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A Rant Against Facebook
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[quote:BillyX:MV8xNTQ5MzU4XzI1NTg3NjM1XzFFMkRCOURD] [quote:XKopp] [quote:BillyX] Personally i use facebook but only because im young and if i dont it can be very difficult to have a social life, Its ridiculous you dont post anything on your facebook for a week & your "friends" start to think you hate them or some stupid shit. [/quote] That is truly scary. Just keep talking friend. Talk with your mouth and [i]words[/i]. Talk all you can and refuse to dumb yourself down. Keep [i]speech[/i] alive. Talk and write with words that have meaning. Don't give in to grunting and scratching electronic symbols. Unfortunately, I think the assessment that too many are now grunting like gorillas is too true. This could really end up being the Planet of the Apes; but we have met the apes and they is us. LOL. [/quote] The other issues with facebook is people in the age bracket of 15-28 could not give a fuck less about their privacy, they are more than happy to have private conversations on a public website, state their plans for the weekend or their where abouts at every second with stupid shit like foursquare. I much prefered the days of IRC/MSN as a way to communicate with friends online! As for killing conversation i dont think you have to much to worry about most of my generation is illiterate and incapable of independent thought! [/quote]
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DISCLAIMER: This is a rant against Facebook. So, if you want to complain that it's just a useless rant and that these words accomplish nothing - go ahead, no points to you for pointing out the obvious. But if you agree with the rant or have your own observations about how useless, idiotic and even perverse Facebook culture is: I'd like to hear them. I believe that this type of 'communication' is actually undermining real conversation and communication. Real voices and expression are being overtaken with LOL's and BRB's and :) and :( - a regression to the symbols such as cavemen painted on caves. It seems so perverse that so much technology could bring about so much primitive behavior . And yet it seems to spread every day. It seems unstoppable. Anyhoo, here we go with the rant...
What the fuck is up with Facebook!? (Classic rhetorical opening there) All these idiots are posting shit like: "Wen shoping tooday. YAH!"[sic] (This is usually accompanied by a picture of them holding arms outstretched with two bags full of indefinable consumer items). And what's amazing is that people
respond
to this shit. What amazes me even more is that a comment like that can get
dozens
of responses. Really? This fucker accomplished something that needs to be broadcast to the world? This idiot went shopping and everyone is now supposed to give an electronic "Yeah!!!" in response? And God forbid if you comment: "So fucking what?"
Even worse is the type that posts: "Mom died today. Really sad now". Really? That's the best they can do to express their grief and anguish? They log onto their computer and broadcast to 1,774 theoretical "friends" that they are 'sad' because their mother died. That's the appropriate way to deal with grief now? Broadcasting the fact out to mythical associates, in ten syllables or less, that something really tragic happened to you is now an appropriate method of mourning?
Basically, I believe that Facebook is leading to a dumbing down of communication. And complex communication is the essence of what makes humans special. I therefore think Facebook is a threat (or at least a symptom of a far greater problem). There are just a few examples presented here. What else did I miss??
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