Facebook crush feature - would you use it?

Meltdown99

HesCalledDyer said:

I don’t even use Facebook. Zuckerberg is a privacy stealing government crony. He and his corporation can both go fuck themselves.

LOL.  How do you really feel?  Could not agree more, Zuckerberg is douche...

PJ_Soul

Dr. Delight said:

PJ_Soul said:

tempo_n_groove said:

PJ_Soul said:

I will not be using it, as I don't see the point. I can see some of my FB friends selecting me as a "crush" and perhaps vice versa, but none of the ones I might even start considering for a date don't live where I do, so there would be absolutely no point. 

Long distant crush then!

I can't think of any reasons why that would be a good idea, lol. What would the point be? To make things awkward?  

Phone sex, duh!
Hit me up!

dankind

https://youtu.be/Oy10rRJ0Cuk

HughFreakingDillon

it's funny to me that FB even rolled something like that out. I mean, I guess maybe they are trying to win back the younger people to FB, but I have a feeling that ship has passed. none of these kids want to be on Dadbook. My daughter keeps begging me to let her join instragram (NO!). She has not once asked about FB. 

PJ_Soul

Lol, I don't use Instagram either. I really don't get the point of it, unless one is just using it as a photo album. At least on facebook there are real conversations happening, and political discourse and everything. Instagram is just a narcissist's paradise. I don't get the appeal to non-narcissists. But of course Facebook owns Instagram, so I doubt they care which one you use all that much! They have all demographics covered between both platforms!  

dankind

PJ_Soul said:

Lol, I don't use Instagram either. I really don't get the point of it, unless one is just using it as a photo album. At least on facebook there are real conversations happening, and political discourse and everything. Instagram is just a narcissist's paradise. I don't get the appeal to non-narcissists. But of course Facebook owns Instagram, so I doubt they care which one you use all that much! They have all demographics covered between both platforms!  

A picture is worth a thousand words....

tempo_n_groove

PJ_Soul said:

Lol, I don't use Instagram either. I really don't get the point of it, unless one is just using it as a photo album. At least on facebook there are real conversations happening, and political discourse and everything. Instagram is just a narcissist's paradise. I don't get the appeal to non-narcissists. But of course Facebook owns Instagram, so I doubt they care which one you use all that much! They have all demographics covered between both platforms!  

Instagram is a cesspool.

That being said, had this been invented when I was in my 20's I would be a millionaire by now and have thousands of subscribers.  With all the traveling I did it could have made me money.

Oh well.

PJ_Soul

dankind said:

PJ_Soul said:

Lol, I don't use Instagram either. I really don't get the point of it, unless one is just using it as a photo album. At least on facebook there are real conversations happening, and political discourse and everything. Instagram is just a narcissist's paradise. I don't get the appeal to non-narcissists. But of course Facebook owns Instagram, so I doubt they care which one you use all that much! They have all demographics covered between both platforms!  

A picture is worth a thousand words....

But there are pictures all over the internet. What's so great about the ones people are posting on Instagram? It seems to me that most of them are just selfies and shit like that... I dunno. To me facebook is still people talking to each other. Instagram most seems like people throwing stuff at others. No real discourse or connections. That's fine with me if others get off on it. I just don't personally see the point.

HughFreakingDillon

PJ_Soul said:

Lol, I don't use Instagram either. I really don't get the point of it, unless one is just using it as a photo album. At least on facebook there are real conversations happening, and political discourse and everything. Instagram is just a narcissist's paradise. I don't get the appeal to non-narcissists. But of course Facebook owns Instagram, so I doubt they care which one you use all that much! They have all demographics covered between both platforms!  

any social media can be cesspool for narcissists. it's all in who you follow. I hate facebook now,  because there's just so much hatred and so many ads and stupid suggested posts and nonsense. it's becoming the new myspace. I got tired of seeing posts of friends of friends and bullshit. Instagram I only see the stuff I follow and nothing else. I follow bands to see the pictures and videos they post from shows, etc, and also people who use twitter but not facebook can post their links from instagram as there is no character limit. 

and with instagram you can actually lock down your account so you can control completely what people see (unless you get hacked, of course). with facebook it's nearly impossible to do that. 

PJ_Soul

HughFreakingDillon said:

PJ_Soul said:

Lol, I don't use Instagram either. I really don't get the point of it, unless one is just using it as a photo album. At least on facebook there are real conversations happening, and political discourse and everything. Instagram is just a narcissist's paradise. I don't get the appeal to non-narcissists. But of course Facebook owns Instagram, so I doubt they care which one you use all that much! They have all demographics covered between both platforms!  

any social media can be cesspool for narcissists. it's all in who you follow. I hate facebook now,  because there's just so much hatred and so many ads and stupid suggested posts and nonsense. it's becoming the new myspace. I got tired of seeing posts of friends of friends and bullshit. Instagram I only see the stuff I follow and nothing else. I follow bands to see the pictures and videos they post from shows, etc, and also people who use twitter but not facebook can post their links from instagram as there is no character limit. 

and with instagram you can actually lock down your account so you can control completely what people see (unless you get hacked, of course). with facebook it's nearly impossible to do that. 

I actually misread and thought you said you won't join instagram. But no, you just won't let your daughter join it, haha.

I do have an instagram account, so I know what it's like. I just don't use it (except for seeing what Joseph Arthur is up to, as he actually posts vids of himself singing stuff, and doesn't do the same on facebook; I just re-joined Insta because of that; I hadn't been on there for a couple years prior). I think I'd be more willing to use it if I was okay with ditching facebook, but I'm not. I really love facebook for a few reasons that don't apply to Instagram, namely revolving around news and current events and politics. Using both facebook AND instagram is just too fucking much. I agree there is a lot of cesspooling on facebook, but there are ways to avoid that. Plus, I actually have shit I want to post on FB. There is no way I'd be posting photos or anything to instagram. I'd just be a useless voyeur.

HughFreakingDillon

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

PJ_Soul said:

Lol, I don't use Instagram either. I really don't get the point of it, unless one is just using it as a photo album. At least on facebook there are real conversations happening, and political discourse and everything. Instagram is just a narcissist's paradise. I don't get the appeal to non-narcissists. But of course Facebook owns Instagram, so I doubt they care which one you use all that much! They have all demographics covered between both platforms!  

any social media can be cesspool for narcissists. it's all in who you follow. I hate facebook now,  because there's just so much hatred and so many ads and stupid suggested posts and nonsense. it's becoming the new myspace. I got tired of seeing posts of friends of friends and bullshit. Instagram I only see the stuff I follow and nothing else. I follow bands to see the pictures and videos they post from shows, etc, and also people who use twitter but not facebook can post their links from instagram as there is no character limit. 

and with instagram you can actually lock down your account so you can control completely what people see (unless you get hacked, of course). with facebook it's nearly impossible to do that. 

I actually misread and thought you said you won't join instagram. But no, you just won't let your daughter join it, haha.

I do have an instagram account, so I know what it's like. I just don't use it (except for seeing what Joseph Arthur is up to, as he actually posts vids of himself singing stuff, and doesn't do the same on facebook; I just re-joined Insta because of that; I hadn't been on there for a couple years prior). I think I'd be more willing to use it if I was okay with ditching facebook, but I'm not. I really love facebook for a few reasons that don't apply to Instagram, namely revolving around news and current events and politics. Using both facebook AND instagram is just too fucking much. I agree there is a lot of cesspooling on facebook, but there are ways to avoid that. Plus, I actually have shit I want to post on FB. There is no way I'd be posting photos or anything to instagram. I'd just be a useless voyeur.

this is exactly why I joined. stuff like that. 

igotid88

People already hook up through Facebook and Instagram. Just like they did on Myspace

PJ_Soul

igotid88 said:

People already hook up through Facebook and Instagram. Just like they did on Myspace

Sure, of course they do. And on Craigslist, for that matter. Although I think this "crush" feature on FB is a little different. It's really for people who wouldn't not be hooking up like that, lol. It's for the shy people, haha.

tempo_n_groove

PJ_Soul said:

igotid88 said:

People already hook up through Facebook and Instagram. Just like they did on Myspace

Sure, of course they do. And Craigslist, for that matter.

I thought they removed all of that?

Years ago I heard about craigslist, was curious and went on there and was sorry that I did, lol.

Some people are messed up!

PJ_Soul

tempo_n_groove said:

PJ_Soul said:

igotid88 said:

People already hook up through Facebook and Instagram. Just like they did on Myspace

Sure, of course they do. And Craigslist, for that matter.

I thought they removed all of that?

Years ago I heard about craigslist, was curious and went on there and was sorry that I did, lol.

Some people are messed up!

The missed connections and rants and raves sections are still there, and there are still topic-specific discussion groups on it... people always find a way. Omg, the worse cesspool on the internet may be the rants and raves section on any active city's CL. Just terrible. Lots of racists and incels.

The Juggler

What's everyone's myspace address? We should all become friends there. 

PJ_Soul

The Juggler said:

What's everyone's myspace address? We should all become friends there. 

Lol, mine actually does still exist! And it still has some photos I posted in 2007 or something. But I don't really get what's going on with it ... It isn't clear to me what you're supposed to do there anymore, lol. It does make it clear that it wants me to "make connections".

igotid88

PJ_Soul said:

The Juggler said:

What's everyone's myspace address? We should all become friends there. 

Lol, mine actually does still exist! And it still has some photos I posted in 2007 or something. But I don't really get what's going on with it ... It isn't clear to me what you're supposed to do there anymore, lol. It does make it clear that it wants me to "make connections".

Supposed to be for musicians now. But a few weeks ago they lost a lot of the music that was uploaded

PJ_Soul

igotid88 said:

PJ_Soul said:

The Juggler said:

What's everyone's myspace address? We should all become friends there. 

Lol, mine actually does still exist! And it still has some photos I posted in 2007 or something. But I don't really get what's going on with it ... It isn't clear to me what you're supposed to do there anymore, lol. It does make it clear that it wants me to "make connections".

Supposed to be for musicians now. But a few weeks ago they lost a lot of the music that was uploaded

Oh yeah right, I heard about that.

There is also a lot of "news" about famous people in general featured there. Meh.

Meltdown99

With Instagram, it depends on who you follow.  There are some pretty great photographers that I follow on Instagram.  Facebook would be better if they did not allow comments on news stories...