What are your views on Facebook?

[Accipiter]

I mean setting itself into stone, maybe I used the wrong term, it's still trying to become perfect.

[Circadia]

I think its good for the fact you can find and talk to people you haven't in years, like my dad his cousin moved to Amsterdam 20 odd years ago and because of facebook they can speak again. But there are many downsides like the fact pedophiles could use it to talk to girls/boys and bullys could target people on the internet. I like it because i can talk to friends but i would never add anyone i didn't know very well.

[hamheyelliot]

I'm guessing it can vary wildly depending on the person, older members probably don't have to suffer the constant '♥ ily insert name' at the end of every status for example, then again younger users probably don't get the kind of people with 4 figure friend numbers as a result of the 'oh you're a human it seems' rule.

For me the constant rubbish some self centered friends of mine has sent me to Twitter atm.

[Jessicrawrr]

I love it in some ways, hate it in others.
I love how I can communicate with my friends easier, and free.
Hate, how people can just say things they wouldn't do, people have over 1000 friends- they obviously don't know them, and it's an easy site for bullying and everything.

[Accipiter]

Twitter has never appealed to me, it seems like a boring stream of peoples thoughts that would get you nowhere in a general knowledge quiz never mind life, but I've never used it so my opinion is obviously just from observation. I was going to include all social networking / blog sites into this factual pro-gramme until I found out it was only 5 minutes long.

And I agree with Facebook being a different experience to older members, a more mature / catch up approach / serious discussion seems to be what I see it used as for older people.

@LoveLife, Facebook has taken measures against those such things, if its still a threat its mainly down to the users knowledge of it, even though I think the button is only available to under 13's or something.

---------- Post added 12-04-2011 at 08:16 PM ----------

I love it in some ways, hate it in others.
I love how I can communicate with my friends easier, and free.
Hate, how people can just say things they wouldn't do, people have over 1000 friends- they obviously don't know them, and it's an easy site for bullying and everything.

I mainly dislike it for the approach of a meeting tool (as in a tool used to target possible gf's etc.) People change their persona to each friend, although it's nothing new to Facebook that people will change character it's annoying to see it more often.

[Eoin247]

I'm kinda 50/50 on it. In some ways it's great, for example staying in contact is made simples.

In other ways it's bad though. The vast majority of people in facebook take part in the so called "friends race" just to look popular and add people they barely or don't know.

I remember seeing an experiment done a while back on social networks like facebook, bebo and myspace. Something like 90% of boys and 70% of girls would add a person they don't know if their profile pic was good looking. Amazingly most people would also add a randomer no matter what their profile pic or name seemed to be.

[Accipiter]

Thats actually interesting I'll have to look into that. I'd personally feel so uncomfortable adding someone I didn't know.

I accept requests of people I don't know, but I do regret it, but at the moment it's only 2 people, one is in my media class and I expected them to ask about work, and the other a bit hypocritical to my work, I accepted after only learning her name on a night out. Still I only have 30 people on my list so I'm not that bad.

[Judas]

i think it's great. it's an easy way of staying in contact with your friends, reconnecting with old friends or family members, and seeing what everyone is up to.

but like everything it has it's downfalls, but that just lies in the people that use it. yes there are attention seekers etc but where would we be without it? bebo? if you hate people that attention seek - delete them, if you don't want to be "raped, killed and eaten", set your profile to private and don't accept people you don't know lol... i for one don't have anyone as a friend that i don't know, i don't see the point.

i can't understand why people hate it so much, hate the annoying people that use it instead it's extremely useful. but of course too much of it can be a bad thing - but that could be said for anything.

[Accipiter]

The main problems is real friends, the ones that would not act the way they do on facebook, in real life.

Its the ones that use it as a cushion to fall back on because they're too weak to sort out their own problems that annoy me.

[Jessicrawrr]

There's a boy who goes to my school. He's gay, wears makeup, and girls clothes and he gets sooooooooooooooo much attention for it, 5000 friends, and thousands of friend requests that he can't answer.
I think that's when it gets too far.