How do you feel about facebook these days?

If you don’t want your personal information shared, then don’t post it??? Simple as that.

Facebook is a social media site whose purpose is to inform others of your life. It’s not like Facebook is some intelligence agency’s top-secret database where everything should be classified.

Everyone who has even a speck of knowledge of the Internet and how it works knows you’re not necessarily anonymous online. People find your information, then they sell it for peanuts.

 

I withdrew from Facebook years ago. And they did not make it easy. I don't do any social media at all. I can socialize with all the people I really want to just fine without it.
I have seen it reported that, depending on how much of yourself you expose with it, the information that they extract from you is worth between $500.00 and $5000.00 (US) a year to Facebook.

 

I simply refuse to use it.

Some time ago, my cousin let me look through her Instagram and I could immediately see why someone could get addicted to it. Ever since that day, I've avoided social media like the plague.

 

Actually its currently $84 - thats how much advertising revenue they attract per user. The value isn't dependent on how much information you share.

I don't mind it myself, but i generally use it to see what other people are up to rather than share stuff about myself.

 

I stand corrected. The information I had was from one guy who has his own radio show. So I think it likely your number is more accurate. Also I believe the numbers I heard factored in things like the facebook stock price and the speculative value of what facebook might sell for. That would inflate things a little.

 

I thought it was pretty assinine to go posting all types of personal information from the very beginning. I couldn't believe how people were so quick to post personal contact, pictures of kids and up to the minute where about updates. I've heard of people getting their houses robbed, raped, kids kidnapped or even killed over this, not to mentioned all the dumbasses that have lost their jobs for talking shit or went to jail for posting incriminating evidence.

I used it when I was doing music and promoting myself as an artist and deleted it as soon as I no longer needed it. Step 2 is to quit fucking with Google although I'm sure they already know everything.

 

I concur. Not only do I also think it's pretty unwise to post your personal life online, business and advertisement is all I would use social media for.

It also seems to turn the average user into a self-obsessed narcissist. It seems to have changed the way people communicate with each other and has its users seek some kind of validation just from a bunch of likes from a photo that they posted. I don't know about you, but I don't need likes from a bunch of strangers to somehow gratify me. Yet some of these people seem to feed off of that in the same way the average porn addict feeds off of the dopamine rush they recieve from porn. It may not be as much dopamine, but it becomes an addiction for a reason.

You even have the people that post about wishing their parents a happy birthday even though said parent doesn't even use social media.

In the average user ( of course, there are exceptions ), it seems to have a person create an avatar of the person they wish to be rather than improve on the person they really are. Such as women that look completely different from the photos of themselves they post on their Instagram, Facebook, etc. Shit, men too, people in general, really.

It seems to have almost spawned an "economy" where people, usually people in my generation ( I assume sex and youth sells, eh? ), essentially pimp and parade themselves to the world with a promise to repay the insincere engagement from users that like and follow these people with only more engagement that in the end, isn't worth having. The product being pictures and posts, the currency being likes, retweets, follows, etc.

I say that unless it's for business purposes, social media as a whole is an unproductive, unwise waste of time with its everyday posters seemingly suffering from a desperate need for attention and self-gratification.

EDIT: Aw, your hilarious gif is gone. I spent like 5 minutes just laughing the first time I saw it. Had tears in my eyes, it was just that funny to me.

 

I dont really care about the whole drama that came out about Facebook. Honestly I'm surprised that anybody was surprised by that. I certainly wasn't. I thought it was pretty much common knowledge that they do that kind of crap.

What makes me more annoyed with Facebook was recently getting my account disabled without any warning or explanation. I appealed it several times, as I wasn't completely unaware of any rule I could have broken, and they never replied to any of my appeals. It was disabled for about a month I think until one day I randomly tried to log in again and it worked just fine. So they apparently decided to give me access to my account again, and still have never said a single word to me about why that even happened in the first place, despite me having reached out to them several times in several different ways for answers.

So yeah, that pissed me off. I still use it though, occasionally. It's kind of useful for my business.

 

I never got on Facebook and I'm really glad. I had a snapchat that I barely used, but I uninstalled it when I decided to quit porn. I just wasn't into people's fake drama. If I want drama I'll watch Game of Thrones.

 

You may find this weird, but actually i don't care that much about my information getting shared or whatever....maybe because i don't post my most important and personal information online. I didn't even care about the latest Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook news...

 

Facebook is mind numbing trash that unfortunately my family is glued to and they don't see anything wrong with it.

 

That's called nocializing. If someone does it to me i call them out on it.

 

The problem is Zuckerberg tends to blow bubbles in his water glass when having important conversations.

 

I was talking to a friend who was my age and he talked about how back in the day, we played basket ball to compete with our friends, skated to challenge ourselves and sang because we liked the music. We knew one would see it and that didnt matter. Kids now do the same thing we did but their primary motivation the attention they get on social media. Nothing is worth doing unless youre gonna record it and post it on social media.

I agree that the narcissism was unbareable and encourages a kind of delusional existence. It's embarrassing the way I see people I know try to construct false personas and try to act like mini celebrities when you know who they are in real life. I guess the way people respond to social media speaks to the effectiveness of the science behind manipulating our dopamine systems and becoming so addictive and that why you see the same like button elements implemented all over the place.

I have an XBox one and I have absolutely no clue why people give a fuck at all about gamer scores and achievements because as far as I know, theres no actual value to the consumer besides having a high number by your name. I guess it just adds to the additive element of gaming to encourage more brand loyalty and online purchases.

I had to get rid of the GIF to put the counter back up. Time to get serious, lol.

 

Those "likes" in the comment section is fucking cancerous. Facebook should face bankruptcy, as well as Twitter. Female adults posting their pictures of themselves in the bikini when they're at the pool or beach shouldn't be allowed to do that on Facebook and it causes attention from faceless men. Facebook is a crime to the world of social media.