I guess the real world doesn't matter on Facebook. It's when things begin on Facebook that matters to Facebook. And if you are "friends" within the meaning of Facebook, you have "friendship" in the only sense that matters to Facebook.
June 24, 2018
Facebook reality.
Just looked at Facebook and saw this message: "9 years ago today, you and your sister, Dell, became friends on Facebook. We made you this video to celebrate your friendship!"
I guess the real world doesn't matter on Facebook. It's when things begin on Facebook that matters to Facebook. And if you are "friends" within the meaning of Facebook, you have "friendship" in the only sense that matters to Facebook.
I guess the real world doesn't matter on Facebook. It's when things begin on Facebook that matters to Facebook. And if you are "friends" within the meaning of Facebook, you have "friendship" in the only sense that matters to Facebook.
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Facebook is creepy.
Facebook offers a snapshot of reality... a selfie for anyone willing to indulge their nostalgia.
Are they really going after people trying to quit Facebook?
Like Meade, I never joined. It gave off a negative vibe from the getgo.
Facebook is creepy.
That, too. I wonder if Santa was ever so invasive. It seems that he only cared if you were bad or good.
Facebook participation requires that you surrender that part of yourself that you expose to the whim of Facebook.
Just as Facebook exposes what others' surrender to you for your engorgement.
Facebook is Mr. Creosote.
It is creepy.
Anyone on Facebook is either being eaten, or watching the monster eat, until it explodes all over.
Alcoholics can't have one little drink, tobaccoics can't have one little smoke, and facebookics can't have one little media friend.
Yes, Facebook is creepy. I don't like these "personal" references which look like Big Brother.
That photo is cute
I only go on facebook to interact with family and friends who DEMAND I go on facebook.
Otherwise, I stay off it. I hate it and Zuckerprick.
Its moronic that this big herd of idiots have corralled themselves into one little site on the internet, where they get all their news and information. It reminds me of idiot American tourists who go to Paris, and then eat all their meals at McDonald's.
Very cute photo.
Facebook is a bit creepy, but there is one excellent feature: reconnecting with childhood girlfriends from grammar school, junior high, high school, college and even young adulthood.
Some have aged nicely. Yowza!
Some, well, despite the fond memories, alas have not.
Facebook is creepy, but that picture is adorable.
How sad, that Ann took so long to befriend her own sister. And that it lasted only 9 years before Ann broke it off. But Facebook is keeping score.
My wife uses Facebook for both business and personal contacts. She will often read something to me and ask be how I would reply. I tell her and then she says I would not be allowed on Facebook. At least not for long.....
I don't keep my personal photos "on" my computer but instead on thumb drives.
The photos on the computer are either work related: pictures of holes in the ground to show clients the broken pipes, pump rooms, rusted out equipment, open septic tanks etc.
OR: photos of old cars and car parts that we have sold in the past or have taken pictures of because they caught our eye. Rusted pickup trucks, interiors of 1960's Falcons showing the destroyed upholstery, 1936 Hupmobile (that was actually really cool), old engines, transmissions. All greasy, rusty and old.
This retarded program proudly announces to me that it has made a slide show "just for me!!!" that shows my memories of a certain date or month in the past.
We laugh at the "memories" of septic tanks and rusted, gutted cars.
Nice try program. :-D
Oh...I forgot...some landscape photos taken of the area and our yard to show my SIL who is a landscape architect.
My favorite is the fond memory photos of the dead coyotes impaled on the fence posts in the valley over the mountains from us that time they held a big and legal coyote culling.
Ah yes....fond memories indeed LOL
My new iPhone X appears to have used it's facial recognition ability to assemble a slide-show and match it to music.
The photos selected all include the same person who is the most prominent face in my photo album.
All done automatically without my permission or request as far as I can tell.
Kind of sweet because I enjoy watching it, but a little creepy when you think how that capability could be exploited.
I have opened a Facebook page exactly once since late September 2016 (I opened up my sister's page late last August so I could view my brother-in-law's photos of the total eclipse he took during their visit here last August). I haven't missed it. I would delete my account except that I use it comment on Powerline and a few other sites that use only Facebook for such purposes.
I don't remember where, but I read the other day that Facebook has all kinds of patents for software that utilizes the front facing cameras and microphones of cell phones in order to record how people react to videos, products, etc., as well as recording all your movements for years. Not to worry, FB assures people that there is no plan to use these programs.
It was the NY Times :https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/21/opinion/sunday/facebook-patents-privacy.html
Was Chuck the photographer? Because that's the look I imagine on Althouse's face when she addresses him here.
I have resisted joining FB despite considerable pressure from family and friends. I've stayed in touch with the school friends and relatives I have wanted to stay in touch with. If they want to contact me, they can call or email or text me. I felt especially glad I was not on it during the 2016 campaign, as I didn't have to see the hysterical political rants of people I had thought of as intelligent and reasonable.
The whole "unfriending" business sounds like junior high school all over again. Watch the fake news and then get on FB to share your outrage with all your fake friends.
@Althouse You backslid. We were convinced you had come to your senses and abandoned Facebook. Recidivist!
FB works if you stay away from politics, and keep it light and superficial. Family photos and meals, and trips. Not much else.
Engaging in politics on FB? Not a good idea. Your Leftwing friends and family members are going through a prolonged period of psychosis, and are easily triggered if you posted something even remotely positive about Trump.
Best to wait until the collective fever breaks.
Friends on Facebook is a term of art.
It's fine.
Social media was designed by the CIA, and the networking was all placed into operation by the military. Extrapolate from there.
"@Althouse You backslid. We were convinced you had come to your senses and abandoned Facebook. Recidivist!"
I broke the habit, then gave myself permission to indulge in a controlled, non-impulsive way. I'm meeting my own standard.
"Best to wait until the collective fever breaks."
I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. The Progressive/Democrat/Left has become a (Blue Oyster) Cult-- they have a fever, that only more Trump-bashing cowbell will cure.
This is what happens when you ahve a computer program write things.
Some people actually do become first acquainted on Facebook.
Not sisters, usually.
This photo looks fake to me? Look at the hairstyles and clothes? 9 years ago, and the picture looks a bit worn like from 40 - 50 years ago, long before Facebook was in existence. Dunno, maybe it's just me? But I trust my instincts on this, Facebook is known for their fake marketing to their users.
Is Facebook desperate for action these days?
I joined about five years ago at the urging of real-life friends telling me how great it was; but I soon found it a big "timesuck" (as one of my real-life friends came to call Facebook) and pretty much didn't use it. Then a friend of mine, visiting Europe, disappeared, and I got back on Facebook to contact mutual friends (real-life and Facebook) to see if anyone had heard from her. Eventually I located her in a hospital in Germany; but the sudden spike in my Facebook activity raised suspicions, and Facebook froze my account fearing it had been hacked. I found the process of re-activating it--and even more annoying the impediments to contacting any real live person at Facebook--that I eventually gave it up as a lost cause, more trouble than it was worth.
Now after a couple of years of no-contact, Facebook keeps sending me e-mail telling me of various people who want to be my online "friend." It never stops and it's like they are now desperate for me to be active again. Screw 'em.
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