Quitting Facebook

[Grandfather]

Facebook, Twitter, etc...are just mediums. The issue is how you use. Its like choosing to use a pencil to write a nice letter or stab someone. Its just a medium. With all that said I'm all for increasing productivity and if blocking Facebook out of your life helps you with that RAJ, I say go for it. Whatever helps you post on SS more.





I had to block DB_Cooper from my time line otherwise I'd be liking everything he did. (*hair swoon*)

 

[bassie]

I use it to promote my parties and as a personal blog-ish tool with music clips, pictures and political and personal rants. Don't use my real name, don't post my face and un-tag all photos of me that others have put up. I have hidden the feed of two friends because they posted 100+ annoying pseudo-philosophical terds a day...who knew they were so cheesy?! I didn't, until FB showed me!


And oh yes, if you ask to be friends on FB but can't even manage a smile or hello in real life, you're getting kicked off.


I like Batmon's rule of keeping it to a 100 friends. I'm under 200 and am trying to purge regularly....but new ones keep popping up!!!


Complaining about it like one has no control over its use, etc. is silly. You run your life, not technology!

 

[RAJ]

I'm all for people being pro-Facebook and living a long healthy life on there.





After 3 years, I found the cons far outweighing the pros and for the love of god I was on it almost as long as I was awake. I'd go on vacation and be on it and shit.





I'm a web designer | developer by trade, so I'm on the computer atleast 10 hours / day and Facebook was not healthy for me.





I don't think I will be back either. I have a dummy account to maintain the pages and that's it.





I have been toying around with Google + and REALLY like it.





The ease of Circles and being able to communicate with certain sectors separately is a huge + (no pun intended). It will be my new time waster other than the Strut and I will probably hate it in 3 years, but it's a nice change.

 

[Jamal]

DB_Cooper said: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.







i made liftetime friends in way more 'dangerous' places than ny .. but ny is more unpersonal especially the subway..youre fucking right about that..

 

[Jamal]

RAJ said:I'm all for people being pro-Facebook and living a long healthy life on there.

 

[Casteneda]

I took myself off about a month ago. Being a high school counselor, I would get a lot of 18/19 year old girls that graduated from our high school asking to be my friend. My rule is once a student graduates, I'm ok with approving their friend request. However, it just got over the top with requests after our high school graduation, and I felt like I was starting to look increasingly like the 34 year old creepy older guy with lots of young girls/ex-students as my friends. So I took myself off, much to my wives approval as well!

 

[Duderonomy]

 

[DB_Cooper]

Duderonomy said:




[super scientifical] In that sense, Facebook is the organized religion of the modern era. Just as the idea of an omnipotent guiding hand overseeing what appears to be chaos and promising life after death was comforting to generations before us, so too does the constant reiteration of existence through Facebook tagging and status updating help to assuage our tacit understanding that we will someday die. We cannot brook life without the promise of an enduring existence post-mortem. Be that heaven or a Facebook page that assures those we leave behind that we did, indeed, lead a bitching life with lots of good times and people that thought we were cool. [/super scientifical]

 

[DB_Cooper]

b/w

 

[Jimster]

Duderonomy said:

[super scientifical] In that sense, Facebook is the organized religion of the modern era. Just as the idea of an omnipotent guiding hand overseeing what appears to be chaos and promising life after death was comforting to generations before us, so too does the constant reiteration of existence through Facebook tagging and status updating help to assuage our tacit understanding that we will someday die. We cannot brook life without the promise of an enduring existence post-mortem. Be that heaven or a Facebook page that assures those we leave behind that we did, indeed, lead a bitching life with lots of good times and people that thought we were cool. [/super scientifical]




OWN-HAIR FANPAGE APOLOGIST ^^^

 

[RAJ]

You would not believe the backlash from friends and family for quitting Facebook. It's a web site people, get over it.

 

[jammy]

after i cancelled my facebook account i experienced people with paranoia, wondering why i would delete them as a friend. i found that funny. get a grip!

 

[Jimster]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8638292/Amazing-maps-show-Twitter-and-Flickr-activity-around-the-world.html?image=13

 

[AKallDay]

from todays nymag

 

[bassie]

what is an Epiphanator

 

[Jamal]

RAJ said:You would not believe the backlash from friends and family for quitting Facebook. It's a web site people, get over it.







give it a couple of years, and quitting facebook shall be seen as suicide

 

[AKallDay]

bassie said:what is an Epiphanator




it's explained in the article but the author coins that word to define in some way what facebook lacks - a structure, a beginning and an end or as she puts it:








Social media has no understanding of anything aside from the connections between individuals and the ceaseless flow of time: No beginnings, and no endings. These disparate threads of human existence alternately fascinate and horrify that part of the media world that grew up on topic sentences and strong conclusions. This world of old media is like a giant machine that organizes time into stories. I call it the Epiphanator, and it has always known the value of a meaningful conclusion.

 

[leon]

Panta rhei





The story has an interesting angle and is a good read. The difference between the old media output and the new one is that the latter flows.


That said, the streams are consistent of small stories with a beginning and an end (a post on Facebook). So it's all about perception here.





My worries, if any, are about the decline of serious journalism, not about the epiphanator.

 

[bassie]

I guess I could have posted this in the phone hacking thread, too.





The Future of News


It was the feature topic in The Economist a couple of weeks ago.

 

[billbradley]

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