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nebulae wrote:^ nah, that's not how it is...the stuff to "deal with" is only annoying if you want it to be. You can streamline facebook to just get updates. You can even remove all apps, even the photos app, which was the whole damn point. You can use it purely for connecting with people. There are some annoyances, but for me, it's essential. Here's what I can to with it:
1. Upload photos of family and have all my family instantly see it and comment about it.
2. Upload songs and have all my friends hear it.
3. Post fun fun Youtubes.
4. Chat with long lost friends. (And they WILL come out of nowhere!)
5. Get business - just got a client today - he's a high school friend who needs a corporate attorney for a startup.
6. Find out new things about old friends - another friend and I realized we both make music on Live.
7. Keep in touch with people around the world in a way that's more direct than email, but less intrusive than the phone, and more immediate than this forum.
8. When something really newsworthy happens, oh like let me think...for example your wife nearly dying...it's a great way to disseminate info to a lot of people without having to spend time talking or repeating yourself.
9. Organize events, shows, what not, and keep up with your fanbase. It's a lot better than Myspace, IMHO.

There's a lot more to it, but for me, it's been a great tool. As for old friends, yes, there is a bit of nostalgia. But what I love is that I've been able to find out how old high school friends have grown up over the years/decades. When we chat, no ice needs to be broken. There's an odd familiarity, that gives way to all sorts of new facets to a more mature relationship. It's seriously fucking cool like that.

Now the annoying stuff - there are idiots who send you app requests every day. And usually they are all stupid. Once a week, I go thru my request box and just ignore anything that is not a friend add request. Done.

Everything else is gravy.

nebulae wrote:Except the Nebulosity app. And trust me, you'll want to pay money for that mofo.

LoopStationZebra wrote: Will it give me that Deadmau5 sound? Because that's what I'm after, Bitch.

LoopStationZebra wrote:It sounds like, with Facebook at least, there's a lot of shit you have to deal with - like ads and getting MORE friggin tools to kill those ads or whatever. Yikes. Is Twitter fairly painless in terms of that crap?

Tone Deft wrote:I think they're a 'generation Y' thing. the generation that grew up not knowing what life was like without teh interweb. instant access to everything, attention whoring via blogs, myspace, youtube, twitter, facebook, all those things. having a texting phone since they knew how to use a phone, always wired into the web. tools for attention whores with motivations that I just don't get. I whore here too much but I like to hear from other people, I loathe blogging, I see them as a cry for help by lonely people, "look at me!!" some people just see it as sharing.

these days it's a given that every company has a facebook entry, a wikipedia page and a twitter.

it's part of the modern world that I just don't get.

pepezabala wrote:huh, what a rant from someone with 14k posts ...


did anyone ever say that the big economical crisis could as well be originated by all of us surfing the web instead of working?

Facebook and all other webs people like to watch or contribute to probably lowered the productivity of the corpoporate companies by an considerable amount. The other day the internet broke down at my office and everyone would suddenly work, hehe.

Maybe the web 2.0 is just the starting point of a social revolution that will destroy corporate capitalism by people watching youtube and surfing facebook instead of working.

Tone Deft wrote:the generation Y thing is interesting, I've seen training classes for people who have to deal with Gen Y underlings, it's an interesting generation. very savvy with technology but also very spoiled because they were raised by technology. I've been trying to find a good link on it.