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if you use youtube-twitter and facebook does that make you a " youtwitface" person?
 
Like more and more people I know, my closest friends are dumping Facebook and Google+ etc.

Me personally I never bothered with Farsebook etc. I go back to pre WWW and enjoyed the Undernet then later ICQ and ** C ME. MSN Boards was the start of the end for me.

I looked at FB and Bebo etc but I valued my spare time as being too precious. For some people on FB it makes perfect sense and used responsibly it links like minded people and families spread out all around the world. For the great unwashed whose sole existence seems to be living the FB dream I would gather them all up and put them on an isolated island, no power, no laptops with just 1 umbrella and 1 small tin of baked beans (no tin opener) betwen the lot of them. Survival of the fittest. Too many rows and upset due to Social Media. (Surely an oxymoron there).

Steve
 
Hugh Jarse said:
I looked at FB and Bebo etc but I valued my spare time as being too precious.

Steve
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This is the bit I find odd, people seem to see it as an all or nothing thing. It is like when people say can you disable my account as I am leaving the forum.

As you said, use it wisely. It is what you make of it. I scan Facebook 3 or 4 times a day, Like things I like, comment where I want to and move on. Looking through my wall, I share 1 thing a week or so.

Some people live on it, as some people do on here. They are addicted. They are lonely/insecure.

Facebook is like going to the pub. Some do, some don't. Some live in a pub and know everyone, some only pop in when meeting someone.

Why can't people leave their Facebook account there? A way for someone to get in contact with them?

As for Twitter - that is pure verbal diarrhea and I can't believe how much time is wasted with it. I'd love to know what percentage of Tweets aren't read by anyone. If you could similarise all the tweets from a day, how many unique things were said. It is when you see a big event and you have x number of supposed journalists tweeting the same thing as everyone else to be retweeted again and again. Then 2 hours later written on their website, with a read the full story here tweet which is also retweeted.

I love gadgets and PCs, but when I get home I am with my children till they go to bed, then I spend time with my wife and then out comes the iPad to see what has been happening. Real life first, tech life second.
 
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Hugh Jarse said:
Like more and more people I know, my closest friends are dumping Facebook and Google+ etc.
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Whereas mine are joining facebook, and in the last few months even the two that said they never would have created accounts.

Ultimately it's just a tool for communication. Use it or don't use it, it matters not [/yoda]
 
onomatopoeia said:
Whereas mine are joining facebook, and in the last few months even the two that said they never would have created accounts.

Ultimately it's just a tool for communication. Use it or don't use it, it matters not [/yoda]
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Wouldn't disagree with the "means of communiation" aspect and as said, I have used many different kinds. Back in the 80s when I started on a Masters course with the Open University (which was a pioneer in on-line education pre www) we had group and personal contact tool using prorsmmes lik Wigwam, TeePee and Firdt Class. FB would have been a boon for students then as it is now. Even though we thought we were flying with s modem speed of 2400/bps we were able to run simple study groups and exchange shared research projects.

I have just now heard that an acquaintance has split from his wife of 25 years because her life was FB. She was so obsessed that when confronted she shrugged his concerns off and was on-line sometimes for 18 hours strsight. Turns out she was doing "readings" of people from just photos they would post for her! There is obviously more to the story than just FB. She has left their home with some clothes and all her IT kit. Overall FB did not "cause" the split I am sure but was likely a catalyst.

As in all things I cannot be bothered with FB but I really value my time, my privacy and ultimately, my sanity.

S
 
as i said i have friends all over the world and some places that you can't use skype and such so FB is good for that. also for sharing photo's and other stuff with people in different time zones. whatsapp is getting more popular and i use that also. if it wasn't for FB i think the last afghan tour would have been allot worse for me.

So for some it is good some it isn't . hay ho.
 
gumbo-67 said:
as i said i have friends all over the world and some places that you can't use skype and such so FB is good for that. also for sharing photo's and other stuff with people in different time zones. whatsapp is getting more popular and i use that also. if it wasn't for FB i think the last afghan tour would have been allot worse for me.

So for some it is good some it isn't . hay ho.
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afghan has got to be the first combat zone where you get broadband reliably back at base - god bless the USA they are good for something afterall
 
Pete in Bastion yes but other camps not so great but yes they are useful for somethings Iraq also had it second time around.
 
Like others have said I use it to keep in touch with family and friends who are hundreds of miles away. Otherwise I don't care much about it one way or another.
 
Strangely both my daughters have dumped Facebook while the wife and I are still on it. The eldest (14) got rid of it last summer she got fed up with people having a go at her over her illness, there were some really nasty comments.
The younger one about 2 months ago because she got bored with it.

As for ask.fm if any of you have kids please please check if they have an account and have a look at it, again my eldest got rid of it at the same time as fb. I really wasnt surprised that a teenager has taken her life because of it, the nasty things that my eldest had posted on hers was truly heart breaking, if I could have found out who some of them were I would have had a word.
 
I bet most of the nasty crap was kids that knew her - kids can be nasty little bastewards , especially when behind the anominity of the internet

its just the electronic version of passing notes in class - but worse because the victims can't get away from it in the safety of their homes
 
big soft moose said:
I bet most of the nasty crap was kids that knew her - kids can be nasty little bastewards , especially when behind the anominity of the internet

its just the electronic version of passing notes in class - but worse because the victims can't get away from it in the safety of their homes
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I have no doubt it was kids that knew her, but telling someone to go kill themselves as it would do everyone a favour and no one would miss her. All because they didn't understand her illness.

Unfortunately as you say far worse than note passing, she got bombarded by text fb bbm the whole lot. It was devastating to see.
 
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I have no doubt it was kids that knew her, but telling someone to go kill themselves as it would do everyone a favour and no one would miss her. All because they didn't understand her illness.

Unfortunately as you say far worse than note passing, she got bombarded by text fb bbm the whole lot. It was devastating to see.
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Like i said - nasty little *****
 
I'm not sure it's just the Ask site.
If you have young (and I mean less than 14...minimum) kids on these sites.....why?
If it's just "because their friends are too", I just don't buy it.
 
viv1969 said:
I'm not sure it's just the Ask site.
If you have young (and I mean less than 14...minimum) kids on these sites.....why?
If it's just "because their friends are too", I just don't buy it.
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My youngest daughter is 11, had Facebook she has got rid of it her choice. I kept a very close eye on her and yes she only had it because her friends had it.
 
Davec223 said:
My youngest daughter is 11, had Facebook she has got rid of it her choice. I kept a very close eye on her and yes she only had it because her friends had it.
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Fair do's.
Isn't their minimum age 13 though?
 
My kids - grown up - use it to stay in touch with people occaisonally. I don't know if I have any living relatives now, or where they might be, and most of my friends are in South Africa. Skype, Whatsapp and mail work well enough for communication.
 
I feel sorry for people who constantly have a phone in front of them all day

seems like they are addicted
 
F1.2 said:
I feel sorry for people who constantly have a phone in front of them all day

seems like they are addicted
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When it comes to staying in touch with someone by whatever means possible, it's easily done.
 
being constantly in touch can be a b****r when its work though - I spent nearly all of yesterday with my phone vibrating and yet another message about an ongoing issue - in the days before blackberries they'd have had to just deal with it themselves

that said I agree with Ruth that when its someone you actually want to hear from the phone 'addiction' is very easily done - in the olden days you'd have been exchanging letters with the same fission of excitement... just a couple of weeks apart rather than a couple of seconds
 
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viv1969 said:
When it comes to staying in touch with someone by whatever means possible, it's easily done.
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Agreed. I'm just glad that me and ruby have free texts otherwise we would be running up a national debt :lol:
 
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