I may have to leave facebook

[gbsuey]

It won't be a problem, i only pop in to check my inbox once in a while if i'm not on the p.c. Never do that status update thing. But it's always the same 5 or 6 people who do update it, like all the time that are making me angry. Especially anything to do with farmville. The temptation to just put really offensive comments in is getting too much. Like, NO-ONE FUCKING CARES- GET A LIFE.

Last week i overheard this conversation; "Have you been to farmville today? You can get snow now and Bulls that make little tiny bulls, it's brilliant" My soul broke a bit right there and then (says the girl on the internet chat site)

so it's either anger management or goodbye fucking wasters who feel the need to report every tiny detail of their life to their "friends" .deep breaths.

I'm sorry if you like farmville, really very sorry

[checkyourprez]

block their farmville playing buster asses.

[ericlee]

Yup, just block that junk. I was annoyed when I first started it, seeing my friends getting new guns and shit on Mob Wars so I blocked it all.

It's very pleasant and peaceful now.

[jabumbo]

yeah, i just block all those stupid apps so i'm not getting notices about joining them every couple hours

[monkey]

im pretty sure fb is making my life miserable.

[rirv]

This is all so postmodern.

I think Facebook is a great way of keeping in touch with friends all over the place - especially through organising events and parties.

Even in real life there are people who like to tell you every detail of their existence. At least with facebook you don't have to listen, in real life you can't just walk out the room while someone is talking to you.

[gbsuey]

This is all so postmodern.

I think Facebook is a great way of keeping in touch with friends all over the place - especially through organising events and parties.

Even in real life there are people who like to tell you every detail of their existence. At least with facebook you don't have to listen, in real life you can't just walk out the room while someone is talking to you.

That is the reason i stay, it is great for keeping in touch with friends, and i will most definitely be blocking some of the shit out. I also just need to get less annoyed at people!

It is quite nice now i don't get messages all the time telling me someone has sent me a plant or some shit, so i don't need to virtually shove it up their arses. (y)

Oh god..now i sound like a compete bitch, i just hate the apps i guess

[YoungRemy]

let me see if I can try and verbalize this theory of mine....

i want to treat my fb page like it's just another forum or message board. i basically play the same persona as I would at all the other places I'm a member of and have been doing Internet-like things for years.

now all these Joes and Janes are coming out of the woodwork and getting on facebook, acting like they just discovered the Internet or something. I'm not claiming ownership or saying "I knew about it first", because I was hesitant to join in the first place and recently signed this past summer...

but i get frustrated too many times when I'll post a song lyric or a movie quote and some random elementary school buddy wants to throw in some commentary that basically says to me they don't get the reference.

that or I'll post a Beastie Boys or maybe a Houston Rockets related tidbit and I'll get haters coming in and talking trash.

I want to tell them to go fuck themselves but their mom shops at my mom's store or some bullshit like that.

and when people respond to a status update you made in real life, it just starts to cross the line and get creepy...

and political/religious posts are the worst. why would you open that can of worms with every single person you have a degree of separation with?

[gbsuey]

That's the problem right there, we're all just too polite. So we end up with conectivity with people we wouldn't really choose to do so in real life.
I would rather have the virtual strangers of bbmb as my facebook friends than people i once went to school with(but can't recall actually interacting with there either). So now i read what they're doing every day and getting mad about it.
Just say no

[Adam]

I'm using facebook more and more now. Mainly because of my new smart phone. The app lets me cut out a lot of bullshit I can't seem to do on the web page. I get the updates and photos I want to see, none of the request of this that and other apps and groups.

Its why twitter became so much nicer for me - I get the appeal of facebook but it always seemed too noisy and trying to do too much. But twitter has more of my geeky mates on who refuse facebook and facebook has those that don't get twitter. I need a combination of the two twitbook? facer? twitface? I dunno. Well it kinda works without because my notices are set to what I want to read on my phone.

Its weird how a phone is more customisable than my browser I suppose.

[YoungRemy]

that's what ruined myspace in the first place, too much clutter and bullshit.

now you've got assholes asking you to join farmville just so you can help them grow some spinach (you don't even have to play!) or that the Moscow job is open... I've got a bouquet of poinsettias and a christmas tree that I don't want to accept and my fourth grade art teacher wants to be my friend and frankly, I don't want her knowing that I'm at the Bob Dylan show.

i think I just wasted the last 10 years of my life on the Internet.

[Adam]

You can ignore all app requests from people. I do every time some1 new tries to invite me to anything.

[gbsuey]

Something else i don't get, why would someone want to add you as their friend, and when they request that, you think, oh alright then, send a message along "how's your life gone since i last saw you 20 years ago" seeing as you might as well as you're just back in touch, and then get no reply? Cheeky fuckers, it's happened a couple of times, and again i was too bloody polite to just ask why the fuck they wanted to be "friends" and yet can't be arsed to say hello. Right, next time someone requests i'ma telling them to cock off

[jabumbo]

facebook certainly was more exciting for me before i had coworkers or family members friending me and everyone else pretending they are in the mob.

[mickill]

I think you're mistaken...those bulls actually help produce "baby calves", not "little tiny bulls".

[destructo]

You can buy virtual farm animals on face book? ..and I thought I wasted too much time on this forum board.

[gbsuey]

I think you're mistaken...those bulls actually help produce "baby calves",
not "little tiny bulls".

Exactly....those were her words.....partly why i was stood with my jaw hitting the floor. If my son had been playing with his farm animals, fair enough, but she's a grown woman

[paul jones]

I used to visit tons of farms in an old courier job and they fucking stink!!!(y)

[monkey]

i currently need everyone i know to leave wonderfully glowing and cheesy and loving messages on my fb wall so they can shove the fucking message from the beast known as the ex's wife (with a picture of the two of them!) from the first page of my goddamned wall. it's a nice message, she's trying to reach out to me for some goddamned reason, but jesus, this is so fucking weird. pisses me off.

[paul jones]

i currently need everyone i know to leave wonderfully glowing and cheesy and loving messages on my fb wall so they can shove the fucking message from the beast known as the ex's wife (with a picture of the two of them!) from the first page of my goddamned wall. it's a nice message, she's trying to reach out to me for some goddamned reason, but jesus, this is so fucking weird. pisses me off.

ok.....(y)

[silence7]

I've had quite a few people invite me to join FB. But along with my obligations on multiple forums, MySpace, Twitter, my own sites, my real life friends, e-mail, and family, at the end of the day I'm f-ing tapped out, and I would like some f-ing privacy.

Everyone in my life does NOT need to know what I'm doing every minute of the day. I'm sure there are things that I do during the day that they would either not want to hear about, nor be happy hearing about, or quite frankly they'd either be disappointed, or grossed out by.. Give me some breathing room.

[Adam]

I dunno - I see the arguments of not having to join more and more sites to be freinds with and to interact with people. I used to have the same arguments but using these as tools to help your social life as it is already I think is a great way to enhance it.

Like I've managed to find some gigs and nights out as well as the odd date here and there because of it. All with people I knew before but haven't had contact with for a while. Someone might make a bit of a comment to say they are heading somewhere and you are gonna be there to - you could find a whole 2nd reason for being there. You might get a notice on your phone to say "X is in the pub bored", and you're 5 mins away from that pub and you could think what the hell I'm there which could lead to an awesome night out.

The problem is, like has been said before - it gets too freaking noisy when everything is on one place and fb is the very reason for existence. I have some friends I'm sure go to every #event on twitter just so that they can actually put that on twitter - gets annoying. But use them as a tool to fill little voids in life they can be very useful.

Monkey - I would,I searched on fb for your username you use on twitter and couldn't work out which one you was exactly are - unless you're the eye?

[Planetary]

Yup, just block that junk. I was annoyed when I first started it, seeing my friends getting new guns and shit on Mob Wars so I blocked it all.

It's very pleasant and peaceful now.

how do you block this shit. God knows i've tried

[b-grrrlie]

how do you block this shit. God knows i've tried
On Newsfeed you just hide the applications. When you hover over on the right hand corner of the newsfeed there appears a square where it says Hide, click that. If you've sometimes clicked on those they appear on your applications too. Then go to Settings -> Application settings and delete them from there. Check both Resently used and Authorized.

[Documad]

I joined a couple of weeks ago because a family member asked me. I have no fb profile but fb knows that I know people! Some of them are my friends but some of them are people I loathe. FB is creepy! There is nothing that I want to say to a bunch of people at one time. FB is not for me and that's okay. But it's been fun to see my friends' photos.

Even with just a few friends, I'm getting multiple farmville updates daily. I'm not judging. I'm glad people are having fun. But the poor grammar bothers me. "Karen found a wild turkey on THEIR farm." :(

[Caribou]

I need a combination of the two twitbook? facer? twitface? I dunno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D07IvaECHjk

Praise be the tweet.

[jabumbo]

what i want to know is, why do people always freak out about the privacy issues with facebook?


the site is only what you make of it. you could update your status all day long, or you could never change it at all. i personally tend to comment to other people more than i update my own stuff. i mean, i think i've updated my personal info maybe twice since i joined the site some 4/5 years ago.


so everyone should stop freaking out about facebook stealing your identity or bombarding you with every one of your acquaintances bowel movements for the week.

[Adam]

I think with the privacy issues - its the underhand way they go about it. The default is show all and when you first use the site it asks you all sorts of questions that many tend to answer and click though and then never check. Most other sites generally has a default of turning these off or not bother asking unless you go searching for it.

Then they move the goal posts quite often. And they do have very good algorithms to target adverts at you personalised to what your updates are long with political beliefs and marital status.

Also, the way they own the photos people upload is something to be aware of. I'm sure some1 here got their photo used on a dating site they never signed up for, can't request it to be taken down or regain ownership of that photo as its already been sold. You just got to be very careful and unfortunately a lot of people aren't because its nicer to be a trusting person than a suspicious one. But I think people are becoming more aware of their online personalities now. I mean, I'm very ok with my name and even address being on the web - I had an online business even so I had to be ok with it but fb tends to ask too much without showing its true intentions. But like Documad said, its gone beyond friendly to a little creepy.

[gbsuey]

I don't have a problem with the privacy thing, i don't have much info on there, and they certainly won't be using my photo on a dating site unless they wanna go out of business. My info's not all true anyway, my marital status still says in a relationship as the fact we're no longer effectively together is being kept from family for a while.
I've been slack at putting up my singapore photos though, i should get on that seeing as it one of the few reasons i use it.

[b-grrrlie]

I'm not on Facebook with my real name, but still they found a business associate of mine and suggested as a friend. And she doesn't even know the e-mail address I had on FB. Since then I changed my e-mail address there, which is just for FB. Haven't gotten a single spam mail to that address! :eek:
I never post photos of myself in there (actually this forum is the only one where I post photos of myself!), but I've been tagged a couple of times.

I've made quite a few new friends because of FB and just yesterday morning I asked to be a friend with a guy who moves in the same circles as me and he seems to have a good taste in music (and awesome gf!). Luckily I checked his wall straight away as I found out the Soundtrack of Our Lives were playing an instore gig at Nudie jeans store. The gig was not announced on the band's website, and even on the store's website (and on their window) only the day before. I found out about it four hours before and was just off to the hairdressers!
So FB's good.