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Facebook is being creepy (pg. 4)
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| Silky Johnson |
| I think I'm going to delete the FB app from my phone. Despite being very selective with my friends list, and blocking/hiding much inane and misinformed crap from my newsfeed daily, I still find the content on FB to have a mostly negative impact on my thoughts. |
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| OrangestO |
I got rid of mine a month ago - again.
Although, this time, I defriended everyone and deleted everything on my profile so I wouldn't be tempted to come back - again.
McDonald's for your mind, if you ask me.
Would you 'like' likes with that? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Facebook is extremely useful if you're a clubber. There are whole private groups dedicated to organising illegal raves. I've been to some incredible parties that were organised entirely in secret on Facebook. And if you Like your favourite DJs, promoters and clubs you get to find out about everything coming up in one centralised feed, rather than having to go around dozens of artist and club websites every week to stay in the loop.
I've also added people on Facebook after meeting them on a night out, people who I'd probably never have spoken to again otherwise, and ended up becoming good friends with them. One guy added me on Facebook at an afterparty who lived at the other end of the country. One day he saw I was going to a party not too far from him so he turned up, we got chatting and ended up becoming really good friends. Within a year of meeting we went to Sonar festival in Barcelona together. That whole chain of events would simply never have occurred if I'd just saved some randomer's number in my phone.
I'm not even going to get into other the many other benefits it has. It's a pretty simple formula: don't add people you don't like, delete anyone who annoys you, keep your friends list closely cropped and Like and follow everything that interests you culturally or socially. You end up with an all-in-one resource for keeping up with music, film-makers, authors, events and friends.
Simply put, if you think it's McDonalds for the mind that's because you're only ordering from the kids' menu. |
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| Lira |
I'm inclined to agree with Sys here - and for the opposite reason.
Rather than creating my own bubble with interests and like-minded people, Facebook is great for disrupting my "comfort zone" and showing what other people are doing and thinking about. I've subscribed to dozens of newspapers feeds from all over the world, for example, so I can have at least three different takes on every issue - and my friends often bring up novel opinions of their own. I can count on my fingers how many people I've ever unsubscribed, let alone unfriended since I first joined. Following the DJ's I like doesn't really matter much when you're in the middle of the Amazon :p
If being vulnerable to Skynet is the price to pay for all this knowledge, call me Faust and take me to cyberhell  |
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| OrangestO |
Sure, buddy.
I've worked in content marketing, so I know all of its benefits, both professionally and personally.
It's a matter of preference, I guess. There's no need to disparage my opnion by saying like "you're only ordering from the kids menu."
Typical Jack, though. Congrats on liking Facebook, lol. I'm sure it likes you, too. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by OrangestO
Sure, buddy.
I've worked in content marketing, so I know all of its benefits, both professionally and personally.
It's a matter of preference, I guess. There's no need to disparage my opnion by saying like "you're only ordering from the kids menu."
Typical Jack, though. Congrats on liking Facebook, lol. I'm sure it likes you, too. |
Give me a break, Captain Insecure. You're disparaging anyone who uses it by implying they're feeding their mind junk food, with the reciprocal implication that you are in some way highbrow for shunning it. Which is typical OrangestO. You love to make little self-congratulatory references to being a "writer" when you write web copy about toasters and you talk about your "journey through music" which involves discovering decade-old prog mixes. This Facebook thing is perfectly illustrative: you clearly think of yourself as some kind of leftfield thinking man walking a special path in life when really you're just a ing doylem who doesn't even have the nous to get social media right. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by OrangestO
Sure, buddy.
I've worked in content marketing, so I know all of its benefits, both professionally and personally.
It's a matter of preference, I guess. There's no need to disparage my opnion by saying like "you're only ordering from the kids menu."
Typical Jack, though. Congrats on liking Facebook, lol. I'm sure it likes you, too. |
Editing, content marketing, and now jobless.
Sounds legit. |
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| OrangestO |
tldr
Just like most people's stupid FB posts.
I now totally see why someone like you would like FB, lol. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| You should content market yourself, and edit your life with employment. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Nothing says "serious writer" like "Too long, didn't read". |
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| OrangestO |
I will eventually.
Freelance writing and travel blogging is just too fun right now. |
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