Dmtdust wrote:

This of course is from the Mail, one of the piss-poor Fleet st. rags.  They are perhaps one step below The Sun.

Do you doubt the study?  Seems like a blinding flash of the obvious to me.

I am and use it for one reason and one reason only.  My smartphone automatically fills in all kinds of information in peoples contacts by syncing with FB profile info.  Whatever your current profile pic is pops up when you call, birthdays, emails, all that bullshit.  I created a page, put a fake name and picture on it and denied all the permissions.  People bitch because they can't write on my wall.

It allows me to quickly see which of my social circle uses it way too fucking much and talks about the most inane bullshit.  Not surprisingly I was able to predict which ones would be the way the study describes before the study came out.

If it weren't for the phone I wouldn't go near that unholy place.  I find it nearly as repugnant as divorce parties.

I am utterly amazed at the conversations that people have on their walls in public.  Why the fuck would I want people knowing my business so much?  I do read peoples updates as they come across the phone.  If you don't mind me rubbernecking your life I'm going to do it.  But then I am going to send you a text message telling you what a twat you are for posting whatever thing you just posted.  I do this to my sister quite a bit.

I'm gonna go see the shit out of The Social Network though.

Last edited by Scotty (2010-09-10 08:49:42)

I have one teenage relative who uses it to tell the world which 6 buttons with lame and stupid tags she's clicked that day.

George Orr wrote:

I'm still logged in but only to play Bejeweled Blitz for hour upon hour.  I can't remember the last time a notification e-mail hit my inbox.  I think everyone's wandered off.

You get notifications only for items you post or items you comment on.  If you're not commenting or posting, you won't get notes when other people post.  Orangeplus posted your Pedobear item over at Facebook, so had you been the one who posted it at Facebook, you would have received a notification about my comment over there.  And you can adjust your preferences so your e-mail isn't cluttered with notes from Facebook.  I did after I received thousands of notifications in the throwaway account I use.

AladdinSane wrote:

George Clooney: "I would rather have a prostate exam on live television by a guy with very cold hands than have a Facebook page."

Didn't you diss Clooney for his anti-war statements a few years back, but now you are using his quote for this?

What Taint said.  I get to torture my right wing relatives, connect with clients and friends.

Soraya Mehdizadeh from York University in Canada asked 100 students, 50 male and 50 female, aged between 18 and 25 about their Facebook habits…The findings, published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour And Social Networking

Is that even a real journal?

FB is like having a cell phone, doing email, and trimming my nose hair; it’s one of the things I do to meet the world half way.  Now that High-Street people are in my news feed. FB is more interesting.  Plus, I got to see how handsome fnord is in real life.

Tall Paul wrote:

phoQ wrote:

Soraya Mehdizadeh from York University in Canada asked 100 students, 50 male and 50 female, aged between 18 and 25 about their Facebook habits…The findings, published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour And Social Networking

Is that even a real journal?

FB is like having a cell phone, doing email, and trimming my nose hair; it’s one of the things I do to meet the world half way.  Now that High-Street people are in my news feed. FB is more interesting.  Plus, I got to see how handsome fnord is in real life.

You'll have to prove that!

If you can find me on Facebook, you can determine for yourself if he's telling the truth!

My wardrobe for opening night.