I indeed still sent letters and postcards.

You cannot stop technology, even if you wanted to.That's just the way it is.Up to you wether you use it or not, personal choice, no right or wrong.But I will say this, if it wasn't for human "advancement" we'd be still watching Opportunity Knocks instead of X Factor.Or for our American friends, The Gong Show instead of Idol.Showing my age now.Speaking of shit music, Take That were on in Croke Park in Dublin last night eand tho I live 3 miles away I could hear them from my back garden.They're on again tonight.Aaaaaargh!

Do not consider facebook as a technology...

The wheel improved our lives, so did the phone and internet. Facebook doesn't.

BUFFETT, on 19 June 2011 - 8:31 PM, said:

that is really a pretty shitty situation. being stalked by take that. even if they were 30 miles away it'd be a pain.

Curiously, Pet Shop Boys are the support.They're on now.

It took me a while to sign up with facecrack, but eventually I did. I'm glad for it, and enjoy it as another means of keeping in touch. There are great things about it but annoying aspects as well. I see it as both good and bad, and get why some people avoid it like the plague - to each his own, I s'pose.

BUFFETT, on 19 June 2011 - 10:06 PM, said:

you only tell me you love me when you're drunk - possibly best song title ever.

how can they ONLY be support for tt?

FB privacy issues are the result of the users themselves. No one forced you to put everything about your life on it. Now more accounts are jumping ship or just quitting cold turkey! I don't do private stuff on there like most people. The less you put in, the less in trouble!

Certainly don't want your job to see what your saying about them!

Yeah, people often talk about facebook as though it is some evil entity. It's just a fucking website. It's a tool, people do what they want with it. It may be sad that some people lose real social contact in favor of social networking, but then again, some people may have normally been loners all their lives and turned bitter and twisted and done horrible things. Finding social contacts on the internet may stop that? Who knows.

It's not just FB that causes social problems, I have seen people throw their lives away cause they became a Guild leader or something like that on Guild Wars or World of Warcraft and spend every waking moment living, breathing and playing the game. Now that is sad ... or pathetic, whichever word you choose.

Bouh, on 19 June 2011 - 8:56 PM, said:

Hao deed teh phone improved our lives? NOES just made people speak to each other thru a machine instead of actually meeting them in person, thats EEVUL!!!1!1!

Let's say that you can call 911 thanks to you phone.

Not to mention that it increases the speed of communication as well.

People, don´t forget FB isn´t an innocent tool. FB is a big corporation and they sell info to other companies and, worse, governments. I know sadly this is usual business nowadays, but people throw up there every single detail of their lives with surprising abandon. I´m not against technology I just don´t understand the abusive use of technology. I´m against drugs and FB is a drug for a lot of folks. There´s a life out there.

GuerraRelampago, on 20 June 2011 - 4:11 AM, said:

There is a life out there. But drugs may very well be a part of it if used responsibly.

haha, this thread is becoming better and better. however, I would not say facebook was "just" a website. how can something that includes 700+million user be not more than "just" a website? it is a sytsem and funny enough, if it was state-run, people would fight it but as it is by a private company, it is "okay". face recognition, come on, this is 1984 potentised by 1000!

My two cents, Facebook is useful enough to use it. You can log into websites using it, it's good for organizing events and connecting with friends/family. Sure, we can all just send mail, but that's not convienent at all.

I'm not on the site more than 15 minutes each day and I don't need to be either. Revealing every detail of your life is not what I and millions of other people use facebook for, and in that way FB is, as Krisper put it, just a website.

Some non-facebook users seem to have a lot of stereotypes about it...

Let me tell you, I have a cousin that I hadn't seen in 10 years, because her mother did not keep in touch with us. I didn't have any way to contact her, no phone nmber, did not know where she lived...Iresearched her name on facebook, contacted her, we got in touch again, and I was eventually able to meet her again, you know in REAL life.
That wouldn't have happened if she weren't using facebook.

Now, the thing you neeed to know is that facebook is not only for friends'n stuff. A lot of major companies realized that facebook was a useful tool and therefore a lot of artists have their official facebook page. Just click on "Like" and you will be informed of all the news concerning your favorite artists without having to visit their website.
Of course, in a lot of cases, bands do not manage their official facebook page by themselves, it's often done by the record industry, but a lot of lesser-known artists use their official facebook pages by themselves, so you can ask them a question and in most cases get an answer from the artists themselves. I'm not saying you're becoming "friends" with artists, just that you can speak with them. It would be almost impossible without facebook, a few years ago we had to send letters to a fan club or so and did not have any chance to get an answer.
Get it ? It makes thing EASIER. That might not be a technological revolution but it sure makes things a lot easier, and that's something you can't deny.

The only valable argument against facebook is the privacy one, but as long as you do not post content that could be used against yourself, there's no fear to have.

ach bloke, have you ever heard of a thing called myspace which was just copied by facebook as to the artist pages? painfully enough, myspace now dies a slow (and painful) death.

and so will facebook some day, and where are your friends then?

Myspace died because it was not ergonomic enough.

yes, and at some point even facebook is to die.

nothing lasts forever.

BoywiththeGoldenEyes, on 21 June 2011 - 1:16 PM, said:

so are you