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I'm Sick of FaceBook. Seriously, sick of seeing those stupid "f" things everywhere

The Curious One

By The Curious One
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elkabong82

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I like it simply because it's easier to keep contact with people who are far away, and it's preferential to calling a bunch if people. I'm originally from the DC/NOVA area so I have friends up there I keep in touch with via facebook. I have friends that graduated college with me, and they moved back home or elsewhere in the country or even to another country, so facebook allows you to keep in touch. I have classmates in grad school, all of whom are moving into the professional world with me, but in different places, and facebook allows us to share the latest stuff in our field and keep in contact with each other and share ideas.

There's a lot more benefit to social networking if you're willing to look past the stereotype of teenagers sharing memes and typing stupid status updates/drama.

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Dallsux

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I have a facebook page & I am beginning to hate facebook. I started playing the facebook games (like Farmville & the time traveling game), but I don't have a lot of friends on there that play the games (partly because I don't have a lot of friends & I believe friending people just for the games is silly-if you're not my friend in real life or in some other arena, I'm not friending you on facebook) & all those games require friends & help from friends in order to advance. So, I stopped playing games.

They also have these "like" tabs for just about anything you can think of on the side of the page. As soon as you like...whatever it is...you now get daily/hourly updates from that page simply because you "liked" it. Oh how unbelievably aggrivating that is. I have in my bio how I like particular movies. Now, I get quotes from those movies appearing on my page, sometimes several times a day. I shouldn't get updates or refreshers just because I like something.

And don't even get me started on this stupid Timeline thing. I can't tell you how many things have just disappeared off of mine, things that I personally posted just...gone. Or, I try to go back a few months (because it's there as an option) & I start scrolling & it just shoots right back up to the top.

Honestly, I'm only there to keep in contact with certain people, my Dad mainly. He works off shore & sometimes the only contact I have with him is thru facebook when he's working. Otherwise, facebook is really annoying. I really don't need to know how often or rewarding people's trips to the restroom was. And the amount of people who post things like:

"I just don't get why you do that"

without as much as an explaination....:doh:

One day, someone's going to invent another social network that will crush facebook....and be just as annoying.

EDIT: I will say that the one thing I really like about facebook is that when someone does post something that you like, you can just "like" it & go about your business without having to comment or share. Adding a feature like that here could reall reduce the amount of clutter we see from posters who simply want to agree or add their names to a post they agree with, but have little to nothing of value to add.

---------- Post added May-17th-2012 at 11:31 PM ----------

I completely agree here. I got friend requests from four or five different people following the (First Name) Redskins something or other (Last Name) convention. Had no idea who they were but figured they were ES folks. They lasted about a week or two at best with their nonstop stream of nonsense. I come to this board to read 24 hour a day Redskins drivel, I don't need more of it. Joining the ES Facebook group was also a mistake.

That's kinda funny. I have "Redskin" in my fb name, but I don't "friend" people just because they're Redskins fans. However, I do get the occassional friends request from people (especially during football season) because I post something on CSNWashington's fb page or ESPN's fb page & the requests will roll in for a couple days. No thanks.

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I have no real use for facebook other than knowing what my family is doing without calling them. In most cases I enjoy calling them more because I want to actually speak to them and interact with them like they're human beings that I share a blood relationship with. I guess a lot of people have family they don't really want to do that with and so facebook is more convenient. That statement makes some unfair assumptions but the way I see it is if I cared enough about what my cousin XXXXXX who I don't talk to often is up to, I would have called them and talked to them like I was interested rather than stalking them in the shadows leaving random comments here and there. The people I'm close with I never talk to on facebook. The people I'm not so close with are the ones who comment on things like photos I've uploaded.

That gets me to the 2nd use of facebook: being able to upload photos to share with people over great distances. It is a pain in the ass to have my brother say "hey do you have those pictures from our hike last weekend" and I say "yeah, let me send them to you in a zip file to your email and you can open them up and then describe what you think of them to me over the phone awkwardly!" so I use facebook instead and set all my pictures to that only the people I want seeing them, or who I really don't give a crap if they stalk me can see them. This leads to plenty of comments from aunts in North Carolina who look at a picture of me standing near a waterfall I hiked to and commenting "Whoa! Look at that waterfall!"

They had an old format which was based upon...I dunno...being in college and talking to other people who were also in college, typically at the same school as you. Somehow every single other member of society with an internet connection became included along the line and it has snowballed into this giant apparatus which has found its way into every possible crevice. Now I'm not going to claim its a problem, since it is only as big of a problem as anybody lets it be for them. I didn't want a facebook account but I had to because I wanted to keep in touch with this girl I met long distance. I'm married to her now so I would say for my purposes it was a rousing success. Now I have little use for it and that doesn't matter. It doesn't cost money yet to have a facebook account and as soon as it does cost money guess what I'm not going to be using anymore.

I only had one strange encounter on facebook. Some guy from georgia was wondering if I was somebody he knew in high school in 1987 which was strange because my name is not common, is probably even less common in Georgia seeing how its Italian in origin, and I had a profile picture which could be seen which was me. I'm in my 20's and the picture was clearly not from 1987-1997 just based off of the quality of the photograph, what I was wearing, and the presence of a 2006 car next to me. I replied that I was not yet alive in 1987 and the guy never said anything else.

I'm sort of sick of facebook everywhere. I'm especially sick of twitter...well I'm not sick of the idea of twitter, I'm sick of having news sources reporting what some famous idiot has "tweeted", but then again I have opted out of the news in any form other than print as a result of sensationalist pointless crap like that with the exception of weather.com...but where would I be without their inaccurate temperature forecasting?? Regardless, facebook is here to stay unlike its deformed older sibling myspace. There isn't anything we can do about it other than not really giving a crap about it and moving on with our lives. I too hate seeing the little f on everything these days. I hate having things suggesting I should "like [them] on facebook". I like the local sandwich shop, they make good sandwiches for alright prices. I am loyal to them over the other potential places to go out to eat in the immediate area but I feel it is more necessary to their existence that I like them in reality by frequenting their restaurant than joining some facebook group. Oh well. Nothing I can do about it.

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I was fine before facebook, I'm still fine now, without it :).

Two of the largest companies of the computer industry were build through copying and or stealing, and or buying others projects/properties, oh the irony !

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MattFancy

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I used to be like you hipsters

"I'm too good for FB I ain't like it"

Then I started using it more and now I have FB open on one window all day while Twitter is on the other one

Embrace it

I understand Twitter, but do you really need to know what your FB friends are doing all day? No one I'm friends with is that important. I'm not even that important or interesting.

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I just deactivated my account this morning. Finishing up a divorce, and i don't need my ex attempting to track my every move. Plus, anyone who needs or wants to get in touch with me from facebook knows how. I get tired of reading everyone's mindless crap about the cute **** their kid did, the show they're sitting on their ass watching, how bad their day went, how great their day went, how they got drunk and woke up in a closet, etc etc.

The social networking thing is running it's course with me. I like twitter for fantasy football news and stuff similar to that, but that's about it anymore. Instagram's kinda cool too....not sure if that's really "social networking" though.

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Why I Lost My Faith In Facebook Advertising

Long before GM pulled its $10M in advertising from Facebook, I lost my faith in the platform. As an online media buyer for American Apparel, I had cut the majority of my spend each month for the preceding 12 months. From the time that Facebook stopped serving banner ads through Microsoft to now, the spend I oversaw fell from nearly $1M per year to a few thousand dollars a month.

As I told Direct Marketing News in March 2012: “The return is not there. Unless you’re selling apps or lead generation, I think Facebook ads are underwhelming. I see bad things ahead for the Facebook IPO and perhaps, rising dissatisfaction among clients.”

This sentiment came from my personal experience—particularly with sketchy new offerings like the “Sponsored Story” platform which essentially charges popular fan pages a premium CPM to reach their own fans in the Facebook feed (translation: FB, who controls how much or little fans see your updates, is charging to “improve” your chances of being seen). But mostly, it came from entrepreneur Joseph Perla‘s eye opening essay “Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme” in January 2011. This prescient essay outlines all the current IPO-related criticism of Facebook and it did it way before anyone else.

Click on the link for the full article

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The return is not there. Unless you’re selling apps or lead generation, I think Facebook ads are underwhelming.

I agree with this. I'm not a heavy user, but the ads are just poorly targeted. I just checked and I get an ad for a Lexus dealership in Connecticut, State Farm insurance and substance abuse counselling. :ols: I don't think I know anyone in Connecticut, and haven't been there for ten years. The substance abuse counselor service isn't on my shopping list either, but at least they're from Virginia. :)

And the big difference between Google Ads and Facebook ads, is that most Google ads are served to people who are actually looking for something. While checking out a relative's new photo album on Facebook, I'm less likely to think about getting new car insurance.

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MattFancy

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The fools that buy that stock today are going to get fleeced.

100% agree. The problem is that all of their money is ad money. So if companies realize that their money is better invested other places, Facebook will be in trouble. And honestly, people don't go to Facebook for the advertising. And more and more people are using the mobile site and mobile apps. I hardly ever go to the actual Facebook website anymore.

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Add me to the I'm ready to deactivate my account crew. Unfortunately it's just so easy to organize events. I recently cut back significantly on my friends list, though, and I've stopped using the app on my phone. I realized in recent weeks I was checking it all the time just out of habit.

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I just deactivated my account this morning. Finishing up a divorce, and i don't need my ex attempting to track my every move. Plus, anyone who needs or wants to get in touch with me from facebook knows how. I get tired of reading everyone's mindless crap about the cute **** their kid did, the show they're sitting on their ass watching, how bad their day went, how great their day went, how they got drunk and woke up in a closet, etc etc.

The social networking thing is running it's course with me. I like twitter for fantasy football news and stuff similar to that, but that's about it anymore. Instagram's kinda cool too....not sure if that's really "social networking" though.

I have a couple of people I grew up with and went to high school with, one is a male, the other a female. Every and I mean EVERY damn post by the male is a bible scripture. The female is every other one. If I wanted to read the bible, I'd pick it up. I don't know how they got so fanatical about religion since then.

I've learned not to get too uptight about it and it's their right to post it, but every once in a while I'd like them to just have a normal conversation without injecting verses into it. I just don't see how you can be that consumed with one subject all day long unless you are a preacher. And yeah, the kids thing gets annoying. My neice posts about her kids 24/7 with pictures or stories. I love them, but damn, talk about something else.

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Ummm...that's a completely wrong assumption. It has nothing to do with attention getting, keeping, or otherwise.

I'm not old.

I have nothing against technology; my wife often complains about all my gadgets.

What I do have a problem with is the nature of what facebook has become, which is just another corporation in cohoots with other corporations and companies stripping our privacy away one byte at a time. Every single day, there is a news article about facebook. Advertisers advertise facebook in advertisments for other products. TV, radio, print, it's everywhere, and I'm just sick of it. Felt the need to vent.

Not exactly about facebook, but related:

Did you know that if someone wanted to, they could track your every move throughout the course of any given day through the use of technology. They can tell what you watch, what you buy, which credit card you used to buy it, where you go, who you talk to, which websites you visit, how much porn you watch, and how many times a week you have sex. What you had for dinner. What time you ate it.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that I'm being paranoid, or that I'm angry about it. But it's true. you are being tracked right now, in the comfort of your home, at your office, or on your smart phone. They know where you are, all they have to do is look. There was a story recently about a man who tried to sue a store for sending his teenage daughter e-mails for baby products. He thought they were trying to induce her to have sex. Turned out, the store knew his daughter was pregnant before he did, because they tracked her purchases through the use of a "loyalty" card. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Having a facebook page is just laying a trail that makes you easier to follow.

Are you Mr Reece or Finch? You sound a bit more like Finch. :)

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