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WakeandBake said:
oh my you got me there. I was wrong, Facebook is KILLER!!!!!

If you don't understand the difference then I don't know what to tell you. Go play on Facebook
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People in various parts of history said the same thing about telephones, cell phones, e-mail, and text messages as you are saying about Facebook. It's just another new communication technology. Don't know why you think it is totally different from all the others.
 
People I'm friends with on Facebook definitely suck and remind me every day what my life would be like if I went to State and settled down in Garner with a wife and two kids at 25. Terrible.
 
bigdoublezero said:
I'm actually a little bit sad for WnB. I wish you didn't have so many lame friends, bud. You'll get there one day.
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lol. thanks, maybe one day I'll have as many real-life friends as you have Facebook friends. Everyone needs dreams!
 
BeachBumDeac said:
People in various parts of history said the same thing about telephones, cell phones, e-mail, and text messages as you are saying about Facebook. It's just another new communication technology. Don't know why you think it is totally different from all the others.
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well, I am a grown person with powers of perception and I think it is different. I thought I explained clearly that I think you reach a point of diminishing returns with over-communication.

If I could be 'beamed up" to Paris or Tokyo or Sydney in seconds, then traveling would lose a lot of its appeal too. It wouldn't mean as much if I could go to Paris anytime in seconds and be back after dinner. It would be cool for a while at first, then it would be common and not special. Then, traveling will have lost its appeal to me and be off the list of fun shit to do.

See what I'm saying? Memories of my buddies from 8th grade were great, special memories for me. Seeing one on Facebook with his dog and his trip to New Orleans takes all the mystery and fun out of it. Now he's just another opinion on Facebook. I find it unappealing.
 
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WakeandBake said:
well, I am a grown person with powers of perception and I think it is different. I thought I explained clearly that I think you reach a point of diminishing returns with over-communication.

If I could be 'beamed up" to Paris or Tokyo or Sydney in seconds, then traveling would lose a lot of its appeal too. It wouldn't mean as much if I could go to Paris anytime in seconds and be back after dinner. It would be cool for a while at first, then it would be common and not special. Then, traveling will have lost its appeal to me and be off the list of fun shit to do.
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True. It really takes the hours and hours of uncomfortable seats on a shitty greyhound bus in the sky to make traveling awesome. If I could go to exotic locations without having to endure the awfulness of air travel, then it would totally fucking suck
 
BeachBumDeac said:
True. It really takes the hours and hours of uncomfortable seats on a shitty greyhound bus in the sky to make traveling awesome. If I could go to exotic locations without having to endure the awfulness of air travel, then it would totally fucking suck
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Well, you have it all figured out then. By all means, enjoy Facebook! I seem to have hit a nerve so I beg your forgiveness.
 
It's hard for an older person to accept change, let alone change that requires their peers to adapt as well. :noidea:
 
Why do you think you've hit a nerve?

I'm not a huge fan of facebook, but everybody I'd like to keep up with uses it. So I use it so I can see their pictures and hear about their lives, since they live in places where I can't just drop by a bar and get a beer with them
 
It's hard for young people to have to wait on anything, to not know what all their friends are doing all the time, to have to decide what is cool or not for themselves without having the instantaneous approval of their other friends who are seeking the same from them.
 
BeachBumDeac said:
Why do you think you've hit a nerve?

I'm not a huge fan of facebook, but everybody I'd like to keep up with uses it. So I use it so I can see their pictures and hear about their lives, since they live in places where I can't just drop by a bar and get a beer with them
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You seemed to be defending it vociferously.
 
I wouldn't call it vociferously. There are legit criticisms of facebook. Just don't think yours is legit, so I was disagreeing with you
 
A lot of times when I post something on Facebook my mom will immediately call or text me asking about why I posted something or what I am doing etc. It's to the point where I've moved to Twitter to avoid her. Her addiction to Facebook is pretty sad. #mommyissues
 
bigdoublezero said:
It's hard for an older person to accept change, let alone change that requires their peers to adapt as well. :noidea:
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This is hilarious.

Do you appreciate other things in life that aren't brand new, or are not the most convenient things? A microwave dinner is convenient, cheap, and easy - but it is not as good as a dinner cooked in a restaurant by a chef is it?
 
Also, too many people use it as a barometer of their self worth
 
WakeandBake said:
This is hilarious.

Do you appreciate other things in life that aren't brand new, or are not the most convenient things? A microwave dinner is convenient, cheap, and easy - but it is not as good as a dinner cooked in a restaurant by a chef is it?
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Depends on the restaurant and chef.

I've lived in like half a dozen cities in the past 10 years. I've got college friends, high school friends, etc., all over the world. It's literally impossible for me to keep in contact with all of them, let alone kick back with a beer with them to have a good-ole-fashioned chat every so often. Yeah, TV dinners aren't as good as a nice meal cooked from scratch, but I'd rather eat a TV dinner than starve.
 
BeachBumDeac said:
I wouldn't call it vociferously. There are legit criticisms of facebook. Just don't think yours is legit, so I was disagreeing with you
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Same question - Do you appreciate other things in life that aren't necessarily the most convenient, most efficient, and most innovative?

I didn't criticize its functionality, its ability to connect people, its ability to transmit data between people. It is superior in those aspects. I criticized its erosion of the mystery and subtlety of social contact and friendship. I criticized how it erases the spaces in-between people so much so that there is nothing left. I expressed, perhaps poorly, that those spaces are part of the balance that makes friendships more appealing.

So the legitimacy of my criticism of FB is completely subjective. If you don't value that distance between people (and places, for that matter) as an important part of what makes life interesting and people (and places) interesting, then we are done. I think FB is homogenizing and that is less interesting.
 
Anybody here ever explored the facebook underground? There's some pretty mindblowing shit down there. You definitely have to pack your battle axe, so to speak, but the opportunities outweigh the danger. Let's just say that if you want something done, it'll get done. Maybe not how you wanted, maybe the consequences are greater than you ever imagined, but the more time you spend down there, the more you start to feel like true power is only attainable through the facebook underground.
 
bigdoublezero said:
Depends on the restaurant and chef.

I've lived in like half a dozen cities in the past 10 years. I've got college friends, high school friends, etc., all over the world. It's literally impossible for me to keep in contact with all of them, let alone kick back with a beer with them to have a good-ole-fashioned chat every so often. Yeah, TV dinners aren't as good as a nice meal cooked from scratch, but I'd rather eat a TV dinner than starve.
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Why do you feel compelled to "keep in contact with all of them" at the level that FB offers? So not having every friend you've ever made at your fingertips at all times is akin to starving? That is my point exactly.

Generational difference I suppose, but it has nothing to do with resisting change.
 
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