Jmustang1968 wrote:What is there to be scared about with twitter or Facebook? It never causes me any grief, and I get to keep in touch with old friends and family that I don't live near anymore.
Any family that I care to keep in contact with I can just as easily call on the phone or something. Same goes for friends that have moved far away. I literally was never using mine, I never logged in to it, and I was getting tired of "you have ____ friend requests" emails and whatnot filling up my inbox.
I don't think I even actually had any of my lifelong friends on my FB. Everyone was just like... acquaintances I knew in high school and whatnot.
Jmustang1968 wrote:What is there to be scared about with twitter or Facebook?
It's more that I don't understand the impetus, and widespread desire to constantly broadcast the minutia of ones life to millions of strangers. Or, I suppose I understand it as a longing for a sense of celebrity, but I couldn't care less if the President, much less Selena Gomez, is eating a sandwich right now; so I certainly don't care that Jacques Pierre Mon Frere Bishop the Third is waxing his car, or getting a tattoo of a butterfly above his ass crack. I just don't understand why other people seem to care about those things.
Luke wrote:
I love facebook for keeping in contact with cronies that are thousands of miles away. With the time difference it makes it easy to keep in contact with my friends in California, fb is an easy way to keep in touch. It's also great to keep up with friends who travel a lot.
couldn't you accomplish the same thing with email or text messages though?
pierrot wrote:
It's more that I don't understand the impetus, and widespread desire to constantly broadcast the minutia of ones life to millions of strangers. Or, I suppose I understand it as a longing for a sense of celebrity, but I couldn't care less if the President, much less Selena Gomez, is eating a sandwich right now; so I certainly don't care that Jacques Pierre Mon Frere Bishop the Third is waxing his car, or getting a tattoo of a butterfly above his ass crack. I just don't understand why other people seem to care about those things.
now you've got me wondering if Selena Gomez is eating a sandwich right now... :\
Luke wrote:
I love facebook for keeping in contact with cronies that are thousands of miles away. With the time difference it makes it easy to keep in contact with my friends in California, fb is an easy way to keep in touch. It's also great to keep up with friends who travel a lot.
couldn't you accomplish the same thing with email or text messages though?
Honestly not really. At least not in the same way. It's not the same thing. Basically facebook to me is like seeing a ticker of things that people would put in a yearly Christmas letter to relatives, saying: "These are the highlights of my year".
Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended...so the world might be mended.
My superintendent doesn't like to call to call snow days. The fact that I had to head into work today was ridiculous.