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Mudcat
It's kind of funny when people get all uppity against Facebook. They don't just serenely, securely opt not to use it - they have to make announcements about it. Repeated announcements. They feel their refusing to use it is some grand statement that is teaching someone a lesson.

i remember what we used to say as kids when someone engaged in self-congratulatory behavior over something of no importance: What do you want? A doggie biscuit?

Facebook is just a dopey trivial thing. It's there. Use it/don't. Whatever.

Settle down.
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I have to disagree with you a little bit.

I think facebook has become a little too pervasive to be considered a trivial thing. I agree that people who abstain from it should just do so stoically. That's clearly the higher road.

But, in a lot of social circles, you really are significantly out of the loop if you're not on facebook.
 
Matty
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Well said, Matty.
 
Mudcat
It's kind of funny when people get all uppity against Facebook. They don't just serenely, securely opt not to use it - they have to make announcements about it. Repeated announcements. They feel their refusing to use it is some grand statement that is teaching someone a lesson.

i remember what we used to say as kids when someone engaged in self-congratulatory behavior over something of no importance: What do you want? A doggie biscuit?

Facebook is just a dopey trivial thing. It's there. Use it/don't. Whatever.

Settle down.
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I summed up that post with this thread:

http://gamelive.com/forum/showthread.php/19347-Facebook-Complaint-Thread?highlight=facebook
 
MrX
I have to disagree with you a little bit.

I think facebook has become a little too pervasive to be considered a trivial thing. I agree that people who abstain from it should just do so stoically. That's clearly the higher road.

But, in a lot of social circles, you really are significantly out of the loop if you're not on facebook.
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Well I disagree with your disagree.

:fearpanic:


No but seriously man, it's only pervasive in the same way that people gabbing is pervasive. I suppose it is, but it's trivial too. Facebook is just another way of gabbing. Unless you have an absolute blanket objection to people speaking to each other, you might as well be against people talking in the park but okay with them gabbing in coffee shops. You might as well be against cell phones but in favor of land lines.

Which reminds me of a poem I wrote.



talking at 100 decibels
about how you think
cell phones are over-rated
and you refuse to ever carry one
does not make you interesting or some kind of
impressive bold trail-blazing rebel

it makes you an obnoxious dipshit




That pretty much proves me 100% right.


:handshake:
 
Mudcat
No but seriously man, it's only pervasive in the same way that people gabbing is pervasive. I suppose it is, but it's trivial too. Facebook is just another way of gabbing. Unless you have an absolute blanket objection to people speaking to each other, you might as well be against people talking in the park but okay with them gabbing in coffee shops. You might as well be against cell phones but in favor of land lines.
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I disagree with your disagreement of my original disagree.

Facebook is a lot different than gabbing in the park. Its on-demand nature changes things quite a bit. It opens up way communication lines than you could realistically have through gabbing, which can be good and can be bad.

And there's the thing about turning all your thoughts over to a giant corporation. And the advertising. Other privacy issues.

I like facebook, but I'm sympathetic to those who are opposed to it. I do wish they'd shut up about it, but I get it.
 
MrX
And there's the thing about turning all your thoughts over to a giant corporation. And the advertising. Other privacy issues.
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and even if one chose not to participate they still track your activity throughout the internet with their like button and such on almost every site. in fact behind the scenes if they detect that you don't have a fb account they create a nameless profile of your browsing habits in their system and start tracking you as if you were signed up, building up your history and looking to merge it with a real identity. super smart in their part but fok that. every single website that puts up that stupid like button is enabling their dragnet.

block them.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghostery/mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/
 
The bits I am catching of Ron Burgandy on the Dan Patrick Show are so damn funny I am actually recording the next showing even though I know everything that's been going on in sports. I will also be recording him running Sportcenter tonight.

Burgandy is classic, and pro.
 
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