facebook

[JAMSXR]

Right I am 22 and have a large group of close friends.

Now everyone seems to be on facebook these days, and some of my mates have been nagging me to set up an account, but the thing has no appeal to me at all. Now out of my 20 close mates there are only 3 of us left who are not on it, we seem to be an almost extinct breed! Everyones Mums, Dads, Uncles dog seems to be using it.

Just wondered what the biker world makes of it, complete waste of time? Or useful networking tool handy for lots of things?
____________________
Honda SFX50 > Aprilia SR125 > Aprilia RS125 > Honda RFV400 > K4 GSXR600 > KTM Duke > C1H 636 > K3 GSXR1000 > Aprilia RSV-R > Triumph Street Triple R > Ducati 899 Panigale > Aprilia Tuono 1100 > Triumph Daytona 675R > KTM SuperDuke 1290 2.0

[The Artist]

Where is the option for I have it but I hate it but I use it as well?

[Dragonfly]

Why would you use it if you hated it?I use it alot and have loads of bike mates there and I like it.
____________________
All the breast.
Muzza on Binge:
He's too busy beating the everloving shit out of Lizzie to notice this thread has taken a turn down Drama Avenue and stopped off at the popcorn shop.

[J D]

[JAMSXR]

One bonus of not being on it is that the girlfriend cant fined pictures of you from a night out when you got compleatly Gazeboed!
____________________
Honda SFX50 > Aprilia SR125 > Aprilia RS125 > Honda RFV400 > K4 GSXR600 > KTM Duke > C1H 636 > K3 GSXR1000 > Aprilia RSV-R > Triumph Street Triple R > Ducati 899 Panigale > Aprilia Tuono 1100 > Triumph Daytona 675R > KTM SuperDuke 1290 2.0

[Suitor_Stu]

Was in a very similar situation to you just before Christmas Jamsxr. Amongst our group of friends we usually have a big communal Christmas dinner (25or so of us), when asked if I was coming to this years one that next week, my reply was 'what Christmas dinner this year?'. Apparently there had been a gruop started on Facebook nearly 3weeks before to help organise it all. Being in my final year of uni (after being here for 6yrs!) means that not that many of my friends are students anymore and what with some of them being medics and working odd hours you can't just send a quick text 10mins before you're due to go out inviting them to somewhere. By the same token, I might not actually be awake when they think of something they want to ask me or invite me to a party etc. This is where Facebook comes in.

I've also got got photos up there from my travels so that people who are interested can have a look at them and I don't have to bore them to death with the sort of anecdotes you collect when travelling the world with the same 3 people for 10weeks! Win win there! I also like the fact that it kind of replaces the old thing you used to get when you would bring your developed roll of film in to show your friends the pics from a holiday etc. and how everyone would comment on them - you do the same with facebook photos.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, if you use Facebook for exactly what it was designed for (i.e. social networking, organising and photo sharing) then it is a very efficient tool. What I don't get on with is all the fake crap e.g. 'send a present to x' or 'how well do you know y - quiz' and everyone's biggest pet hate, the innapropriate status updates - 'dave feels like a crap', 'dave is on the toilet', 'dave says, that certainly wasn't a one wiper!!!11'

Sorry, that went on a bit longer than expected!
Stu

[Flip]

Facebook is sh1t and slightly sad. Don't bother with it, I'm going to deactivate my account later. Everytime you do something on youtube it updates automatically on fb. Sh1te. People that never speak in real life add you and message you and still ignore you in the real world.

EDIT/ Deactivated it. FB.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[Blue_SV650S]

I'm in the minority too ... I don't have a facebook account (well that isn't strictly true, I made one just to see what all the fuss is about but never use it).

If I want to electronically chat to my mates, I use email and/or MSN ... unless you are into flirting with the world, I really don't see what facebook has to offer over email etc? If anything surely it loses the intimacy of conversation between people?

I really don't see what the fuss is all about myself ...
____________________
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

[Drew]

I have it and only have a few actual friends on it.

I am constantly denying friend requests from people who I went to school/collage with. I never spoke to them when at school, so why would I want to be an 'e-friend' with them now.

Having a list of 200-300 friends who I am never going to speak to and have no interest in is not my kind of thing.

I only have 22 friends on my list, all of whom are friends that I speak to.

[pa_broon74]

I have bebo, the small number of people I count as friends have recently graduated to facebook and keep saying 'come on over, its great...'

So far I have resisted, who has time to continually update online profiles, photos, blogs blah blah blah... We managed without them for long enough, exactly what value do they bring to life bearing in mind it solved a problem that never really existed in the first place.

So much of what we get these days does exactly that. Its all part of hyperactive consumerism. All these companies continually telling us; look at this, how did you survive without it!?! All they've done is manufactured a 'problem,' convinced us we have it then sat back and watched as rampant consumerism, helpless 'keeping up with the jones' and peer pressure have us all running around like headless chicken spending so much time maintaining our social networks, that we don't have any time to actually speak to people properly.

I'm a bit of a norman, a bit carmudgeonly to be honest. But I can't log into my MSN chat thing any more because so many people try talking to me at the same time. You get the "Hi, haven't spoken to you in ages :smileyface:" I'm all 'who the fuck are you then??' And do you know the really stupid thing? I'm worried that if I go in and remove all the people I can't recall or don't know... It'll tell them and they'll be offended! I'm virtually pathetic!!

Its like we've reached the pinnacle of need. There isn't anything else, we have everything we could possibly need. So Corporations are creating new problems to solve in order stay afloat, meanwhile, we're all drowning in an ocean of mediocre products we just don't require, but strangely think we need, to solve problems we don't actually have.

Ummm, sorry, no I don't have facebook...


____________________
Didn't catch anything.

[Dragonfly]

[Shaun]

[Kwaks]

Um Pa_Broon, just set your MSN to always show you offline, then you choose who to speak to
____________________
Fallen Angel "Nae sniffing my seat now!!!!! "
www.cliqueycuntsmcc.co.uk
I AM NOT A FAST RIDER!!!!!!!!!

[Drew]

[pa_broon74]

To be honest, I don't miss it anyway. Is it not more satisfying actually speaking to someone in person?

How often have you heard stories where someone has misunderstood something and its mostly been down to the writer not really being able to express themselves adequately with words. A majority of human communication is done with body language, MSN etc renders it useless.

As for using Bebo, I haven't looked at it in a while. What I would say about it though, is it has to be the top website online for allowing its members to have the longest profile pages ever, you could scroll down for ever and ever and never reach the bottom...

On the upside, if you have a bike stolen, chances are it'll appear in the photo section of someones bebo profile given enough time.


____________________
Didn't catch anything.

[mooserx]

i use i quite a lot, it helped me get in contact with old school friends most of whom i hadn't seen or spoke to in over 16 years, i also have 95% of my work colleagues or ex-workmates, all of whom i am still in contact with, i also have over 200 people on my friends list all of whom i know and have regular conversations with either through facebook or face to face. it also helps me keep in touch with relatives who live overseas and otherwise wouldn't talk to on a regular basis, that said i don't go in for all the stupid apps i get sent and there are ony a select few photos on there. i find it useful.
____________________
TL1000r-handful.

[Shaun]

I use facebook, a lot.

I've got friends all over the country, a lot of who I don't get to see enough of, facebook allows me to keep in touch with them reguarly. I quite often get invited to parties via facebook, it's an easy way to contact a lot of people at once and make plans.

I also use it to contact promoters to book gigs, so networking, which it is really useful for, there is some promoters who request you contact them on facebook instead of via phone or email. I also keep in touch with other comics via facebook, it's good to keep up with other comics and find out what's going on, if there's any new gigs about or ones I've missed etc, for comedy it's invaluable.

Not to mention uploading pics and videos etc

I don't use apps at all, they're a waste of my time but other than that facebook is a very good thing for me.

Plus, sometimes, pics of mingles appear.

[Nufkamp]

Bebo - for children and everyone that can only communicate in 'text speak' or 'hAxOR' language.
Myspace - for people trying to promote art and/or music.
Facebook - everyone else.
____________________
As seen on Google Street View https://tinyurl.com/yfdvojc

[Moonie]

I use Facebook for staying in touch with people, but if they change it again I will nuke them.
____________________
Don't practice it until you get it right, practice it until you don't get it wrong.
Presenting the one and only Chinkmobile

[Alex-RS]

It doesn't appeal to me in any way, especially when I see how people use it, i.e actually using their spare time to "stalk" people on Facebook. And when Facebook activities are brought into real life conversations, something to do with tagging pictures etc?

Whatever, the world would /probably/ be a better place without it IMO.

[mistergixer]

Stop whoring yourself out to the lowest bidder and read how Facebook is the end of humanity.

I especially liked this comment about the article:

[Clanger]

I use it for networking and staying in touch with peeps from all over the world/UK whom I rarely see. I don't add everyone I know, just a select few.

I hated it at first, but it's grown on me, especially as I've hooked up with distant family and some old school mates whom I lost touch with, from the pre-mobile era.
____________________
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind - Dr. Seuss

[Shaun]

mistergixer, I read the article you linked to with great interest and then I saw this in the article.

[mistergixer]

I know it's poor form to quote yourself, but: