Originally posted by MetacomedianThat part has been dealt with, I cut facebook off at the pass. I still have 19,000 mostly FB email notifications of who has an updated photo and who is going out with whom and all that crap.
Keep in mind that Facebook notifications do not rank very high in the volcano's list of preferred sacrifices.
My IP dudes didn't know how to do a mass delete either so Crowley, stick it up your ass.
Originally posted by moonbusNo, not likes, just all the emails that came in because I stupidly allowed notifications to be emailed to my email. Then guys started coming in with 20 emails, where it goes Paul updated his profile. Paul updated his profile, Paul updated his profile. Etc. Ad nauseam and not just for him but for most of them listed as friends. I only have a couple hundred friends, can't imagine someone with thousands of friends giving permission for notifications to go to an email address.
Wow, 19,000 'likes'. My 15-yr old daughter would kill to get 19,000 likes.
That's exactly what I don't like about social networking (facebook and co.): you have ten 'friends', each of whom has ten more, each of whom has ten more, and so on. In very short order, there are literally millions of messages floating through the ether. I predict that social networking will be killed by its own success.
I note with amusement, riding the downtown bus every day, three or four youths sitting side by side in the bus, each one thumbing away madly at a smartphone to twitter or linkedin or facebook or whatsapp and all the rest of them, and they think they're relating--but there they are, sitting right next to real humans and not relating to each other at all! Each one is locked into a solipsistic two-deminsional virtual world dominated by this glowing LED glass-plate, 'talking' to people they've never met and never will meet.
Originally posted by moonbusThis is a very narrow-minded outlook.
they think they're relating--but there they are, sitting right next to real humans and not relating to each other at all! Each one is locked into a solipsistic two-deminsional virtual world dominated by this glowing LED glass-plate, 'talking' to people they've never met and never will meet.
I use the social media sphere to stay connected to friends and family all over the globe.
Why use postcards when my brother can load 600 underwater photos from his diving trip in the Philippines onto Facebook?
Different timezones means Whatsapp and other messaging platforms works well, as I don't bother people while they are sleeping with a simple "how are you doing mate?".
Then on the flip side, I have also met people, even on here, that I have become very good friends with, some of whom I also met up with in 'real life'.
I would never have met these people if I only chatted to the guy sitting next to me on a bus every afternoon after work.
