SILLY KOOKY FACEBOOK

[Ωbright]

I finally joined. I already despise it. :|

Hey! There's some of my old friends! And hey! They're still friends with A BUNCH OF PEOPLE THAT I HATE! Yay! There's that guy that stole all of my crap! There's that guy that went around telling everybody I was obsessed with him, when I actually couldn't stand him! There's that other guy that did the same exact thing! There's that guy that only hung out when he needed a place to drink!

[EDIT] OH GOD...THERE'S MY ENTIRE GRADE SCHOOL CLASS. What have I DONE? KILL ME.

I sent friend requests to people that I still liked, and now it's only a matter of time before those other guys try to swirl me up in their newest can of worms and coat me liberally in slime.

Accept their inevitable friend invites = DRAMA.
Reject their inevitable friend invites = DRAMA.

YUCK. PEOPLE.

...but you guys are cool so add me. :) (Loren Hall)

[Big Rick Cook]

I would have if you hadn't tracked me down first, stalker.

[Ωbright]

I would have if you hadn't tracked me down first, stalker.

No man! I swear, it was MyFace! It is evil and it KNEW.

Oh, and I AM working on the cover! I have a lot of time right now while I'm still waiting for the last food survey results to come in.

[Riotsword]

I sent you an invite.

*Insert somewhat topical reference to South Park's recent episode about Facebook here*

[Ωbright]

That was YOU! You are the one who likes Radiohead, Harvest Moon, and something about farms.

I NOW KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU.

And OH GOD... If you send one friend request, you get "HI! Here are 27 more people that you haven't thought about in 30 years, like that girl that got stung by a bee on her leg in Ms. Cordle's room and sent you a note one day saying 'I really like you, but people would be less mean to you if you would wear penny loafers and izods and crap.'!"

I went to a private school. :|

MAKE IT STOP.

I might need to make a request to have this thread moved to the PG because I'm about to have a midlife crisis and I'd like to use some explatives.

[EDIT] And NO, I DON'T want to 'poke Julia'.

[162]

No offense, but now you're starting to sound a bit neurotic.

Look, I (kinda) felt the same when I first joined up (actually I didn't really care about it at all), but the pain dulls, trust me.

Worst case scenario, you end up like me where one of your closet friends (though you love them to bits) tries to push her newfound heavy liberalism onto you by sending you links every other day to government follies in articles while you try your hardest to support her. (Even though she JUST adopted this lifestyle and kinda acts a little bit high and mighty.)

...Did I say that out loud?

Why'd you join up with Facebook, by the way. (Actually, me and my film crew kinda communicate through it.)

[Ωbright]

YOU HAVE NO IDEA.

Midlife. Crisis.

I joined because of my good friend Meghan. I'm friends with her and her brother and sister. They ALL have been on me to join. THEN THEIR MOM started in on me. I resisted for a long time, but I really got to missing Meghan last night and caved.

Now all of Darlington Lower School wants to chat with me RIGHT NOW.

Just wait until you're almost 40...YOU'LL SEE.

[Alzar]

naw when we're almost 40 we'll be used to being connected with not-really-friends from middle school

[Cutter De Blanc]

I have the facebook

im scared of it and never check it though

i also have no friends

so that kinda puts a damper on things too

[Ωbright]

Okay, I'm not going to rant about this any more.

It's really kinda hard to explain exactly how I feel, or what's happening to me, but I'm gonna go do it somewhere else.

Sorry.

[Czechs Mex]

You can make a "Note" about it on Facebook.

[Ωbright]

D'OHH!!

http://www.preparednesspro.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cringe1.jpg

Originally I was just trying to make light of a bad situation with humor. I didn't want to turn this into a 'watch Obright freak out live' topic. I wasn't taking it seriously, and I didn't want other people to take it that way. I was just trying to work through it all because it was kinda overwhelming, and I thought someone might understand what I was feeling.

And give me a break... it's not like I freak out every day.

[Valkysas]

I also dislike facebook. people I hate send me friend requests all the time. people I don't know send me friend requests. facebook constantly pesters me to add people as friends just because some of my friends know them. when I do add a friend, I have to see a few dozen notifications from their stupid games show up on my page. MY DAD IS MAKING BUTTER. HE NEEDS INGREDIENTS.

[Vonwert]

I sent you a friend's request Valk.

[American Hero]

They're some pretty simple solutions to all them problems.

[Kefka Jr.]

I love Facebook, man. It's where I can post all the funny things I find on the Internet, and I can tell everyone I'm not gay with a few subtle edits to my profile page.

[Sejon]

In spite of all its frustrations -- the meaningless application craze perhaps being the worst of it -- I find facebook to be extremely handy considering I move around so much, and have made friends from the four corners of the world.

It's a great way to maintain contact with people I otherwise would have completely lost touch with. Which works both to its merit and detriment. The detriment is clear in Obright's case where all these people he dislikes are suddenly reappearing and friending him. The merit is that through facebook I came across a very good friend of mine whom I grew up with in England, whom I hadn't spoken to in 14 years or so simply because maintaining communication over such a distance was hitherto infeasible. So if you're successful in manoeuvring around bumping into the wrong people, you can appreciate how it makes a vast world feel a little smaller.

[Caciss]

ignore the haters bro

[162]

Okay, I'm not going to rant about this any more.

It's really kinda hard to explain exactly how I feel, or what's happening to me, but I'm gonna go do it somewhere else.

Sorry.

Dude, feel free to rant!

I can sympathize with you about your middle age crisis.

[Nixon]

I got suckered into signing up for fartbook. While I'm glad I can find my old friends, I honestly don't use it for much else, aside from posting annoying/weird music videos.

People that already talk with me in person or online know wayyyyy more about me than my facebook page ever will. OH! It will tell you that I like men! *shock shock*

My current policy is that I won't add anyone that I haven't met in person. So, uh, sorry 98.5% of the pavilion. I won't add you on facefart, but it's nothing personal.

[162]

Heh, fartbook.

[Caciss]

I wanna be a member of facefart.

[Big Rick Cook]

My current policy is that I won't add anyone that I haven't met in person. So, uh, sorry 98.5% of the pavilion. I won't add you on facefart, but it's nothing personal.

I used to be like that, as a way to keep my *internet life* separate from my *real life* but after I started hanging out with Starba it seemed kinda pointless. My internet friends are just as important as my real life friends, and know just as much about me that it felt like a slight to exclude them.

Not saying you should go add us all. Just my take on the situation.

[Nixon]

My internet friends are just as important as my real life friends, and know just as much about me...

Same here, man. I love my "internet friends." Some of them have become real life friends, too.

I guess if I was a fartbook queen, things would be different. But I don't use it for much. I don't post updates on inane bull**** all the time. I don't post photos. I just joined so people would stop asking me to join.

Anyone that cares can read more about me on the RPG Maker Pavilion than they can on fartbook.

So, uh, yeah.

[Alex]

Facebook is a tool, and it's all in how you use it.

You don't need to acknowledge past acquaintances; they probably don't want to talk to you either.

[Perversion]

If my math is correct, Nixon has met 15 Pavvies in real life.




I have 2 Myspace accounts, one being a musician page and one being some half-assed thing I threw together and have logged into probably 6 times in the past 4 years.

Do not yet have a Facebook account. Thought about signing up after my HS reunion, but have dragged my feet on that so far. I'm in no hurry. I agree with Nixon...people would learn more about me and understand me a bit better by reading my posts here than by anything I could possibly put on Facebook. In fact, I only have one friend in real life that probably knows me better than all of you. Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

[Valkysas]

you have a facebook page, you're following the pavilion page.

[Perversion]

News to me!




I'm serious.

[Valkysas]

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000332242075

that's you, right?

[Perversion]

Heh. Yup. Most barren Facebook thing ever.

[Chuck]

I wanna be a member of facefart.

That can be arranged.

I joined facebook. Mainly to try and start a friendship with this one dude who then proceeded to not add me until months later. But anyways, I ended adding/gettind requests from some people I remember in high school cool. On one hand it's nice to see how their lives are turning out, on the other it reminds me how much I don't have a life.

Found out a good friend from high school who kinda asked me out at one point but then later we found out we might be cousins that I haven't seen since her wedding has 8 kids now. Last time I checked she only had 4. Time flies when you're making babies.

[Czechs Mex]

Facebook is a tool, and it's all in how you use it.


I agree with this. Especially now that I don't live in the same place I grew up, I do use facefart to catch up with old friends or acquaintances.

But I also use it to share random crap with my friends that I think they'll find interesting.

Most of the things people find annoying (e.g. app overload, being friended by non-friends) can be fixed by managing your settings.

[Valkysas]

I'm retarded then, because I've never found a way to get it to stop showing me notices about people's farm bull****, and suggesting friends of people I know.

[Big Rick Cook]

If you hover over a post from farmville or any app that a person makes, it gives you a Hide option, which lets you hide all messages from that specific app. It takes a little while to get 'em all that way, but it's what I do. Just hide whatever new ones show up.

[Czechs Mex]

No, it's definitely not you, because as far as I know there's not a one-click place to get rid of everything. What I'd do is, in your news feed, hover over one of the "Farmville" stories, and there should be a "Hide" link on the right side. I think if you click on that it will ask you to always ignore that app. You can do the same ignoring for "friends" that are making tons of updates that are more or less meaningless to you.

I think there's some similar button you can click whenever you get an invite to join an application. I can't remember exactly though, since I basically don't even see the Farmville-esque apps anymore unless I go click on someone's actual profile page.

As for the friend suggestion deal, I doubt there's a way to get rid of that. Are you just talking about the box on the right-hand side of the screen? If you're getting actual emails, there's probably a way to get rid of that...

EDIT: Yeah, what Bagel said.

[Jeroak Nelave]

Yeah, i rarely use facebook, except to play a couple of the more interesting games there, and occasionally post stuff, but its mostly stupid to me.

[Big Rick Cook]

Yeah, i rarely use facebook, except to play a couple of the more interesting games there, and occasionally post stuff, but its mostly stupid to me.

This is the opinion of 90% of people that use Facebook. =V

[Jeroak Nelave]

LOL, probably, i play Castle Age for about 10 minutes a day, see if someone posts anything interesting in the past day, and then i'm done.

Edit: Ugh, and of course, the few minutes i'm on facebook a friend from highschool that annoys the HELL out of me now started talking to me, and i'm too freaking nice to tell him to SHUT UP, LOL

[Alex]

1. Turn off chat.
2. Hide everything.
3. Manage friends lists. (real life friends, internet friends, family, etc)
4. By playing games and filling out surveys you are contributing to the problem.
(don't you have enough console games, anyway, Jereoak?)

Oh, it also helps to actually have friends.

[Ωbright]

Believe it or not, I really don't hate Fartpoot. That is, I don't hate the idea of it. But to me, I was already keeping in touch with my peeps just fine on MySpace.

I got dragged kicking and screaming to that, also. Once I saw what you could do with the page designs though, and found out about the band pages, I reluctantly made a couple of pages and wound up liking it ok. I actually spent a fairly long time getting my personal page to look like this (http://www.myspace.com/planetloren). I'm not bragging on it, it's just that you can see how long I worked on it after making the background and custom music player and collecting all that other stupid crap.

THEN EVERYBODY LEFT in a mass exodus to the promised land, a place with no music or page customization that looked like a big, boring mess. And I was over it. So already, there was some (admittedly misplaced) animosity towards facepoot. Then there was the whole friends-of-friends drama, and certain annoying things about the way that facefart was set up.

That was at first. Then something else happened.

Now, I had heard from everybody that EVERYBODY was on fartbook, so I expected a timewarp to ensue, but somehow I just never imagined that I would suddenly be faced with my entire grade school class, AND my high school class. There's someone from every place I've lived, every school I've gone to, every place I've ever worked.

And I've done all of those things in a lot of places in 40 years.

And I started to feel really, really old. Is all.

[Riotsword]

Something I find handy:

I made a 'chat friends' list and changed my chat settings so I would be offline to everybody except the ones on the list. Makes not talking to annoying people a lot easier. If you're worried about "ex-classmate A" suddenly popping up and regaling you with horribly boring stories and small talk, then I recommend it.

[Perversion]

@ O.B. Right

My HS reunion thread (in the PG?) had me feeling the same way. Well, not the thread. But attending and having everyone tell me to join Facebook.


In fact, I might have made the above referenced account that night just to be able to view people's profiles or something, and might have planned to "fill it out" later. You can see how important THAT was for me.

[Biggie]

I personally love fartbook. It's a wonderful tool that keeps me in contact with friends and family.

Hate Fartville.

[Asch the Bloody]

Being in school, it does it's job keeping me in touch with people, especially for group work or whatever. Otherwise, I find it quite boring.

[Wavelength]

You had me at "I hate Facebook."

[Ωbright]

I don't really hate facebook any more. Because of riotsword's advice I was able to group my friends and stay offline to those that I wanted to.

And also Valk, I've found that if I primarily use the 'info' tab, rather than the 'wall' tab, I can avoid all of the farm crap. I go to each friend group individually if I want updates, and only use the 'wall' tab if I want to check my sent messages or arrange my friends. I also found that I can block whole apps, and not just their posts if they annoy me.

And also I just got off the phone with my best friend from 1983-1996. I hadn't talked to her in about 12 years.

I've also found peace with 2 longtime enemies of mine, reaching a level of understanding that I never, ever expected.

It was all because of facebook.

ALTHOUGH IT COULD HAVE ALL BEEN BECAUSE OF MYSPACE BUT WHATEVER.

And perversion, I sure do wish you would buy a computer so I can talk to you on YIM again.