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Forum: General Talk 06-11-2011, 03:50 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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Glad to hear you spend more time here than Facebook. Believe me, some people are on and off all day, checking status from their cellphones multiple times from work.
Forum: General Talk 06-11-2011, 01:04 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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You are comparing it to PF, but most people spend a lot more time on FB than here. You come here, check out threads, post photos, view photos, then leave. A few minutes out of your day. People spend their whole days on FB even though it's just as minimalistic as this site.
Forum: General Talk 06-11-2011, 07:46 AM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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The site doesn't give the option of having many mature things to do there.
Forum: General Talk 06-11-2011, 07:08 AM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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If you can't see how socially awkward and immature the guy looked in the video, asking people to be friends and asking to post on their walls, I can't help you. The humor in it was pointing out the inane things people do on the site.
Forum: General Talk 06-10-2011, 07:03 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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Good video; really pinpoints the immaturity of the site.
Forum: General Talk 06-08-2011, 05:01 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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There's was no misunderstanding at all, after I turned you in to the moderators. [/kidding] :D
Forum: General Talk 06-08-2011, 04:58 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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Whether it's I just don't want to join, or I don't want to join because of xxxx, they both are equal in that we won't join.



I know.
Forum: General Talk 06-08-2011, 04:48 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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We actually do not need to say anything more than "we don't want to use it". Excuses or not, for whatever reason or not, we just don't have to sign up.
Forum: General Talk 06-08-2011, 04:11 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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That would officially make this thread SPAM. Hidden and well concealed spam, but spam.
Forum: General Talk 06-08-2011, 04:10 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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Early on in this thread, I was thinking employee myself.
Forum: General Talk 06-08-2011, 01:41 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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I mean users aren't always on at the same time, to see the chat/wall posts. You are on a phone talking or video chat, you are both right there in real time. The commenting on photos, liking someone's post they just put on their wall, and all that jazz is slow communication.
Forum: General Talk 06-08-2011, 01:28 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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There's video games, IM chat, posting on walls, posting and tagging photos. Subtract the video games, I don't do any internet chat (I call people if I need to), I don't post silly quotes on walls, and I don't post photos of me and friends and tag them. Doesn't leave a whole lot to do on the site, now does it?



Before facebook, you gotta wonder how people lived and survived not being able to chat, post on walls, and tag photos. :hmm:



You don't have to have a facebook, and you can still have friends.



There's no requirement to contact people through facebook, ever.



Phone is real time, video chat is real time, facebook posts are not. Nice that we've come so far in technology that we have to wait hours or maybe days for someone to post back to you on your wall. The scarier part is that all the users accept this.



Or I don't have to post anything, care about posting anything, or care about what people post, ever.



You can also email photos, send them via cell phones, or post them on your non Facebook website.



If you feel that you are happy only seeing their stuff on facebook, rather than actual real life visits, then I guess it's the site for you.



While Joel Meyerowitz may post good photography, the majority of the stuff people post are snapshots and crap photos. At least for the most part, myspace pages were unique from person to person, rather than the same cloned look of everyone's facebook page.



I do. It doesn't hold my excitement level in the least.



Agreed. I text only the people who won't answer their phones. They are mainly the text over live talk, facebook user people.



Add this one to my list.



C'mon, you're talking about the same entity that suddenly went public with everyone's full first and last name, by default. Then users actually had to go into the options to turn it off. Obviously no one did because it's 99% first and last names on their to this day.

With the above BBC report, and what they did when they changed from college users to public users, you can only think that more of this will keep happening. Great place to be a part of, huh.
Forum: General Talk 06-07-2011, 06:19 PM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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Many other reasons besides privacy:

1. Facebook has silly video games. I don't play video games anyway, and certainly wouldn't play their childish stuff like Farmville.

2. I talk to my family on the phone if I need to; I go to their houses, they come over mine. I don't need to provide them with status updates on a daily basis.

3. Heck, there are family members I don't speak to for months and want to keep it that way, and certainly don't want them to know what I am doing from day to day.

4. Any friends worth having as Facebook friends I would see in real life, hangout, do things, talk in person. I don't need to go hangout with them, then come back online the minute I come home and be like "dude, that was awesome what we just did tonight". Pretty lame stuff.

5. Trite, trite, trite. Nearly every aspect of the site, from it's banal home pages, to it's horrible photography, to it's asinine games is BORING. At least myspace had customizable backgrounds/pages/music/etc.

6. I can think of 72 other sites I'd rather visit online and spend my time.

Believe me, it goes WAY beyond the privacy issues and stuff like that.
Forum: General Talk 06-06-2011, 09:57 AM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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Facebook single handedly caused this "full name out there" trend, which is against and unlike anything else on the internet. Had the site owners gave it more thought when they brought it to the masses from out of the college fold, there should have been something implemented where it automatically only displayed first names, with full names only seen on your profile page if you chose it to be public or to your friends. Aside from celebrities, businesses, and the media, no one uses full names on anything this widespread on the net other than facebook.
Forum: General Talk 06-06-2011, 09:26 AM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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FYI, most IP addresses can only be used to track approximate locations. Most times, it's not even the right town that comes up. It's mostly the town your internet provider runs their service through.

As I said, there was no choice or option when Facebook went public. All users full names were suddenly public, and yes they could go into the options and change it, but no one did and hence, the whole facebook world goes by both names.

When I buy something with a credit card, a few people who work for that company get my real address, but who cares? They are probably 7 states or more away, have no idea who I am, or care who I am. There's a huge difference between the 3 people who handle your info where you order something from, and the 1000's of people who can look at your facebook daily.
Forum: General Talk 06-06-2011, 07:34 AM  
The Anti-Facebook Crowd...
Posted By K-9
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Facebook pages are less private than anything you mentioned above. People immediately know your face, full name, friends, family, general location, etc. None of the above even remotely introduce that information to the amount of people facebook potentially can.

Remember Myspace? People laugh at it now, but it was 10x more private than Facebook. No one ever used full names, and most barely used their first names, opting for screen names. Facebook was a college only user interface at first, which required an email address ending in edu. It was private to everyone else, and no one had a problem sharing their full names with other college members. However, Facebook went public without any notice to their users or any option to change their full name to just first names or screen names and voila, everyone's full name became public knowledge. Every internet warning about not giving personal information out in the days of myspace did a complete 360, when Facebook became public.
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