People letting us all in on their every day moment on FB!

Thoughts_Arrive

Do people think anyone cares?

Is still in bed
Is off to work
Is so tired
Is going out
Is making dinner
Is taking a shit

Is this what our youth have come to today?

South of Seattle

This is why there is no need for Twitter if you have a Facebook.

Rygar

The AET is a lot like this

Drowned Out

You should have made this your status :P

I dont get why people get annoyed enough about the trivialities of fb that they feel they need to come HERE and make trivial complaints about it.....while continuing to use it.

Turn off status updates in your news feed....problem solved! I think you can even go so far as to block the updates of specific friends...pretty much every complaint about facebook can be solved by exploring your privacy and feed settings...

LikeAnOcean

I have a few friends that do that. Its annoying.. come up with something interesting, funny or be more specific about how you woke up, made dinner, etc.

soulsinging

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Do people think anyone cares?

Is still in bed
Is off to work
Is so tired
Is going out
Is making dinner
Is taking a shit

Is this what our youth have come to today?

Exactly why I don't understand twitter.

soulsinging

Drowned Out wrote:

You should have made this your status :P

I dont get why people get annoyed enough about the trivialities of fb that they feel they need to come HERE and make trivial complaints about it.....while continuing to use it.

I'm with you there. It reminds me of Republican conservatives ranting about homosexuals while they have affairs their young boy pages. Like complaining loudly about how others use it makes them cooler and less vain or loser-ish than other facebook members.

Drowned Out

I agree on the twitter thing as well...I pretty much NEVER use my status update, so twitter seems completely pointless to me...BUT....I'm secure enough in my opinion of it to not feel the urge to complain about it all the time
Out of curiousity, thoughts_arrive: how long have you been on fb? It seems like new users are more likely to be annoyed by this stuff...once you've been on there for a while, it is what it is....'least for me it that's how it's worked...

rockpants

I'm mostly just annoyed by people feeling the need to publish the results of every stupid "test" they take, or every time they "buy a drink" for someone (a new application to block every day, it seems). Once in awhile is fine, but FB doesn't allow you to "turn down" the amount of stories you see about a friend like they did before. Now it's a entire blockage of that person's updates, which I think is too much. It was better when it was more like a dimmer switch.

Also, some people are just boring. They can't help it.

Bathgate66

....but yet you made a thread on a message board about this,....

Thoughts_Arrive

How do you turn the status thing off?, there are certain people that flood my page.

Thoughts_Arrive

Bathgate66 wrote:

....but yet you made a thread on a message board about this,....

yeah pretty much...yeah...

Thoughts_Arrive

Drowned Out wrote:

I agree on the twitter thing as well...I pretty much NEVER use my status update, so twitter seems completely pointless to me...BUT....I'm secure enough in my opinion of it to not feel the urge to complain about it all the time
Out of curiousity, thoughts_arrive: how long have you been on fb? It seems like new users are more likely to be annoyed by this stuff...once you've been on there for a while, it is what it is....'least for me it that's how it's worked...

Probably close to a year.
I first had it ages ago but deleted it, reactivated it about a year ago to keep in touch with my cousin in Germany.

Plankton

I generally think Facebook is pretty horrible.

It has some good things going for it, but as a whole, I think it's so socially damaging to everyone. Importance is given to crap and it's just another way of parading lives in a bad way, so much more pressure goes into the appearance of every aspect of your life, it's sad.

It has little to do with really interacting with people.

Enkidu

This thread made me laugh because I just cut and pasted a status update from someone and emailed to a friend for a joke. I know I can turn off an individual's status update thing, right? I just haven't gotten around to it. Here's the status update:

[Jane Doe] is going to to the farmer's market for Japanese tomatoes and Persian cucumbers to make an Israeli salad.

youngster

Plankton wrote:

I generally think Facebook is pretty horrible.

It has some good things going for it, but as a whole, I think it's so socially damaging to everyone. Importance is given to crap and it's just another way of parading lives in a bad way, so much more pressure goes into the appearance of every aspect of your life, it's sad.

It has little to do with really interacting with people.

+1

mbangel10

Plankton wrote:

I generally think Facebook is pretty horrible.

It has some good things going for it, but as a whole, I think it's so socially damaging to everyone. Importance is given to crap and it's just another way of parading lives in a bad way, so much more pressure goes into the appearance of every aspect of your life, it's sad.

It has little to do with really interacting with people.

I signed up for Facebook and Myspace ages ago, and never posted anything. The only reason I signed up for either of them were to check band sites. I've had coworkers ask me about a meme or something they sent to me, and I had no idea because I can literally go months without ever looking at either site.

For me, I just don't get it. If I'm going to take the time to write something, it's usually just a response to a post in this forum or the few others that I hang around in. I've always thought message boards were much more fun anyway.

aNiMaL

soulsinging wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Do people think anyone cares?

Is still in bed
Is off to work
Is so tired
Is going out
Is making dinner
Is taking a shit

Is this what our youth have come to today?

Exactly why I don't understand twitter.

Same here, I just don't get why people care what others are doing. I couldn't care less what you or anyone are doing right now.

LikeAnOcean

aNiMaL wrote:

soulsinging wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Do people think anyone cares?

Is still in bed
Is off to work
Is so tired
Is going out
Is making dinner
Is taking a shit

Is this what our youth have come to today?

Exactly why I don't understand twitter.

Same here, I just don't get why people care what others are doing. I couldn't care less what you or anyone are doing right now.

I use Facebook the same way I use this board.. I ask questions, post funny links, talk sports smack.. Facebook can be really fun, like this board only with people you really know, however, there are people who give constant stupid updates.. imagine if I came here and started a thread titled "I'm going to work" or "I'm going to sleep"..

And even worse, the people who constantly complain about their lives! How do I delete them without having to explain to them at work why I deleted them?

megatron

i just farted

Bathgate66

I did a search on this forum and it came back with no suitable matches,
so here goes.

Elizabeth Perkins was on Craig Ferguson Late Late Show.
She told Craig he was in her top 5 List on FB :

Dave Matthews
Eddie Vedder
Craig Ferguson
Jeff Bridges
Daniel Day Lewis

pearljgirl2010

sometimes I put stuff in my status just to see if anyone is actually reading it :-)

xavier mcdaniel

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

sometimes I put stuff in my status just to see if anyone is actually reading it :-)

I do the same thing.

aNiMaL

MEGATRON wrote:

i just farted

I smelled your twitter.

All5horizons1991

Read this a few months back. It pretty much sums up my opinions (both good and bad) of Facebook & Twitter.

Q: Can you think of the sports equivalent of the spouses of buddies whose Facebook friend-request you accepted who constantly update their status on the topic of taking care of their kids? Like "Jenn is watching her little ones nap" and "Sarah is playing 'Bob the Builder' with her kids! Yay!" As a 28-year-old unmarried man, it's not that I don't appreciate females or motherhood, it's just that I don't care. For the same reason that I don't update my status with "Kully just put on jock itch cream."
-- Kully, Guangzhou, China


SG: Wouldn't the sports equivalent be like ending up with an undesirable throw-in for an NBA trade (aka Marcus Banks)? The more interesting angle for me is how Twitter and Facebook reflect where our writing is going thanks to the Internet. In 15 years, writing went from "reflecting on what happened and putting together some coherent thoughts" to "reflecting on what happened as quickly as possible" to "reflecting on what's happening as it's happening" to "here are my half-baked thoughts about absolutely anything and I'm not even going to attempt to entertain you," or as I like to call it, Twitter/Facebook Syndrome. Do my friends REALLY CARE if I send out an update, "Bill is flying on an airplane finishing a mailbag right now?" (Which is true, by the way.) I just don't think they would. I certainly wouldn't. That's why I refuse to use Twitter.

As for Facebook, I don't mind getting status updates and snapshots of what my friends' lives are like -- even if "Bob the Builder" is prominently involved -- as long as they aren't posting 10 times a day or writing something uncomfortable about their spouse/boyfriend like "(Girl's name) is … trying to remember the last time she looked at her husband without wanting to punch him in the face" or "(Girl's name) is … just going to keep eating, it's not like I have sex anymore." Keep me out of your personal business, please. Other than that, the comedy of status updates can be off the charts. Like my college classmate who sends out status updates so overwhelmingly mundane and weird that my buddies and I forward them to each other, then add fake responses like, "(Guy's name) … snapped and killed a drifter tonight" and "(Guy's name) … would hang myself if the ceilings in my apartment weren't too short." It kills us. We can't get enough of it. We have been doing it for four solid months. And really, that's what Facebook is all about -- looking at photos of your friend's kids or any reunion or party, making fun of people you never liked and searching for old hook-ups and deciding whether you regret the hook-up or not. That's really it. All in all, I like Facebook.

libragirl

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Do people think anyone cares?

Is still in bed
Is off to work
Is so tired
Is going out
Is making dinner
Is taking a shit

Is this what our youth have come to today?

ha, yeah I don't care really. I hardly put up any status updates. I have no illusions people give a shit. I saw a news report about how kids are turning into self-obsessed, narcissistic monsters because of these social websites. The sad part is it's not only kids that are like that.

rival.

i have an idiotic friend that constantly talks shit about his job through his status. not a smart move considering he has a ton of co-workers on his friends list.

but yeah, i've had facebook for a little over a year now maybe and proud to say i have never done a status update.