reasons to hate facebook/myspace

[milosh]

I seriously don't see how you all have the time to scour the daily TW General Discussion nonsense, critique three or four accurate news sources, laugh at three or four comedic news sources, read twenty RS Feeds, discover new and unusual music, find five interesting videos on YouTube, write a crappy political essay and post it, go to college, "have a social life", do weed/shrooms, go to a party, masturbate, eat, sleep, take a shower, crap and then have time to use Facebook as a networking tool for your music and ideas. Give me the secret of the internet.

[Cops]

I love how we can just keep hitting the post button, it's like Christmas time on the forum.

well i think it depends on how you use facebook - for me, it's a tool that lets me share ideas/media/etc, so all i do is usually post notes about whatever bullshit government thing happened that week or post news links. my wall is more or less a bunch of people who post asking if i've heard this or that album, and other such music-related discussion.

so i keep my social life offline, and facebook is just a convenient medium for networking. i might not know some guy who just added me, but (at least in my case), it's usually because someone was like "oh, here's a guy with interesting music/ideas, check his facebook out". it's always nice to be browsing people's pages and seeing your ideas spread. for instance, i've been posting speeches and articles by ron paul since forever (he's been featured on lewrockwell since i started reading it in 2002), so when he announced his campaign i got alot of random private messages asking me about him, his politics, etc. and thanks to that i met three or four dudes who definitely sell some awesome ganja so... facebook is awesome.

I think you use it for the right reasons, but it's been adapted into a social networking tool which allows you to plan events, talk to friends, and pretty much do anything people do face to face. I think for the vast majority there isn't a complete disconnect between their personal lives and their online lives. I think there's a few advantages to facebook, it makes planning events easy, and keeping up to date with what your friends are doing is pretty simplistic.

here's a flip side to those advantages, you exclude people who don't use facebook when making events. It might be easy to keep up to date with your friends but this is usually done by reading their status and comment section. Facebook has dumbed down social communication to the point of not even needing to communicate what you're up to, cause we can just read your profile and figure it out for ourselves. I'd like to think that people are more than slogans and bumper stickers, sadly our communication between individuals is becoming more about posting short witty comments in our status bar.

[Cops]

The worst thing is the facebook event. Don't make an event for a party and expect me, or anybody else who doesn't give a shit about facebook, to show up.


"Why didn't you come to my brithday?"
"it was your birthday? you didn't tell me about any party"
"i facebook'd it to you!"
"you're an idiot"

I use to deal with that shit all the fucking time, way to spend 3.5 seconds making sure I'd get this information. Why not just send an email if nothing else, this makes sure people who fucking hate facebook feel included. When I didn't have facebook I started hearing about parties like 3-4 hours before they happened.


another thing, people who think you need or should have facebook and that it's your fault if you didn't know about an event.

[Cops]

if you dont like people setting up parties on facebook, go fuck yourself. im already buying a keg and cleaning up after everyone. trying to remember to call everyone i know is a pain in the ass, and if i forget to call someone, theyll get all pissy. with facebook, you just spend 30 seconds running through a list of friends checking names off, and everyone is invited. it takes a shitload less time. facebook parties are pretty much the best feature of facebook.

the convenience part is great but the fact that people only rely on this as a means of communication is fucking awful. I consider sending an email more personal than inviting people to an event on facebook. It also makes sure everyone gets an invite.

[gran guerrero]

honestly I don't have a problem with the event shit, I get it all the time and most of the time I either just ignore it, decline it, or say maybe attending.

Just say to yourself will they fucking remember this in 5 years from now?

[Nickname]

What can I say, this thread delivers. I don't really use either of these now. I sued myspace, until every unsigned band in the world wanted to be my friend. Fuck off people.


So I used facebook, and it was fine until they added all these aplications. Now I never log on.


The worst thing is the facebook event. Don't make an event for a party and expect me, or anybody else who doesn't give a shit about facebook, to show up.


"Why didn't you come to my brithday?"
"it was your birthday? you didn't tell me about any party"
"i facebook'd it to you!"
"you're an idiot"

[Kahlan]

Some facebook-related videos I found true/humorous.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1775094
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/694363/facebook_stalker/

[Jerome Scuggs]

I will never stop this!

seriously

[Mantra-Slider]

stop shaving your balls

I will never stop this!

[Facetious]

the applications are the worst things ever. they just need to get rid of them. facebook was better than myspace because the pages were easy to look at. now they are just horrible. luckily, nobody who i actually give a shit about has a bunch of applications.

theyve remedied the former #2 worst thing ever (complete losers who you feel bad about defriending constantly uploading pictures of horribly-boring-looking activities and having that shit take up your entire front page) by having an option where you can select people not to show up on your news feed

"people you may know" is terrible, its just "people you know but dont like." that feature showed up and all of a sudden 10 people i dont like added me.

if you dont like people setting up parties on facebook, go fuck yourself. im already buying a keg and cleaning up after everyone. trying to remember to call everyone i know is a pain in the ass, and if i forget to call someone, theyll get all pissy. with facebook, you just spend 30 seconds running through a list of friends checking names off, and everyone is invited. it takes a shitload less time. facebook parties are pretty much the best feature of facebook.

[Pandagirl!]

these networking sites can be undeniably creepy and borderline stalkerish given the person using it.

Like the time I wore my work name badge into a fast food restaurant during break and had a message on facebook the next day from a guy who apparently worked there and saw me and wanted to go on a date with me? Yea. Too creepy.

Also

Waiting for people's pages to load. Myspace can take forever sometimes... but I have an "acquaintance" on facebook who has ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY applications.

[Heroin Bob]

easy, ladies. i like facebook and myspace for certain reasons and dislike it for others, this thread was mainly the product of a string of pretty blah threads over the past week. everybody uses it for different reasons. in the context of everyday life, however, these networking sites can be undeniably creepy and borderline stalkerish given the person using it.

heroin bob: you're 100% right, just like always

stop shaving your balls

[Pearl Jam]

easy, ladies. i like facebook and myspace for certain reasons and dislike it for others, this thread was mainly the product of a string of pretty blah threads over the past week. everybody uses it for different reasons. in the context of everyday life, however, these networking sites can be undeniably creepy and borderline stalkerish given the person using it.

heroin bob: you're 100% right, just like always

[Heroin Bob]

it sounds like pearl jam is one of those kids who found his girls myspace open only to see she cheats on him with a guy with a bigger penis.

dont hate the social website, hate the game

[Jerome Scuggs]

the entire premise of facebook was that people could 'network'. if you think it's creepy, then don't use it. i don't think it's creepy to browse for people who seem interesting on a website whose entire selling point is the ability to browse for people who are interesting.

edit: conversely, i think it did get creepy when they allowed everyone and their mother onto facebook. it's one thing when it's just college kids, but another when, say, your creepy sophomore english teacher adds you as a friend