Wait...people still use Facebook?!

There's a psychiatrist who hasn't been to enough parties to know the difference between one and Facebook.

Sure sounds like a cry for help to me.

What does that make Google+?

What's worse? Using facebook or whining about facebook and pretending youre too cool for it because you dont have any friends?

Drink the kool-aid, kids.
Because happiness is just a click away.
Happiness. Think of the possibilities.

/If it's free, you and your data are the product.

I don't understand the hate for Facebook. Used moderately and with modesty it can be a great tool for introverts, like myself, to keep up with friends and family.

There are better ways to amuse yourself.

Never have I seen so much marital unhappiness masquerading as happiness as I have on facebook.

"Love my wonderful hubby! Life is good!" = uh oh

Rowville's Lynn Bain, 46, spends about eight hours a day on Facebook catching up with friends and family.

"If you post something, usually you will get a response quickly and usually it is a positive response," she said.

Social networking is also a constant companion for the stay-at-home mum while her husband is at work and her two sons are at university.

"It is someone to talk to because I am home alone. It makes me feel good knowing that there is someone there to talk to," Ms Bain said.


Or you could leave the house and get a job or volunteer or something.

I totally want a pink Squire guitar.
There Hello Kitty guitars are hella cool.

Yeah, a party being held by this guy.

It's like there's a party in my mouth and everyone's throwing up.

digistil: What does that make Google+?

Was originally going for a good 'last man on earth' movie scene but then I saw this:


So just try and find some way to shoe-horn that into a jab at google+'s toxic unpopularity.

Sarah Palin's Conscience: I don't understand the hate for Facebook. Used moderately and with modesty it can be a great tool for introverts, like myself, to keep up with friends and family.


Fark is rapidly becoming overloaded with the "get off my lawn" crowd.

DJanomaly: Sarah Palin's Conscience: I don't understand the hate for Facebook. Used moderately and with modesty it can be a great tool for introverts, like myself, to keep up with friends and family.


Fark is rapidly becoming overloaded with the "get off my lawn" crowd.

First it was cool to like things everyone else liked.
Then it was cool to like things nobody else had heard of.
Now it is cool to dislike things that everyone else likes.
Soon it will be cool to dislike things that nobody else has heard of.
And then the cycle will start again.

Meh. It won't be much longer before something else comes along and Facebook is regarded as that place where old people post.

DJanomaly: Fark is rapidly becoming overloaded with the "get off my lawn" crowd.

Becoming overloaded?

It's been a popular phrase here for as long as i can remember.

This must be why I hate social networking. I hate crowds, parties, malls, etc. I have found that I really really like sitting in a truck by myself driving over the road. I like email, and I enjoy reading and arguing here on Fark. But anything more interactive and my mind shuts down just like when I attended parties back in college. Except without the roommate insisting that I just need to drink myself to oblivion to enjoy myself.

J. Frank Parnell: DJanomaly: Fark is rapidly becoming overloaded with the "get off my lawn" crowd.

Becoming overloaded?

It's been a popular phrase here for as long as i can remember.

And my parents use facebook, and keep asking me to join. If anything it's been embraced more readily by the older crowd. I don't know a single person over 40 who doesn't have a facebook account, but plenty of people younger than that who don't.

J. Frank Parnell: J. Frank Parnell: DJanomaly: Fark is rapidly becoming overloaded with the "get off my lawn" crowd.

Becoming overloaded?

It's been a popular phrase here for as long as i can remember.

And my parents use facebook, and keep asking me to join. If anything it's been embraced more readily by the older crowd. I don't know a single person over 40 who doesn't have a facebook account, but plenty of people younger than that who don't.


Really? Huh.

I'm not doubting you....but I just see the opposite. I know exactly one person under 30 who doesn't have a Facebook account. Whereas for the over 30 people I know that refuse to try it....I can think of at least half a dozen.

But maybe you're right. Maybe ignoring Facebook is the cool new thing. My most edgiest cousin is the one who told me she'll never have a Facebook account. Why can't living off the grid be the new cool?

Don't have a Facebook account. Never needed a Facebook account. Never planning to get a Facebook account.

DJanomaly: But maybe you're right. Maybe ignoring Facebook is the cool new thing

I never said that, and it's a pretty transparent attempt to dismiss anyone who doesn't agree with you.

Facebook is just proof positive that there are too many people with too much time on their hands. I spend maybe 5 mins a day scanning my FB feed in the morning. I'm "friends" with fairly smart people, so there are usually interesting links to look at. And i get to creep on a few cute girls photo albums. Otherwise it's a bore.

sonofASDF: The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.

The mess is extraordinary, and has to be seen to be believed, but if you don't have any particular need to believe it, then don't go and look because you won't enjoy it.

There have recently been some bangs and flashes up in the clouds, and there is one theory that this is a battle being fought between the fleets of several rival carpet-cleaning companies who are hovering over the thing like vultures, but you shouldn't believe anything you hear at parties, and particularly not anything you hear at this one.

One of the problems, and it's one that is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grand children or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and recessive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots or, more and more frequently, both.

You win the thread. Don't forget your towel.

ginandbacon: I've never understood the people who talk about how boring FB and Twitter are. Isn't that just a sign that you have boring friends and family?

If you're frequently entertained by Facebook, isn't that a sign that you're just easily impressed?

Wow. My party is lame.