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RobbieGray17 said:
I used the same excuse for keeping facebook. We still have the uni forums, and I connect with everyone in my circles on Google+. You could always set up a bogus FB account, with no friends, and subscribe to those particular groups, thus ignoring every other aspect of FB. I may consider doing this when I have math next semester, cos its really helpful.
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Shaucob_Burjan said:
Thinking of deactivating facebook, but my Uni courses uses the facebook groups for group assignments and shiz, ugh.

What counts as a friend? Seriously, I get requests from people who I may see once or twice a week but because they know my name, we are friends.

Of my 250 or so friends, I talk to and hang out with about 10 or so in the real world. I wonder why I accept friend requests.
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Interesting points.

I plan on deleting my FB soon. I was also reluctant to the idea because of the uni thing (very easy for group work) but realised email/texting works just as effectively. Or even establishing a shared Google Drive with everyone's email addresses (I mean, if they have FB, they have an email address).

In regards to the friends, I recommend doing a cull/stocktake of people you actually see on a regular basis. I managed to get mine down to 100 odd which was being generous.
 
Facebook these days - at least the news feed - seems to clog up with viral meme's and videos - some good, most not so good.

I personally think Facebook is on the downward slope. With everyone owning smart phones these days, an influx of instant messaging apps like WhatsApp (suprisingly to me, not big in Australia yet.) are starting to take over while Instagram is starting to control the photo side of things. These were the two main features which made Facebook the social networking king for so long, IMO. It comes as no surprise to me that Zuckerburg has bought WhatsApp for billions of dollars just recently. Not that long until Facebook becomes obsolete.
 
Sylvia Saint said:
Facebook these days - at least the news feed - seems to clog up with viral meme's and videos - some good, most not so good.

I personally think Facebook is on the downward slope. With everyone owning smart phones these days, an influx of instant messaging apps like WhatsApp (suprisingly to me, not big in Australia yet.) are starting to take over while Instagram is starting to control the photo side of things. These were the two main features which made Facebook the social networking king for so long, IMO. It comes as no surprise to me that Zuckerburg has bought WhatsApp for billions of dollars just recently. Not that long until Facebook becomes obsolete.
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That's Facebook now.
 

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courtjester said:
If Facebook allowed users to disable the newsfeed, I reckon they'd get back a lot of ppl who've left it. Without newsfeed it's an excellent tool.

When FB first arrived, there was no news feed. It was just profile pages, pics, and the ability to communicate 1 to 1. Which is what most people want.
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agree with this.

It's the newsfeed that is ****ed.

I don't use it much now though aside from 1 to 1 communications. The unfortunate thing is I know I'd lose complete touch with a lot of people if I got rid of it. Not my real close friends obviously but people who are on the other side of the world who I know I would catch up with when I get back to Europe or wherever. It's very handy for that.

I could go through and get people's e-mails I guess but that's just a hassle now.

One of the handy things as well is if you are somewhere or you notice someone you haven't seen for a while is close by you can catch up. you can't really know that via e-mail unless you have consistent contact with someone.

I've pretty much cut my usage to zero though. Generally go on for about 20 minutes at a time, maybe twice or three times a week.
 
radiojake said:
But panhandling via facebook? I wonder if he liked Kony and thought it be effective
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I remember having a drunk conversation about 4 or 5 years ago with some backpackers and we were arguing the merits of cyber begging. You probably could have made enough coin to live for a few months back then, although eventually people would have got bored.... But now people would just tell you to **** off.

There are some web sites based on a similar premise though
 
Sylvia Saint said:
Facebook these days - at least the news feed - seems to clog up with viral meme's and videos - some good, most not so good.

I personally think Facebook is on the downward slope. With everyone owning smart phones these days, an influx of instant messaging apps like WhatsApp (suprisingly to me, not big in Australia yet.) are starting to take over while Instagram is starting to control the photo side of things. These were the two main features which made Facebook the social networking king for so long, IMO. It comes as no surprise to me that Zuckerburg has bought WhatsApp for billions of dollars just recently. Not that long until Facebook becomes obsolete.
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It's been down on usage for a while now.

Another big driver of the downturn - from what i have read anyway - is that parents are now getting involved which to the kids makes it seem uncool.
 
Ed_Gein said:
I'm in the process of deleting my Facebook. :p Took about 3-4 hours over 2-3 days just deleting everything off my timeline. Just no real need for it over the last year or so. Kind of felt like i'd been trying to find an excuse to keep it. And to be honest, i'm kind of fed up that they keep changing certain parts of it all the time and it was becoming a frustrating experience. Just last week they changed private messaging on me. When i click on the message button at the top, a drop down box opens showing the last 5 conversations, well when i go to click on an unread one, it just opens up a chat box on the bottom-right of the screen instead of taking me directly to my inbox. All in all, no longer need it and each change they make is worse than the last. Will be messaging people with my phone number and e-mail address and we can keep in touch via Whatsapp etc...
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Which Facebook now own.:p
 

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The Passenger said:
beats me bro. according to the cool kids i'm about 7 years past my prime.
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I think it's something to do with apps on phones. Using a PC is so 7 years ago it turns out. These days if you don't have an Iphone life is passing you by.
 
BACCS said:
You sure do comment on it a fair bit for someone who never thinks about it anymore.
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Actually its only because I had an alert. I'm not sure how alerts work, but I won't get alerts for a while, then all of a sudden I'll get one. It was then that I realized I hadn't thought about it for a while. And I think thats a good thingl.
 
Juggalo Balla said:
I think it's something to do with apps on phones. Using a PC is so 7 years ago it turns out. These days if you don't have an Iphone life is passing you by.
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i ****ing hate smart phones.

in my spare time i'm a pretty full on computer nerd, do web development for a living, a bit of software development for fun.... but my phone is still a $29 samsung backpacker special that is barely lucky to hold reception for longer than 10 minutes half the time. i had a smart phone for a few months and ended up downgrading back to my old "dumb phone"

there is talk about ubuntu coming to smart phones some time in 2014. if that happens i'll consider the switch.
 
One of my guitar students (8 years old or so) told me to "...get a real phone..." because I wasn't able to download any songs or connect to the internet with my old samsung cheapie mobile -

I kinda looked at her and wanted to say "... This is what a phone actually is.. you're talking about a mobile internet device...."

but she was 8 so she doesn't know any better -
 

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They really need to fix the newsfeed or at least make it more customisable. I don't need or want to see every single unfunny meme or video someone on my friend's list likes, and I don't need to see wallposts between a friend and someone I don't know.

That said, I think it's still gonna go strong for a while yet. Sure there are better IM apps than messenger and better photo sharing apps than Facebook (although I think Facebook buys them all anyway) it's just more convenient to have them all on the same place.
 
BALKAN said:
They really need to fix the newsfeed or at least make it more customisable. I don't need or want to see every single unfunny meme or video someone on my friend's list likes, and I don't need to see wallposts between a friend and someone I don't know.

That said, I think it's still gonna go strong for a while yet. Sure there are better IM apps than messenger and better photo sharing apps than Facebook (although I think Facebook buys them all anyway) it's just more convenient to have them all on the same place.
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I reckon people will move to a more private service. Facebook is way too open, people had their fun with it, the novelty will wear off. Its way too open to getting attacked. I've said before I would like to see a basic networking service. Instant messaging, video/audio messaging. Basically facebook without the games/newsfeed and other crap
 
Currently scrolling through the timeline of a notorious YS* on FB that somehow a mate got noodz from. It seems ignorance has no limit looking at some of her posts.


*If my calculations are correct, she would be legal age (younger sister of a girl I went to primary school with). Because if she wasn't, I would of course avert my eyes if someone tried to show me illegal material :cool:
 

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