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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #125 on: 26 March, 2012, 12:33:18 am »
I tried to kill my Facebook existence in 2009 or so.

It was quite successful, or a desperate failure, depending how you look at it: I stayed off FB for six whole weeks - the point at which I realised parties and events were happening and everyone had forgotten I existed.

 :-[

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #126 on: 28 March, 2012, 01:16:45 pm »
I'm helping some newbies get into computing and surfing the net.  They're a group of people mostly in their 60s and 70s.  It's interesting how often the subject of Facebook comes up.  They're interested because other family members are on it.  I'm in the embarrassing position of not being able to show or tell them much about it.
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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #127 on: 28 March, 2012, 01:23:21 pm »
My age/era means that many people I'd rather like to catch up with are lost forever. 

Many people spend their entire lives moving from place to place, country to country, I like the way FB allows you to maintain a virtual village of acquaintances.  You can interact or not, it's your choice.
(This is more about t'Web in general, not FB:)

You're right, but the flipside is that it discourages physical interaction. For every photo emailed to grandfolks in Oz, there is a couple emailing each-other from adjacent rooms.

That's tragic, when people resort to electronic discussions rather than face-to-face.

Let's try to avoid ever stepping onto that slippery slope.

What do you think Matt?

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #128 on: 28 March, 2012, 02:15:14 pm »
My age/era means that many people I'd rather like to catch up with are lost forever. 

Many people spend their entire lives moving from place to place, country to country, I like the way FB allows you to maintain a virtual village of acquaintances.  You can interact or not, it's your choice.
(This is more about t'Web in general, not FB:)

You're right, but the flipside is that it discourages physical interaction. For every photo emailed to grandfolks in Oz, there is a couple emailing each-other from adjacent rooms.

That's tragic, when people resort to electronic discussions rather than face-to-face.

Let's try to avoid ever stepping onto that slippery slope.

What do you think Matt?
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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #129 on: 30 March, 2012, 07:33:13 pm »
Irritatingly, Trustpilot (which I wanted to use to leave a POSITIVE review of a company) requires Facebook to sign up, so the company won't get a review from me.
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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #130 on: 01 April, 2012, 07:02:44 pm »
I'm not on Facebook, Twitter is about as far as I go.  Social networking isn't of that much use to a basically anti-social introvert like myself  ;)

Interesting article here , http://www.cultofmac.com/157641/this-creepy-app-isnt-just-stalking-women-without-their-knowledge-its-a-wake-up-call-about-facebook-privacy/  with further discussion at Charlie Stross's blog
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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #131 on: 13 April, 2012, 06:17:12 pm »
My wife and kids use facebook but I'll keep away from it. I think it causes more problems than it solves.

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #132 on: 14 April, 2012, 10:45:30 am »
I am, although I don't use it a massive amount - a lot of the folks I know from round here are on Google+, whereas co-workers, family etc. are on FacePalm so most of my 'social networking' time is split between the two. But, like andrewc, I'm fundamentally an antisocial introvert :)

I very rarely use Twitter at the moment, although I suspect my usage may increase when I start going to strange places on a bicycle.

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #133 on: 14 April, 2012, 11:10:51 am »
I'm on Google+ too. The good thing about Google plus is that it's empty. All the morons are over there on Facebook and Twitter liking pictures of cats and retweeting what Katy Perry thinks about her new shoes.

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #134 on: 14 April, 2012, 11:12:49 am »
I'm on Google+ too. The good thing about Google plus is that it's empty.
Even moreso since they unveiled the godawful 'new look' ;)

I noticed yesterday that Facebook have now shoehorned the 'timeline' into the iPhone app (probably the iPad app too, but I don't use that) and they've succeeded in making a bad thing even worse.

AndyK

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #135 on: 14 April, 2012, 11:18:46 am »
I'm on Google+ too. The good thing about Google plus is that it's empty.
Even moreso since they unveiled the godawful 'new look' ;)

I noticed yesterday that Facebook have now shoehorned the 'timeline' into the iPhone app (probably the iPad app too, but I don't use that) and they've succeeded in making a bad thing even worse.

Are you serious? It's clean, tidy, easy to navigate. And it is nowhere near as buggy as Fb.

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #136 on: 14 April, 2012, 06:41:15 pm »
I posted an update about an event on my ukcyclist page and a few days later a minor London cycle shop responded with a God Bless You All - 10% off when you visit our shop[etc]. So I responded that it's not a commercial page and I'd prefer replies to be vaguely on-topic. Seconds later came a hurriedly typed garble on the same lines. What did that achieve? They're both marked Spam and invisible now.

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #137 on: 15 April, 2012, 08:49:57 pm »
A couple of years back I quite liked FB, it led to getting in touch with people I'd not seen for years, the usual thing. These days I've come to see a less pleasant aspect to it, it seems to magnify the more dubious aspects of human relations and highlight the fact that when you've got serious problems to deal with in life there's only 2 people on your friends list who give a damn. A large portion are only interested if their being associated with you brings some sort of social enhancement, that tends to be the game I guess.
That, along with a vague feeling that it's all too 'corporate', without knowing what that means or whether it's worth caring about privacy/data protection, I'd like to find a less glossy, less advert-laden alternative.

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #138 on: 15 April, 2012, 09:34:47 pm »
That, along with a vague feeling that it's all too 'corporate', without knowing what that means or whether it's worth caring about privacy/data protection, I'd like to find a less glossy, less advert-laden alternative.
How much would you be prepared to pay for such a service?

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #139 on: 15 April, 2012, 09:54:40 pm »

That, along with a vague feeling that it's all too 'corporate', without knowing what that means or whether it's worth caring about privacy/data protection, I'd like to find a less glossy, less advert-laden alternative.

Google+. I have not found ads to be a problem since I installed AdBlock.

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #140 on: 15 April, 2012, 10:07:54 pm »
@SteveC:
Probably nothing. . . I don't know though. . . something strikes me as not right about Facebook but I don't have a clear idea of what sort of alternative I'd prefer. There are useful aspects to the way it organises and facilitates the exchange of information but like myspace before it it seems too geared towards an aspirational notion of glossy magazine-style self-representation.

Maybe I'll give Google+ a go.

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #141 on: 03 May, 2012, 11:03:25 pm »
Facebook is worthwhile when I see my 98 year old great uncle is having a good time in Portugal as evidenced by photos posted today...

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #142 on: 18 May, 2012, 09:06:20 am »
No. I'm on here only.
Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #143 on: 18 May, 2012, 11:51:16 pm »
Today, a second cousin on the other side of the family posted pics of his mother's 95th birthday. I'm warming to Facebook for the very old...

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #144 on: 19 May, 2012, 12:30:46 am »
My

And obviously, there's the whole keeping track of teenage offspring.

My offspring refuse to have me on their friends list- should I be worried?
It appears  it's  not cool to have mum and dad on their friends list

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #145 on: 19 May, 2012, 08:34:36 am »
Not cool.  But not optional.
Getting there...

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #146 on: 22 May, 2012, 01:39:04 pm »
I use it to keep in torch with old school friends, that live up north and what the cycling group are up to I.E Club rides and meetings 

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #147 on: 22 May, 2012, 04:22:08 pm »
My great uncle was eating CAEK at Kenwood House today...

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Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #148 on: 25 May, 2012, 11:58:35 am »
I unfriended someone for the first time last week. I'd turned off his updates about a year ago because he was making daily snide remarks about the Wales rugby team during the World Cup. I'm no rugby fan, but they were becoming sly digs at the Welsh in general - I haven't really experienced that kind of patronising attitude from Little Englanders (he's someone who's lived and worked in Wales for 20 years or more!) since the early 80s. Even though I was blissfully unaware of most of his status updates, some of them came through when a mutual friend commented, specifically one about how proud he was to be British when he saw the Queen crying on TV. Several critical yet level-headed comments were made along the lines of "outrageous waste of money when people are suffering with the Coalition's cuts". He responded by making a sneering comment about the Welsh language to me, I snapped and instantly unfriended him. He later tried to say it was a joke - yes, like Jeremy Clarkson or AA Gill's "jokes", they betray a lack of respect.

Made me wonder quite a bit, in "real life" I've always avoided people like that, why am I "friends" with them in the first place?

Re: Are you on Facebook?
« Reply #149 on: 31 May, 2012, 07:43:40 pm »
I find FB really good for keeping up to date with, and sharing things with, my cousins over the pond.  I have almost NO family left in GB, just in N Ireland and Canada/US.  It really helps me keep in touch.  Also with other "real" friends who live at a distance from me, particularly since I am disabled and have difficulty travelling to visit them.  Plus we have a page for our woods, and find it useful to keep people updated with news of events that we hold there, and we have recruited some volunteers via FB (although Twitter was better).

I have found it to be very good provide you ignore the adverts and stuff.  Perhaps I've just got good friends?
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