@EveretteScott said:
" I have no desire to have a facebook and won't. I use that thing called a phone to interact with family and/or friends.Also I could go on a rant on how idiotic that article was, serious or not, but I feel like not making myself rage. "
Well, do you not use it on principle, or because it just wouldn't add anything to your life? Because the latter is totally reasonable. Especially if people you know don't really use facebook. But people who don't use facebook because it's a "
bad" thing are idiots. It's a useful way to stay connected, and know what people are up to. If I want to interact with people, I arrange to actually SEE THEM. Saying that talking on the phone is more personal by any real amount than chatting on facebook is kinda silly. Your still just expressing words without any other form of communication. In fact, with smileys and all that, chatting on facebook is MORE capable of expressing the range of communication used by humans face to face. And chat isn't what facebook is about. It's about knowing whats going on with a wide range of people without having to call each of them up every day, or having a full on conversation with people. Sure, if you only have like 3 close friends and never talk to co-workers or anyone outside of your friends, sure, facebook is useless. For someone, like me, who has moved around a shit ton, and who has a very large pool of close friends, family, etc, that I like to keep tabs on, Facebook is great. If all the human interaction you get is on the phone, you should really get off your high horse, because that's far less involved than actually spending time with people, and it would be easy to argue that knowing what people are up to, seeing pictures from their vacation, or seeing their prom dress, or whatever the fuck else, allows you to communicate with people on a more personal basis a lot more often. You seem to have this thing up your ass telling you that Facebook is a replacement for seeing people. It's not. What it is however is a great tool for when you can't spend an hour catching up with an old friend because you have 20 of them, a job, live in a different state, are out of town, etc. Facebook is here, it's useful, and you don't have to use it, but the hipsters acting like it ruins human interaction are the idiots who are stupid enough to think it should get in the way.
People who hate sheep are all the same. Funny how that works, isn't it? Your just a sheep of another Shepard, named paranoia.
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