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Saras:
--- Quote from: metro. on February 21, 2012, 05:08:06 AM ---It's this part I am struggling with. Do you go around adding random people to your other networking sites? If you do, then I suppose I see your issue.
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You can't really reject the invite from your boss.
shikitohno:
Sure you can. Just tell them you don't think it would be appropriate or professional for you guys to be facebook friends. If your boss can't understand that, too bad for him. If he retaliates in some form at your job, you've got grounds for a lawsuit. I work for my bosses, I'm under no obligation to be their friends. Believe it or not, most bosses can handle and understand that.
I really only use facebook for the chat. I just leave finch running, and almost never go on the site. I haven't updated my facebook profiles in months, at least. Facebook is known for screwing people over when it comes to privacy, and I'd rather not gamble future careers on their rather spotty reputation for making sure that, say, a photo a friend took when we were out drinking that's meant to be private stays that way and can't be pulled off google by anyone looking for it. Honestly, I'm considering just shutting down my account, anyway. By and large, facebook is a fairly useless site for extroverts to spout their verbal diarrhea across the internet in the hopes that I'll give them some attention. If I really want to talk with someone, I'll get their phone number. If they're somewhere that it would be inconvenient to call them (say a friend studying abroad on the far side of the planet), I'll get their email. I fail to see how facebook facilitates communicating with distant relatives and friends any better than giving them a phone call, or shooting them a text or an email. People managed to stay in touch just fine for decades before facebook came around, and they'll continue to do so long after facebook is gone.
If there's something about facebook that appeals to you, good for you. Those of us who have our qualms with the website or fail to see the attraction are not all paranoid, condescending misanthropes, though. xShadow's post probably could have been better phrased, but there are plenty of perfectly valid reasons to mistrust facebook or not use it at all. Exhibit A right here, and plenty more dodgy practices where that comes from, to start.
xShadow:
--- Quote from: metro. on February 21, 2012, 05:08:06 AM ---I hope this doesn't come across to asshole, but if you only have relatives that you care about at a great distance that is a bit depressing.
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My relatives are in Russia. Give me a grand or two for the plane tickets, and I'll go and meet them face to face.
Asshole.
Also, unrelated.
--- Quote ---Also, you almost proved my point by pointing out you could use all these other sites, or one.
Compiling is a good thing?
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There's a difference between being broadcasted and using things for a purpose. A huge difference of intents. To Photobucket, IM clients, etc. you only hand off as much private data as you want. To use Facebook is an entirely different matter.
Yes, you can maybe use it as a simple compilation of those services (or rather, maybe you can't; it depends on how safe they keep your data internally), but I'm quite willing to wager that it's generally used as something besides that by a large majority (and that's what they encourage you to do, so that's hardly surprising), not to mention that I don't know what its privacy handling entails.
--- Quote ---It's this part I am struggling with. Do you go around adding random people to your other networking sites? If you do, then I suppose I see your issue.
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...? If you're calling Facebook a mere "networking" site, then you might as well be reaffirming what I'm saying. Networking is simply selling yourself (for which there are networking sites anyway) to companies. Nothing could be a more artificial "friendship".
You're trying to hop around the point. My point is that (though I suppose it's had to be evolved to this point), if you're using Facebook for anything besides either networking or communicating with family and pre-established friends, you're giving out a stupid amount of real life data to strangers over the internet. Yes, I think you're stupid for doing that, if you do. I'm not even that paranoid, either. If something like that does happen, I'll be like "oh well"... but if I can prevent it from happening in the first place, why wouldn't I?
I also agree fully with shiki says, and he probably stated it better than me, since I tend to have trouble communicating my true meaning.
I'm not gonna waste a lot of time on this, but I also think that Facebook is a pestilence to society in general. In my opinion, it's just bringing us one step closer to total media manipulation.
GoGeTa006:
Tried it yesterday:
AceHigh:
You know, if people want to use FB and give hilarious drama for the whole world to see, I say let them, it's really entertaining.
Here is an awesome example:
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