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!

Brb, going for a piss.

Weiss Pinguin hates when the bathroom's out of toilet paper

Weiss Pinguin Also someone left piss all over the toilet, WTF

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.

:har::har::har:

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

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.

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:
/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.

Well, FB may have taken down the most crowded of them, but the other one still exists:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everyb...20352401315688

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.

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...t-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.

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. :)

:haha::yeah:

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?

>>>WTF is the world coming to?

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