facebook.. do you think......

[gina32]

its a good think or not, have you made friends with people you havent seen for ages or have people you no longer want to know tried to add you?? do you ahve any stories about it?

[Philtaz]

I've never used it and never will.
I have no desire to, nor see th attraction and fascination of other people in putting my personal, private and social life on public display to all and sundry.
And I won't even begin to recount the problems it has caused in my place of work.

What does amaze me is the amount of people who complain when some irrelevant piece of info about them is bandied all over FB, but post exactly the same nonsense about someone else a few hours later!

As for keeping in touch with people, what's wrong with a phone call or the odd emailed photograph?

[Bobbisox]

someone where I used to work ended up in trouble for slagging the Boss off on FB, how stupid are these people?

[shaneystar2]

I'm of the same mind Philtaz .It seems to cause an awful lot of aggro .Not something I want to partake in .I can phone my friends and family ,email or even do that very old fashioned thing called writing a letter :)

[Bobbisox]

and what about the various bullying cases we have heard of?

[milly143]

I always feel the need to stick up for Facebook.

I get the feeling there are a lot of people who like to jump on the the 'Facebook is the cause of all bad in this world' band wagon. For a start, Facebook does not cause problems. Facebook does not have affairs, nor does it get p1ssed and do moronic things on a Friday night nor does it air peoples dirty laundry in a public place - it's the users who do all that.

Secondly, in terms of seeing a load of boring old tosh on there, yes some people do feel the need to share the most mundane points of their day on there but that doesn't mean you have to look at it. It's the same as any other website, like this one. There are frequently posts on here about things that people did/remember, etc 40 years before I was even born and I have no interest in them, so I don't bother looking at them. If you don't like it, then don't look at it.

[Philtaz]

It's mainly for gossips, nosey parkers or 'look at my fabulous holiday pics from the Maldives, aren't I considerably richer than you' types, IMHO.

[Bobbisox]

here is monitored milly but I do agree 100% if you don't like something, why the hell join in?
I like the FB small group of friends I have and do not feel the need ever to recruit more

[Bobbisox]

Triggs, go grow a pair...ha-ha-ha-ha

[Bobbisox]

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[milly143]

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And people think Facebook is bad.

p.s. Thanks Red and Triggs.

[Bobbisox]

uh-oh..LOL

[chrissa1]

I posted this in January and think it's FB at its best.

http://www.theanswerb...k/Question978306.html

As for the rest of it, it's pants.

[starone]

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole - I wouldn't even touch it with somebody else's barge pole. I like to keep my private life to myself, although I quite often give information on here about my past. It seems to me to have caused a great deal of trouble. Personally, I don't want to know any of my relations who I am not already in touch with, and I have telephone, email and skype to keep in touch with them. I was once asked to be a friend by a person I had bought books from on ebay. Friend? I didn't even know him except he liked the same kind of books that I did. Honestly! No I don't want to be on Facebook.