Facebook

[happytraveller]

Am I the only one who is sick and tired of Facebook?? Not a member, and do not intend to be, but it seems that Facebook is trying to take over all the internet. Many sites now seem to want you to log in with your usual details OR Facebook login, and there are constant links to it everywhere.

I have no intention of posting online what I am watching/eating/drinking/doing/not doing/listening to, and would like to keep some sort of private life, but Facebook seems to want it all.

Gone too far already I think, but it continues to spread. Mind you, wish that I had thought of the idea though, worth a few bob now.

My rant for the day then, stop the spread of Facebook.

smooth landings.

[dbcunnz]

You have another fan of the NO FACEBOOK club here I did have it but got bombarded with emails etc telling me about what everyone else was posting so promptly closed my facebook account and haven't and wont be going back to it.

[ZK-MAT]

Facebook take over the net? lol

[Ian Warren]

In your FACEBOOK is only for the yuppies who stand in the same room during a party sending themselves photos and tex's of were they are and having prolonged conversations about what they are currently doing with the final message saying .. Ill see you there

[Charl]

Thought that was the Twits?
+1 on the Facebook rant though, I make a point of avoiding businesses that require me to log in to Facebook to see them.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jan 22 2013,8:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thought that was the Twits?

Arr the TWITS rather than in your Face

[mfraser]

You guys need to sign up to Facebook........... then go to the I Hate Facebook, Facebook page!

[toprob]

Facebook has a lot of uses, if is a real boon when my kids are overseas, although these days, with smart phones, they tend to use skype a lot more. It's great knowing where they are heading off to, and have them 'check in' just to stop me worrying.

I don't receive ANY emails from Facebook, and I don't see anything from people who talk cr@p. If anyone has trouble with this, then they haven't set it up properly.

Facebook is still on probation, though, they do some crazy stuff sometimes, that's for sure. But the biggest problem is that people don't realise that they have to take some responsibility to protect themselves. It's a tool, like anything else. You wouldn't use a chainsaw without a bit of forethought and care, and Facebook is no different.

[Naki]

I have a Facebook page - dont post much apart some family things and sometimes use it to contact some friends that live out of country or some miles away. What I do find it excellent for is a news feeds - I get regular updates from Gavin Conroy, Kermit Weeks, Simon G's Thunder Mustang, the Deere Spitfire/Avenger, Warbirds, Wheels, Topgear, RealNZ, Aerosoft etc etc

[deaneb]

QUOTE (Naki @ Jan 22 2013,11:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have a Facebook page - dont post much apart some family things and sometimes use it to contact some friends that live out of country or some miles away. What I do find it excellent for is a news feeds - I get regular updates from Gavin Conroy, Kermit Weeks, Simon G's Thunder Mustang, the Deere Spitfire/Avenger, Warbirds, Wheels, Topgear, RealNZ, Aerosoft etc etc

Have to agree, that if you use it for what you want, rather than what you don't it is very useful. I have managed to catch up with a lot of family and friends, which I would not have otherwise done.

[Naki]

What I don't like is some of my friends/rellies that post every little detail on what the are doing - BUT you can block that if you wish - or delete them all together.

[creator2003]

Im a big fan of facebook and as said above i manage to keep up with family and friends ,they do some privacy changes which bug me but in the end im under no delusion that corporations are gathering data on me via fackbook or at the core IP address so i post only what i want the world to see ,the pros far out way the cons of this service if you know how to use it ..

[chopper_nut]

You can control most of what you see on there. If anybody I know starts to post lots of cr@p then I just 'unfriend' or block them. Simple. Its a great tool for me to see what my friends in NZ or the US are doing. Yes there is a lot of rubbish on there but theres also some good stuff.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (creator2003 @ Jan 22 2013,11:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

the pros far out way the cons of this service if you know how to use it ..

End of the day that's it - If you no how to OR want to use it , funny thing i did not signup and when mention i was on facebook by a workmate said nah ... i don't use it , but there i was .. since ive only added bits .. but never gone or bothered to use it .

[ZK-MAT]

You get out of life what you put in, if you don't like something that's cool, but negativity breeds negativity.

Properly set up and used as a communication and information tool Facebook can be very useful. Like others have mentioned, I get no emails and no spam and use it daily, and often. Anyone here who is connected with me will probably agree I'm on it a fair bit lol.

People use it to get in touch with me via its messaging system rather than texting or calling as when I'm out and have my phone I am connected, and it's easy to send info / pictures etc for work or pleasure.

When all is said and done if you don't like it then that's your business.

[IslandBoy77]

I can see both sides of the argument fairly clearly. Seeing as how computers "is what I do", I have to know something about a lot of things. I actually preferred Facebook when it was much simpler. I used it a bit back then. Now, I've got a "place holder" style page with minimal details. It's fairly clear how useful FB can be for a number of people. One of the big things that people simply aren't thinking of properly though is privacy. And by that, I know that most people simply don't realise how vulnerable their private lives are that they are posting on FB, and how very keen a number of groups of people are at getting their hands on such info and using for all manner of things. The common reply I get to that is "Yes, but I've got my profile locked down, and besides which FB has all these x,y,z protections and legal things in place". And all that is good, fine and dandy. But, people, do you know how incredibly easy it is for any number of "they"s and "them"s out there to get access to this stuff? And that's not even counting snooping governments. We tend to think of "our" governments in the "enlightened" west being fairly benign, with some good dollops of incompetency. I say, both are a total fiction, and if one digs around even a little, one begins to realise just how controlling, nefarious, nosey and downright unfriendly our "elected" puppet governments are. I realise this may well spark some people up and possibly bring on the tin-foil-hat eye-rolling, but I've done enough research, read enough main-stream articles, and seen enough weird / dodgy stuff in the "computer world" to know that ANY safety we have in the digital world is a pleasant illusion of comfort, glossed over with a thin veneer of civility and propriety. I strongly believe that those who have become reliant on, and exchange any depth of personal information via, the various "social networking" mediums will find themselves regretting it in the intermediate future.

[Adrian Brausch]

I enjoy reading commonsense thanks fella's

[creator2003]

lol

[IslandBoy77]

Mike - that is absolutely brilliant!! Love it. I'm gonna keep that pic in my "Funny pics" folder.

[AlisterC]

hahaha love that pic above I don't say much on there but use it to keep up with what is happening in the sim world and in my friend's worlds.
As mentioned above, play with the settings a bit, can the emails, hide the annoying people, it's not so scary. I use a "god send" addon/extension for my browser called FB Purity. Helps me hide the junk on FB these days. Well worth a look to help tame the experience and filter what you do and don't want to see. Hides ads etc too.

And, I'm pretty sure most businesses that only post up a FB link in tv ads etc probably have a public link posted, no FB log in required.