Facebook? pile of sh!te or useful networking site?

a site for morons

the second coming according to majority of people in the world. pile of sh!te if you ask me

I quite like to know that people have "just ate a bag of crisps". Cretins!

pile of useful networking sh!te imo

sad place, sad to think people need new online `friends`.

Completely irrelevant and pointless. A pal of mine recently had a clear out of his face-book friends by deleting all the so-called "friends" he had never met!!
Its for pond-life, nerds and those deeply sad individuals who watch X-factor, read The Sun and wander around half asleep with earphones in (listening to mass produced "baby,baby" music) because they are exhausted after a 13 hour shift on World of Warcraft, or that other **e where you have an avatar in a make believe world!!!!
These are the people who do not respect anyone and will ultimately destroy this fragile planet
The me, me , me generation.
Should be banned! Rant over.

agree with a lot of the above, however I have lately made contact with a colleague and friend I havent seen for 12 years, worth it just for that

if you'd stayed in touch in the first place...

yeah like its always possible when peoples careers change direction suddenly

it should be imo

I would guess with alot of ppl who aren't on facebook probably don't want othersl who used to know them find out what a loser they have become, or turned out to be ugly etc.

Likewise ppl that use facebook all the time and update their status constantly are usually exactly the same as the above minus self awareness.

What makes me laugh is when a couple split up. What's the first thing they do?
Confide in their friends and family?
Get pi$$ed with thier mates and drown their sorows?
Beg for the partner to take them back?
No...they log in and update their profile.

Feckin saddos

but why would you not be in contact with people you are bothered about?

do people really care what people they've never contacted in years think?

surely a reason they don't talk any more. and how would they discover your life story from fb or even care? as again, there will be a reason you lost touch.

Good for organising things and staying in contact with people you don't see often or live far away.

It's got it's uses.
I got a sh8g out of it. Someone i hadn't seen for about 14 years got in touch. I fancied her when i was younger, but she was with someone at the time.

have people never heard of email, msn or mobile phones

I agree its a load of old cobblers in the main, and complete saddo's who log on all the time should be shot, but it does have its uses. When i was travellin it was easy to stay in touch with every1, now im back i hardly use it, other than if some1 sends me a msg. Thing is ppl like u lot of this thread thinks everybody on facebook lives on there. A very very small % use it all the time, like u lot are whinging about.

Btw do ppl think these social networking sites are a phase/trend or here to stay? I hope they are just a phase to be honest, otherwise where does it end?

Saves me and a company I partner with tens of grand a year. Absolutely essential student communications/marketing tool. Has made organising parties, meetings and other stuff ridiculously easy.

I can't stand people who try and talk online or text when they are probably sitting next to a phone.

As Tommy will testify I barely use email any more, facebook messaging is so much better.

Only because you are a cool dude sparkmaster

ok so it's a way of making money

mainly cos so many numpties use it

as is drug dealing and gun running

and not a fan of them either...

pile of sh!te

what a pathetic notion pretending to be friends with people you actually arent.

You make a strong case Simon!

It's a way of making AND saving money because it's the choice of communication of the nation's academic elite.

and morons

you forgot them

No I didn't, I can only speak from them the users I'm in touch with, who are exclusively university students and graduates. There may be some collection of facebook morons that you're in touch with but it's not my area of expertise so I wouldn't feel qualified to comment.

canaryboy....email,msn,mobile phone.what about actualy meeting someone face to face?

lots of bitterness around this fred

then you meet them lol

tho obviously you arrange this first by the methods discussed

i don't use it spark so wouldn't know

pile of sh!te , 80% of people on it are attention seekers the other 20% use it for keeping in touch with people you dont see or speak to that often which is fair enough.

its good for people with loads of mates, i dont even have an account because i only know about 10 people who would use it and the rest i could add as friends i speak to on gambling forums.

so for me its pointless, the rest of you who knows.

mind you myspace was good for stalking people i hadnt seen in years back in the day, is that site still going?

Facebook is similar to the Chit Chat forum.

Its basically a site for attention seekers. Apparently the most popular status statements are along the lines of...is**ed off...is feeling down...along them lines. If it aint that its invitations to join some x factor support group. I personally use it for looking up ex girlfriends to get me leg over, even that's run dry now so I've deleted my profile.

I make you right , inner city sumo.

chit chat is mostly randoms on a forum

like many other forums

can't think of any similarities with fb tbh

both internet based i suppose

" I love ChitChat as it prompts me when fit ladies are on the T.V. This is a priceless service in my busy life."

man walks on girls aloud shocker.

It's a complete and utter waste of time.

I stood in a queue yesterday in the university library to use a computer; I had to print an assignment off so I could hand it in before the deadline. When it was eventually my turn in the queue, I walked over to the computer and every person bar one in the row (6 in total) was on Facebook. To use Betfair vernacular, I was 'seething'. Seriously, can this shiit now wait until they have spare time? They could've even done it on their own laptop and it wouldn't have been a problem.

Honestly, it's for fuccking morons.

agree with lddee, you can also judge a bird that you thought u would have a do with only to realise shes a cu@t

-High level of attention seeking
-High level of pointless conversations/threads
-High level of egocentrism of users
-High level of gameplaying/activities/quizzes

Ronaldinho's dentist 18 Nov 18:09


yeah like its always possible when peoples careers change direction suddenly

walofs

so when this happens do you both change fone numbers and email addresses as well????

totally different types of attention seeking tho

How many people on here have had sex through Facebook?

"so when this happens do you both change fone numbers and email addresses as well????"

erm....no! you turn up to work and suddenly your colleague is in another job 200 miles away, re located the lot. we werent best mates just got on really well at work which was not in our home towns

like cyber?

Facebook is Chit Chat's younger brother.

hating facebook is cool now. So you dont like it, or you think its for Saddos etc. Truth is it whiles away many many boring hours at work or at home. You can stay in touch with your friends easier. (oooh but if they were friends you'd use a phone, f**k off and be practical! FB is free!) you can store memories, photos etc.

Sure you can be egotisitcal and attention seeking too, but you can ignore those that do that also. You can play scrabble, you can use that Farmville thingy (I dont) but really what harm is it for others to do so?

I really think people need to get over it. Stereotyping TENS OF MILLIONS of people as idiots or whatever really is only a reflection on the small minded nature of the originator of such insults. People on my 'friends' list range from a Oxford Uni professor with more degrees than the entirity of Chit Chat (prob not hard I know) to an old schoolf riend who is apparently a pole dancing sl*g.

basically it accomodates for all sorts. Dont like it dont use it. I am split as to whether you should continue to moan ya little faces about it though as I do quite like reading your pathetic little rants about it. That said it does take time away from other such pressing matters as who is going to win X Factor and in what order you'd do Girls Aloud.

I heard some imbeciles on the radio today complaining that their 11 year old daughters (and younger) had been targeted by undesirables pretending to be teenagers on Facebook.

The imbeciles seemed a bit non-plussed when they were asked why their young daughters were themselves lying about their ages to get on Facebook in the first place.

i was a fb hating poineer :D

how often do u chat to the professor?? never is my guess..

was recently on a stag weekend with him as it happens. Now through facebook organising meetings when Im back in the UK will be easier. Also through fb I was able to stay in contact with a number of people I met on said Stag do. All this at zero cost. Oh How Evil and pathetic I must be for wanting to do so.

Can do the same with email, Child.

Anyway, I don't like Facebook, but I absolutely detest Twitter. Now, that IS for morons.

why is it that those who totally oppose it, are sooooooo bitter?

you do make me sick

ps it's all the other stuff your sort do...

not bitter

just hateful

i hate morons

same as smokers

Banquo - Twitter now I will allow abuse on that subject. i havent actually ever been to the site, but my understanding of that is that its just a series of status updates? Why you'd want to do that is actually beyond me.

FB and twitter both extremely useful marketing tools though so to business they are extremely useful.

rarely use facebook so never had sex with anyone off there

but managed to have sex with 3 girls in a very short space of time on "pub quiz chat-room" in the AOL days 9 years ago

bitter because they are jealous perhaps?

Nobody answered my Q; do ppl think social networking sites are a phase/trend or are they here for good?

canaryboy I would make a sweeping generalisation if I may be, that Poker Players are bigger morons than any group mentioned so far. Egotistical, greedy and anti social (the online breed). Very moany too.

I got laid indirectly through facebook i guess with 2 girls i went to school with :)

punter- I rememeber that, although my favourite was news chat. There were some real deviant women in there.

haha punter, you sl ag

I would like to think they are just going to be a phase, Simon, but I really can't see it.

I used to be a sl ag, gregg's :)

Sultan, yes guess there must've been deviant women on there, wonder if I would have done any more women on AOL if I kept it?

canaryboy 18 Nov 18:16


but why would you not be in contact with people you are bothered about?

do people really care what people they've never contacted in years think?

surely a reason they don't talk any more. and how would they discover your life story from fb or even care? as again, there will be a reason you lost touch.

i agree with everything he says.. i keep in touch with everyone i liked at school, college, uni, then work.. and still do. the rest can fk off

I'm computer-averse and have no intention of ever joining anything like Facebook, but can appreciate the benefits of it to people of my age group.

My parents couldn't afford to have a 'phone when I was young, in fact, they never had one until I paid for the installation of one when I was about 24 after my dad suffered his first heart attack.

Thus, it wasn't easy to keep in touch with people you met at school/college/further afield, other than by letter. Which I did for a while, but it just naturally fades out after a while, in the main.

I would imagine there are all sorts of people I'd like to be in contact with again, who may use Facebook.
But, I won't be joining.

Merenko (Eric), if you're out there: "Hello"!

Anyone managed to have sex after a night in the Chit Chat pub?

england away-

Completely irrelevant and pointless. A pal of mine recently had a clear out of his face-book friends by deleting all the so-called "friends" he had never met!!
Its for pond-life, nerds and those deeply sad individuals who watch X-factor, read The Sun and wander around half asleep with earphones in (listening to mass produced "baby,baby" music) because they are exhausted after a 13 hour shift on World of Warcraft, or that other ***** where you have an avatar in a make believe world!!!!
These are the people who do not respect anyone and will ultimately destroy this fragile planet
The me, me , me generation.
Should be banned! Rant over.

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i'd like to call that and raise it with a:

its a site for wierdos, freaks and stalkers. desperate 30 somethings who think their relationship/life is 5hite and the grass is greener. its caused, according to my pals, at least 2 families 2 break up, as the woman goes on a c0ckfest. my argument was that if they were window shopping anyway, then things werent right in the first place. it is a catalyst for 5hite relationships and helps bring them to a premature end.

the only good thing about it is, that, if yr partner spends a ridiculous length of time on it, then the relationship is facked. so its a good early warning system for failing relationships. it also tells u an awful lot about a person who would rather spend hours sat in front of a computer, typing messages to people they havent seen in years, rather than spending time with their partners, friends or children.

Unlike posting on a betting forum at 8:30am, which indicates the full and exciting life of a well-balanced adult.

orioles - exactly. however, im at work, i havent got friends or family here. the people im referring to are the sadacts who get home from work and dive straight onto their facebook, whilst ignoring their family.

I agree wolsey...facebook is ok for keeping in contact with people you have met or went to school etc with but that's about it. Was reading that one girl on my list was excited as she was currently having a few drinks with her family...can''t have been that exciting or she wouldn't have had time to update her status.

Twitter is a lot of **, can't believe that people think they are so important that they need to tell the world what they are doing or their thoughts on anything and everything.

Or what they think of Twitter.

hi.

lol

I wish Facebook was around 10 years ago when I was free and single. It's the easiest way of getting clunge.

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Hello :|

The chat tool is good imo. I can sit at work bored and have 20+ friends and family available to chat to at any occassion to pass the time.

I was referring to myself, Wolsey.

The post was a lament.

birchola - I wish Facebook was around 10 years ago when I was free and single. It's the easiest way of getting clunge.

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u missed out a pair of adjectives - its the easiest way of getting DENSE amd DESPERATE clunge.

Ah, the old D&D, a winning chit-chat combination.

Well most people under the age of 21 are on Facebook these days. They all have 1000+ friends. Are they all dense and desperate?

I think it's just a new generation thing that older people on here are failing to grasp.

But at least they're not bitter, eh.

The only men who post anywhere on the internet, including here, are sad and lonely individuals with nothing of any moment to say or whose wives are watching a soap and they're waiting for their turn with the remote.

Mind you, I still love you all.

having said that, with my mysogynists hat on, most clunge is dense and desperate!

I've just adopted a Turkey on Farmville.

Where can I get a misogynist hat please, winter's fast arriving and these women won't go around hating themselves (well, the slim and pretty ones won't anyway).

ah yes, farmville. thats what happened to my pal!

his wife used to say 'ive just got to go and do my farm - i wont be long. can u put he kids to bed, otherwise my crops will spoil'.

so, my pal does his duty, puts the kids to bed, watches a bit of telly, pops up to bed and is, eventually, joined by his 'life partner' at about 3am!

apparently, 'do my farm' is facebook speak for cultivating friendships of the opposite sex, with the intentions of having a ready made 5hag in place, just in case the current relationship goes pop/their partner finds out about the naughties and slings them out!

Women are like monkeys: they won't let go a branch until they've got a firm grasp of the next.

ken try

www.allbirdsare**s.co.uk

if u key in the redemption code 'brian thomas is shrood', then u will get a complimentary shot of roofie with yr order.

the geography game is good on it.

good for organising stuff like parties.

good for perving on friends gf holiday pictures.

a lot of features are crap and there should be filter to get rid of any idiotic xfactor crap.

Dont see why its any sadder than chit chat though!

Inner City, were you describing Facebook or Chit Chat on Betfair?

Facebook is a place for people who haven't discovered gambling yet.

Excellent tool for marketing and whatnot, but....

It once caused people to not feel the need to converse with me on nights out because we could do so on facebook. I know someone whose daughter was ostracised on facebook (however that happens!), yet in real life hangs about in her girlie circle (with the ostracisor!) like everything's normal. It's horribly wrong and sad when facebook becomes the plateau of friendship dynamics.

I joined facebook out of curiosity, and left a year later when I decided that if just one person talked to me once who otherwise wouldn't have because we're 'facebook friends', then it'd all be worth it. It was worth it, and continues to be.