Quitting Facebook

[youngEINSTEIN]

RAJ said:leon said:





You sound old




I'm beginning to wonder if the human specie is built for this avalanche of information. I for one am getting completely burnt out on it. Quitting Facebook is a step in the right direction. Hopefully now that people can't find me on there, they will pick up a phone and call me.




post phone number or you're soft.





peace, stein. . .

 

[leon]

Jamal said:





true


What has it done for you?


exciting age? non digital aka life is much more exciting. digital only replicates what is non digital..whaaaat?





b/w





im not. old soul so they say..





to each his own.





one

Yes, i do think taking part in the transition from the industrial age to the information age is exciting. Doing things in excess, whatever it may be, is not. Some people are boring, with or without Facebook.


Maybe you can comment on these questions...


Do you think we would be world wide conference-calling about sandals, ice cream trucks, beergardens and 45's w/o internet?


Do you think people with Facebook accounts don't talk to people on the street or are alienated from real life?


Do you think people on this board think Facebook, Twitter or Soulstrut is more exciting than real life?

 

[Jamal]

leon said:Jamal said:





true


What has it done for you?


exciting age? non digital aka life is much more exciting. digital only replicates what is non digital..whaaaat?





b/w





im not. old soul so they say..





to each his own.





one

Yes, i do think taking part in the transition from the industrial age to the information age is exciting. Doing things in excess, whatever it may be, is not. Some people are boring, with or without Facebook.


Maybe you can comment on these questions...


Do you think we would be world wide conference-calling about sandals, ice cream trucks, beergardens and 45's w/o internet?


Do you think people with Facebook accounts don't talk to people on the street or are alienated from real life?


Do you think people on this board think Facebook, Twitter or Soulstrut is more exciting than real life?




your anwering questions with questions..








You said I should be happy I live in exciting times and so on..so what you did there was tell me I should be happy with EVERYTHING that comes out of this digital era....and im not.


So if you stuck to what i really said you would have understood me ..its simple.

 

[tripledouble]

damn yall are some grouchy bitches...


im hardly all teched out. never got near a twitter or iphone blackberry and all that. but fb definitely is a pretty decent thing in my opinion. whats the hassle of having an account? you dont have to read any of that shit if you dont want to. like the bat said, you can drop lines to long gone girlies and see what the deal is...worse comes to worse it lets someone know you were thinking about them...little bit more casual and less creepy than a letter or email etc. You can check up on people a lil bit before you got to get up with them. its cool. i dont post a lot. once in a while you post a song youre feeling and some out of the blue people will be like "yeah i was feeling that" and it will remind you of people you used to vibe with...or you might say, "damn im surprised that they were into that kindof thing"


im in a town of 700 people in italy right now, kind of drunk off my ass, about to retire for the night...i dont get out here too much anmore, but all my people out here are on facebook for sure. makes the world a little smaller, helps you keep in touch, see whos single.





make things work for you, grouchy bitches of soulstrut.


love ya,peace!

 

[doisn]

TheKindCromang said:RAJ said:Soul Strut is starting to own me.




Way more of my time spent here than on Facebook...





:shocked:




yep, also i only do all this stuff from work, at home 98% of my time i stay analog or outside.





Really Livin :beerbang: :feelin_it: !

 

[doisn]

tripledouble said:damn yall are some grouchy bitches...


im hardly all teched out. never got near a twitter or iphone blackberry and all that. but fb definitely is a pretty decent thing in my opinion. whats the hassle of having an account? you dont have to read any of that shit if you dont want to. like the bat said, you can drop lines to long gone girlies and see what the deal is...worse comes to worse it lets someone know you were thinking about them...little bit more casual and less creepy than a letter or email etc. You can check up on people a lil bit before you got to get up with them. its cool. i dont post a lot. once in a while you post a song youre feeling and some out of the blue people will be like "yeah i was feeling that" and it will remind you of people you used to vibe with...or you might say, "damn im surprised that they were into that kindof thing"


im in a town of 700 people in italy right now, kind of drunk off my ass, about to retire for the night...i dont get out here too much anmore, but all my people out here are on facebook for sure. makes the world a little smaller, helps you keep in touch, see whos single.





make things work for you, grouchy bitches of soulstrut.


love ya,peace!




:word:

 

[pickwick33]

What has it done for you?

non digital aka life is much more exciting.

Calm down, man. It's a means to an end, not the end itself.





It can be a time-suck, but that is the only negative effect I see.

 

[LaserWolf]

I liked this thread!

 

[LaserWolf]

Not a time suck for me.


My sister just sent me an angry email saying I never check her facebook page and why don't I ever respond to the vids (of politicians explaining the budgetary process) she posted.





I joined facebook so I could annoy people with my business and promotions, not so I could be friends with people, and I pay no attention to other peoples business and promotions.





It was nice on my bday to hear from a bunch of people I wouldn't hear from otherwise, but some of them I don't know. One guy wished me happy bday. I didn't know who he was. Checked his page, he is a goalie for a French football club! And I am his friend! I am friends with a pro-athlete who wishes me happy birthday.





When I got on, a year and a half ago, I looked for school chums. I quickly realized that the ones I cared about I am still in touch with. Except one I didn't find, but who found me a few weeks ago.





I contacted the dozen or so people with my name. Only one friended me. Turns out he just moved to my town and is the worst folk singer I have ever heard.

 

[jammy]

i didn't like strangers coming up to me and saying things like "hey, you know blahblah right? yeah! i saw you on facebook in a photo at that party". stuff like that. or people that you don't know but see around the place that add you and then feel that next time they see you it validates the fact that they can approach you. the world is too small for facebook!

 

[pickwick33]

It was nice on my bday to hear from a bunch of people I wouldn't hear from otherwise, but some of them I don't know. One guy wished me happy bday. I didn't know who he was. Checked his page, he is a goalie for a French football club! And I am his friend! I am friends with a pro-athlete who wishes me happy birthday.

I still have unanswered friend requests from about 20-30 people I've never met in person. Not that I'm against adding strangers, but sometimes it takes more than common friends to get me to add you.

 

[AKallDay]

from todays news:





"A young Egyptian man named his firstborn little girl Facebook Jamal Ibrahim to express his gratitude to the social network for its role in ousting Hosni Mubarak from power. The freedom to give your baby crazy names is, after all, a cornerstone of democracy." [TechCrunch via Gawker]

 

[CinisterCee]

jammy said:i didn't like strangers coming up to me and saying things like "hey, you know blahblah right? yeah! i saw you on facebook in a photo at that party". stuff like that. or people that you don't know but see around the place that add you and then feel that next time they see you it validates the fact that they can approach you. the world is too small for facebook!




Facebook: Too much of an ice-braeker! Haha why don't you want to talk to people at parties??





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTns_N9NcMg

 

[Duderonomy]

RAJ said:Anybody ever do or are considering doing this?




The only reason I'd even contemplate joining Facebook would be so that I could quit.


Not that bored yet, but give me time.

 

[Jamal]

pickwick33 said:

What has it done for you?

non digital aka life is much more exciting.

Calm down, man. It's a means to an end, not the end itself.





It can be a time-suck, but that is the only negative effect I see.




im very calm, just talking here..


its all good bruv, everybody is free to do what they want to do.





I just hate the image of so many people outside communicating and neglecting whats in front of them, dudes I know who talk to you and blackberrying/checking facebook and such at the same time..


for many its the end not the means..





maybe its because im kinda stuck (hospital and such) with using the internet (although i dont use any of those means except some sites on the web) that i cant imagine somebody being healthy and having the liberty to live life freely, and not using that freedom to the fullest.. i understand it, off course, but still im kinda pessimistic on the way it is going..


like i said those that overuse it and forget the "real" thing..


they already found some changes in the brain of the new generation..overstimulation and lot of em cant even cope anymore without digitalism..








but on the other hand i dont give a fuck , just let me do me

 

[tripledouble]

im with jamal on people checking that shit on there little happy phones. i still dont even like being out with someone who starts having a long ass conversation on their cells. i will seriously just walk off and do my own damn thing too. dudes look dumb as shit when they are walking quietly next to a girl who is chatting on her phone. couples look fucking retarded when both of them are on phones. i would be out within minutes if some girl was checking facebook while i was spending time with her. or constantly on the phone. fucking socio-dependent, ill-manered or bored to death with present company. either way, peace. check your facebook at home, you look like a child

 

[tripledouble]

pass is given who need to be networking for a living. do what work or you, good people

 

[DB_Cooper]

Jamal said:spend more time communiicating with people on the train, in the cab, on the street, the vendor, the chick with the fat ass,little kids, the old confused woman..




Dude, the last thing in the world I want to do is chat it up with strangers on the train, in the cab, on the street, etc. It is rarely a rewarding experience on the trains and streets I frequent.

 

[Jamal]

DB_Cooper said:Jamal said:spend more time communiicating with people on the train, in the cab, on the street, the vendor, the chick with the fat ass,little kids, the old confused woman..




Dude, the last thing in the world I want to do is chat it up with strangers on the train, in the cab, on the street, etc. It is rarely a rewarding experience on the trains and streets I frequent.




hahah is it that bad?

 

[DB_Cooper]

Jamal saidB_Cooper said:Jamal said:spend more time communiicating with people on the train, in the cab, on the street, the vendor, the chick with the fat ass,little kids, the old confused woman..




Dude, the last thing in the world I want to do is chat it up with strangers on the train, in the cab, on the street, etc. It is rarely a rewarding experience on the trains and streets I frequent.




hahah is it that bad?




Yes. Yes, it is. There are dudes who do go around chatting up strangers around these parts, but they're mainly homeless and/or mentally unbalanced. The New York subway is not the place to make new friends.