I have had Facebook over a year now, and I have never updated my status. Why should them know everything that I do?

I believe I heard something about social media destroying, relationships, and whatnot... seems to be a common problem with a lot of people effective making less odd and more the norm... All my co-works have their faces glued to their phone screens... incessantly checking it...

The world is changing to where people are able to be social, while still being anti social...

If you are with other people it is annoying if you check your phone all the time. Many of friends do that.

FB sucks. Just like the rest of the networks. People only communicate trough the interwebs not facetoface anymore. When I wanna talk to a relative, he/she is busy texting on their iPhones/Smart phones devices. SO it pisses me off. I'm like the only rare few without a Phone/cell.

We live in an era where technology is of importance, so wishing for a Facebook free world will be just that, wishing. People won't change if they like something.

But we live in an era where technology is constantly changing. If you had a time machine and went back in time to a "record store" and said that "vinyl" would be replaced by "CDs" or if you went back in time to a "Tower Records" and say that "CDs" would be replaced by "mp3s" or go back in time and told John & Shawn Fanning that "Napster" would be sued by a "Metalica" no one would believe you. Who knows, maybe one day in the future some other social media featuring futuristic ways of communication with holograms will replace facebook.

I'm thinking thats not too far off. That coupled with EMG technology. These are amazing times. Scary, but amazing.

That would be better cos I find it hard to communicate when I can't see the person I'm talking with.

I like Facebook. Is it the most superior social networking site in terms of functionality? No, but it is the most popular and pervasive, and therefore provides the most important commodity for any social networking site: people. People are the resource that facilitates socialisation.
Are all of the people on Facebook worth socialising with? Of course not! Just as half the people you pass when you walk down the street are quite possibly douchebags. That doesn't mean that the street is a terrible street - it just means that you choose only the like-minded people to actually interact with.

Funnily enough, all of the "problems" you point out about Facebook can be resolved with a bit of common sense. Don't want embarrassing photos of yourself online? Then don't upload them. If other people take them of you and upload them, then de-tag them, request their removal, and maybe don't drink so much next time... or choose better friends, who aren't so callous as to post horrible photos of you.
Don't want to share intimate details of your life? Then don't share any! It's perfectly possible to have impersonal discussions, or to keep personal stuff to private messages.
Don't want to read other people's personal information? Well, firstly, you ought to develop a tolerance level for this sort of thing, because people can and will tell you that **** in reality too, but secondly... if you don't like someone's content, then guess what, no one's forcing you to keep them on your friends list.
And if you don't want to delete them, then simply "hide" the content.

If you use Facebook with an iota of pragmatism, then it can prove an excellent social platform.

And hey, guess what - if I only wanted to talk to people I'd actually met, then I wouldn't be using the internet. I've never understood some people's resistance to the idea of communicating with strangers. It's interesting [and lots of fun] to talk to people in places you may never get the chance to visit - like vicariously travelling, and really... we have this amazing tool for pan-global communication right at our fingertips. How narrow-minded and limiting would it be to only talk to the few people you went to school with who didn't turn out to be dickheads? :)

This:clap:

Lol, cheers :D

And the contrary is true too, if one uses Facebook with an iota of antagonism then it can prove an excellent social platform where one can harass or bully someone.

I don't think antagonism is the opposite of pragmatism...

And I think that only black people drive Chargers,

DA FAUQ MAN? I have been waiting on my charger for quite some time... (they said it was coming with my stimulus package) Reparations and **** you know how that goes... At this point I'll settle for 1/2 an acre and a hyaundi...

Hyundai

mutant.....

Yes, yes they are

Oxy's been banned too? What did he do?

Sometimes it seems all forums are on a mission to ban anyone colourful, anyone who challenges the status quo.

That wasn't the problem. The problem was how he insulted everyone. His opinions were allright, he had a right to express them, but he had not the right to insult everyone else.

He continued breaking the rules after being warned that he'd be banned if he continued. It's just a temporary ban though, so no need to cry.

Was buthead banned permanently? I miss his journal? And he wasn't as and annoying as oxy?

I hear what you're saying and I appreciate we all agree to abide by certain rules when we join a forum (although I doubt anyone reads those rules before clicking the accept button) but I think freedom of speech is more important.

If someone thinks I'm a c*nt, or worse, if someone hates blacks, if someone is sickened by homosexuals, if someone hates Jews, doesn't matter how stupid or hateful their opinion is, I believe they have the right to express it.

I believe that it would be a chaos if it were so. But on the other hand, it is a chaos already, ain't it?

What you said is excactly how he meant it.

People can express whatever they want, but freedom of speech doesn't mean you are free of consequences for what you said. Goes for everything in life, not just the Internet.

I know it's the same in real life. In Germany it's illegal to deny the holocaust, haha, they lock you up if you think otherwise and share it. Nuts. In the UK racism is illegal. Haha. Nuts. Human beings and their silly rules...

You don't have freedom of speech here, when you signed up you agreed to our rules.
Where you do have freedom of speech is to start your own forum under your own rules if you don't like the ones here.

You know what they say; any fool can make a rule and any fool will mind it. ;)

Trying to read that is like waiting for a photo to load on a dial-up connection.

I would personally like to see what a world where the internet had never been invented would be like, as I hold it responsible for most of my bad memories!

I already lived in that world. I like internet world better.

I imagine it would have been simpler, with less paedophiles.

The world was just as complicated, it was just harder to look things up.

And you actually had leave the house for porn.

We did still have the printing press and the postal service. It wasn't the dark ages.

So you actually had a Hustler magazine subscription?

Oh no. No no no no no. I used to hitchhike a lot in the 70's and dealt with those dudes dozens of times. I was a minor teen.

Happily I never went through that as a pre-teen, but others weren't so lucky. There has never been a and never will be any shortage of predatory pedo's

I heard teens used to have to look round all the local hedgerows and hope they'd find something. The thought of taking effort to find porn is horrible. I don't think I would have been able to cope.

Yes but with Facebook and similar sites it's just like internet shopping for them now.