Quitting Facebook
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I log into FB when I check my email accounts, which is once or twice a day. I spend very little time on it compared to when I was younger. I temporarily disabled my account once but just found other ways to procrastinate instead.
It's a great networking tool, I'm glad it's around. As for it's obsolescence, which is what I think some might be getting at, I don't think we're there yet. Too much money in FB for it to be trumped by G+ just yet. If it's taken ppl 5 years to jump on the FB bandwagon, I'm sure FB has a while to go before it becomes irrelevant in lieu of G+ growing popularity.
Is G+ getting HS kids yet? They drive this stuff, and have the most time to kill.
It's a great networking tool, I'm glad it's around. As for it's obsolescence, which is what I think some might be getting at, I don't think we're there yet. Too much money in FB for it to be trumped by G+ just yet. If it's taken ppl 5 years to jump on the FB bandwagon, I'm sure FB has a while to go before it becomes irrelevant in lieu of G+ growing popularity.
Is G+ getting HS kids yet? They drive this stuff, and have the most time to kill.
RAJ said:onetet said:Setting aside its usefulness for event promotion, an unfortunate % of my social plans seem to come together on facebook. .
This is reason #5678 I was driven away. Way to many push notifications on my phone from DJs inviting me to their DJ night 700 miles away.
That "invite me to a party that's happening on the other side of the country" shit drives me up the wall. I do the event-invite thing on Facebook, but I only invite people who are local to where I'm playing and who might like the kind of music being played.
This is reason #5678 I was driven away. Way to many push notifications on my phone from DJs inviting me to their DJ night 700 miles away.
That "invite me to a party that's happening on the other side of the country" shit drives me up the wall. I do the event-invite thing on Facebook, but I only invite people who are local to where I'm playing and who might like the kind of music being played.
Almond said:I log into FB when I check my email accounts, which is once or twice a day. I spend very little time on it compared to when I was younger.
When you were younger? How old are you, and how long has Facebook been around??? The invention still seems recent to me!
As for me...
to paraphrase the Otis Rush song, I can't quit it, but sometimes I feel I gotta put it down for awhile.
Myspace seemed fairly static, so it was easy to forget about it. But FB is continually active, addictive, and yes, it's a good way to keep up with people you don't see often, like ex-girlfriends or boyfriends you're still on good terms with. But it does mess with your productivity.
When you were younger? How old are you, and how long has Facebook been around??? The invention still seems recent to me!
As for me...
to paraphrase the Otis Rush song, I can't quit it, but sometimes I feel I gotta put it down for awhile.
Myspace seemed fairly static, so it was easy to forget about it. But FB is continually active, addictive, and yes, it's a good way to keep up with people you don't see often, like ex-girlfriends or boyfriends you're still on good terms with. But it does mess with your productivity.
pickwick33 said:Almond said:I log into FB when I check my email accounts, which is once or twice a day. I spend very little time on it compared to when I was younger.
When you were younger? How old are you, and how long has Facebook been around??? The invention still seems recent to me!
As for me...
to paraphrase the Otis Rush song, I can't quit it, but sometimes I feel I gotta put it down for awhile.
Myspace seemed fairly static, so it was easy to forget about it. But FB is continually active, addictive, and yes, it's a good way to keep up with people you don't see often, like ex-girlfriends or boyfriends you're still on good terms with. But it does mess with your productivity.
I joined FB in 2005, the summer I turned 18. 6 years is a long time, and it's helped me keep track of all the folks I've met in school, as well as distant relatives. It used to be open to only college students and you needed a .edu address to access it. I remember the day they added the option to upload photos. They used to have a tool that allowed you to fill in your classes, which then allowed you to see who you classmates were (which was excellent). I miss old FB and have def seen it evolve.
I used to spend a lot of time on it, but that was just procrastination. If you're spending that much time writing statuses about what your kid spilled this morn, that's your own mismanagement of time.
My teenage cousins document every moment of their lives via FB, so it's not going to lose popularity just yet. And Google seems "official" to me so I think it's going to be hard to get the kids to jump on G+ when they have FB, Twitter, YT, Tumblr, 4Chan, Stickam, etc. which are "fun n young." As for G+, I'm excited to try it, but for every person who's open to it, there will be another who will make a point to resist giving in to Big G's web monopoly. You'll prob get seated next to this person at Thanksgiving this year.
/theorizing
When you were younger? How old are you, and how long has Facebook been around??? The invention still seems recent to me!
As for me...
to paraphrase the Otis Rush song, I can't quit it, but sometimes I feel I gotta put it down for awhile.
Myspace seemed fairly static, so it was easy to forget about it. But FB is continually active, addictive, and yes, it's a good way to keep up with people you don't see often, like ex-girlfriends or boyfriends you're still on good terms with. But it does mess with your productivity.
I joined FB in 2005, the summer I turned 18. 6 years is a long time, and it's helped me keep track of all the folks I've met in school, as well as distant relatives. It used to be open to only college students and you needed a .edu address to access it. I remember the day they added the option to upload photos. They used to have a tool that allowed you to fill in your classes, which then allowed you to see who you classmates were (which was excellent). I miss old FB and have def seen it evolve.
I used to spend a lot of time on it, but that was just procrastination. If you're spending that much time writing statuses about what your kid spilled this morn, that's your own mismanagement of time.
My teenage cousins document every moment of their lives via FB, so it's not going to lose popularity just yet. And Google seems "official" to me so I think it's going to be hard to get the kids to jump on G+ when they have FB, Twitter, YT, Tumblr, 4Chan, Stickam, etc. which are "fun n young." As for G+, I'm excited to try it, but for every person who's open to it, there will be another who will make a point to resist giving in to Big G's web monopoly. You'll prob get seated next to this person at Thanksgiving this year.
/theorizing
Facebook has always been funny to me in that it's got such a high number of people who make sure to sign up for it, but then act as if they are too cool for it. Yes, just delete yourselves already...mainly so that we won't have to hear you whine about it anymore.
leon said:
You can do both (Facebook and talking to old confused women on the street). The social media stuff is a great way to communicate, and brings us new opportunities on several levels. Twitter has high impact on what we call news and who brings it. Be glad you live in the exiting age where all these new ways of connecting (information age) happen!
b/w
You sound old
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
You can do both (Facebook and talking to old confused women on the street). The social media stuff is a great way to communicate, and brings us new opportunities on several levels. Twitter has high impact on what we call news and who brings it. Be glad you live in the exiting age where all these new ways of connecting (information age) happen!
b/w
You sound old
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
Jamal said:leon said:
You can do both (Facebook and talking to old confused women on the street). The social media stuff is a great way to communicate, and brings us new opportunities on several levels. Twitter has high impact on what we call news and who brings it. Be glad you live in the exiting age where all these new ways of connecting (information age) happen!
b/w
You sound old
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
I can flirt with ex-girlfriends.
Cant do that on the phone or in their face when they live overseas, on some island, or on the west coast.
Its not Satan.
You can do both (Facebook and talking to old confused women on the street). The social media stuff is a great way to communicate, and brings us new opportunities on several levels. Twitter has high impact on what we call news and who brings it. Be glad you live in the exiting age where all these new ways of connecting (information age) happen!
b/w
You sound old
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
I can flirt with ex-girlfriends.
Cant do that on the phone or in their face when they live overseas, on some island, or on the west coast.
Its not Satan.
batmon said:Jamal said:leon said:
You can do both (Facebook and talking to old confused women on the street). The social media stuff is a great way to communicate, and brings us new opportunities on several levels. Twitter has high impact on what we call news and who brings it. Be glad you live in the exiting age where all these new ways of connecting (information age) happen!
b/w
You sound old
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
I can flirt with ex-girlfriends.
Cant do that on the phone or in their face when they live overseas, on some island, or on the west coast.
Its not Satan.
was directed towards leon..
flirt? isnt flirting only beneficial when there is chance of physical contact..even if its tiny chance..thats what your mind does..so overseas flirting is kinda meeeh..
also why cant you do it on the phone? flirting on the phone is standard procedure ..first call to picked up girl
no its not, being opposed to something or not wanting to be a part of it, doesnt equal a scared person..
but flirt on batmone
You can do both (Facebook and talking to old confused women on the street). The social media stuff is a great way to communicate, and brings us new opportunities on several levels. Twitter has high impact on what we call news and who brings it. Be glad you live in the exiting age where all these new ways of connecting (information age) happen!
b/w
You sound old
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
I can flirt with ex-girlfriends.
Cant do that on the phone or in their face when they live overseas, on some island, or on the west coast.
Its not Satan.
was directed towards leon..
flirt? isnt flirting only beneficial when there is chance of physical contact..even if its tiny chance..thats what your mind does..so overseas flirting is kinda meeeh..
also why cant you do it on the phone? flirting on the phone is standard procedure ..first call to picked up girl
no its not, being opposed to something or not wanting to be a part of it, doesnt equal a scared person..
but flirt on batmone
