I think I am done with FB again

[Violet]

If I didn't have facebook:

I wouldn't know what was going on in the world, ever.

I wouldn't have any friends, or links to my past, left (I'd almost never maintain them... or remember them).

I wouldn't be socially active except on those rare days when someone literally shows up unexpected and drags me outside (I certainly couldn't have done something like become staff here, without something like facebook keeping me socially conscious).

I wouldn't be remotely relieved about my coming trip to england for 2.5 months by talking with my boyfriend's parents, and interacting loosely with the rest of his immediate family.

And, worst of all... I wouldn't see shit like this all the fucking time:



(it says, "I thought my vasectomy would keep my wife from getting pregnant but apparently it just changes the color of the baby.")

[houseofcantor]

I can't give you up, stupid fakebook! I have an "I love my Gwynnies" fb where I post pix of her, and my personal page which has, like, every science page liked, and I gots to use the messenger part to keep in touch with my peeps, 'cause Johnny don't do telephone.

At least here on this forum I have a family.

[emjay]

I hardly ever use Facebook now since I found this site, but I do still use it for messenger and having an easy way to keep linked up with friends and family. But I hardly ever look at my feed except if I'm really bored and it's usually 'you have 30 new notifications' or whatever before I do

[MentalGiant]

Fuck Facebook. Never had one, never will. Not close to my family and opt not to have a bunch of 'friends'. Also not going to put a bunch of pictures of myself and document a play-by-play of my life for FB to do god knows what with and no one else to give a shit about.

[emjay]

Fuck Facebook. Never had one, never will. Not close to my family and opt not to have a bunch of 'friends'. Also not going to put a bunch of pictures of myself and document a play-by-play of my life for FB to do god knows what with and no one else to give a shit about.

Pretty much agree. I've only got family and real friends on there so only about twenty people. I'm lucky if I put up three or four posts a year. And it's precisely because I don't want a pic by pic account of someone's breakfast that I hardly ever use it But I still think it's handy for messenger and arranging events.

[Iroscato]

For me, the main uses of FB is free communication with friends and family, and populating my news feed with interesting, funny shit. Anything attention-seeking, bigoted or annoying is met with an unfollowing (so that I'm still friends with them, I just don't get their shit clogging up my news feed).

[Clueless Morgan]

For all you haters of the Facebook, it just helped me locate the owner of a dog that's been lost for a week and that would still be lost if not for a fb friend knowing both me and the owner and happening upon my post about it.

So...




J/K, I really don't care who hates facebook or not.

[Edwardo Piet]

If it weren't for FB I wouldn't know what my family is up to day to day. I know that doesn't apply to the OP but it does to a lot of us.

and @ OP I am well aware that Facebook can be FUCKING ANNOYING

[Violet]

I only struggle with it when people put horror pictures up... I have to unfollow for my sanity' s sake. Which is a shame, because some people I liked everything else from, just... I can't do horror in the middle of the night when I'm on facebook to try and keep shadows away and thourhgts away from things like that in the first place.

[Edwardo Piet]

I'll keep that in mind, thanks for the warning. I've never done it before but just in case I did for some weird reason - like a horror parody or something that looked rather convincing.

I hope The Onion doesn't post a horror parody on my wall and you unfriend me!