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  • @jac Yeah, exactly. I really can’t see any point to a platform where you feel compelled to post pictures of your dinner or selfies that make you look like a fish 🐟

    @phenomlab absolutely, my neighbor posts her life on there. I hate it.

  • @phenomlab absolutely, my neighbor posts her life on there. I hate it.

    @jac I have the same with family members - even down to holiday dates and whey they are going. Might as well just put a sign above the door that says “we’re on holiday - feel free to break in”.

  • @jac I have the same with family members - even down to holiday dates and whey they are going. Might as well just put a sign above the door that says “we’re on holiday - feel free to break in”.

    @phenomlab said in Is Facebook as we know it going to change?:

    @jac I have the same with family members - even down to holiday dates and whey they are going. Might as well just put a sign above the door that says “we’re on holiday - feel free to break in”.

    Snap mate, this is the thing that most annoys me about it. Not only that but feel free to look towards my house too whilst you’re at it 😉. Facebook is an absolute joke and has taken over some people’s life’s quite frankly.

  • @phenomlab said in Is Facebook as we know it going to change?:

    @jac I have the same with family members - even down to holiday dates and whey they are going. Might as well just put a sign above the door that says “we’re on holiday - feel free to break in”.

    Snap mate, this is the thing that most annoys me about it. Not only that but feel free to look towards my house too whilst you’re at it 😉. Facebook is an absolute joke and has taken over some people’s life’s quite frankly.

    @jac Yeah - serial posters, as I refer to them. I just don’t get the entire point of “checking in” to somewhere. Isn’t there any part of your life that you consider private??

  • @jac Yeah - serial posters, as I refer to them. I just don’t get the entire point of “checking in” to somewhere. Isn’t there any part of your life that you consider private??

    @phenomlab said in Is Facebook as we know it going to change?:

    @jac Yeah - serial posters, as I refer to them. I just don’t get the entire point of “checking in” to somewhere. Isn’t there any part of your life that you consider private??

    And it’s always “such a such said this on Facebook” or “it was on Facebook” etc. Really grates on mate mate 😉😆.

  • @phenomlab said in Is Facebook as we know it going to change?:

    @jac Yeah - serial posters, as I refer to them. I just don’t get the entire point of “checking in” to somewhere. Isn’t there any part of your life that you consider private??

    And it’s always “such a such said this on Facebook” or “it was on Facebook” etc. Really grates on mate mate 😉😆.

    @jac That makes two of us. In fact, this very news article (obviously not real - parody) was posted on Facebook. An acquaintance of my family (I call them that as they certainly aren’t friends 🙂 ) asked my wife if I had trouble getting home that night as she’d read on Facebook that a train had been stolen.

    My wife tried to keep a straight face as she informed this person “do you realise what you’ve just said” ??

  • @jac That makes two of us. In fact, this very news article (obviously not real - parody) was posted on Facebook. An acquaintance of my family (I call them that as they certainly aren’t friends 🙂 ) asked my wife if I had trouble getting home that night as she’d read on Facebook that a train had been stolen.

    My wife tried to keep a straight face as she informed this person “do you realise what you’ve just said” ??

    @phenomlab said in Is Facebook as we know it going to change?:

    @jac That makes two of us. In fact, this very news article (obviously not real - parody) was posted on Facebook. An acquaintance of my family (I call them that as they certainly aren’t friends 🙂 ) asked my wife if I had trouble getting home that night as she’d read on Facebook that a train had been stolen.

    My wife tried to keep a straight face as she informed this person “do you realise what you’ve just said” ??

    😆. The concept of Facebook was probably a good idea at the time for what it was, but it’s certainly a poisoned chalice and I for one don’t trust it.

  • @phenomlab said in Is Facebook as we know it going to change?:

    @jac That makes two of us. In fact, this very news article (obviously not real - parody) was posted on Facebook. An acquaintance of my family (I call them that as they certainly aren’t friends 🙂 ) asked my wife if I had trouble getting home that night as she’d read on Facebook that a train had been stolen.

    My wife tried to keep a straight face as she informed this person “do you realise what you’ve just said” ??

    😆. The concept of Facebook was probably a good idea at the time for what it was, but it’s certainly a poisoned chalice and I for one don’t trust it.

    @jac And neither do I. That’s why you won’t find any sharing or sign-on / register abilities involving Fakebook here.

  • Facef*** will never change. Unless people change and demand accountability. And then be ready to vote with their feet. This, I think, is a rather impossible bar for the average luser’s to clear. Hence…

  • Facef*** will never change. Unless people change and demand accountability. And then be ready to vote with their feet. This, I think, is a rather impossible bar for the average luser’s to clear. Hence…

    @gotwf Great analogy 🙂


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