I'm not sure it was ever really "cool", it was more of a fad for a couple of years that's now become a rudimentary part of the internet, which is what generally happens to internet fads that are actually useful when the faddyness has gone.
Never bothered with it but have often wondered what happens if you politely turn down an invitation to something with an excuse so as not to hurt anyone's feelings then someone plasters photos of your gob all over facebook doing the thing you preferred?
Oh yes, that is common place, people saying sorry I can't come I'm taking my mum to the hospital, and then a load of photos of them in Butlins come up.
Never bothered with it but have often wondered what happens if you politely turn down an invitation to something with an excuse so as not to hurt anyone's feelings then someone plasters photos of your gob all over facebook doing the thing you preferred?
If someone uploaded photos of you and they're also friends with the person whose invite you turned down then yes they'd be able to see the photos. But you can change your settings so that you have to approve anything you're tagged in before it appears on your profile, so if you don't approve something it wont ever appear on your profile and the people on your friend list wouldn't see it, unless they're also friends with the person uploading the photos. It doesn't stop the photos being on Facebook, but it does stop them showing up on your profile and your friends' newsfeeds.
I still use it (must be old then!) but mainly for keeping in touch with family who live far away, private messages is what we do, it keeps us in touch, and i will admit to a criminal case obsession! I do not post photo's food or other boring crap though and i am very selective in my friends!!:D
Tumblr is a blogging platform as opposed to a social network. It's not just the younger people that have moved over to it either, and there's one very good reason.
About a year ago, the trust I work for asked for comments about extending their "digital reach" (I think the tech lot wanted a jolly) and one of the places mentioned was Tumblr. While it's actually quite a useful platform, the same that happened with Flickr has happened: it's become filled with pictures of cats and porn. There's also a lack of control of what happens if you post something. I wanted to see what happened if I posted something and then deleted it after it was reblogged, and I found that there was no way I could remove the reblogged content without having to find all the accounts that reblogged it and then throw myself at Tumblr's mercy. Given that mistake can happen, I could foresee something being posted without being fully thought through, it then causes a minor amount of aggravation, and then time has to spent dealing with it as opposed to getting on with what the trust should be doing.
As for Facebook being cool - it never was. It was interesting for a while, but only in the same way that FriendsReunited was. People could look up people from their past and see what had happened to them and how (un)fortunate they'd been, but it often turned out that if you'd lost touch with someone it was usually for a good reason. The reason Facebook appears to be cool is because it's almost required now.
One of the companies I used to do business with stopped their blog and moved it across to a Facebook group. I don't have Facebook so I couldn't see what was being imlpemented, so I left them and joined a competitor. I've had sites that require me to have a Facebook account purely so I can join them - once again, I'm locked out. Games that I play on my tablet and phone? Unless I invite 20 people on my Facebook I can't get past a certain level.
My aversion to Facebook is it's usefulness versus the trade off. Google keep a lot of my information synced up (contacts, bookmarks, e-mail and events) so for me that's useful given that I have 11 devices that I access the internet on. I know that Google probably have a file on me which will include what I look at and when, where I buy products from, where I go (and probably what I do), where I work and where I live. That's acceptable for me because they provide a service that's useful.
Facebook on the other hand doesn't provide me with anything that's useful, with maybe the exception of the Farkle game (and I made my own with some dice I had). I'm also slightly averse to having features pushed on me that I don't want, need or agree to, and I certainly haven't agreed to act like a lab rat and see how the news from friends' feeds that Facebook choose I get to see affects me. If I wanted to be part of a psychological experiment I'd simply volunteer my services to my wife as she has a few ideas she'd like to test out.
I have been wondering lately whether the fact that people aren't as bothered by other people's privacy is down to Facebook and their ilk allowing people to see maybe a little bit too much of the lives of others. It seems now that privacy is a privilege and not a right.
It's probably already deeply uncool with younger people. It seems that all of the people on it are adults and the kids have gone elsewhere. Nobody wants to be on the same social network as their parents.
When my 82 year old mother, who has never used a computer in her life, that she wants to get on "that Facebook thing" then it has to be "uncool". I keep persuading her not to bother as I really don't want to decline her friends request as I know if I accepted it she would be commenting on everything I do.
Tumblr is a blogging platform as opposed to a social network. It's not just the younger people that have moved over to it either, and there's one very good reason.
About a year ago, the trust I work for asked for comments about extending their "digital reach" (I think the tech lot wanted a jolly) and one of the places mentioned was Tumblr. While it's actually quite a useful platform, the same that happened with Flickr has happened: it's become filled with pictures of cats and porn. There's also a lack of control of what happens if you post something. I wanted to see what happened if I posted something and then deleted it after it was reblogged, and I found that there was no way I could remove the reblogged content without having to find all the accounts that reblogged it and then throw myself at Tumblr's mercy. Given that mistake can happen, I could foresee something being posted without being fully thought through, it then causes a minor amount of aggravation, and then time has to spent dealing with it as opposed to getting on with what the trust should be doing.
As for Facebook being cool - it never was. It was interesting for a while, but only in the same way that FriendsReunited was. People could look up people from their past and see what had happened to them and how (un)fortunate they'd been, but it often turned out that if you'd lost touch with someone it was usually for a good reason. The reason Facebook appears to be cool is because it's almost required now.
One of the companies I used to do business with stopped their blog and moved it across to a Facebook group. I don't have Facebook so I couldn't see what was being imlpemented, so I left them and joined a competitor. I've had sites that require me to have a Facebook account purely so I can join them - once again, I'm locked out. Games that I play on my tablet and phone? Unless I invite 20 people on my Facebook I can't get past a certain level.
My aversion to Facebook is it's usefulness versus the trade off. Google keep a lot of my information synced up (contacts, bookmarks, e-mail and events) so for me that's useful given that I have 11 devices that I access the internet on. I know that Google probably have a file on me which will include what I look at and when, where I buy products from, where I go (and probably what I do), where I work and where I live. That's acceptable for me because they provide a service that's useful.
Facebook on the other hand doesn't provide me with anything that's useful, with maybe the exception of the Farkle game (and I made my own with some dice I had). I'm also slightly averse to having features pushed on me that I don't want, need or agree to, and I certainly haven't agreed to act like a lab rat and see how the news from friends' feeds that Facebook choose I get to see affects me. If I wanted to be part of a psychological experiment I'd simply volunteer my services to my wife as she has a few ideas she'd like to test out.
I have been wondering lately whether the fact that people aren't as bothered by other people's privacy is down to Facebook and their ilk allowing people to see maybe a little bit too much of the lives of others. It seems now that privacy is a privilege and not a right.
That's another thing I cannot bear about it.
Boring bastards doing post after post about the mundane minutiae of their very uninteresting lives.
Person - 'I've just had a cheese sandwich for lunch'
I was on Faceparty when I was 15 and was always getting old men messaging me for naked photos or to webcam with them!
I remember Faceparty.
My nan and my Auntie Brenda (85 and 67 respectively) are on Facebook and look at a page called Ladies Chat Over Beverage. they post pictures of willies and 50 Shades of grey and all that carp.
I remember Faceparty.
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My nan and my Auntie Brenda (85 and 67 respectively) are on Facebook and look at a page called Ladies Chat Over Beverage. they post pictures of willies and 50 Shades of grey and all that carp.
Of course they do! Didn't you know it is compulsory for all females over 50 to laugh raucously at men's hob knobs - whenever and wherever they are portrayed.
I've never seen anything "cool" about it. It's a useful and quick way to keep in touch with friends if you're trying to arrange something. Some of the banal, trivial postings by some of my friends have changed my opinions about them though. Do they really think everyone is interested with the minutiae of their lives ? I've come to the conclusion that some of them must be really lonely. Sad really.
Boring bastards doing post after post about the mundane minutiae of their very uninteresting lives.
Person - 'I've just had a cheese sandwich for lunch'
Me - 'Who gives a shit?'
It really was time for me to go :kitty:
That says moer about the friends you have than anything else, none of my friends put anything like that on there.
Facebook is a tool, as simple as that, and like ant tool its effectiveness is dependent on how you use it.
I use it to keep in touch with friends and family and for that it serves its purpose.
i've never understoof the idea that something is or isn't perceived as cool, it is either useful or not. If enough people find it useful it will be successful.
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Oh yes, that is common place, people saying sorry I can't come I'm taking my mum to the hospital, and then a load of photos of them in Butlins come up.
If someone uploaded photos of you and they're also friends with the person whose invite you turned down then yes they'd be able to see the photos. But you can change your settings so that you have to approve anything you're tagged in before it appears on your profile, so if you don't approve something it wont ever appear on your profile and the people on your friend list wouldn't see it, unless they're also friends with the person uploading the photos. It doesn't stop the photos being on Facebook, but it does stop them showing up on your profile and your friends' newsfeeds.
About a year ago, the trust I work for asked for comments about extending their "digital reach" (I think the tech lot wanted a jolly) and one of the places mentioned was Tumblr. While it's actually quite a useful platform, the same that happened with Flickr has happened: it's become filled with pictures of cats and porn. There's also a lack of control of what happens if you post something. I wanted to see what happened if I posted something and then deleted it after it was reblogged, and I found that there was no way I could remove the reblogged content without having to find all the accounts that reblogged it and then throw myself at Tumblr's mercy. Given that mistake can happen, I could foresee something being posted without being fully thought through, it then causes a minor amount of aggravation, and then time has to spent dealing with it as opposed to getting on with what the trust should be doing.
As for Facebook being cool - it never was. It was interesting for a while, but only in the same way that FriendsReunited was. People could look up people from their past and see what had happened to them and how (un)fortunate they'd been, but it often turned out that if you'd lost touch with someone it was usually for a good reason. The reason Facebook appears to be cool is because it's almost required now.
One of the companies I used to do business with stopped their blog and moved it across to a Facebook group. I don't have Facebook so I couldn't see what was being imlpemented, so I left them and joined a competitor. I've had sites that require me to have a Facebook account purely so I can join them - once again, I'm locked out. Games that I play on my tablet and phone? Unless I invite 20 people on my Facebook I can't get past a certain level.
My aversion to Facebook is it's usefulness versus the trade off. Google keep a lot of my information synced up (contacts, bookmarks, e-mail and events) so for me that's useful given that I have 11 devices that I access the internet on. I know that Google probably have a file on me which will include what I look at and when, where I buy products from, where I go (and probably what I do), where I work and where I live. That's acceptable for me because they provide a service that's useful.
Facebook on the other hand doesn't provide me with anything that's useful, with maybe the exception of the Farkle game (and I made my own with some dice I had). I'm also slightly averse to having features pushed on me that I don't want, need or agree to, and I certainly haven't agreed to act like a lab rat and see how the news from friends' feeds that Facebook choose I get to see affects me. If I wanted to be part of a psychological experiment I'd simply volunteer my services to my wife as she has a few ideas she'd like to test out.
I have been wondering lately whether the fact that people aren't as bothered by other people's privacy is down to Facebook and their ilk allowing people to see maybe a little bit too much of the lives of others. It seems now that privacy is a privilege and not a right.
When my 82 year old mother, who has never used a computer in her life, that she wants to get on "that Facebook thing" then it has to be "uncool". I keep persuading her not to bother as I really don't want to decline her friends request as I know if I accepted it she would be commenting on everything I do.
Once half my effing family joined - I was off!
It used somewhere where I could blow off steam about them and life etc - difficult to do when they're actually there too
I also got sick to death of all the arguing/blocking/unfriending/failed relationships shit as well.
I was on Faceparty when I was 15 and was always getting old men messaging me for naked photos or to webcam with them!
Better dead than cool.
Boring bastards doing post after post about the mundane minutiae of their very uninteresting lives.
Person - 'I've just had a cheese sandwich for lunch'
Me - 'Who gives a shit?'
It really was time for me to go :kitty:
This reminds me of that Simpsons line: 'Fad or not, it's here to stay!'
It was only for geeks for a long time
I couldn't give a tupp's arse whether it's cool or not. I am 58 years old in April I left cool behind in 1983.
Thank goodness - as the old saying goes 'youth is so wasted on the young. :cool:;-)
I remember Faceparty.
My nan and my Auntie Brenda (85 and 67 respectively) are on Facebook and look at a page called Ladies Chat Over Beverage. they post pictures of willies and 50 Shades of grey and all that carp.
Of course they do! Didn't you know it is compulsory for all females over 50 to laugh raucously at men's hob knobs - whenever and wherever they are portrayed.
Wasn't Faceparty mostly a "meet for sex" type of thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOWRQfo-RGk#t=11
there is a UK version doing the rounds on tv with a British voice over.
That says moer about the friends you have than anything else, none of my friends put anything like that on there.
Facebook is a tool, as simple as that, and like ant tool its effectiveness is dependent on how you use it.
I use it to keep in touch with friends and family and for that it serves its purpose.
i've never understoof the idea that something is or isn't perceived as cool, it is either useful or not. If enough people find it useful it will be successful.
I also have invites to give
I used Yahoo messenger