Comments on: Deleted Facebook Account http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/ A place for my scribbles Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:26:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Cynical Scribble http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-1023 Cynical Scribble Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:42:25 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-1023 <b>John</b> - Hi John, I'm well out of the Facebook loop now, I might go back on to have a nosey and see what I'm not missing! John – Hi John, I’m well out of the Facebook loop now, I might go back on to have a nosey and see what I’m not missing!

]]> By: john hernick http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-1014 john hernick Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:47:16 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-1014 Facebook bites... constantly being updated about stupid things from friends who I don't talk to ( supposed friends ) I think facebook is just a way for some people to feel that their lives have some significance. I mean if your a fat old housewife living in the burbs with 2 kids and a husband who is no longer giving it to you what better to do than join facebook and spend hours contacting people who couldn't stand you in high school. I don't understand the need to have 900 friends... I ditched facebook this week and Im happy... no more distractions no more stupid updates from people I don't care about. Facebook bites… constantly being updated about stupid things from friends who I don’t talk to ( supposed friends ) I think facebook is just a way for some people to feel that their lives have some significance. I mean if your a fat old housewife living in the burbs with 2 kids and a husband who is no longer giving it to you what better to do than join facebook and spend hours contacting people who couldn’t stand you in high school. I don’t understand the need to have 900 friends… I ditched facebook this week and Im happy… no more distractions no more stupid updates from people I don’t care about.

]]> By: Cynical Scribble http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-874 Cynical Scribble Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:18:32 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-874 <strong>Time Traveller</strong> - I did go back a few months ago to have a nose, but it's been left in situ ever since. I can see why people find it useful, but its not my cup of tea and I don't have a need for it (I don't have friends dotted around the country or anything). None of my main group of mates are on Facebook and I'm quite a private person, so I'm uncomfortable with what people can know just by reading the wall/photos etc. I might just be overly paranoid though *starts wearing tin foil hat*. Maybe I just need to get more mates (or new mates) on facebook! <strong>Blue Soup</strong> - I read about them T&C's on my interweb travels yesterday, scary stuff. *dons tin foil hat* Time Traveller – I did go back a few months ago to have a nose, but it’s been left in situ ever since.

I can see why people find it useful, but its not my cup of tea and I don’t have a need for it (I don’t have friends dotted around the country or anything). None of my main group of mates are on Facebook and I’m quite a private person, so I’m uncomfortable with what people can know just by reading the wall/photos etc. I might just be overly paranoid though *starts wearing tin foil hat*.

Maybe I just need to get more mates (or new mates) on facebook!

Blue Soup – I read about them T&C’s on my interweb travels yesterday, scary stuff. *dons tin foil hat*

]]> By: Time Traveller http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-873 Time Traveller Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:09:17 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-873 Soup - Scary but anything you ever write on a computer, especially the internet should always be treated with a certain amount of caution. You never know who'll be reading in 1,2,5,10,100 years time :| Soup – Scary but anything you ever write on a computer, especially the internet should always be treated with a certain amount of caution. You never know who’ll be reading in 1,2,5,10,100 years time :|

]]> By: blue soup http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-872 blue soup Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:00:35 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-872 I tell you what does worry me about Facebook now though... I read yesterday that they recently changed the Terms and Conditions so that even if you leave the site and delete your account, they still own everything you ever put on it. I tell you what does worry me about Facebook now though… I read yesterday that they recently changed the Terms and Conditions so that even if you leave the site and delete your account, they still own everything you ever put on it.

]]> By: Time Traveller http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-871 Time Traveller Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:44:09 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-871 Did you go back? I was like you for probably about a year. I just didn't 'get it'. But now I am hooked. I like the fact that I can upload holiday photos withuot having to send them out individually to people on email. I like that I can find out what my friends are up to without always going to the effort of emailing and phoning. I've never been good with phoning people. When I went to Aus recently lots of old Aussie friends who I'd lost touch with found out I was going, and invited me over to various places all over the country. I can walk away from it and sometimes don't look at it for weeks. I think it adds something positive to my life in all honesty. The one thing that pisses me off though is random people trying to become my 'friend' - my pub landlord, a VERY long term ex (who i did not stay in touch with - for a good reason) and some users at work (people I have never met). I don't decline them, I just leave them so they never need to know they were declined. Did you go back? I was like you for probably about a year. I just didn’t ‘get it’. But now I am hooked. I like the fact that I can upload holiday photos withuot having to send them out individually to people on email. I like that I can find out what my friends are up to without always going to the effort of emailing and phoning. I’ve never been good with phoning people. When I went to Aus recently lots of old Aussie friends who I’d lost touch with found out I was going, and invited me over to various places all over the country. I can walk away from it and sometimes don’t look at it for weeks. I think it adds something positive to my life in all honesty.

The one thing that pisses me off though is random people trying to become my ‘friend’ – my pub landlord, a VERY long term ex (who i did not stay in touch with – for a good reason) and some users at work (people I have never met). I don’t decline them, I just leave them so they never need to know they were declined.

]]> By: Cynical Scribble http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-185 Cynical Scribble Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:22:03 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-185 Hello expensive...neither have I. I'm strangely missing it in some wierd way though, it's evil ways are subconsciously pulling me back in already. "My name is Cynical and it's been 15 days since I last facebooked" Cue applause... Hello expensive…neither have I. I’m strangely missing it in some wierd way though, it’s evil ways are subconsciously pulling me back in already.

“My name is Cynical and it’s been 15 days since I last facebooked”

Cue applause…

]]> By: expensivemistakescheapthrills http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-183 expensivemistakescheapthrills Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:15:13 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-183 ooh, that reminds me. I haven't been on facebook all morning! ooh, that reminds me. I haven’t been on facebook all morning!

]]> By: rosiewishes http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-176 rosiewishes Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:19:16 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-176 I meant to blog about deactivating Facebook... because of the amusing way they try to hold on to you. I can't remember what the exact phrases were, but did you not love the: Why are you leaving Facebook? a) Because I have no friends! (and then it tells you how you can find more friends) b) I spend too much time on Facebook (they tell you how to stop receiving emails??) c) I was being stalked (you're told how to change your security settings) d) (Quote) "Facebook is creating social drama for me"(!) I can't remember the rest, or what fantastic suggestions they make but I thought it was fantastic! Despite all of this, I'm still an avid Facebook fan and agree with a lot of what Blue Soup had to say. I have over 500 friends, but also hate Fried Collectors. Every now and then I go through and delete the ones I don't know (or no longer need, such as the ex-coach of a rugby team I needed to contact for past tournaments etc). Those friends are 3yrs worth of university socialising, 3yrs worth of being in the military and I went to 2 of the 3 secondary schools in my town so know the majority of people my age when I returned home from uni! So... don't judge a girl by her Facebook! I meant to blog about deactivating Facebook… because of the amusing way they try to hold on to you. I can’t remember what the exact phrases were, but did you not love the:

Why are you leaving Facebook?
a) Because I have no friends! (and then it tells you how you can find more friends)
b) I spend too much time on Facebook (they tell you how to stop receiving emails??)
c) I was being stalked (you’re told how to change your security settings)
d) (Quote) “Facebook is creating social drama for me”(!)

I can’t remember the rest, or what fantastic suggestions they make but I thought it was fantastic!

Despite all of this, I’m still an avid Facebook fan and agree with a lot of what Blue Soup had to say. I have over 500 friends, but also hate Fried Collectors. Every now and then I go through and delete the ones I don’t know (or no longer need, such as the ex-coach of a rugby team I needed to contact for past tournaments etc). Those friends are 3yrs worth of university socialising, 3yrs worth of being in the military and I went to 2 of the 3 secondary schools in my town so know the majority of people my age when I returned home from uni!
So… don’t judge a girl by her Facebook!

]]> By: Cynical Scribble http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/deleted-facebook-account/#comment-173 Cynical Scribble Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:29:20 +0000 http://cynicalscribble.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-173 haha that made me laugh. I hadn't seen that Michelle, therefore you get this weeks Gold Star :) haha that made me laugh. I hadn’t seen that Michelle, therefore you get this weeks Gold Star :)

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