Comments on: Facebook Friends: God Died to Get Away From Us

By: john

john — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:36:54 +0000

probably the best text i’ve ever read. who are u?

By: Tiban tapo

Tiban tapo — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:48:01 +0000

Dumbing people down n 2 ease da feelng u get whn u sy good bye to sm one u get alone with, bt know that u vl never see again it cancel out da whole final good bye i only joined coz of ma lost angels thnkng ths da way to meet once again if required shrt version,its for women cant let go of being da center of attention like high shool so they ll p some pity bait sad event in thier life so all the attention condolences roll in its for guys who wants to post picture of hw awesome they are to impress gals

By: Tiban tapo

Tiban tapo — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:27:21 +0000

Luv fb,it never allow sm 1 2 sy hurtng bye

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:29:54 +0000

I wasted my time writing a long-winded zinger here that was loaded with contradictions and contradictions within contradictions. It’s a shame that the moderator, who was almost ready to post it, accidentally clicked the “ImProve-3.0″ button and rendered my incredibly clever post a complete waste of time. Sort of like my existence.

By: doug winspear

doug winspear — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:53:30 +0000

well, Ms. Jones, I suggest that you try my approach to the Facebook existential dilemma. Personally I recommend smoking something along the line of “Blue Haze”, a brand of hydroponic which allows you, alas chemically, to see it all as theater. Of course, Fecebook renders the idea of “friends” absolutely absurd. When I think of a certain lady that I know who’d visited chez moi one night and we did, with my encouragement, and a few tokes of the aforementioned “brand”, a re-enactment of a magical night, say, in the late sixties….so, she being a product of an era where all aspects of being are commodities, had never gotten to experience aimless fun, and sex for the whatever of it. So, what happened. She stopped answering her phone, started posting on Facebook…pseudo-intellectual drivel-thid-rate arthouse movies, horrible Indy bands, boring, pretentious Details magazine type photos, etc…Facebook is the ultimate safe sex…to add insult to injury, she’d picked up this local Irish meatball as stud service, and when she finally asnwered my calls, I casually asked her if she’d mentioned that she was going for a Masters in Philo…(on Heidegger-authenticity, right) she got huffy and said, “why would I do that???”
This is the type of stuff I write on Facebook. It keeps me sane, so to speak.

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:55:43 +0000

This article is misleading and pathetic.

By: Kadin Wisniewski

Kadin Wisniewski — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:45:30 +0000

“Facey B is for stupid, vain, self-absorbed idiots.”

Um… that’s a pretty ridiculous generalization to be making, I think. Lots of people on Facebook are stupid, vain, and self-absorbed, but hey, lots of people in the world are stupid, vain, and self-absorbed. GENERALLY, Facebook is for people who want to keep in contact with people they don’t see very often or haven’t seen in a while. It’s just another convenient means of communication, like email or phones.

And I think all the complaints that people have about it are really stupid, because they’re all easily solveable…

“People I don’t know keep friending me!”
Don’t accept their requests.

“I keep seeing all this stuff I don’t care about in my feed!”
You can control who does and doesn’t show up in your feed.

“All these ads on the sides of the screen are so annoying!”
All of them have little x’s that you can click on to make them disappear.

All of the problems people have with Facebook are solved with a little common sense and observation. I don’t get why anyone would have so much beef with the site. Bottom line is, if you don’t like it, shut up and just don’t use it.

By: Richann Wright

Richann Wright — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:32:31 +0000

Richann hbwright80@yahoo.com

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:00:18 +0000

Very interesting article Eileen.
I was toying with the idea of joining Facebook but your article has affirmed my belief that it is a load of inane rubbish soon to be replaced by the next internet fad. I’m keeping well clear.

By: XXXXXXXX [CENSORED]

XXXXXXXX [CENSORED] — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:34:51 +0000

Howdy,

FaceBook has became a flea market farm for wanna be marketers. They are taken over facebook and spamming other friends like crazy.

Me as a 10 yr Internet Marketer, I’m just over stated that people will use this type of marketing instead of doing the old seo that works. I personally do seo for over a hundred of my clients when it comes to my company.

I try to let them know that facebook is a good place to start to get your band out there, but its not the place to setup shop for a lifetime. I even wrote on blog on this subject called “FaceBook Wanna Be Marketers” you can Google it if you want to read it.

I’m sorry for getting so far off subject, but I just had to express my fillings of the facebook is going..which in the hole like MySpace in a couple of years if people just keep this up.

Thanks for this post, and this is “XXXXXXXXX [COMMENT CENSOR SAYS: "No free self promotion here, ass wipe.] Singing Out”

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:43:17 +0000

Ooh, it’s like unplugging yourself from the Matrix.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:39:44 +0000

Already I want to kill my coworkers less.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:35:50 +0000

I just deleted my account. I knew it was the right thing to do before I read this article, as usual I just needed the exile to push me down the path of moral righteousness. Apparently I have another two weeks until all of my comments, photos, whatnot, will be deleted permanently. After that, so long as I don’t login in the meantime, the killing of my virtual self will be complete and irreversible. I feel like I’ve just taken a shower after a really long train trip, where you pee with your butt over the train toilet, careful not to sit down, and in the process usually end up pissing down your thigh. Feels a lot like that.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:25:54 +0000

Aaah,
Sanity.

This is what I love the exile for. Keep up the good work!

By: Myf

Myf — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:47:39 +0000

All social networking is e-mail with pictures. Recent changes have just made it more spammy. Very appropriate!! I think!! cause email has spam too! !!! Maybe it will change, maybe it won’t, I don’t fuckin know, I Don’t read wired magazine

By: Zirb

Zirb — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:17:49 +0000

Captures something very well

By: lud

lud — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:56:03 +0000

If you consider facebook merely a modern-day teledex, by which one can stay in touch with friends, former co-workers and relatives from around the world, then one can see what a valuable tool it can be.

Sure it can be used in silly ways, ie silly and inane posts, or overposts. But, you can choose your friends online just as you can in real life. Why complain about that?

By: DopeAddict

DopeAddict — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:33:51 +0000

@acabaca: Are you speaking from personal experience? If so, I want to be friends with your friends. And I want to kill my former neighbors (who are responsible for the death of one of my beloved cats.)

For someone who hasn’t worked for 10 years, I could give a shit what someone thinks about whatever I might say on Facebook. I am also relaxed about all that because, unless you are determined, work for cash and found someone to rent to you without giving any personal information, then you can’t escape the grid. If Facebook doesn’t have your personal info, then someone else does.

I enjoy looking at the all the dumbass photos of people who I knew long ago, and laughing patronizingly at their fat, ugly wives or pathetically pointless lives. Being smug and superior is probably no way to go through life, but there you go. Like poor white sharecroppers who supported slavery for their need to be superior to *someone,* this is my lot in life. Long may it continue.

By: Zhu Bajie

Zhu Bajie — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:13:46 +0000

You know, Jones, real oldsters sit around and reminisce about how great it was when you could just ask the operator to connect you to Kennie Hanson or whoever, and you didn’t need to remember all these damned numbers….

By: auhsoJ

auhsoJ — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:06:08 +0000

Sounds like y’all need different pals.

I use Facebook to troll.