Facebook hits 750 million users milestone

Or are you talking about someone like you that doesn’t realize there is a life out side of a virtual life.

Facebook is for people who have no social skills and want people to be involved with every little aspect of their lives. People do not care that you are petting your cat watching Animal Planet’s Worlds Funniest Animals. Nor we do care that you are setting naked in your recliner naked eating Cheetos watching WWE. Get a life go out and meet people, we don’t bite i promise. You can learn to actually throw a ball, or a Frisbee instead of posting shit online that no one cares about anyway.

Do me a favor look up on line, stats on how many post are replied to, and how many post are reposted.  It’s pretty dismal.

People say that TV killed the Radio Star.

Facebook killed the Social Skills.

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hey idiot, who the fuck talks about 24/7 facebook on the computer? im talking about fb on the smartphone, which is great
and of course, who the fuck cares wtf someone else is doing at the moment, i dont give a shit if you fucking watch a movie, or eat some cornflakes, only tards use facebook like that

non-tards use it to stay in touch with friends, use the messenger as well, it doesnt always have to be phonecall
nowadays we just need phone, sms, email, skype, fb etc to stay in touch

whoever uses facebook the way you described it, is a fkin faggot, i dont give a shit
so maybe you should realize that life is about meeting new people, staying in contact with them and making arrangements, meeting up with people etc
for that, facebook is great
one of the many things..just like sms, skype, email, msn etc.. if you just wanna discuss something real fast, meet up or just wanna ask someone whats up

oh and, if you didnt notice already, fb is also great if you just want to meet up with someone for a nice fuck, or get to know some girls, its so simple and retarded, yet great

well, i guess.. some people would never get laid, or got no friends (sure, for those people facebook sucks)
winning

– “Facebook is for people who have no social skills and want people to be involved with every little aspect of their lives.”

Socially retarded people existed long before Facebook. If those people didn’t have Facebook today… they would still be sitting on AIM and reading people’s Away Messages all day.

For everyone else… Facebook is a valuable tool.  

I could use regular e-mail to communicate within a group… use Flickr for my photos… or send handwritten event invitations through the mail.  OR…. I can do all that on Facebook.

You are so hung-up on the idea that Facebook is ruining interpersonal skills…. but you don’t realize that people ARE using Facebook for communication. It’s just online communication… like everything else today is moving online.

Facebook is not a replacement for a phone call or a face-to-face meeting.  The type of people you describe who sit on Facebook all day… well… they were messed up before Facebook.

Facebook is not a replacement for a lunch meeting… but Facebook can be used to arrange that lunch meeting. And sharing photos… and groups… and chat… and lots of other things.

@michaelscrip:disqus Facebook is an “valuable tool”. Give me one example. Please. Just one that that can be done on Facebook that cannot be done with any other means. You cannot. The thing is Facebook is a common meeting ground for people. That’s it. It is a social norm just like MySpace was before it. Facebook is a waste of time, and a downfall to the social interactions of today’s day and time.

@08a1cb8273348eec82de9e38586b4a8d:disqus you seem pretty angry. Damn that rap music. And all you are doing is proving your immaturity and ignorance in your cussing rampage. This is the internet you are proving nothing.

anyway i have no use for Facebook. as stated above i can do what ever i need to do to plan any events, get together or anything else i need to out side of Facebook.

And before you go preaching about meeting people. doing things, and hanging out. I am married, with a daughter. We have a group of about 15-22 people that we see on a weekly basis out side of our family that we do stuff with. From getting a group of guys together to play Halo reach on a LAN of about 3 units, to meeting up at our local Hofbrauhaus (newport KY) and throw back a few liters.

My phone has text messing, phone calls, GTalk, and e-mail pushed to it. If you cannot get to me on one of those means. Your SOL.

The other thing is there is a huge age gap. I’m assuming you guys are in College or High School. And it’s “socially cool” to have a Facebook account. I’m 28 years old. I’ve been work 40+hours a week since i got out of high school. In the real world, in the work place, Facebook is a mute aspect of life.

@Michael

I never said Facebook does things that you cannot do anywhere else.  I already mentioned email, Flickr, AIM, etc. You could also throw in EVite or any other online service.

But you said it best yourself… Facebook is a common meeting ground.  It’s about convenience.

I could upload my photos to Flickr… then send an email to all my friends to tell them to go look at my photos… or send that link in an IM.

OR… I can post photos to Facebook.. and my friends are automatically notified via the News Feed or by photo tagging. It’s just one less step. And considering Facebook is the LARGEST photo-sharing site in the world… people obviously prefer using it over any other photo-sharing service. It’s about convenience.

You started your rant by saying Facebook is for people who have no social life and don’t go outside to meet people. 

Explain to me how sending a message with Facebook is bad… but sending an email with GMail is good.  Or chatting on Facebook… vs chatting with GTalk.  Or using Facebook for photos vs using Flickr.  They are ALL online services.

Or don’t… you don’t have to say anything else.  I get it… you don’t like Facebook.

But other people do.

Stop posting on the internet and go take care of your family.

I think most of the popular kids use facebook, so just because you don’t like it does not mean it is not a viable social tool.  People will be lazy with or without facebook and if you need to hate on something you don’t like, well you might want to go to the doctor to check out your stress level.

You actually remind me of some of my “friends” that need to post something on facebook that no one cares about, but does it to get attention…  This is coming from someone that has an active yahoo avatar, really?

Tosh.0 is incredibly popular, and Ow My Balls is a pretty decent description of some of his content. Also, I agree completely in your above post about facebook being a tool that is essentially flikr, gmail, and IM rolled into one.

Back to this post though… I was thinking the other day about an accidental positive with the internet. When gaming, for example, or when people communicate with each other on forums or on blogs, there is less concern for the race/ethnicity/gender/sexual orientation of the other person. Instead, depending on the intelligence level of the blog, people are ridiculed for a) fanboyism (consoles, politics, smartphones), b) spelling/grammar, c) HOPEFULLY the merit of their argument, instead of the perceived merit of the person.

So maybe the internet is moving us in a direction where people are actually judged by what they say.

I haven’t ever thought about that, but damn that is interesting.

Jackass 3d was the #1 movie for a couple of weeks, so technically “ow my balls” has already seen its meteoric rise.