(July 17, 2016 at 2:47 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: If you have a problem with FB tracking you, you have a sliver of an argument. Unfortunately, google does the same goddamn thing. It's really not that sinister to have people targeting their advertising towards you - people used to do it all the time through sales calls, which we don't get anymore, btw, and physical stores still sometimes do things like zipcode surveys, and oh by the way, your rewards card? Totally tracks that shit too.
This is the world we live in, people, and it's really not as bad as the Orwellians want you to think it is.
But regardless if FB isn't for you for any number of reasons, then fine, it isn't for you. No one is forcing you to use it. But you don't get to act like the people who do are terrible shallow people just because you don't grok it.
(July 17, 2016 at 12:09 pm)abaris Wrote: No argument on both accounts. But I can find cute doggie pictures without facebook.
Yeah, but the people who follow my dog photos are there to see MY dog. That's the point. Not some random dog. My dog. Hence, FB.
TBH, it sounded like the OP was feeling a shit ton of jealousy and that sucks. FB definitely only shows whatever people post, so it seems like other people's lives might be more glamorous or successful than yours. They might not be - they might also be riddled with heartbreak that never makes it there. Or maybe the people who post vapid things don't like to argue about heavy stuff, so they avoid posting about it. You don't know. What I do suspect is you feel inferior in some way and that's no one's fault but your own. Go eat your own good meals and go do your own travel, if you can, and if you can't, go revel in the place that you live. I mean, god forbid someone take a picture of the delicious dinner they proudly made (maybe they were a terrible cook as a kid and now they're proud of what they've learned since!) - it's SOOOOO boring to you that you have to trash it instead of saying "huh, Steve is really getting good at this" or whatever.
There are times when the more vapid stuff is hella easier to deal with than finding out that the person you went through school with is actually racist because they continually post politics instead of funny memes.
Nice avatar.......love the hat
