Ive rarely used my Facebook profile at all.  I was disappointed that it was less about socializing and more of a vapid nuisance.  Recently I've found groups for our city ward and neighborhood association.  I found that the people in those groups have been interested in banding together, sharing views and information and finding a sense of community.  Those groups seem to have focus.  So now I've begun to use my account, for better or worse.

Ive rarely used my Facebook profile at all.  I was disappointed that it was less about socializing and more of a vapid nuisance.  Recently I've found groups for our city ward and neighborhood association.  I found that the people in those groups have been interested in banding together, sharing views and information and finding a sense of community.  Those groups seem to have focus.  So now I've begun to use my account, for better or worse.

 

Yeah, a lot of the time it's all about finding the content.

 

Facebook really screwed up with the "Timeline" profile and affiliated tweaks to the newsfeed, which most of its base users did not want.  Unfortunately, unsupervised programmers love to change things for the sake of change.  This has been seen so many times and may have killed more web companies than financing issues.

Not just for the sake of change but to keep themselves in a job. So many of these dumb experiments at companies that come and go (like the third drive-through window at fast-food joints where they merely handed you your condiments) are the work of dead weight  coming up with "innovations" that are just busywork.

They have to look like they are contributing.

I worked at a place where they were always mucking around with stuff without the customers input. later, when they started on software development, they just kept doing the same thing.

 

Maybe it's a sign of my age, but I never felt like I understood how it worked. I mean, I understood the basics, but there were inconsistencies that I could never explain, like how I saw more of certain peoples' posts over others, regradless of how I classified them, and how others' posts would get missed some how. Also, regardless of how many people I set to not see their posts, there were their posts.

 

In any case, I deleted the account back in April. I had my 'last straw' moment when I finally posted something (I thought) of note, about my son doing the St. Baldrick's fundraiser. Do you know that not one of those cows so much as responded or 'liked' the stupid post? Oh they'll get 100 likes for a profile pic change, but I get three (two being my wife and I) likes for my 8yo kid shaving his head for cancer research. Seriously, F@ck all of them. Facebook isn't about mutual sharing, it's about self aggrandizement, and stalking.

 

So I did the hard core delete, where the data is eradicated. I have no patience for nonsense like this.

 

Just out of curiosity, how does one do the hard core delete?

 

You have to request to have the account permanently deleted. There's a link to a form on this site

 

https://www.facebook.com/help/www/224562897555674

 

If you just deactivate, it can unexpectedly be reactivated, like when I tried to sign up for Spotify with my email address that was linked to the FB account. Suddenly I got an email that my FB profile was reactivated.

Lame:

Every time I see that word "McWrap", I automagically see the word McCrap.

I can't be the only one

I thought I was the only one!

Every time I see that word "McWrap", I automagically see the word McCrap.

I can't be the only one

 

Sam Kinison was discussing the "McRib" once and suggested that McDonald's could actually get people to buy "McCrap", except of course he didn't exactly say "crap".

Is it wrong to torment drunk middle aged white trash chicks reminiscing about their inebriated sex lives in public parks?

Wait! Who's in the public park?  You, the drunk middle aged white trash chicks, or both?

Lord, I almost asked the crazy drunk chick if she was dying or something. Like, maybe that's why she was telling everybody what state park her kids were conceived in?

Looked at her page and YES, she IS dying.

Who would have thought of using FB as a death bed confessional?

Logged onto MySpace tonight for the first time in several years.  The new design looks a lot better than Facebook and they've got it organized around being able to keep found media, like music, open as you browse other people's pages.  If you remember in the past if you were listening to a song you had to hang out on that page or maybe open a second browser window but now you don't. 

 

Except it appears that I was possibly the only person logged into MySpace last night, could not find any pages with any sign of activity.

Everybody has been sure to tell me their school district is closed.

And that's why people stop going. It's not narrowcasted enough for today's tastes. Most childless 20-somethings that don't work in education file that under clutter that has no bearing on them.

I still use it as much as ever ... multiple times daily.  And I've never been extraordinarily selective about trying to curate my friends list, though I have had good luck with FB getting the message when I say I want to stop seeing a particular kind of content.  I use Facebook Messenger as much as I used to use AIM back in the day, and my friends and I use FB events to set up parties, board gaming sessions, and certain organizations I'm in also use it for organizing community events as well.  I also use the frequently use the check-in feature on mobile.

 

That said, I guess I'm also one of the people who gets frequent positive reinforcement from decent levels of likes on posts, including check-ins and regular desktop posts.  I usually make multiple posts per week that get 10-20 likes and 5+ comments, which is enough for me.  And, of course, it's not all about the likes, but they do definitely help keep a sense of positive engagement with the site (and, of course, with the friends who take the nanosecond out of their day to signal their positive feelings towards something I posted).

 

I think it helps that I rarely share political articles (I save those for things like Internet message boards ...) and I seldom reshare a meme unless I have something to add to it or say about it, though I suppose I broke that rule just earlier today.

 

Of course, it helps that most of my friends are still engaged with it; the network effect is still strong for me.  If most of my friends moved to some other social site, I'd consider following.  However, in practice, very few have left Facebook at all, and of those that have, most have left the online social networking scene entirely rather than migrating to something like Google+ or Twitter.  As for newer social apps like Snapchat, the very thing that makes Snapchat attractive for teens (transience) makes it extremely unappealing to me; the permanence of Facebook is a feature for a shameless narcissist like me because it lets me go back and see things myself later.  This is one reason I really liked the timeline feature when it came out; I've been on the site since November 2004 (and I actually though I'd been on it earlier than that, since I seem to remember using it at OSU, but I graduated there in June of 2004), and sometimes I'll go back and look at my own posts from years ago just to see what I was doing at that time.  Way easier than keeping a diary.

 

I'm sure that something else will definitely come along at some point, but I think I'm going to be one of the last people off FB, just like I was one of the last people off the AIM boat.

I still use it as much as ever ... multiple times daily.  And I've never been extraordinarily selective about trying to curate my friends list, though I have had good luck with FB getting the message when I say I want to stop seeing a particular kind of content.  I use Facebook Messenger as much as I used to use AIM back in the day, and my friends and I use FB events to set up parties, board gaming sessions, and certain organizations I'm in also use it for organizing community events as well.  I also use the frequently use the check-in feature on mobile.

 

That said, I guess I'm also one of the people who gets frequent positive reinforcement from decent levels of likes on posts, including check-ins and regular desktop posts.  I usually make multiple posts per week that get 10-20 likes and 5+ comments, which is enough for me.  And, of course, it's not all about the likes, but they do definitely help keep a sense of positive engagement with the site (and, of course, with the friends who take the nanosecond out of their day to signal their positive feelings towards something I posted).

 

I think it helps that I rarely share political articles (I save those for things like Internet message boards ...) and I seldom reshare a meme unless I have something to add to it or say about it, though I suppose I broke that rule just earlier today.

 

Of course, it helps that most of my friends are still engaged with it; the network effect is still strong for me.  If most of my friends moved to some other social site, I'd consider following.  However, in practice, very few have left Facebook at all, and of those that have, most have left the online social networking scene entirely rather than migrating to something like Google+ or Twitter.  As for newer social apps like Snapchat, the very thing that makes Snapchat attractive for teens (transience) makes it extremely unappealing to me; the permanence of Facebook is a feature for a shameless narcissist like me because it lets me go back and see things myself later.  This is one reason I really liked the timeline feature when it came out; I've been on the site since November 2004 (and I actually though I'd been on it earlier than that, since I seem to remember using it at OSU, but I graduated there in June of 2004), and sometimes I'll go back and look at my own posts from years ago just to see what I was doing at that time.  Way easier than keeping a diary.

 

I'm sure that something else will definitely come along at some point, but I think I'm going to be one of the last people off FB, just like I was one of the last people off the AIM boat.

 

I'm similar....except I do post political stuff, a lot of it.  I'd say it's about 30% of my content.  The difference between me and some others is I allow, even encourage, dissenting viewpoints in the comments.  I have a number of liberals on my friends list, some of whom go back to high school days, and they keep things interesting. 

 

Oh, and I still despise "timeline" and especially despised making it mandatory.  That's why I have two profiles.

I think one thing they could do is make people select a category to put each post and photo in, like radio buttons marked "Politics" "Viral" "Kids" "Recreation" "Travel" "Sports" "Music". Select only one. That way people could block out categories they don't care about. And if something is mis-categorized users could report it.

good luck with that, you still can't even format your text.

I think one thing they could do is make people select a category to put each post and photo in, like radio buttons marked "Politics" "Viral" "Kids" "Recreation" "Travel" "Sports" "Music". Select only one. That way people could block out categories they don't care about. And if something is mis-categorized users could report it.

 

That's a seriously good idea.  Another would be letting users block (from their newsfeeds, anyway) posts containing words like Obama, Tea Party, or for that matter Farmville.

 

Which means they won't do it.  Facebook is a classic example of unsupervised programmers setting their own agendi.  They'd rather completely reconfigure things to keep it "fresh" (never mind that their primary market is now older users with an aversion to such) because that's more fun for the techies to work on.

I recommend non-internet explorer users (which should pretty much be everyone here) to use Social Fixer. There are filters built in to do these very things. The one drawback being that FB code is always changing and thus, some - not all - Social Fixer tweeks break. Regardless, I love it.

 

http://socialfixer.com/

Too bad there wouldn't be any content left if I used that.

Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook

 

"If I haven’t talked to someone in 20 years, the level of detail I’d like to see is what you typically see in letters from a family that accompany their holiday cards. Let me see a photo, how many kids do you have, what trips did you recently take, where are you working, how is everyone doing, and that’s about all I want to know for the next 20 years."

 

 

The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back.

 

"I am signed into Facebook right now. At a quick glance, the entire list of posts on the first screen are irrelevant to me. If I scrolled down I can find 4 stories I actually care about, from a list of about 30. The most important page on Facebook has more than three-fourths of absolutely useless content."

 

 

 

Facebook Is A Fundamentally Broken Product That Is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight

 

“There’s so much noise in the News Feed, they broke the product.”

"Facebook is godsent for people who love to talk, but have nothing to say."

right - it's like chatting in the break room.

When you guys say there's too much in your feed - how many friends & likes do you have?

I've seen people with over 1,000 friends. Who the hell has 1,000 friends?

Thanks to Facebook's news feed I just learned the other night that the finest girl in my college program is now a nauseating...mommy blogger.  I clicked to read all about her 2 year-old throwing a tantrum in the mall, or whatever.  Awesome. 

 

It's like, with all that commotion, you can't just post stuff like this anymore for fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR8fty2bGgw

Thanks to Facebook's news feed I just learned the other night that the finest girl in my college program is now a nauseating...mommy blogger.  I clicked to read all about her 2 year-old throwing a tantrum in the mall, or whatever.  Awesome. 

 

It's like, with all that commotion, you can't just post stuff like this anymore for fun:

 

Yeah, you can.  Having a somewhat schizophrenic profile is entirely acceptable.

 

The finest girl in my high school class mostly posts about politics and she makes me look like a liberal sometimes lol

 

On the other hand, my neo-Luddite kid brother finally signed up.  Probably because my niece and I kept threatening to make one "for" him.  Or it could be that all his new bandmates have pages and the band heavily uses FB to promote its shows.

 

I'll have to get him to post some of his better poetry, though it's "slam" so it loses something simply written.

Alternately Facebook makes me thankful that I didn't end up with the girl that I chased all through high school.

Hah!  The girl I had the biggest crush on in high school is living an awesome life and is one of those people with 1500+ friends, many of whom probably just like seeing the pictures she puts up.  She's a graphics designer in Philadelphia now moonlighting as a professional fire dancer, and the biggest annual vacation she takes every year is for Burning Man.  She's in an artsy-cooperative-ish group in Philly that goes to lots of regional mini-Burning Man-type gatherings, too.

 

The strongest evidence I can offer about how much more interesting her life is than mine is that I almost reflexively wrote "mini-Burning Man-type conferences" ... since any time large groups of people in my social circle gather in a city outside our own, we generally are calling it a "conference."  I wonder if bar association meetings would be a little more interesting with some EDM, lasers, and fire twirlers.

Alternately Facebook makes me thankful that I didn't end up with the girl that I chased all through high school.

 

LOL!  "She" lives in Florida, still looks fantastic, and seems to be doing really well.

 

What's kind of funny to me is seeing my ex-girlfriends and a lot of the high school "best of the best" (including the two I've mentioned) clicking likes on my three year old's pictures when we're at that age when a little one could possibly be either a kid or a grandkid.

Hah!  The girl I had the biggest crush on in high school is living an awesome life and is one of those people with 1500+ friends, many of whom probably just like seeing the pictures she puts up.  She's a graphics designer in Philadelphia now moonlighting as a professional fire dancer, and the biggest annual vacation she takes every year is for Burning Man.  She's in an artsy-cooperative-ish group in Philly that goes to lots of regional mini-Burning Man-type gatherings, too.

 

The strongest evidence I can offer about how much more interesting her life is than mine is that I almost reflexively wrote "mini-Burning Man-type conferences" ... since any time large groups of people in my social circle gather in a city outside our own, we generally are calling it a "conference."  I wonder if bar association meetings would be a little more interesting with some EDM, lasers, and fire twirlers.

 

Yeah I'm sick of Burning Man this, Burning Man that.  I was at a restaurant last Friday and some loud mouth at the bar was going on and on about it, trying to impress some girl.  I wanted to turn around and tell him I heard about that festival 20 years ago and almost went in 1997.  It's not that interesting, dude. 

 

 

Maybe, but as someone whose convention life primarily revolves around board game conventions, I think most people would probably still consider her the more interesting one to follow. :P

Hah!  The girl I had the biggest crush on in high school is living an awesome life and is one of those people with 1500+ friends, many of whom probably just like seeing the pictures she puts up.  She's a graphics designer in Philadelphia now moonlighting as a professional fire dancer, and the biggest annual vacation she takes every year is for Burning Man.  She's in an artsy-cooperative-ish group in Philly that goes to lots of regional mini-Burning Man-type gatherings, too.

 

The strongest evidence I can offer about how much more interesting her life is than mine is that I almost reflexively wrote "mini-Burning Man-type conferences" ... since any time large groups of people in my social circle gather in a city outside our own, we generally are calling it a "conference."  I wonder if bar association meetings would be a little more interesting with some EDM, lasers, and fire twirlers.

 

Yeah I'm sick of Burning Man this, Burning Man that.  I was at a restaurant last Friday and some loud mouth at the bar was going on and on about it, trying to impress some girl.  I wanted to turn around and tell him I heard about that festival 20 years ago and almost went in 1997.  It's not that interesting, dude. 

 

 

 

 

It is to the Republi-Hippies of the East Side.

Well if I am being judged by my Facebook posts, I am stuck in a Cleveland sports hell.

Has anyone changed their gender status yet? So many to choose from. I wonder if we can be more than one. I guess that might be omnisexual?

The third option is "custom", so you can put in anything you'd like.

Facebook is at it again.

 

Facebook buys WhatsApp for $16 Billion

 

For comparison:

 

MTA subway expansion of the #7 line cost $2 billion.

 

The entire 2nd Avenue Subway is $17 billion.

 

The 2020 Mars Rover program is expected to cost $1.5 billion.

 

The GDP of Iceland is $14 billion.

 

Microsoft's annual income is $21 billion.

I guess it's a sign of my age that I had to google WhatsApp to learn what it was.

^It's really big internationally, but not so much in the US. It makes international communication easier by avoiding texts/phone calls. I'd barely heard of it before now.

I guess it's a sign of my age that I had to google WhatsApp to learn what it was.

Is it a sign of mine that I heard the news and decided not to bother googling it because I just don't care enough to find out?

Ha ha. Yeah, well I figured if they were worth spending $16B for, it warranted a 10 second googling.

 

Honestly, I'm surprised it isn't more prevalent. Seems like a solid business model and a useful technology for both consumers and for Facebook's plan to be everything for everyone. A great workaround of the ridiculous fees the phone companies charge for texting. And much better than Snapchat, which comes across as more of a novelty (That I am familiar with (brother in law made me sign up so he could send videos of his dog to my daughter))

yay - another redesign!

now, where the hell is....

Wow, for sh!ts and giggles I went back to the start of this thread. I can't believe, first of all, that it's been 10 years. But it's interesting to see how excited and curious everyone was about this new social site was, (It's no myspace!!), compared to how everyone feels about it today.

 

UO, the Cleveland WABAC machine.

Is their main technical fixer called the WhatsApp Doc?

Can we please ban these ridiculous emotional outpourings every time an actor dies?  And why do people connect so deeply with actors?  You're connecting with THE ACTING of that person, not the actual person!

Can we please ban these ridiculous emotional outpourings every time an actor dies?  And why do people connect so deeply with actors?  You're connecting with THE ACTING of that person, not the actual person!

 

You seem to be getting a little emotional yourself.

A guy liked everything on FaceBook for 48 hours.

 

My News Feed took on an entirely new character in a surprisingly short amount of time. After checking in and liking a bunch of stuff over the course of an hour, there were no human beings in my feed anymore. It became about brands and messaging, rather than humans with messages.

 

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/

Can we please ban these ridiculous emotional outpourings every time an actor dies?  And why do people connect so deeply with actors?  You're connecting with THE ACTING of that person, not the actual person!

 

You seem to be getting a little emotional yourself.

 

Well I came home from work and it appears that we're now 24 hours into Robin Williams mania.  The posts just keeping coming, like 1 out of 3 posts have something to do with this guy. 

A guy liked everything on FaceBook for 48 hours.

 

My News Feed took on an entirely new character in a surprisingly short amount of time. After checking in and liking a bunch of stuff over the course of an hour, there were no human beings in my feed anymore. It became about brands and messaging, rather than humans with messages.

 

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/

 

 

Yeah Warhol honed in on the rise of celebrity culture as something that was challenging and would eventually unseat religion.  The moving picture -- both movies and television -- for some reason gives massive credibility to whatever is being portrayed to the viewer. 

 

But now we're seeing that smart phones are changing the culture as much as movies did nearly 100 years ago.  The phones are trumping everything -- music, travel, family get-togethers -- none of that is enjoyed in the moment anymore, because people feel this ridiculous need to take pictures of whatever they're doing and post those photos on various social media, then sit around waiting for the likes to roll in. 

 

And roll in they do!