I finally put the kibosh on FB

[Prelude_to_Fascination]

I signed up for FB because my hs reunion was coming up, and I wanted to see if it was worth going. Between the jeebus is my saviour, farmville crap, knowing when someone was at the mall, and reading about some kid or grandkid I didn’t know (“Betsy came home today. We’re happy now!”), and other irrelevant, idiotic tripe, I found FB completely worthwhile: it showed me the reunion would’ve been a waste of time and money. So I didn’t go, and I deleted my account not long after.

That was last summer.

And the RW garbage. I forgot to mention all the RW birtherism, etc. idiocy that made me wish I’d never met those people in first place.

[dhkendall]

@acsenray

As a matter of principal, I ignore all birthday notifications on Facebook. I offer birthday greetings only to people I’m actually in a real life conversation with.

You unfriend them on their birthday. You heartless bastard.

[madmonk28]

@Prelude_to_Fascination

I signed up for FB because my hs reunion was coming up, and I wanted to see if it was worth going. Between the jeebus is my saviour, farmville crap, knowing when someone was at the mall, and reading about some kid or grandkid I didn’t know (“Betsy came home today. We’re happy now!”), and other irrelevant, idiotic tripe, I found FB completely worthwhile: it showed me the reunion would’ve been a waste of time and money. So I didn’t go, and I deleted my account not long after.

That was last summer.

And the RW garbage. I forgot to mention all the RW birtherism, etc. idiocy that made me wish I’d never met those people in first place.

Yeah, the best thing FB did for me was remind me why I left my hometown.

[Daylate]

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Originally Posted by Machine Elf
I’m one of those luddites who never even signed up in the first place.

Me neither. I’m just gonna let this fad pass me by.

Ditto here. Could never figure out why this was any better than regular email.

I often get a request to be somebody’s friend, but as I never have heard of any of these folks before, they get instantly blocked.

Although I must admit that if one of those requests came from someone like Reese Witherspoon or Sophia Loren (OK, I’m OLD!) I might relent.

[Philster]

I couldn’t take the overwhelming amount of stupidity. I don’t even feel like listing out all the crap. I’ll make the effort to note some not-so-serious stuff (other than religion, politics, etc).

I swear, just based on how these words were used (misused), I wanted to bash skulls in:

your/you’re
there/their
its/it’s
then/than

The abuse of the comma was another issue.

Throw in politics, religion and endless amounts of bitching and moaning, and it is pure relief to turn my back to it. Seriously, there are about THREE people who had great wit and enough intelligence to make it interesting.

It’s like a pathetic, rotten, miserable place that has a few friends there. I wouldn’t hang out there.

Then there is the whole “even when we see each other face to face we need to talk about our facebook lives” issue that takes over conversations. Fantasy football does the same thing.

Sucks.