facebook has finally defeated me

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

i resisted the cell phone for many years before i finally couldnt live without it; i resisted driving until i really needed to drive; and i resisted facebook as a huge waste of time - until now.

i dont know if it was the curiosity of what its all about, the fact that i could spy on old friends lives, or just because i need to use it just to talk to sez (cough obsessed with facebook cough). with this final act i have surrendered all possibilities of willpower. i wont hide it, i suck.

that being said, how many of you use this thing, how many of you resist it?

i guess now i better figure out how to work this thing. i got something called a wall with a bunch of random crap written on it. i already feel exploited :/

[Seraph]

Re: facebook has finally defeated me

I resisted it for a long time, then pretty much same as you, gave in. I checked it almost every day for about a month. Then I just lost interest, and I havent checked it once since then.

[tjoris9]

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I got a Myspace account for the same reason. The only thing that keeps me going fairly regularly are the apps, some of which are kind of interesting if you have a few minutes to waste every now and then.

[H2SO4]

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I have a facebook and actually really enjoy it. It's great for staying in touch with people on a passive basis when calling someone all the time just isn't possible. Also, as odd as it sounds, facebook stalking is a remarkable social tool. I don't really think it's real stalking, but being able to see pictures from friends' events and whatnot and getting a feel for what happened without being there is really useful for staying up to date on stuff. It's just a great social tool and I have no problem using it.

[Adrian Foley]

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I use facebook- though lately I mostly use it to keep in touch with Yoshi, who is still on her Japan trip.

It is pretty good for keeping track of people. A lot less annoying than Myspace, because there are very few spambots and much better than livejournal because you don't have to listen to people *****ing.

[gray]

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i neither resist nor submit, though i can apparently ignore it fairly well

[Fruple]

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Yeah, I'm one of those people are resisting it. I just don't really see the point of it, and if there's someone I want to keep in touch with, I'd probably call or email them or something. Plus, I wouldn't "friend" people or whatever if I didn't like them, and they'd do a giant hissy fit (it's happened at school. A lot.).

[hitogoroshi]

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Honestly I think everyone makes too big of a deal of "resisting it". It's a social networking site, and as someone who has friends who are sometimes not in the same room as me it's occasionally helpful. I admit there's way too much crap in the "feed" but a once a day check can sometimes help for someone you didn't get in touch with.

Plus, I can bug people with my NaNoWriMo word counts. :3

[Red Dragon]

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i neither resist nor submit, though i can apparently ignore it fairly well

^ this.

[highwind]

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just because sez stayed up all night making a facebook costume for halloween doesn't make her obsessed.

next you'll tell me that my 500GBs of garfield porn makes me obsessed!!!

LAY OFF.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: facebook has finally defeated me

next you'll tell me that my 500GBs of garfield porn makes me obsessed!!!

500GB? Lightweight.

[Lausen]

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I resisted until all of my bros went away to College. I was forced to then. And it's a good place to talk **** about softball.

[Perversion]

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I don't have a Facebook account yet, nor do I plan on getting one anytime soon. I only made a Myspace because my buddy bugged me enough to make an account, and visually, it's exactly the same as when I made it. I visit it maybe three time a year for about 5 minutes each time. I DID make a Myspace musician account, just to be able to get some old songs I worked on out there, but I've also yet to customize it in any way.


Also, when I saw the part of this topic's title that shows on the main forum page, I knew even before I entered the Free Forum that the topic was made by Karr.

[Sezjeuric]

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just because sez stayed up all night making a facebook costume for halloween doesn't make her obsessed.

Two nights actually, but on the positive side, I won the contest at work and got a $25 gift card to a few restaurants.

I am not as obsessed as before due to this New facebook, but yeah, I am on it most of the time.

It helps as my family is in BC and I am here in Ontario.

[Magik]

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I like facebook because it's all about me. No, not really.. I use facebook to keep in touch with peeps who otherwise probably wouldn't take the time to write or call. It's a convenience, especially when your core friend groups live 1500+ miles apart from each other. The only downside is that it's very easy for me to allow myself to be distracted with facebook when I shouldn't be. Plus the privacy issues with the pictures.