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| Reluctant Facebooking; Repost it | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 25 2009, 03:16 AM (216 Views) | |
| bretwalda | Jun 25 2009, 03:16 AM Post #1 |
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I hate Facebook. I hate seeing my friends and family sucked into that vortex crutch of minute by minute mindless diversion and contributing to it with their own posts and quiztaking. Reminds me of Thoreau's 'musty cheese quote. I do enjoy stirring up that cesspool though. Maybe you do to. And it is making converts and creating a lot of cognitive dissonance in others. I once a week post a 'Note' which is usually a Top Ten Reads of the Week - culling the most interesting news from alternative media, or gov documents, vids, etc. I'll start posting here the backend (html tags) version of those posts with the hope you'll find use for them on your own FB accounts. Putting tags into FB Notes is a PITA so this will save you some time. My chief aim is to destroy the left/right paradigm (most of my friends are republican/evangelical and fundamentalist christians), but it gets pretty much into anything except the far out fringe crypto stuff. The latest was a little different, a followup to a post I made that got a lot of feedback. Longer than usual... Feel free to edit and call it your own:
Follow up comments I added (not tagged):
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| Citizen Pawn | Jun 25 2009, 04:55 AM Post #2 |
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I recently joined Facebook. After about only a month it has been disappointing. Contacted relatives I lost contact with and they added me as 'friend', only to have it end at that. They don't ask how things are, they don't even speak to each other. They just post shit about themselves. It's like they have blinders on and the whole thing is about them and their Narcissism. Even some of my 'friends' have over 60 photo of themselves. It's like a big 'look at me 'contest. Nobody there is even a real friend to anyone. A lot of them are so wrapped up in Facebook, that they forget people are real. I always said that the internet would have a negative effect that way. I knew it a decade ago. I have one friend, who has so many people she could talk to in real life about her problems, but she would rather announce her complete laundry list on her 'Wall". It's sad, she thinks it's normal, and I'm thinking" Oh honey, you poor girl, you're so sweet and true, why are you doing this'? I did some 'quizzes' myself when I first set up my profile. Joined like 100 "fan pages' in a one sitting. A month later I think to myself , "Ok now what...hardly anybody took my quizzes...i'm basically just wasting time". Then I TOTALLY felt like the biggest idiot...so I'm not perfect either. People online are just avatars of their true self. It's sad. I wish we could reverse it but it's too late. Between that and Twitter, nobody seems to be changing anything. Those applications are good for business and artists like me, but not for political action or 'social networking'. And you ever notice that people on the street seem more and more distant since all these chat and social sites came online? Facebook is really getting big too with new applications and things to do. It's like Second Life....without the graphics. It's all about making YOU stand out and pretending that 150 people on your friends list really give a shit if you have a stroke or jump off a bridge. NOBODY has 150 friends. And if they do, it's too many. If people online are 'friends' then people I actually speak to and hang out with in bars or clubs, once considered acquaintances, would now qualify to be Best Man at my wedding I guess. I was just thinking about this whole topic for the past few days so I'm right there on the line of thinking. |
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| mid life rethinker | Jun 25 2009, 06:27 PM Post #3 |
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Alter the experiment. I am slowly sneaking opinions and tidbits of info into my FB posts. Under favorite movies on my profile i list all movies related to 9/11 truth. i just posted for people to be wary about what is really going on in the world this week as the media keeps the masses entralled with Michael Jackson's sudden death. No one has unfriended me yet!! |
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| Flippy | Jun 26 2009, 10:27 AM Post #4 |
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I have a FB and I do try to use it to keep in touch with my friends. I've frequently stopped at a friends page I haven't heard from in a month or two and just make a simple post along the lines of: "Hey, just checking on you, family good, everything ok?" Sometimes the comments are returned, other times not. When they are not returned I do not let it bother me because I know that I made the effort. In this world we are all so busy. I work full time, raise a family, workout, study 9/11, study linux. Frankly, most of the times on the weekend I would rather spend the time with my family than make journeys to friends houses to visit with them. Some would say that this is selfish and I would tend to agree. However, on the other hand. I spend WAY more time at work than I do with my family. Call it selfish, but they are #1 for me. Always will be. One of the things I always tell my 8 y/o daughter is that family is more important than friends. I remind her that for each of her birthdays all of the people that truly care about her are there. And they always will be. Why? Because they are family. And no matter what you do, your family should always love you. That said, is it cruel for me to touch bases with my friends every once and a while? Is it cruel for me to appreciate time with my family more than time visiting with friends? I say no. I have had plenty of "friends" who disappear as soon as the things they want in me are not available to them any longer. Is that my fault? I'm not sure. I do agree with CP regarding the narcissism some have on FB. However, the point I am making is that not everybody does that. As well, not every body has time to devout to visiting with friends with so many other things to do. |
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| Q | Jul 28 2009, 06:42 AM Post #5 |
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I have never joined any of those types of sites. My friends are "people with whom I communicate on a friendly and equitable basis". I have several Youtube accounts (keeps different topics segregated), and when somebody submits a "friend request" I put 'em through the third degree before adding as "friend". I have ONE Skype account and there are only about six people with access to it. As far as "social networking" is concerned, I'm perfectly happy with the humble email. |
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| bretwalda | Sep 9 2009, 01:37 AM Post #6 |
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haven't done one of these in a while - feel free to use it. If you post it as is in FB 'Notes' section the links should show correctly:
Edited by bretwalda, Sep 9 2009, 01:38 AM.
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