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09-23-2010, 08:50 PM
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People who have seen my posts around here know I despise Facebook with a passion. I think that, for some reason, they aim to try to "take over the internet". Now they need to cut into mobile phones?
What sickens me is that all the Facebook freaks out there will buy into this. If they make a decent phone, then fine, but it will obviously be so intertwined with Facebook that I will never consider it.
Why is everyone jumping on the smartphone wagon these days? It seems like everyone wants to do what Apple does.
Add the Facebook Movie to this, and Facebook is going to eventually take over the world!
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09-23-2010, 08:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | | No it's not. Eventually someone will come along with something different, and everyone will move to that. Remember Myspace? Mywhat? Yeah...
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09-23-2010, 08:55 PM
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09-23-2010, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Thunderscreech No it's not. Eventually someone will come along with something different, and everyone will move to that. Remember Myspace? Mywhat? Yeah... | I see facebook going more the way of Google, not Myspace. Google themselves are scared of the potential of Facebook.
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09-23-2010, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound I see facebook going more the way of Google, not Myspace. Google themselves are scared of the potential of Facebook.
lowsound | Potential is the key word. I see Facebook becoming less and less of a big thing. But it could go either way. After all, they have enough funding...
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09-23-2010, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by rarisgod http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-0...may-carry.html
People who have seen my posts around here know I despise Facebook with a passion. I think that, for some reason, they aim to try to "take over the internet". Now they need to cut into mobile phones?
What sickens me is that all the Facebook freaks out there will buy into this. If they make a decent phone, then fine, but it will obviously be so intertwined with Facebook that I will never consider it.
Why is everyone jumping on the smartphone wagon these days? It seems like everyone wants to do what Apple does.
Add the Facebook Movie to this, and Facebook is going to eventually take over the world! | Luckily, you don't have to get it. |
09-23-2010, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound I see facebook going more the way of Google, not Myspace. Google themselves are scared of the potential of Facebook.
lowsound | I don't think Myspace was QUITE as big.
I do see it going in the direction of Google myself. I honestly believe, if they do this right (or even if they don't), they will be competition for Google and Apple in the smartphone market. Which is unfortunate because Facebook really is stupid.
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09-23-2010, 09:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | | What is so stupid about it? I don't personally use it, but I wouldn't say it was outright stupid. What makes something like TB any less stupid?
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09-23-2010, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by KarateKid25 What is so stupid about it? I don't personally use it, but I wouldn't say it was outright stupid. What makes something like TB any less stupid? | Privacy is respected far more on TB.
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09-23-2010, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by KarateKid25 What is so stupid about it? I don't personally use it, but I wouldn't say it was outright stupid. What makes something like TB any less stupid? | It's not so much facebook itself that's stupid, but the way people use it. I have one because there are some people with whom it's my only means of communication, and every time I log on, there's a sea of status updates telling me about every last detail of my acquaintances' (a lot of them aren't even friends, just people who I may or may not have spoken with and have seen before who decided to add me) lives that I honestly don't care about, as well as endless vaguebooking (the act of writing an intentionally vague status update for the purpose of getting attention, usually followed by "I don't want to talk about it" when prompted for explanation.)
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09-23-2010, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Disraeli Gears It's not so much facebook itself that's stupid, but the way people use it. I have one because there are some people with whom it's my only means of communication, and every time I log on, there's a sea of status updates telling me about every last detail of my acquaintances' (a lot of them aren't even friends, just people who I may or may not have spoken with and have seen before who decided to add me) lives that I honestly don't care about, as well as endless vaguebooking (the act of writing an intentionally vague status update for the purpose of getting attention, usually followed by "I don't want to talk about it" when prompted for explanation.) | This!! All of it!!
Facebook DOES have potential to be useful (although, still unnecessary, as things like email and IM and Skype exist for this already). It's just how people use it, as described above.
For those who say "how would you know?", I just have seen how pointlessly people post updates about their lives that nobody could possibly care about when I look at other people browsing Facebook, yet people actually DO pretend to care. And as for vaguebooking, well this happens on Windows Live Messenger in people's personal messages and it's just like "why post it in there if you don't want to talk about it?"
Everyone tries to gain everyone's attention, and that's why Facebook is stupid.
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09-23-2010, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lismore, NSW, Australia | | | That to me just says that some people are stupid, not Facebook. I get where you are coming from though.
It is like people who bag Twitter all the time. Twitter is not stupid. Potentially it is a great tool. It is all the white-noise "I'm making a sandwich", "I'm eating a sandwich", "That was a good sandwich" type stuff that makes it seem totally pointless.
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09-23-2010, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by KarateKid25 That to me just says that some people are stupid, not Facebook. I get where you are coming from though.
It is like people who bag Twitter all the time. Twitter is not stupid. Potentially it is a great tool. It is all the white-noise "I'm making a sandwich", "I'm eating a sandwich", "That was a good sandwich" type stuff that makes it seem totally pointless. | Right--it's not Facebook that's stupid, it's just an overwhelming population of stupid people that make Facebook SEEM stupid.
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09-23-2010, 10:48 PM
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09-24-2010, 01:21 AM
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09-24-2010, 06:21 AM
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09-24-2010, 06:38 AM
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Originally Posted by KarateKid25 That to me just says that some people are stupid, not Facebook. I get where you are coming from though.
It is like people who bag Twitter all the time. Twitter is not stupid. Potentially it is a great tool. It is all the white-noise "I'm making a sandwich", "I'm eating a sandwich", "That was a good sandwich" type stuff that makes it seem totally pointless. | Exactly. I'm also one of those people who insult Twitter, but I know it could be useful for following celebrities (for curiosity sake and for entertainment, not for the life-or-death stalking that some fans do AKA Jonas Brothers/Justin Bieber fans)
I even have a Twitter account, but that's just to follow Conan's tweets. I've never made a tweet of my own, and I don't plan on it. Anyone who could care about what I'm doing in my daily life is either my family and they already know about it, or they have some serious problems with their own lives in that they have nothing better to do.
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09-24-2010, 06:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | Oh no! Facebook is on the way to doing part of what Google does already! 
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09-24-2010, 07:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Somewhere in Canada | | lol found this on Reddit, slightly amusing: What happens when Facebook goes down. http://i.imgur.com/RpGXq.jpg
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09-24-2010, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Disraeli Gears It's not so much facebook itself that's stupid, but the way people use it. I have one because there are some people with whom it's my only means of communication, and every time I log on, there's a sea of status updates telling me about every last detail of my acquaintances' (a lot of them aren't even friends, just people who I may or may not have spoken with and have seen before who decided to add me) lives that I honestly don't care about, as well as endless vaguebooking (the act of writing an intentionally vague status update for the purpose of getting attention, usually followed by "I don't want to talk about it" when prompted for explanation.) | FWIW you can filter content that you see in your feed. I haven't tried it, but one of these days I will, when I get tired of all of it.
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