The FACEBOOK Thread - Part 2

[bullets]

I downloaded facebook as an application on my cell phone but didn't realize it displayed my cell number under my contact info until today. oops!

 

[Call Me Darkman]

Bumping this image because it's the truth. You'll get used to it. You might as well get Timeline before it's forced on you so you get the hang of it quicker.

Quoted for Truth.

its myspace all over again with the layout

People always say that, but Facebook has never been anywhere near what MySpace used to be.

 

[Morg]

I downloaded facebook as an application on my cell phone but didn't realize it displayed my cell number under my contact info until today. oops!

seen tons of friends and those who pages I can see their cell # and more because they don't change the security settings

 

[ComicChick]

Quoted for Truth.



People always say that, but Facebook has never been anywhere near what MySpace used to be.

i mean moreso with the huge banner across the top, and the friends lists etc up there as well. put a contact table and it's eerily similar to some of the myspace layouts i recall

 

[DV8]

yeah, I got tricked into that new layout; the actual concept of using the timeline is pretty awesome, but it's very "myspace"ish . . . also, it SUCKS at work, my web browser can't even load it correctly it's SUPER annoying

 

[SpideyVille]

I don't really like the timeline, it seems much easier to just see stories in a list than the way they are listed.

 

[bullets]

seen tons of friends and those who pages I can see their cell # and more because they don't change the security settings

Yeah I've had to let some people know. I think half of them are unaware.

 

[Morg]

If someone selling FB stock better not buy it:

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/221731

 

[ComicChick]

So what are other alternatives to Facebook?

the real world

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

According to a study, of course.

Why You Shouldn’t Have More Than 354 Facebook Friends


Facebook used to be a source of amusement and happiness—why else would 483 million people check in daily? But if you find your news feed to be more of a bummer with each passing day, you’re not alone.

In a study presented at the recent Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, researchers asked a sample group of Facebook users between the ages of 18 and 65 to read some of their friends’ status updates. Afterward, those Facebook users rated their lives as much less satisfying than people who didn’t check their news feed first.

Among the group who read updates, the study revealed that having 354 Facebook friends seemed to be the tipping point after which people were increasingly less happy with their lives.

The reason: Much of how we judge our success in life is based on how we stack up against our peers. “The problem is that Facebook gives us a limited view of our friends’ lives, and that view tends to be unrealistically positive,” says study author Dilney Goncalves, Ph.D., a marketing professor at IE Business School in Madrid. The more friends you have, he adds, the more likely you are to spend your day enviously reading about someone’s paradise vacation, new girlfriend, or job promotion. (Do you update your statuses at least twice a day? Then you might be a narcissist.)

Goncalves recommends unsubscribing from your most prolific braggarts and fine-tuning your news feed. You can choose to read all updates from a friend, downgrade to a smaller portion of their updates, or view only what Mark Zuckerberg’s voodoo determines to be their “most important” posts.

Another option: Cut ties with excess acquaintances to reduce your stream to best buds only. That means your dentist, your freshman year hall-mate, and your overbearing ex can all get the axe. (Read How Facebook Has Changed Sex.) When you’ve reached a comfortable count, “learning about the success of your closest friends can actually make you happier,” Goncalves says.

I admit that even I've been fallen to this too. I would be all perfectly fine inside watching movies until I go on facebook and see pictures of my friends doing exciting stuff.

 

[SuperMike335!!]

Then you got two choices.

A. Go do more exciting stuff. Your friends are not taking that away from you, go join them.

B. Don't log onto facebook.

 

[SpideyInATree]

I must be REALLY sad. I only have like 27 friends on Facebook.

However, these are people that I know in REAL LIFE and I interact with at least on a daily basis. So, I guess it's not too terribly sad...but still sad.

 

[SuperMike335!!]

I must be REALLY sad. I only have like 27 friends on Facebook.

However, these are people that I know in REAL LIFE and I interact with at least on a daily basis. So, I guess it's not too terribly sad...but still sad.

No I think that is good. If you got 27 REAL friends, who you actually see in person.

Sad is the guy with Zero real friends who has 500+ on FB.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Then you got two choices.

A. Go do more exciting stuff. Your friends are not taking that away from you, go join them.

B. Don't log onto facebook.

I'm the one doing more exciting stuff when I'm at Syracuse

 

[SpideyInATree]

No I think that is good. If you got 27 REAL friends, who you actually see in person.

Sad is the guy with Zero real friends who has 500+ on FB.

Oh, I know. That's why I busted out the

Some people that I've seen on Facebook do have like 350 to 500 "friends" on Facebook and that boggles my mind.

If I don't know you in real life...either through work or personal life...you are NOT going to be a friend on my Facebook.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Wow. That's some hard-hitting science. 354, eh? That exact?! I have 430 and have much more confidence than I did a few years ago when I first joined (Of course that could be due to holding down a good job and getting a lot more sex than I did back then, but I digress..).

On the other hand, I will say this. I think people with well over a thousand friends should evaluate why they're collecting friends like a fanboy collects comics. How many of those thousand plus friends are people you actually know? I know all 430 of the cats on my Facebook at least in passing. And I still think I have to do a long overdue purge soon. I don't trust anyone who has like 1,500 "friends."

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I feel the opposite. I log into Facebook and read the same ol boring **** from people; then I feel better about myself.

 

[Rockstar]

Err. I don't necessarily agree with this.

I have about 900 friends on there and I barely even bother with the newsfeed. It's too chaotic to pay attention to.

The best part of facebook is facebook chat for mobile, for people who don't have BBM. Other than that, it's useless.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

You're one of the people that makes me feel bad, Lunar!

Spoiler

Kidding.

 

[Kurosawa]

Facebook makes me feel much better about myself, mostly because my friends on there either post a bunch of idiotic political stuff or crappy music videos and therefore I feel my tastes are much more refined than theirs. If anything, it gives me a superiority complex.

"Abe Lincoln was a dictator"

Trace Adkins video

****ing twits.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Abe Lincoln was a dictator? Really?

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Not to get too political, but I think I've purged about five tea-partiers from my friend's list. If you're a conservative that's okay, but no insane birthers thank you.

I've also deleted someone who just whined with every status update. She might as well have been wearing a sign saying "pay attention to meeeeeeee!" And it was over very small stuff. At the time I was going through big stuff, so that kinda pissed me off.

 

[enterthemadness]

Facebook can be depressing...when single, lonely, never been kissed...

What time is it?

Hype: Adventure Time?
ETM: Later, this Poem Time. Write those feelings down.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Not this again. How hard is it get kissed? Go out to a club tonight and just pay a chick twenty bucks to kiss you.

 

[Lily Adler]

My 'facebook' is a coffee and sandwich/antique shop and this place.