Facebook no longer worth the hassle

Tony Shelton

Tony Shelton

BS Detector, Esquire
I've never been very convinced on the value of facebook.

Now spam and viruses are coming from it all the time. I'm about to pull the plug on ours.

I don't see the fascination in it anyway.

Here's the kind of gibberish that seems to fill my facebook page every day.

"I just woke up, what a beautiful day".
followed by a picture of whatever gruel someone is having for breakfast
"I'm off to go to work now"
"I'm at work and I'm bored"
Soon to be followed with posts of the latest political cartoons or quips finding their way around the net that day
JOHNNY NEEDS A GUN TO KILL ALL THE FARM ANIMALS AND SO THE MAFIA WON'T EAT THEM - CAN YOU HELP ME GET THE FARM ANIMALS
"headed home from work stuck in a traffic jam"

ETC ETC ETC.....

What in the world is wrong with this picture?

I don't like to text either. I do understand that texting is there so you can communicate with people your are too wimpy to tell that you don't like and don't want to talk to them.

Texting can also be what you do when you don't like the people you are with so you start talking to someone more interesting via text. Yes, sitting there while others are conversing and punching away at a small typewriter while squinting at a watch sized screen is far more courteous than picking up the phone and telling everyone around you to shut up because you're talking to someone you like better than them.

Heck, Shelly even used a program called SlyDial that would send her directly to a customer's voice mail everytime so she wouldn't have to talk to them.

First we sent smoke signals.
Then letters on horseback.
Next the telegram.

Then the phone - even a CELL phone that you can carry with you wherever you go. How could it get any better than that?

After the Cell phone comes email.
Then back to the telegram again with text.

What's next? Electronic Ipads with messages on them carried to the recipient on horseback?

What's the matter with us. Documents need to be sent electronically.

Conversations don't.

PS. this is a document.....not a conversation.... :help:
 
Hey Tony,
I sent you a text. Did you get it???


just kidding, I am thinking that I agree with you. What kills me about texting is that often people, including me, will send a text to avoid a drawn out conversation. I use texting to give employees work assignments, send quick information to young men at church, and to have a non time committal conversation with my wife. For instance, I see or hear something, and I will send her a quick text about it. She will text me back with a response, and on it goes. I do wish that I could get her to erase that text where I told her I would buy her a mercedes.
 
Kory said:
I got 2 messages on facebook on from ron and one from nick. It was a video that neither of them sent. I checked with them before i opened it must have been a virus
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I had the same thing happen but opened the one Ron sent. :bash: Thank God I have a Super Dupper virus Protection installed. It never got into my system.
 
Kory said:
I got 2 messages on facebook on from ron and one from nick. It was a video that neither of them sent. I checked with them before i opened it must have been a virus
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I got the same message from Ron's FB...but didn't open as it looked suspicious and I got same email from 3 others. Ron is trying to infect us all!!!!!! LOL :warning2:
 
Kory said:
I got 2 messages on facebook on from ron and one from nick. It was a video that neither of them sent. I checked with them before i opened it must have been a virus
Click to expand...

I got the same message from Ron's FB...but didn't open as it looked suspicious and I got same email from 3 others. Ron is trying to infect us all!!!!!! LOL :warning2:
 
Kory said:
I got 2 messages on facebook on from ron and one from nick. It was a video that neither of them sent. I checked with them before i opened it must have been a virus
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Same thing happened to me but my virus protection caught it and contained the virus. I wont be opening any more stuff on facebook.
 
I just don't have the face for Facebook. Not sure how some of you guys get on there.

If I had enough time to Facebook, chat with high school classmates, discover unknown relatives.... I'd be retired (and bored as hell).
 
I'm deactivating my facebook account on Monday. It's been a waste of time. It's a social tool and most of the people in my market want to relax on facebook rather than be bombarded by ads.

It's not a good social tool for me. There's something to be said for phone or face to face communication directly with people. Just ask Jim Gamble. :neo: If he simply called whoever he had the problems with or had used the webcam for most of his posts (as I suggested to him) a lot of the miscommunication could have been avoided.

Lastly, If the people who are so concerned about where I've been "after all these years" aren't willing to take 10 minutes out of their lives and call me on the phone, I'm not so sure I care to waste my time reading mass broadcasting of their lives on a daily basis.

Ok, my rant is over RIP Facebook.
 
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