broduke2000 ([info]broduke2000) wrote,
@ 2009-06-14 02:11:00
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Current location:Away From Facebook
Current mood: angry
Current music:None. The browser quit.
Entry tags:facebook sucks allows spam

Facebook Sucks, LJ Rocks.
So, I don't know why...but I followed 2 friends to Facebook. I scratched my head, because I don't see what's wrong with staying on LJ. What's terribly annoying about Facebook is...since I joined...I've been getting hit by dozens of people who suddenly want to be my "friend." Man, it averages 1-2 a day. Sounds good until you view the sordid details:


Are they bikers? Nope.
Do they have beards? Nope.
Do they enjoy mudwrestling? Nope.
Are some of them women? Yup.
Are they trying to spam me? Very likely.


But tonite, an occurrence happened that made me wonder why I ever fucking joined. I clicked on a friend (an actual friend) thinking it would take me to his page. Well...it took me to something that sorta looked like his page, except it wasn't. And then I did a real stoopid thing: I clicked on something on this bogus page!

Turns out the corporation that owns Facebook sells ads to the highest bidder. None of the ads are screened, and all are aimed at 10-18 year old kids. But this ad did something that I can never forgive. It froze me! Yup, there I was, unable to exit their fucking spam unless I totally shut down my browser, or clicked on their little box that told me how delighted I'd be testing out their spam HTML.


I settled for shutting it down.


I confess, I should have been using Firefox. Maybe it would have protected me from this scum-of-the-earth, corporation, but I can't for the life of me understand why people are deserting LJ for some new upstart entity that caters to fucking children and spammers? WHY?!

Never in my life have I ever been spammed at LJ. Look at my friends list, you won't find anybody who ain't got a beard, and you won't find any fucking damn teenagers!

If you want bearded dudes, stay here! If you're hard up and want to meet some teenieboppers, then please feel free to join up with that fucking Facebook.


Boy, am I mad!


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[info]pink_halen
2009-06-14 03:35 pm UTC (link)
I'm with you. Why would anyone want to go to Facebook? It seems so juvinile. (Maybe because it is.) I haven't bothered to join even though I feel very abandon by those who have.

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[info]maxauburn
2009-06-14 03:58 pm UTC (link)
Hey there! I'm glad you're back! Hope your computer is all better now.

Mine is making weird noises. A good friend will look at it soon.

I would avoid Facebook if I were you. It's for kids. Kind of like Trix, but without any toy surprises.

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[info]broduke2000
2009-06-15 05:54 am UTC (link)
Weird noises? Have you been using it as a food tray again?

Those pieces of fish and chips get stuck in the fan.

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Facebook
[info]ottomatic186
2009-06-14 04:06 pm UTC (link)
I have very similar experience.
Joined because didn't want to decline friend's invitation
but hardly go there now.

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[info]bbearseviltwin
2009-06-14 04:45 pm UTC (link)
I do hope you scanned your computer for virus and spy ware right after that.

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[info]broduke2000
2009-06-15 05:57 am UTC (link)
It's a mac. No virii, just taurii.

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[info]ednixon
2009-06-14 05:51 pm UTC (link)
http://dreamwidth.org

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Writing is hard! Let’s go shopping!
[info]progbear
2009-06-14 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Facebook is kind of like LJ for people who hate all those pesky words!

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Re: Writing is hard! Let’s go shopping!
[info]bikerbaer
2009-06-14 08:07 pm UTC (link)
That comment would have fit nicely into a Twitter update. Or Facebook. Not many pesky words at all!

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Re: Writing is hard! Let’s go shopping!
[info]dhpbear
2009-06-14 08:52 pm UTC (link)
"! psky wrds"

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Re: Writing is hard! Let’s go shopping!
[info]broduke2000
2009-06-15 06:02 am UTC (link)
So they're gonna make "Twitter" the full length feature movie? I'm thinking it should be fashioned after the website, and running length about 10 minutes or less. Any longer and my attention span will wayne.

Tweet Tweet

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Re: Writing is hard! Let’s go shopping!
[info]dhpbear
2009-06-15 12:22 pm UTC (link)
GRAMMAR POLICE - PULL OVER!


It's 'wane', NOT 'wayne'!

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Re: Writing is hard! Let’s go shopping!
[info]broduke2000
2009-06-16 05:57 am UTC (link)
Duuuh!

Maybe I wuz thinkin' of Wayne "Softtail."

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[info]bikerbaer
2009-06-14 07:13 pm UTC (link)
For many of us, especially those who have moved far away from their place of birth many years ago, Facebook has been a godsend. I have been able to reconnect with people from my childhood. It's been an amazing journey to learn how people have grown and moved beyond "what they were" in rural Maine - from a small class of 94 students back in 1982 (from a high school serving 4 towns!) we have research scientists, software engineers, police officers, folks working for charitable organizations in the Netherlands. Hell, even my babysitter is there. She's trying to get me to ride my bike down to FL for a visit.

All these once-severed connections - severed unintentionally through distance and time - are coming back again, and I think it's wonderful.

Admittedly, I find Facebook's privacy settings and general UI layout more difficult to navigate than it should be. And I am constantly hit with requests to disclose my private information to participate in surveys, visit "virtual shops" and am sent "gifts" by hordes of people. You just have to know what you're clicking on and what the consequences are when you accept these invites, much like you wouldn't accept an unidentified plate of food from a stranger on the streets of NYC. Just say NO. Decline these offers. Lock down your profile information &c to friends only. I don't even allow "friends of friends" to see my updates. When friend requests come in, I give serious thought to who I allow. If I don't know who they are, I simply ignore them.

I think it's ridiculous to overgeneralize that "Facebook is like LJ for people who hate all those peksy words". The content you provide is as rich as you want it to be. Or sparse. Same goes for SMS, Twitter, email. If your friends on Facebook have ADHD, they are likely to not write scads of text for you to read and analyze. Same goes for LiveJournal. Some people are good writers, others are barely able to cobble together a coherent thought.

So if Facebook isn't for you, I say just move on. Let those who dislike it to continue posting their online bellygazing and introspective essays on LiveJournal, right where that content belongs. Stop making sweeping generalizations about the types of people who CAN make use of other social networking sites. Not all of us are consumer whores, are illiterate, hateful or out to snare your personal information for ill-gotten-gain.

Edited at 2009-06-14 07:16 pm UTC

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[info]bikerbaer
2009-06-14 07:23 pm UTC (link)
And yes, I know I just made a "sweeping generalization" by putting bellygazers and introspective essay writers into the LiveJournal camp. Hope it pushes a few buttons, erm, spawns a discussion, that is.

Edited at 2009-06-14 07:25 pm UTC

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[info]broduke2000
2009-06-15 06:09 am UTC (link)
I'm happy that you were able to meet old schoolbuds.

That's neat.

Once I went back to Duarte and talked to an old classmate (a blond german) named Mack. He told me he had grown a beard and every day was 420.

I said: "You know, I turned out weird."
He said: "So did I."

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[info]gryphons_hole
2009-06-15 07:52 pm UTC (link)
I use Facebook, although mostly just to keep up with my high school and college friends... I ignore most unsolicited friend requests. I don't get Facebook-as-cruise-site...

I don't understand the exodus from LJ either. LJ is my home, it is the core of how I relate to the world around me. Facebook and MySpace and all that bunk is empty and hallow and nothing but trend... It all leaves me empty.

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[info]broduke2000
2009-06-16 05:58 am UTC (link)
Well spoken, oh great taurii...

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[info]master_dave
2009-06-25 01:42 am UTC (link)
"Taurii" is plural of Taurus. Not to be confused with torus, or tore us!

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[info]broduke2000
2009-06-25 06:12 am UTC (link)
I use "Taurii" liberally, oh great bearded one.

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MySpace isn't my space
[info]master_dave
2009-06-25 01:53 am UTC (link)
I joined MySpace, for some unremembered reason. I do not use it. There is no 'there' there!
Zero beards, as stated above, and the "downloadable" garage band songs do not download. I refuse to have anything to do with "streaming" anything.
I, too, clicked on something I should have ignored. My public e-mail address receives upwards of thirty spams per day. Lucky for Me, GMail filters them out!

I joined... then quit... Bebo. This was even worse than MySpace!

So, I use LiveJournal, and Blogspot. Occasionally Tribe. I cannot think of enough topics for one site, let alone ten, or however many there are!

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Re: MySpace isn't my space
[info]broduke2000
2009-06-25 06:15 am UTC (link)
What really irks me is some of the sites where the music starts whether you like it or not. And even if you press stop, it still continues to load.

I'm on DSL, which is fast, but not fast enough when it comes to 10MB streaming audio files.

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