MrTwilliger wrote:ltsune wrote:Then you clearly haven't seen how most people use Facebook! People will NOT get more social by being on a website.
And here's where your wrong.
Last friday, I came home after work and had no plans. Sent out a few text messages, the people I messaged were spending their nights with their partners. Fair enough, I'll just spend the night relaxing then. So I go on facebook for all but 10 minutes, a few people strike up conversations with me and I had 2 invites: one to go drinking at a club and one to crash at a mates place and just play some games/have a few quiet ones. I ended up getting insanely drunk and had a good night.
Please note this happens quite often. A few weeks before that I went for a big adventure to bondi beach, had a lot to drink and made some new friends which I hung with further. Facebook is a medium of communication, of course it will increase your ability to socialise.
Another example. 2 weeks ago I met a girl while I was out with some mates. She was pretty drunk at the time, we had a good conversation and she seemed pretty nice. Add on facebook, friends request accepted, talk talk talk, convo convo convo, hung out in person the other day and we have plans to go to the art gallery this Saturday. I've made a new friend all through the power of facebook. It's a miracle! >_>
It's 2010, learn to break from tradition.
The profile? I dislike it. Too much screen real estate is spent on adverts and those "featured friends" crap. Why do I need 7000 pictures of my friends in a vertical line? Your on my page to look at me, not my friends. I'm pretty disappointed overall, frankly.
Sure, but not using Facebook doesn't mean that you wouldn't have been able to go and party with your friends, right? And besides, what I wrote has to be written in context. I was writing it in relation to the gaming part.
Anyway, you're saying that it happens quite often that you get an invitation to a party etc. via Facebook ,and that's fine. Just keep using Facebook that way! Personally I believe that's how it's supposed to be used, as you said too, a media to get in contact and keep in contact with friends/new people. But Facebook is so much more, sadly. It's one large money making and promotional stunt website.
A good and sadly true saying;
If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold!
Of course we could discuss the privacy issues, but that wouldn't make sense as nearly every huge website gathers information about you and sell that information to third party websites / firms.
But to get back t what you wrote, Facebook is not just a way of being socially connected, it's a way of living! Also, if you did not use Facebook, you would be forced to actually talk with people face to face. Please explain to me how writing to people possibly can be more social than talking to them face to face? I'll just end off by posting 7 points, which kinda sums up what I think about Facebook (written by a friend of mine):
1. They own all of the content you post.
2. People you don’t like from your past contact you.
4. Everyone on Facebook is starving for attention.
6. “Friends” can rob your house if your status is “On vacation!”
7. You leave an internet trail that can be used against you in the future. Can you imagine the mudslinging between future presidential candidates about their facebook statuses from 20 years prior?
But sure, I guess none of you guys have these problems, right?
Even though it might sound like I hate people Facebook, that's not how it is at all. Somebody who does that would have to be extremely stupid. However, again, I'm just simply pointing out that a lot of people uses Facebook as a way of life.
