Open Forum → Re: Facebook outage

"Facebook is a godsend. I was able to reconnect with several old friends I thought I'd never see again"

If I've lost contact there is probably a reason behind it.

"Like I said,"

Yes, I read it the first time so it's not necessary to repeat your self. You can justify you reasons for liking farcebook all you want. Many of us will still not give a shit about farcebook or how you keep up with your old friends.

Epic comprehension fail there....

My comment was bout the "Like I said," hence the quote.

"If you lend someone $20 and never see them again, be glad."

Since you asked for it…

Facebook is idiotic as a concept and in execution. There's nothing elitist or holier than thou about it, except for the people that use it and think that the world cares what they had for lunch or the fact they ‘Liked’ something. I was on Facebook for about 6-9 months back in the 2009-2010 time frame. I signed up reluctantly after refusing to do so for a long time after a friend of mine talked me into signing up as a way to share photos from events that we were going to. Before I knew it I had a whole clan of people after me for ‘Friend’ requests. That would be my high school graduating class. I didn’t give a shit about 99% of these people in high school, they didn’t give a shit about me, and I have no interest in keeping in contact with any of them. The bulk of the 60 or 70 ‘friends’ that I collected were basically people that I work with and a few acquaintances from other mutual in real life friends. I denied twice as many ‘friend’ requests as I accepted.

No, I do not care what any of these people had for dinner, no I don’t care about someone needing a bean sprout for their fake farm, no I don’t care what band you ‘Liked’, no I don’t care about your rant from a bad day at work, suck it up cupcake and deal with it, no I don’t want to see blurry pictures of drunken stupidness, no I don’t want to some shitty cell phone quality video of a concert that’s a shaky, grainy and distorted. It’s the elitist and holier than thou that feel they need to share every event, no matter how minute and minuscule in their insignificant lives with the rest of the planet. I could not deal with the constant bullshit being posted. There was way too little signal and way too much noise. And every day it seemed like I had another 2 or 3 ‘apps’ to block. I really don’t care that you made $10,000 pretend dollars in your pretend café, I will not join and I don’t want to see updates about it.

And a few other notes, Zukerberg is a creep. Half this country is all upset about the Government spying on suspected terrorists, when the government really doesn’t have to do anything, since people spill their lives on Facebook. And no, I don’t believe for a second that what your post on Facebook is secure, once it’s online, it’s public information, no matter how good you think your security settings are.

And you know what’s bullshit? Facebook’s removal policy. They make it a bitch to find the way to permanently delete your account and would rather have you deactivate it, then you have to do through some stupid questioner form and fill out a statement of why you want to leave, there’s a two week waiting period and at any point if you log in to your account during those two weeks, you have to go through the whole process again. After I submitted my removal request, I forgot to remove all of my information. Yes, I now it’s still stored on a server somewhere in California, but I wanted to remove everything anyhow. This was a couple days after I deactivated, so I had to go repeat the process again.

Facebook will never stand the test of time. In year years from now one will ever talk about Facebook and it will be a distant memory, it’s a fad.

As with most things they touch on Matt and Trey hit the nail on the head with the ‘You Have 0 Friends’ episode of South Park.
»www.southparkstudios.com ··· -friends

Since you asked for it…

Facebook is idiotic as a concept and in execution. There’s nothing elitist or holier than thou about it, except for the people that use it and think that the world cares what they had for lunch or the fact they ‘Liked’ something.

It was. I guess too many people got all butt-hurt over it, though.

The only way to use Facebook safely is to not use it, period.

Facebook is a diseased cesspool of garbage. It’s for the narcissists and the sheeps of society who feel they have to partake in what others do. You should be laughing at people like yourself who participate in such nonsense, you guys are the ones that humor me.

I have it locked down, no one can see my profile or page unless I give permission.

Facebook is a diseased cesspool of garbage.

Actually DSLR is more like the end result if a circus freak show could mate with a train wreck.