What are your views on Facebook?

[Judas]

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.

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.

this is what i'm saying, i think there's a fine line between not liking facebook itself, or the people like who you've both spoken about that use it.

[Inseriousity.]

The reason I'm not a particular fan of it is in the name really. Facebook. I come on the internet to be anonymous so posting my face everywhere (and I'm not very photogenic either ) is the complete opposite of that. I think, as an extreme, it can limit face-to-face conversation. My mum, for example, is always on Facebook on her ipod talking to friends that she forgets to talk to the people who are actually around her.

[e5]

Facebook is great

[Accipiter]

The reason I'm not a particular fan of it is in the name really. Facebook. I come on the internet to be anonymous so posting my face everywhere (and I'm not very photogenic either ) is the complete opposite of that. I think, as an extreme, it can limit face-to-face conversation. My mum, for example, is always on Facebook on her ipod talking to friends that she forgets to talk to the people who are actually around her.

This is also a problem I see, that this social network is taking the social out of social life. It ruins peoples real social lives, they now care more about their farms or their image they need to keep up on Facebook.

I'll admit myself that Facebook may have had some boost in my self-esteem, when I first joined I had the same display for a year because I was that self-conscious about my look. Now I've used it for years, experienced pictures of me being posted collapsed in toilets and what nots, so I don't care about how I look anymore and will post any pictures.

So it has it's positives and negatives, but in this factual pro-gramme, i'm trying to make it very pessimistic / satire, bit of a charlie brooker approach so I can't really comment on it's positive user points .

[-:Undertaker:-]

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.

FlyingJesus?

I just would like Facebook to sort out the chat which always breaks, much prefer MSN for talking and FB for just finding out gossip both from real life and news in general from discussion groups. The pages people make are a laugh sometimes aswell.

[Camy]

I like facebook in general. What I hate about it is people who add you, that you don't know/hardly know, and don't ever try talking to you. I also hate people who make statuses insulting someone or something, but don't actually put who they're talking about, well just generally attention seeking things people do on facebook annoys me i guess.

[Accipiter]

FlyingJesus?

I just would like Facebook to sort out the chat which always breaks, much prefer MSN for talking and FB for just finding out gossip both from real life and news in general from discussion groups. The pages people make are a laugh sometimes aswell.

I use Fb chat because my mates rarely use MSN now, so I have to put up with its ********.

Do you's not feel like when you are reading all this pointless this that you are wasting your life away? It's just like the hypodermic needle theory but within social networking, where you come home, switch facebook on (switch tv on), and just sit their and scroll through it getting no amusement from it.

[dbgtz]

Well it is amusing when theres people ******** at each other, thats hilarious.

[Narnat,]

With everything there are pros and cons but I think there are more pro's. I think its a good thing because you can find family members you maybe don't see to often and it's also a good thing for adults because they have a fair chance of finding older friends ect.

[Stephen]

I've never really used it. I have an account but only ever ended up playing fb games tbh. I find it annoying for some reason