Computers & Internet A world without facebook...

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

Imagine a world without social media, in particular facebook. Say facebook is wiped off the internet tomorrow.

My predictions are:

The birthrate would reduce - nothing to put photos up on of ugly kids doing meaningless things relentlessly. I seriously believe this. Particularly amongst the bogan population.

The engagement/marriage rate would be much lower - as above.

The skywriting industry would be booming - people seem desperate to tell everyone their thoughts, what their doing.

People would be less angry I think - statements and stuff that piss people off on facebook seem to get the blood boiling. If they cant see what other people think > ignorance is bliss.

An advancement in social intelligence - people need to talk to each other face to face to communicate, using other more subconcious forms of communicating like body language, expression in dialogue, use of expressive language etc.

I think society would be a lot more harmonised and linguistic. And less vain.

Interested to hear other peoples thoughts.

 

[Plugger35]

I've never used facebook so it wouldn't matter to me if it wasn't here, same goes for twitter.

 

[Gough]

I don't use facebook. Twitter is great, it's the first place I go for breaking news these days.

 

[PP34]

I would get so much more homework and study done.

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

I follow the news, sports stuff, weather stuff and Dr Karl on twitter. Mainly read it when Im on the shitter or the bus. But saying that there seems to be a lot of people who spend a lot of time tweeting everything they think and see. Dont get it.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I follow the news, sports stuff, weather stuff and Dr Karl on twitter. Mainly read it when Im on the shitter or the bus. But saying that there seems to be a lot of people who spend a lot of time tweeting everything they think and see. Dont get it.

Its simple. These are the same people who pile in to be contestants on "reality" TV. Everyone thinks they a star in the making ... when in reality, just like myself, they have nothing of interest to say and are about as talented as a turd that won't flush.

 

[smiddy9]

Was a huge Fagbook user, now dont use it and never felt better!!

 

[JCore]

Yeah, deleted facebook earlier this year. Highly recommend.

 

[Jmac2225]

Used to use a lot of Facebook but stopped earlier this year. Don't miss it one bit.

Facebook is full of drama and shit fights and is a blight on the world as we know it. Great idea but people use it the wrong way.

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

From what Ive heard from people who have left facebook, its a good thing. Gonna do the same. Just seems to be becoming evil!

 

[Molian]

Loving the amount of people "quitting" facebook, never used it and never will. I just don't get it.
A lot of mates have apparently stopped using it but curiosity always gets them back on it, sad really.
Good luck to all you other quitters, I hope you all have a bit more will power...

 

[Happy_Neale]

Would definitely delete Facebook, but I mainly use it to keep in touch with people overseas. Calling every week would be far too expensive.

 

[I bleed Blue]

Would definitely delete Facebook, but I mainly use it to keep in touch with people overseas. Calling every week would be far too expensive.

Skype.

 

[Happy_Neale]

Skype.

Yep and FaceTime. Facebook though is annoyingly more convenient as I know they will actually check it unlike email.

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

Does anyone know if you quit your facebook page you can still access pages you admin. I have a page for my band

 

[Gasometer]

The stuff I see on Facebook leaves me speechless...pple swear obnoxiously and socially defame to and about each other, and about life in general, and are seemingly oblivious as to who is seeing and judging them.

I am saddened by the pages that I have seen such as '***** (suburb/town's Secrets) where pple see it fit to say anything about anyone.

...and the bullying.

Like everything that turns bad, it will die a slow protracted death as some new tech emerges over the coming decade....and I am old enough to remember when EMAIL was the bees knees of the world...all I get these days from email is junk email.

 

[Plugger35]

Its simple. These are the same people who pile in to be contestants on "reality" TV. Everyone thinks they a star in the making ... when in reality, just like myself, they have nothing of interest to say and are about as talented as a turd that won't flush.

The worst are the morons that think that just because they follow a celebrity on twitter and can tweet them that they are friends with them, when in reality the celebrity doesn't know who they are, doesn't give a shit about them and never responds to any of their inane tweets that they send them.

In a lot of cases celebrity twitter accounts are just for publicity and are probably operated by the celebrity's publicist rather than the celebrity themselves so they probably don't even see the majority of the tweets that their moron followers send them.

 

[policegetthatman]

Twitter is much much much much more useful than facebook.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

I get all my news these days via fb, can talk to friends for free. it's great

 

[Dan]

Not much would change for me, I don't use facebook.

 

[dumb]

don't use twitter myself. in terms of breaking news, it is probably the place to go. i have nothing to contribute, twittersphere is not worse off for not having me in it.

i use facebook as little as possible. once you realize that people generally don't give a shit about what you have to say, you can pare your posting right back without feeling like you're denying the world your wisdom.
i'm also a bit strict when i add friends, too. saves me from reading terrible statuses from people i barely know, as well as that unfriending ritual some people have. and i try to avoid discussing, or getting involved in anything political. be that discussions anywhere or groups.
what i do use it for is to keep tabs on various things, musicians for example. as an artist it keeps me in the loops, allows me a bit of publicity individually and for my studio. you can use it to build your people networks/contacts and all that, but in a lighter or more enjoyable fashion compared to say, plaxo.

but yeah, well done on deleting it. i can understand why people do it and i'm always pleased to see movement away from it and refocusing on their life. forums are an equivalent and can eat up all of your time and you have nothing to show for it.

if it was gone? pretty hard to imagine isn't it. maybe a bit of "if facebook didn't exist it would be necessary for humans to invent it"?
i reckon we'd be less narcissistic. have cleaner homes and better suntans.

 

[Marlowe]

I imagine Earth would escalate to a world exactly the opposite of the Earth portrayed in Idiocracy.
A perfect Utopia, full of intelligent folks living in peace, free of hate and poverty and AIDS, and all the nasty crap that plagues us today. We'd probably even invent time travel, so we could each take turns hurling Mark Zuckerberg's mother down the stairs, thus ensuring we continue to live in our perfect society forever.

 

[JolyV]

a world without FB is

 

[La Dispute]

I don't use it much anymore.

It's good to have a neat list of people to interact with if need be but otherwise I find it boring and it creates far too much introspection among users.

Also find 'Facebook celebrities' who feel the need to constantly update what they are doing all day incredibly tiresome. I have some who are forever uploading photos of random things they do during the day and one seriously posted a picture of a cup of tea and and a book and got like 20 likes. Was lame.

 

[radiojake]

I feel sorry for the kids who have parents that have documented every single moment of their kid's lives on Facebook -