be my friends...

Wait. They're not???

blargoe

I have a linkedin but no myspace or facebook. 10 years ago, I probably would have been into it.

95%, really? I guess I've really gotten out of touch on the online social trends.

dynamik

blargoe wrote:

95%, really? I guess I've really gotten out of touch on the online social trends.

Like I alluded to earlier, I bet huge percentage of those accounts are just used for spamming.

I'd imagine there's a lot of inactive users as well. I technically have an account (needed to create one to see a friend's family pictures that he put on there), but I haven't used it in over a year.

tiersten

Silentsoul wrote:

something like 95% percent of people with the internet have a myspace.

92.3% of all statistics are made up. The percentage of people online with a MySpace page is nowhere near 95%. MySpace isn't popular in most non English speaking countries.

Vogon Poet

Myspace/facebook, texting, cell phones, and email make one way too accessible.
Aren't answering machines bad enough?

42% of Internet users do not know what social networking is
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14946

rfult001

Funny, I was just thinking we should have a Techexams Facebook page or group...

wat08

POKE.

rfult001

SUPERPOKE!

networker050184

I have a myspace that I hardly use except to contact friends from back home every once in a while.

nel

i have no facebook, no nothing

BradleyHU

rfult001 wrote:

Funny, I was just thinking we should have a Techexams Facebook page or group...

lol...u should make it happen...


but tiersten...i know i can block the im thingy, just too much of a hassle to go into the settings and do all that. yeah i'm lazy...i dont deny it. and i definitely dont add the apps...i just hate gettin the notifications saying someone has sent me a particular app...

tiersten

BradleyHU wrote:

i know i can block the im thingy, just too much of a hassle to go into the settings and do all that.

You can just click the Chat button on the floating toolbar and go offline.

BradleyHU wrote:

yeah i'm lazy...i dont deny it. and i definitely dont add the apps...i just hate gettin the notifications saying someone has sent me a particular app...

I recently got nagged enough by everybody that I did sign up. Thankfully the initial enthusiasm for apps has worn off for most of my friends so I don't get bombarded any longer with stupid app invite requests.

Plantwiz

vsmith3rd wrote:

Its funny how everyone trashes Myspace, but there are 100 bazillion accounts.

Just for the record, I don't have a Myspace or Facebook account, so I couldn't judge either way. I think some guy in Cleveland and I are the last two in the world without a Myspace or Facebook profile. Its enough for me to live the Myspace/Facebook lifestyle vicariously through co-workers and friends.

Never signed on either one either, so make that 3.

I just don't what is 'so cool' about either. Is it no longer acceptable to phone or e-mail people?

dynamik

BradleyHU wrote:

rfult001 wrote:

Funny, I was just thinking we should have a Techexams Facebook page or group...

lol...u should make it happen...

Just make sure to talk to Johan (Webmaster) first. I can't remember the exact reasons, but I know he didn't want to create a TE group on Linked In. I assume the same would go for Facebook. It wouldn't hurt to bring it up though. If you're really interested, send him a PM or post in the Suggestions / Comments forum.

wat08

dynamik wrote:

BradleyHU wrote:

rfult001 wrote:

Funny, I was just thinking we should have a Techexams Facebook page or group...

lol...u should make it happen...

Just make sure to talk to Johan (Webmaster) first. I can't remember the exact reasons, but I know he didn't want to create a TE group on Linked In. I assume the same would go for Facebook. It wouldn't hurt to bring it up though. If you're really interested, send him a PM or post in the Suggestions / Comments forum.

Since when did the gestapo start policing the creation of facebook groups?

dynamik

wat08 wrote:

Since when did the gestapo start policing the creation of facebook groups?

I think a better question is: Why would you want to do something that goes against the wishes of this site's creator? That just seems like a jerk move.