Why I dont do facebook ! [Archive] - SUBSIM Radio Room Forums

DarkFish

05-17-10, 10:16 AM

luckily in the Netherlands we've got Hyves.nl, pretty similar to facebook, but with the possibility of fully customizing your page and with much better privacy (you can make any part you want visible for nobody, your friends, your friends friends or anybody).
As of december 2009, hyves had 9.5 million members, which is more than half of our entire population.

That's why I don't do facebook:)

Sailor Steve

05-17-10, 10:17 AM

I never put up anything I don't want people to see. Simple as that.

And Facebook found my kids and grandkids, so I can't knock them.

mookiemookie

05-17-10, 10:18 AM

I use facebook. I'm not a avid nut like some. However, FB needs to be used wisely. Do not post compromising pictures. It is not a place to vent your anger at someone (many do and it is now a tool for bully tactics). Certainly do not post anything about your company/coworkers/boss...you will find yourself looking for a job.

Exactly. I use it, but I never put anything out there that I wouldn't want shared with the whole world. If FB wants to share a picture of my cat that I uploaded, I'm okay with that. If they want to say that I'm from Houston....heck, just look to the left of this post and you can see that information.

I understand that FB is crap for privacy, and that they're a real scumbag company, but I really don't have anything to be afraid of. I find it useful for catching up with people I haven't talked to in years. So there's value in it for me.

AVGWarhawk

05-17-10, 10:22 AM

Yeah, I found some old college friends. I found friends I grew up with. It is not all bad.

Bilge_Rat

05-17-10, 10:44 AM

I refuse to use any program that forces me to be connected to the internet all the time, that collects private information, that...

....wait a minute, where I have heard that before?...:hmmm:

SteamWake

05-17-10, 11:15 AM

Heh.. the real reason is because I'm a crochity old fart that doesent necessarly want to be found :|\\

Rhodes

05-17-10, 11:45 AM

I also do not have or will have a facebook acount (unless someone pays me millions of euros)!

Almost everyone of my friends and my girlfriend uses facebook and play farmville and etc, but if someone wants to talk to me, they have my cell-fone/msn/mail or house fone to do it!

Intercourse facebook (thank you Graham Chapman)!

SteamWake

05-17-10, 12:19 PM

In a neatly relivant news story...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A North Carolina waitress is out of a job after griping on her Facebook page about the $5 tip she got from a couple who sat at their table for three hours. The waitress says the customers kept her at work an hour after she was supposed to clock out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_facebook_firing_1

Skybird

05-17-10, 12:46 PM

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,694582,00.html

So far not in the international English section.

Honey trap 2.0 : Hezbollah should have set up a FB profile of a beautiful woman to make 200 Israeli elite soldiers confessing military secrets.

Beyond that, I am highly critical of these "social networks". They cnage the perosnality understanding and rules of social interaction especially betwen oyung, and not necessarily for theb etter, and according companies, as well as famous Goodle of ocurse, time and again have to defend themselves against - I claim: their intended - erosion of privacy protection rules and laws. I see this growing erosion of protection of the privacy and private data as a serious threat, which increasingly gets supported by young generation who are used to it in the meaning of that they never got known anything different and thus find it absolutely okay and cannot think out any reasons why they maybe should be more critical of this erosion of private data protection and privacy.

We are turning into an acrylic glass society more and more. Which to me is a nightmare. It necessarily must destroy freedoms and making society and people more vulnerabel to remote control.

The Israeli soldiers in the above story sure as hell were true idiots, of course. They prove true the saying that God gave men both a brain and a little Willy, but not enough blood to operate both at the same time.

frau kaleun

05-17-10, 12:46 PM

Heh.. the real reason is because I'm a crochity old fart that doesent necessarly want to be found :|\\

Ditto, except for the old part. Crotchety and middle-aged, I'll cop to that. :D

My take on it is, if I still wanted to be in touch with people I lost touch with 10-20 years ago, I woudn't have lost touch with them in the first place. And, to be honest, I put quite a lot of work into losing touch with a few of them. I would hate to see all that effort wasted. :O:

Skybird

05-17-10, 01:01 PM

And a wonderful essay by Miriam Meckel, professor for communication sciences at the university St. Gallen and fellow at the university of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

http://www.faz.net/s/RubCEB3712D41B64C3094E31BDC1446D18E/Doc~E9BDE288B742E43EEBDDE56A53AE79E24~ATpl~Ecommon ~Scontent.html

It is about how internet tendencies of monopolising social categories and interaction limits the needed evolutional mechanism of social randomness, and how this makes people loosing their freedom to be whom they are, and spending more and more ressources to meet criteria of virtual peer groups - "profile" replaces personality. Not just in online interaction, but in the job world too, btw.

If you can handle the language, recommended. I think I once saw that lady on TV longer time ago, she is both very bright and very charming. She was Germany'S youngest professor ever (so they say), government speaker, and undersecretary. She is especially known for a book about burnout Syndrome.

Weiss Pinguin

05-17-10, 02:11 PM

Eh, I don't consider myself addicted to it, but for a good portion of the week it's pretty much one of my few links to friends and everyone else. The only thing I really post are random comments. And maybe a few pictures.

Also the games give me something to do while I'm out and waiting for something ;)

nikimcbee

05-17-10, 02:13 PM

@AVG: look me up on FB:D

I deleted all of my personal data on there ecxept for photos. I NEVER talk about work on there.
The best part is, FB does not have my current e-mail:haha:. They (FB) doesn't like it, because they can't spam me.:D

I dumped all of the "applications" IE games when I realized they want access to your account:stare:, uh, no.

My first 12 hours on FB was a nightmare, as I recived >120 email updates for everything:stare::shifty:. After that, I was changing some setting and blocking everything.

The worst one was, my aunt make some blueberry muffins. Then ensued a plethora of postings: "umm good", can I [blah,blah, blah] your muffins. I got an email update every #$%^#%^ single time somebody posted something:stare: .

Note to everybody: I don't give a flyin' &^%^&%*&%$ , *(%&$%%^ about your muffins.

BUT, payback is a bitch, and I post weird stuff too, like metallica videos and Russian poetry (in cyrrilic:D)

Jimbuna

05-17-10, 03:21 PM

I must be one of the dwindling number of people who have an account but don't understand the damn site :DL

Carotio

05-17-10, 03:34 PM

There are two kind of people, those on facebook and those who aren't.
I compare those who aren't with the Neanderthals, because they want to stay in the past and use jungle drums to interact, and the modern people who want to move forward, develop and use the latest technology.
Now, we all know the modern people pushed the Neanderthals to the side.

Okay, this was a bit provocative, but it is like that. If you don't keep up, you will be put to the side. If you like being at the side, then don't worry.

But if you want to be part of the modern social life, Facebook is definitely the current mean of communication with current and old friends.

Personally, I have used FB since the summer of 2007, and in the beginning, the games were part of it, but not anymore. Nowadays, the games at FB is a big POS, collecting personal info. But FB is still fine to stay up-to-date with what your family and friends do and did by looking at their photos and statuses. And you do have the choice to only show some parts to some people if you just use your brain a little bit. So FB isn't that bad if you just use it wisely.

nikimcbee

05-17-10, 03:38 PM

I must be one of the dwindling number of people who have an account but don't understand the damn site :DL

I'll work on a Northerner translation.:haha:

Jimbuna

05-17-10, 03:46 PM

I work on a Northerner translation.:haha:

I thought you might.......just don't twitter about and force me to skype ya :03:

Come to think of it two young girls were groomed on FB recently in the UK...one was murdered unfortunately and the other was raped but they got the sickos :nope:

DarkFish

05-17-10, 03:48 PM

But if you want to be part of the modern social life, Facebook is definitely the current mean of communication with current and old friends.Mwah, don't quite agree with that. While I do have a Hyves (Dutch "Facebook", much more popular than the "real" facebook here) account, it's pretty dead at the moment. If I want to communicate with friends, I msn/sms/call them.

Especially so with my "current friends", I see most of them often enough to not see the need for any Hyves/Facebook communication.

Besides, you can't get out on Facebook. Not enough beer there:03:

AVGWarhawk

05-17-10, 03:51 PM

I must be one of the dwindling number of people who have an account but don't understand the damn site :DL

No sir, I'm right there with you. Every time I sign in is "WTH?" What have they changed now? Once I signed in and it said my PW was compromised and I should change all my passwords on email accounts...WTH? Then there are the game players....WTH? I click "hide." I mean really, I did not join on the first offer to make a damn farm. I will not join on the second invite...WTH? I do not care if you are in Mafia Wars or you just purchased a pig for your farm..WTH? Can't anyone just say, "Hello"? I visit the site about once a week....WTH? :stare:

frau kaleun

05-17-10, 03:54 PM

Carotio

05-17-10, 03:57 PM

No sir, I'm right there with you. Every time I sign in is "WTH?" What have they changed now? Once I signed in and it said my PW was compromised and I should change all my passwords on email accounts...WTH? Then there are the game players....WTH? I click "hide." I mean really, I did not join on the first offer to make a damn farm. I will not join on the second invite...WTH? I do not care if you are in Mafia Wars or you just purchased a pig for your farm..WTH? Can't anyone just say, "Hello"? I visit the site about once a week....WTH? :stare:

You do know that you can hide farmville, mafia wars and what else once and for all, right?
In the news feed, move the mouse to the center colonne and an option will appear "remove" or "hide", then you can choose to remove that person or that application from the news feed. End of story. You'll never see it again.

TLAM Strike

05-17-10, 03:57 PM

Honey trap 2.0 : Hezbollah should have set up a FB profile of a beautiful woman to make 200 Israeli elite soldiers confessing military secrets.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8256/loosetweetssinkfleets.jpghttp://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8444/36557420695158371fa7.jpg

Ducimus

05-17-10, 04:08 PM

IMO, facebook and other social networking sites are just plain dumb. In my mind, it is just common sense to not post personal information about yourself on the internet. In some instances, A name and a birth date is all someone needs in to use/steal your identity. The more information about you that is available, the greater your risk. From this standpoint, facebook is complete lunacy.

GoldenRivet

05-17-10, 05:01 PM

Heh.. the real reason is because I'm a crochity old fart that doesent necessarly want to be found :|\\

honesty is a respected virtue few man posses :salute:

:haha:

AVGWarhawk

05-17-10, 05:28 PM

You do know that you can hide farmville, mafia wars and what else once and for all, right?
In the news feed, move the mouse to the center colonne and an option will appear "remove" or "hide", then you can choose to remove that person or that application from the news feed. End of story. You'll never see it again.

I do hide them. It gets so muddled after a while.

Platapus

05-17-10, 05:33 PM

Ditto, except for the old part. Crotchety and middle-aged, I'll cop to that. :D

My take on it is, if I still wanted to be in touch with people I lost touch with 10-20 years ago, I woudn't have lost touch with them in the first place. And, to be honest, I put quite a lot of work into losing touch with a few of them. I would hate to see all that effort wasted. :O:

Well written. :yeah:

I keep in touch with my friends via phone, mail, E-mail and, gasp, even meeting face to face!!!

I just don't see the reason to keep in touch with every person I ever met in my life. :nope:

Besides the last time I was online, I ran into a 14 year old girl posing as an FBI agent and boy was that embarrassing. :o

Iceman

05-17-10, 05:42 PM

:rotfl2::rotfl2:There are two kind of people, those on facebook and those who aren't.
I compare those who aren't with the Neanderthals, because they want to stay in the past and use jungle drums to interact, and the modern people who want to move forward, develop and use the latest technology.
Now, we all know the modern people pushed the Neanderthals to the side.

LMAO.....:rotfl2::rotfl2:A friend of mine from work turned me onto the site after my divorce. It has been awesome...I never get emails from FB apps that I do not allow...guess with anything ya gotta read the directions....yea wow hooked up with tons of people I had lost contact with over the years....why you guys think I am not on here talking with you crotchty old farts lol...good rule of thumb not to get to personal on there.

Platapus

05-17-10, 05:54 PM

frau kaleun

05-17-10, 06:35 PM

Well written. :yeah:

I keep in touch with my friends via phone, mail, E-mail and, gasp, even meeting face to face!!!

I just don't see the reason to keep in touch with every person I ever met in my life. :nope:

The big thing for me is that the people I've had "turn up" from my past have never been satisfied with a simple "oh hey nice to see you again, how you doing?" and a bit of catching up and then we all go about our separate merry ways. If of course there is a real mutual reconnection that happens and both parties are clearly interested in following up on that, it's different. But even when there isn't that doesn't seem to dissuade them from assuming that there is and trying to insinuate themselves into my life in ways that, under the circumstances, are IMO completely inappropriate and borderline disturbing.

I've had enough unpleasant experiences along those lines as it is. I don't need a FB account to make them even more likely.

Lord_magerius

05-17-10, 06:37 PM

I'm sure if you didn't have boobs it wouldn't happen nearly as much :O:

frau kaleun

05-17-10, 07:15 PM

I'm sure if you didn't have boobs it wouldn't happen nearly as much :O:

:O:

I think it has more to do with the fact that I don't like to be rude to people, or make them feel bad, combined with the fact that my admittedly introverted preferences regarding personal space and privacy and what is socially "appropriate" are often a sharp contrast to what's assumed to be the norm in a predominately extroverted society.

So I have sometimes not been as diligent or abrupt about enforcing my boundaries as I need to be when dealing with people who assume the boundaries don't apply to them for some reason. Or else I attempt to enforce them in a way that, if I were the other person, would be both obvious and sufficient... except I'm not the other person, and if the other person is already predisposed not to respect one's boundaries in the first place, that's a big problem.

Some long lost relative gets hold of my phone number or email address, contacts me, and I'm polite about it - oh yes, hi, I'm fine, hope you're fine, the end. To me that's not a reason to show up in town with no notice and then call me for directions to my home so they can come stay for a "visit." But apparently for some people, it is.

Eh. Recently I had a guy I dumped ten years ago show up uninvited at my door and leave messages on my machine saying he "really needs" to talk to me, apparently just because we ran into each other in public and I saw no reason not to be civil. Maybe I should've told him to **** off instead?

That one... sheesh. Still boggles my mind. It's been TEN YEARS. With NO contact. We are no longer part of each others' lives in any way, shape or form. There is nothing we "really need" to talk about. There is no "we."

Reece

05-17-10, 07:53 PM

I was on facebook, I tried to close it and you can't, it says it is but the info is still there,:doh: so beware!:stare:

Platapus

05-17-10, 08:08 PM

Some long lost relative gets hold of my phone number or email address, contacts me, and I'm polite about it - oh yes, hi, I'm fine, hope you're fine, the end. To me that's not a reason to show up in town with no notice and then call me for directions to my home so they can come stay for a "visit." But apparently for some people, it is.

Oh that would totally suck.

The best thing about having long lost relatives is that they are.

frau kaleun

05-17-10, 08:32 PM

Oh that would totally suck.

The best thing about having long lost relatives is that they are.

Bingo.

Especially when there are good reasons for them being "long lost," lol.

In this case it was mostly some longstanding mental health issues that eventually turned any encounter into an extremely uncomfortable experience. I realized this was still the case about fifteen minutes into meeting them for lunch at a restaurant across town, which I agreed to do because I didn't want to outright refuse to see them.

Even then I had to fend off repeated requests to let them follow me back to my apartment for an even longer "visit." Uh, no. These were people I barely knew as a child and not at all since then, with whom I have absolutely nothing in common, whose idea of "appropriate" is clearly vastly different from my own, and whose behavior is already freaking me the hell out. Fortunately I was able to tell them that I have a very small apartment, and that at the time every free inch of space in it was taken up by boxes of stuff I'd gotten out of storage temporarily. There was literally no place in my living room to sit down, much less entertain guests. All of which was true.

(Hey, did you know that when you show up in town unannounced to visit people who have no idea you're coming, they might not be able to accommodate you on demand? They actually have lives that don't revolve around you and your needs! Crazy, I know! But it's true!)

I also told them that I was not going straight home as I had a lot of errands to run that afternoon. Totally not true, although I did take the long way home just in case.

Rilder

05-17-10, 10:47 PM

I have a facebook, but I don't use it, its pointless bull crap and I have better things to do with my time then screw with stupid little apps and deal with friend requests and bull****, I also have a myspace but that was made because my girlfriend wanted me to and I don't mess with that either except when I want to send a message to my gf when we are apart.

If you need to get ahold of me, I get on MSN all the time, I also have an email, and if I know you in real life then if I think you are worth talking to then call me.

Frankly my time is more important to waste on your stupid little social networking site. Also if you think facebook "Is the s**t and you should get on it!" then you are probably not worthy enough to communicate with me.

Sailor Steve

05-17-10, 11:10 PM

Rilder, I don't do networking either, and I only honor friends requests, both here and there, from people I actually know. I only joined facebook because Neal started a Subsim page there.

That said, you can look down on me and call me "unworthy" all you want, but I repeat that if I had not joined my long-lost daughters would never have found me and I wouldn't know about them or my grandkids.

Giving your opinions and reasons for not joining this or that is fine, but I certainly don't need you or anybody preaching down to me and calling me "unworthy". On the other hand, I don't think Facebook is anything special; just another tool.

Castout

05-17-10, 11:38 PM

Face what? Can't be bothered. :DL

Sledgehammer427

05-17-10, 11:39 PM

I live 15 minutes from the town I go to school in and it's always hard to find gas and the time to stay in touch with my friends, being an only child I find I strive for communication.

My girlfriend is also away, the only way we can communicate is through skype and facebook (for when skype goes down, or when I'm not home)

I have friends say that my status updates elicit chuckles from them and their friends, my page seems to be built around comedy. people never ask me for rides anymore because I update the status on my gasoline and thus I never get bothered unless my friends have money.

ohh the convenience!

Rilder

05-18-10, 01:15 AM

Jimbuna

05-18-10, 03:06 AM

No sir, I'm right there with you. Every time I sign in is "WTH?" What have they changed now? Once I signed in and it said my PW was compromised and I should change all my passwords on email accounts...WTH? Then there are the game players....WTH? I click "hide." I mean really, I did not join on the first offer to make a damn farm. I will not join on the second invite...WTH? I do not care if you are in Mafia Wars or you just purchased a pig for your farm..WTH? Can't anyone just say, "Hello"? I visit the site about once a week....WTH? :stare:

Plenty other and safer means to communicate with those you want to....some with video and audio as well. :up:

Jimbuna

05-18-10, 03:06 AM

Balderdash.

It's not a question of using the latest technology. It's a question of whether or not one particular aspect of "the latest technology" provides something that one needs and wants. If it doesn't, there's no reason to use it. That doesn't make one a Neanderthal, it just makes one completely uninterested in the services it supposedly provides.

Precisely :yep:

Dowly

05-18-10, 03:57 AM

I was on facebook, I tried to close it and you can't, it says it is but the info is still there,:doh: so beware!:stare:

Aye, FB's a bitch.

I made an account on FB year or so ago to check some pics my brother's friend had put up, after I was done, I deleted the account. Two weeks later, I got an email from FB thanking me of reactivating my account. :o I went there and sure enough, my account had been reactivated for some reason. :nope: So, deleted it again and haven't heard of them since.

HunterICX

05-18-10, 04:46 AM

Catfish

05-18-10, 05:10 AM

Hello,

i really despise those "social" networks, after all it's only one step more towards total knowledge and control, of the state - and certainly your company can look at it anytime.

Only write things in Xing, facebook whatever what you would reveal to a total stranger, in a bar - and nothing else period.

There's certainly a good trick against this rubbish, by just using it properly :

"I am now 89 years old, have not much interests apart from reading history books, have no internet access (only at net cafés) and live alone in my own house. My wife is dead and i am almost bankrupt."

Be sure to leave your real eMail adress, you will be astonished how very little spam you will suddenly receive, along with no viagra, sports, insurance, credit or dating offers any more :D:O:

Greetings,
Catfish

GoldenRivet

05-18-10, 05:28 AM

@ Catfish

in regards to your spam comment

The best practice is to have 3 e mail addresses

One for personal use

One for Professional use

One for spam

The personal use e mail could be the goofy inside joke screen name like "DorkyTurd1999@xmail.com" this would be used for communitcating with friends and aquaintances.

The professional use e mail would be something simple like your name "John.Doe@xmail.com" and this e mail address would be used for appearance on resumes or for other professional contacts as it would be inappropriate to use "dorkyturd" as your professional contact e mail addy.

The spam e mail could be anything "SpamBin1999@xmail.com" - you would use this e mail address on any social networking, online purchases or other such interactions which would likley result in your receipt of spam messages.

This has more or less always been my rule of thumb when it comes to creating e mail accounts

:up:

Dowly

05-18-10, 05:30 AM

Or you can just use email that has a good spam filter. :O:

GoldenRivet

05-18-10, 06:11 AM

Or you can just use email that has a good spam filter. :O:

this is true.

However, I have tried 5 or 6 different email systems, Yahoo, aol, hotmail, gmail etc etc

I have found Gmail to have about the best spam filter that there is.

but even the best spam filter wont catch it all... and may even still send some legitimate messages to the spam bin.

I have found that probably the best way to approach spam is to create a bogus e mail address that you never intend to check or monitor which is used solely for online purchasing / signing up for stuff online etc.

Jimbuna

05-18-10, 07:04 AM

Lucky I dont have anything with these Social blogs/pages

it's pethatic how the majority of those users communicate more to eachother throught those stupid blogs/pages then they would if they where in the same room.

HunterICX

Often they are in the same room yet still communicate via their accounts....a way of life with some, a habit too hard to break :DL

Sailor Steve

05-18-10, 09:57 AM

Sorry I must of been unclear. I was talking about those people that will go and tell me to get on facebook, and get mad if I don't add them on it, as if this social networking site is somehow an important facet of our friendship.
My apologies. It was late and I was tired and in one of 'those' moods. I didn't mean to overreact.

Sailor Steve

05-18-10, 09:59 AM

Often they are in the same room yet still communicate via their accounts....a way of life with some, a habit too hard to break :DL
Kids in the back seat of the car, texting each other on their cell phones.:dead:

Jimbuna

05-18-10, 10:07 AM

Kids in the back seat of the car, texting each other on their cell phones.:dead:

Aye and that :DL

I've a daughter upstairs with her foot in plaster after a foot operation who texts her mam who is downstairs, messages, rather than use one of the dect phones in the house.

Force of bloody habit :doh:

HunterICX

05-18-10, 10:13 AM

Aye and that :DL

I've a daughter upstairs with her foot in plaster after a foot operation who texts her mam who is downstairs, messages, rather than use one of the dect phones in the house.

Force of bloody habit :doh:

Force of shuffing down the Mobile Phone bill down yer throat :O:

HunterICX

frau kaleun

05-18-10, 10:24 AM

I've a daughter upstairs with her foot in plaster after a foot operation who texts her mam who is downstairs, messages, rather than use one of the dect phones in the house.

What ever happened to good old fashioned yelling?

That's how we did it in our house, dadgummit.

Jimbuna

05-18-10, 10:31 AM

Force of shuffing down the Mobile Phone bill down yer throat :O:

HunterICX

That is partly the problem, all the mobile phone packages in the household have free unlimited text bundles.

The idiot that pays the bills doesn't even text (6 per month....if that) :oops:

Jimbuna

05-18-10, 10:34 AM

What ever happened to good old fashioned yelling?

That's how we did it in our house, dadgummit.

She wouldn't dare....I doubt the police would appreciate my habit of gagging her every night so she wouldn't want to make do with a camping bed in the garage :DL

Sailor Steve

05-18-10, 10:36 AM

What ever happened to good old fashioned yelling?

That's how we did it in our house, dadgummit.
I lived downstairs. My stepmom would just stomp hard on the floor (my ceiling) if she wanted anything. I'd better come running if I knew what's good for me.

On the other hand the last roommate I had was texted by his girlfriend to his computer every 15 seconds: "I haven't heard from you. What's going on?" "Why haven't you called me?" "Okay, *&#^@*(, I'm through with you!" "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." "Please call me."

All the time I'm using his computer to look for work while he's out with friends...:dead:

Dowly

05-18-10, 10:40 AM

this is true.

However, I have tried 5 or 6 different email systems, Yahoo, aol, hotmail, gmail etc etc

I have found Gmail to have about the best spam filter that there is.

but even the best spam filter wont catch it all... and may even still send some legitimate messages to the spam bin.

I have found that probably the best way to approach spam is to create a bogus e mail address that you never intend to check or monitor which is used solely for online purchasing / signing up for stuff online etc.

Using Gmail myself and I get one spam email that gets thru maybe once in 3-5 months. And trust me, tell me a porn site and my email addy is on their database. :haha:

Sailor Steve

05-18-10, 10:43 AM

And trust me, tell me a porn site and my email addy is on their database. :haha:
And your credit card number, and your preferences...

Dowly

05-18-10, 10:46 AM

True true.

les green01

05-18-10, 10:49 AM

i got face book but dont understand it so got mad and hadnt log back in,i use to know a good porn movie site that was free,but now i got a gf when im not around her sends me good pics:yeah:

Spoon 11th

05-18-10, 11:17 AM

Alternative to facebook coming soon:

"Our basic plan is the same: we’re going to build a great lightweight decentralized social networking framework and release it as AGPL software."

http://www.joindiaspora.com/

I have totally disabled my browser's access to these FB&co addresses:

http://*.facebook.*
http://*.fbshare.* ; facebook sharebutton
http://*.sharethis.*
http://*.fbcdn.*
http://*.twitter.*
http://*.tweetmeme.*
http://*.urtbk.*
http://*.addlvr.*

and many other nuisances...

AVGWarhawk

05-18-10, 03:09 PM

And your credit card number, and your preferences...

:har:

TarJak

05-18-10, 09:55 PM

And your credit card number, and your preferences...

True true.I have hacked Dowly's sex.com account and copied his preferences:

Boobs
Tits
Hooters
Bazookas
Breasts
Funbags
Norks
Pillows
Dude
Puppies
Rack
Titties
Jugs
Melons
Bristols
Bosoms
Boobies
Boulders
Gobstoppers
Devils Dumplings
All the other bits and pieces...

His credit card data will not be displayed but frankly I can't understand how he can afford the interest.:o:D

Reece

05-18-10, 10:08 PM

you forgot knockers!!:yep:

Jimbuna

05-19-10, 02:19 AM

...and thruppnybits

Reece

05-19-10, 02:52 AM

...and mammaries!

Jimbuna

05-19-10, 03:13 AM

...and knockers.

Dowly

05-19-10, 03:15 AM

Combo break! Jimbuna loses, Reece mentioned knockers. Reece, finish him! :DL

Jimbuna

05-19-10, 03:58 AM

Combo break! Jimbuna loses, Reece mentioned knockers. Reece, finish him! :DL

Bugga!! :damn:

Schroeder

05-19-10, 05:11 AM

Milk bags.:D

TarJak

05-19-10, 06:08 AM

Well this thread took a quick slide into depravity. Glad to be of service.:D

I didn't forget anything. Remember these are Dowly's preferences.

There are lots of nicknames we could come up with. Here are 160 of 'em: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy3lkZAyx7k

HunterICX

05-19-10, 06:10 AM

Well this thread took a quick slide into deparvity. Glad to be of service.:D

Only here in the GT of Subsim :DL

HunterICX

Wolfehunter

05-19-10, 06:44 AM

Farcebook again..:o:D Lol soon there going to show how ugly you really are... :D :O:

Bah my wife is on this nonsense.. I wouldn't sign up to it if someone even payed me. She knows not to put any info of me and our daughter... If she wants to broadcast herself that's fine by me. Free society right? :doh:

Reece

05-19-10, 07:19 AM

Combo break! Jimbuna loses, Reece mentioned knockers. Reece, finish him! :DLSorry Jim but you know the rules:
http://holycrapthatsfunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/finish_him.jpg

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/161621-mkmovie.jpg

Jimbuna

05-19-10, 07:46 AM

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4968/thumbsdowny.jpg (http://img40.imageshack.us/i/thumbsdowny.jpg/)

AVGWarhawk

05-19-10, 08:25 AM

http://cdn3.knowyourmeme.com/i/24745/original/lolcats-finish-him.jpg

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/12/27/128749007185152913.jpg

STEED

05-19-10, 09:36 AM

Face book....:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Jimbuna

05-19-10, 09:42 AM

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3176/35960540.jpg (http://img697.imageshack.us/i/35960540.jpg/)

Rilder

05-19-10, 10:03 AM

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4968/thumbsdowny.jpg (http://img40.imageshack.us/i/thumbsdowny.jpg/)

But its still unclear whether that means to spare him or finish him!:rotfl2:

frau kaleun

05-19-10, 10:03 AM

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=144&pictureid=2093

AVGWarhawk

05-19-10, 10:32 AM

http://news.retroremakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/finishhim.png

frau kaleun

05-19-10, 10:40 AM

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/5/17/128870886956192263.jpg

Weiss Pinguin

05-19-10, 10:41 AM

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-mom-lion-yells-at-offspring.jpg

HunterICX

05-19-10, 10:42 AM

DO SOMETHING!

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/9109/darkhelmet.jpg

HunterICX

Jimbuna

05-19-10, 10:48 AM

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/117/cattz.jpg (http://img697.imageshack.us/i/cattz.jpg/)

Dowly

05-19-10, 10:52 AM

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/8967.gif

Weiss Pinguin

05-19-10, 10:57 AM

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/7/30/nou128619151022807600.jpg

Jimbuna

05-19-10, 11:00 AM

http://www.btsmods.com/Smileys/classic/Ah_fooey.gif

krashkart

05-19-10, 11:04 AM

http://imgcash5.imageshack.us/img517/4871/executedyl7.gif

frau kaleun

05-19-10, 11:22 AM

I Googled "Dowly's Sexual Preferences," And All I Got Was A Lousy Manicorn.

http://poorlydressed.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129177182782829250.jpg

AVGWarhawk

05-19-10, 11:30 AM

DOH!

Weiss Pinguin

05-19-10, 01:10 PM

I Googled "Dowly's Sexual Preferences," And All I Got Was A Lousy Manicorn.
You probably caught 6 or 7 viruses just by typing that in...

frau kaleun

05-19-10, 01:19 PM

You probably caught 6 or 7 viruses just by typing that in...

Nah, it's okay. I'd just updated my AV software. And put on a full body condom.

Dowly

05-19-10, 01:31 PM

I Googled "Dowly's Sexual Preferences," And All I Got Was A Lousy Manicorn.

Safe search on I take? :O:

frau kaleun

05-19-10, 01:41 PM

Safe search on I take? :O:

I'd turn it off but I'm at work. We're not allowed to look at naked Manicorns. :O:

AVGWarhawk

05-19-10, 02:23 PM

FINISH IT!!!

http://www.stripers247.com/images/gladiators_leg.gif

Jimbuna

05-19-10, 02:58 PM

http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/29975/original/FINISH_HIM_by_D1u9c7k9.jpg

Reece

05-19-10, 09:01 PM

I think that is enough! .... Well maybe one last effort:

FINISH HIM!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/GrecoRomanWrestling1.jpg/372px-GrecoRomanWrestling1.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2185/2443670630_187b8a2d0e.jpg

Poor Dowly:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e158/thecouchpotato9/funny-sad-baby.jpg

That's it, I'm finished!:yep:

krashkart

05-19-10, 10:44 PM

FINISH HIM!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/GrecoRomanWrestling1.jpg/372px-GrecoRomanWrestling1.jpg

Ehm, he doesn't look like he's quite finished yet. :timeout: Couple more seconds... gah :-?

Weiss Pinguin

05-19-10, 11:35 PM

http://files.myopera.com/Macscotty/albums/728441/FINISH%20HIM!.jpg

http://upnextinsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sports-pictures-rogers-cutler-finish-him.jpg

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/6/13/128893502397812487.jpg

JScones

05-20-10, 12:01 AM

I joined Facebook because I have many relatives that live interstate or overseas and it's good to catch up with them and keep up to date with what they are doing. In the process I've had some old school and work friends catch up with me and it's transpired that many of them now live close to me, thus making the occasional coffee-in-the-city something to look forward to. As I regularly review my privacy settings and limit everything just to Friends, watch what I write (no "My Boss sux" when they're a friend) and hide all the Farmville crap, I don't have a problem with it. I'm not a high user though, moreso a reader of others.

UnderseaLcpl

05-20-10, 02:25 AM

Here's one for Dowly....

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o264/charlie143james/g50finnux8.jpg

Jimbuna

05-20-10, 06:15 AM

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/8189/catgew.jpg (http://img704.imageshack.us/i/catgew.jpg/)

severniae

05-20-10, 10:28 AM

I do have a facebook account, but have rarely used it since they made the status updates their main feature. Its OK for getting in contact with a friend who lives far away. But I fail to see why people feel the need to post every inane and tedious detail of their life on the site. For example, the other day I signed in, and a (somewhat distant, thankfully!) friend had posted an update (with picture) saying "{Name} is eating Baked beans!!!! WOOP!"

Why do people want to know that? I mean, are people going to start posting about their bladder movements next?

Its the same reason that I'll never understand Twitter, i just don't understand the point in it.... I've tried several times to look at it but just completely fail to understand what its for every time!

Tchocky

05-20-10, 12:50 PM

Brb, going for a piss.

Weiss Pinguin

05-20-10, 12:58 PM

Weiss Pinguin (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=242965) hates when the bathroom's out of toilet paper

Weiss Pinguin (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=242965) Also someone left piss all over the toilet, WTF

frau kaleun

05-20-10, 01:03 PM

But I fail to see why people feel the need to post every inane and tedious detail of their life on the site.

The cynic in me tends to think that part of the problem is that there is an entire generation of people who have been and/or are being raised to believe that they are each a pwecious, pwecious snowflake whose every thought, utterance, and movement (bowel or otherwise) is a unique gift to those around them and therefore must be communicated to as wide an audience as possible on a minute-by-minute basis.

Or maybe millions of people like that already existed and modern technology has just given them the opportunity to inflict themselves on an ever larger audience.

But, really, I don't know. What I do know is that there are many people in the world I love dearly and would do damn near anything for if the need arose.. but there is no need for me to know what they had for breakfast this morning and vice versa.

frau kaleun

05-20-10, 01:08 PM

Brb, going for a piss.

Weiss Pinguin (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=242965) hates when the bathroom's out of toilet paper

(http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=242965)Weiss Pinguin Also someone left piss all over the toilet, WTF

:har::har::har:

Jimbuna

05-20-10, 01:18 PM

Are we starting to aspire to greater heights? :hmmm:

krashkart

05-20-10, 02:54 PM

FB was fun for awhile, but once the novelty wore off I yanked the account. The real upside was getting back in contact with a family member I hadn't seen since the late seventies.

tater

05-21-10, 08:52 AM

Facebook took down the "Everybody Draw Mohammad page apparently. Censorship like that is why I'll never do ****ing facebook. POS muslim extremists win AGAIN. Note that the real page redirects to the fake pro-pedo, erm, pro-muhammad page.

Guess what extremist muslim POSs, I find attacks on freedom of expression offensive. Their child-raping, murderous "prophet"—who stole more of their holy book from other sources (this is demonstrable)—deserves all the abuse we can dish out on him. (not that he's real, mind you, he's as apocryphal as any other magical religious figure—but if he were real, he'd be a murdering pedo)

Mark Steyn said it well:
“I’m bored with death threats. And, as far as I’m concerned, if that’s your opening conversational gambit, then any obligation on my part to ‘cultural sensitivity’ and ‘mutual respect’ is over. The only way to stop this madness destroying our liberties is (as Ayaan Hirsi Ali puts it) to spread the risk. Everybody Draws Mohammed Day does just that.”
/rant

PS—I'd say the same about extremist jesus freaks, too, just point me at facebook doing the same PC crap when jesus is "attacked" with a cartoon.

Carotio

05-21-10, 03:42 PM

Well, FB may have taken down the most crowded of them, but the other one still exists:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammad-Day-May-20th-2010/120352401315688

What happend to the official Facebook response: "We're gonna sue Pakistan for blocking our site!" ??? :hmmm:
I guess they figured out that it would lead nowhere to try and sue a foreign state.

In the end, I doubt it was the screaming fanatic crowd in the streets of Islamabad who made them close the page. It was pure and simple capitalism, and fear of a domino effect. If one state closes access and others follow up, facebook would loose marked value in regards to investors and advertisers. It's a business decision.
One could of course argue that it was the fanatics, and I agree to a certain degree. That's why it's a shame that this particular page was shut down. It was meant to show the fanatics that they are not to run the show anymore. If they dislike the insulting pictures and drawings, the message was clear: then look the other way. But that is basically the difference of Christianism and Islam. In Christianity, we're taught to turn the other cheek forward. Islam teaches revenge.
Like Christianity has different directions: Catholicism, Protestantism, Calvinism, Baptism etc etc. so does Islam has different directions. Well, mostly two: Sunni and Shiite. But within both there are the moderate moslems, who indeed do turn the other cheek forward or rather just ignore such insults, because they carry their religion within themselves. But then there are also the fanatics, who definitely won't turn the other cheek forward ever. And they will never forget.
The only way to fight one idea is to fight it with another idea. Weapons won't do any good. Only the idea of non-violent freedom of expression can fight fanaticism. And if it must be provocative, then so be it. A provocative drawing does not kill anybody, a bomb tied around a person in a big crowd in a subway does.

Ducimus

05-21-10, 04:21 PM

IMO facebook and other social networking sites are just a more evolved version of a weblog, which is nothing more then a personal web page or "home page". Social networking sites are the descendants of an age when it was cool and hip to make a home page or weblog, writing about yourself or what you do or are interested in.

Anyone remember geocities?
Try this to jog the memory: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

That IMO is social networking sites like facebooks, great grand pappy.
Many people felt compelled to write about themselves as if someone out there really gave a crap as to who they were or what they did. Sounds bitter but its true. Noways it could just get you in trouble.

At one point i too had a personal web page (only i got my own domain, never jumped on the geocities bandwagon), and it didn't take me long to realize three things.

1.) Posting personal info on the internet is bad.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18531_5-guilty-pleasures-web-killed-while-you-werent-looking.html

2.) The internet is packed to the gills with "personal pages" that were just like mine, everyone one of them thinking their special, but overall just wasting bandwidth and cluttering search queries. Network congest over nothing but senseless dribble.

3.) nobody cares who i am or what i do. I am joe schmoe, just another dude on the internet amongst tens of thousands, millions even. To think otherwise is self aggrandizement. These people who twitter when they so much as take a schitt? They need to get their heads examined.

krashkart

05-21-10, 04:42 PM

Some of it is good for keeping in touch with the people we are closest to, but yes some of it just goes overboard. Twitter is a complete waste of human intelligence, if not a security risk to the un-savvy. I remember Geocities, but I was a Tripod nut. Not to mention un-savvy. :)

nikimcbee

05-21-10, 04:44 PM

tater

05-21-10, 05:09 PM

Well, FB may have taken down the most crowded of them, but the other one still exists:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammad-Day-May-20th-2010/120352401315688

That's down, too.

Note that islamist walls that celebrate violence... still there. Cartoons? They must be expunged!

Un-F-ing-believable.

Facebook PC cowards vs POS, medieval muslim fundies.

Makes me sick to my stomach. WTF is the world coming to?

Ducimus

05-21-10, 05:14 PM

>>>WTF is the world coming to?

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/11b/8/AAAAAv_AvCQAAAAAARuPXg.jpg

tater

05-21-10, 05:21 PM

Makes me want to post toons of The Prophet Muhammad (full spelling so they know it's really him I mean, not some random dude with the same name) raping his pre-pubescent wife. Then everyone can know what an awesome POS he was (under the assumption he ever really lived).

krashkart

05-21-10, 05:28 PM

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/11b/8/AAAAAv_AvCQAAAAAARuPXg.jpg

Something like that. Some of our kind want a kinder and gentler world, all in a reality that simply is not kind or gentle. Okay, suits me. We can stack them up as abatements if need be.

Carotio

05-21-10, 05:33 PM

That's down, too.

No, it ain't. Looking at it right now. Maybe Facebook is just blocking YOUR access right... :har:

Flopper

05-21-10, 05:39 PM

There are two kind of people, those on facebook and those who aren't.
I compare those who aren't with the Neanderthals, because they want to stay in the past and use jungle drums to interact, and the modern people who want to move forward, develop and use the latest technology.
Now, we all know the modern people pushed the Neanderthals to the side.

Okay, this was a bit provocative, but it is like that. If you don't keep up, you will be put to the side. If you like being at the side, then don't worry.

But if you want to be part of the modern social life, Facebook is definitely the current mean of communication with current and old friends.

Hilarious. I have been into computer programming since the mid-80s. Now, there have been a number of advances that have caught my eye along the way, but facebook certainly wasn't one of them, other than "why didn't I have the idea of creating that blisteringly simple site?" and I definitely don't have any plans for a facebook account. If I did open any accounts, they would probably be for the bots I would write to see how deep I could data mine but, not interested.

Where's my club? Ugh... UGH!

krashkart

05-21-10, 05:41 PM

I just didn't feel comfortable being on FB.

Carotio

05-21-10, 06:03 PM

"why didn't I have the idea of creating that blisteringly simple site?"

If I knew how to program such social sites, I would make one myself, and it would certainly not be as restrictive and intrusive as Facebook is.
Post some nude or semi-nude photos in a photo album, and your account gets deleted, because some smuck couldn't handle to see it and reports it. Where is the "if you can't handle it, then look the other way"-mentality?
But it's okay to be spammed about this or that game application all the time. Now where is that "hide all applications"-button?

But, I choose to ignore and minimise the crap on Facebook the most, and focus on the good things: like keeping up-to-date with friends abroad or just living far away.

tater

05-21-10, 06:19 PM

No, it ain't. Looking at it right now. Maybe Facebook is just blocking YOUR access right... :har:

When I first checked the other day it came up for me—I have no facebook account, so I assumed it was open like some bands have pages.

It defaults to the facebook home page right now for me. Can anyone else follow that link if they have no facebook acct?

All commentary I have read on the net says it is all down, too.

Carotio

05-21-10, 06:27 PM

When I first checked the other day it came up for me—I have no facebook account, so I assumed it was open like some bands have pages.

It defaults to the facebook home page right now for me. Can anyone else follow that link if they have no facebook acct?

All commentary I have read on the net says it is all down, too.

Ahh, there's your problem. If you don't have an account, then it ain't accessible.
Anyway, my link was for the secondary page. The most crowded of them is truthfully down. But this one is still up.

Weiss Pinguin

05-21-10, 07:34 PM

But, I choose to ignore and minimise the crap on Facebook the most, and focus on the good things: like keeping up-to-date with friends abroad or just living far away.
This.

Foxtrot

05-22-10, 05:53 AM

That's down, too.

Note that islamist walls that celebrate violence... still there. Cartoons? They must be expunged!

Un-F-ing-believable.

Facebook PC cowards vs POS, medieval muslim fundies.

Makes me sick to my stomach. WTF is the world coming to?

Simple reason: Facebook was scared of losing the revenue.
In this world, business and money decide the rules. You can always donate some money to Facebook but I doubt you make that much in one year.

Imagine, if all Muslim countries decide to pull their finance from Western banks, stop oil trade with Western countries and stop dealing with Western firms. (Chinese and Russians are out of this equation) You can say in this forum whatever you want to (which really doesn't matter at all except that you are wasting your time which you can use it for some healthy activity) but your economy and your companies can't afford this at all. 1973 oil crisis, remember?

For the record: I hate FB. I have no account or whatsoever. I really have no right to complain for privacy when I upload some personal stuff to others' websites..

tater

05-22-10, 08:06 PM

BTW, there was a real URL (not facebook) for draw mohammad day, but POS muslim hackers hacked it.

(yeah, I know, the POS is redundant)

Someone needs to get the real site back up, it's galling that backwards, medieval ****s can stifle freedom of expression when they couldn't build a computer—or anything else—from first principles themselves (even iranian nukes rely on european equipment—my rule is that if your country couldn't build whatever it is with no help at all, then you don't deserve it)

Carotio

05-22-10, 09:44 PM

my rule is that if your country couldn't build whatever it is with no help at all, then you don't deserve it

Just for a second, I would like to isolate that statement for the sole purpose of reflection. :hmmm:

Where would the world be today, if no technology whatsoever had ever crossed the borders?
Mathematics and astrology, and hence construction and navigation was a known technology in ancient Egypt. But we all know about this today, at least if we paid attention during school.
Is it bad in general that technology is spread? No, it ain't. Better to help eachother to rise together, thus avoiding jalousy and hatred. Though within reason. No reason to share knowledge about mass destruction weapon technology (like nuclear bombs). In fact, this is one technology, which is one of the worst inventions ever. And of the scientists who did it, many have regretted it, but sadly the circumstances forced them to invent it.

Okay, WTF just happend here. Now, Facebook and mass destruction technology... :hmmm: I wonder if the "Everybody draw Muhammed" phenomenon has the potential of mass destruction of the general moslem idea of Muhammed being perfect, when he wasn't.

krashkart

05-22-10, 10:47 PM

Okay, WTF just happend here. Now, Facebook and mass destruction technology... :hmmm: I wonder if the "Everybody draw Muhammed" phenomenon has the potential of mass destruction of the general moslem idea of Muhammed being perfect, when he wasn't.

Now that's a gestalt. The hardcore followers seem challenged and appalled by the realization that anyone would besmirch the purity of their religious icon. :hmmm:

Yeah, okay. From my point of view it's difficult to imagine that any highly publicized affront to their beliefs could be viewed as destructive. I'm not among those who feel they are being subjected to that treatment. It's pretty much standard fare in Western societies for the old beliefs to be challenged on occasion (if not regularly). What is needed to bridge this gigantic gap in understanding?

Weiss Pinguin

05-22-10, 11:04 PM

Yeah, okay. From my point of view it's difficult to imagine that any highly publicized affront to their beliefs could be viewed as destructive. I'm not among those who feel they are being subjected to that treatment. It's pretty much standard fare in Western societies for the old beliefs to be challenged on occasion (if not regularly). What is needed to bridge this gigantic gap in understanding?
IMO that's a bit like asking what's need to bridge the pacific ocean. Even poking fun at something like the figure of Muhammed is to them the equivalent of a terrorist attack on the White House for Americans.

krashkart

05-22-10, 11:50 PM

Yes, that is quite an ominous void. The problems won't be resolved for many years to come, but it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that some hope could be established on either side of the line. We can progress further from there.

Reece

05-23-10, 12:08 AM

@ Kreshkart: The problem is Mulims only tolerate Muslims, in their Qur'an it states that all others, Christians, Heathens, etc, must die, though it is the extremists only that enforce this, and Christians certainly don't fly jets into buildings killing thousands of innocent people.:oops:
Christ said: "Love your neighbor as yourself", "Love your enemies", "turn the other cheek" etc.:yep:
I say "Make love not war!!":D

tater

05-23-10, 10:58 AM

Christians and Jews are actually allowed to be Dhimmi—second class citizens—under Islamic law. This is the source of the idiotic PC claim that when Europe was in the middle ages—enacting pogroms vs jews, for example—the islamic world was more tolerant, etc. That they "tolerated" SOME PEOPLE as 2d class citizens is faint praise, frankly.

Out here in dar al harb, however, such niceties don't apply, anyway.