Anti Facebook and Twitter

[quattrostyle]

indeed, travelling by bus is hard to beat

[campbellWS]

Not a fan myself, but it gets on my **** when people call youl saying "were all here where are you" .....? "ooh we sent invites on facebook"

Gets right on my **** !! Being 23 I am probably part of a small percent of my age group that have never even typed Facebook into a search engine, fair enough keeping in touch with best friends but that's what a phone is for. Who really cares what you are cooking for dinner, or how big your last s(-)/t was, are you really that naive?

Just give me classic Audi , s2 forum and all the petrol fuelled YouTube videos I can watch in the short time I have every day to look at the computer!

What the hell is twitter?

[Colesy]

Not having a facebook account these days strikes me a bit like not having an email address, mobile phone or passport... make your excuses, but you're choosing to make your and every bodies lives more difficult by choosing against using the most widely available and efficient means of communication for many.

I use email, my mobile phone, the royal mail and my facebook account daily... and i don't have a gazillion friends and post **** every 30 minutes - you can make of it what you want.

IMO it's just another method of communication that compliments those that already exist. Ignore it at your peril, grandads

... but i can't ****ing stand twitter

Have to agree with Sonic.

I'm too lazy to actually stay in touch with people I don't live near or visit often. So facebook makes staying in touch really easy, I've caught up with friends I haven't seen for 10 years who I'd have never have picked the phone up to. Mates who have moved abroad are easily contactable. Organising stuff is easy, just set up an event and invite everyone all in one go and then have to remember to phone the haters who haven't got an account!

I do hate what some people use facebook for though, too many people who are obsessed with their children... Vegan crusaders. Loved up couples. Labour party promoters etc.

As long as you only have actual friends as friends rather than everyone you've ever been in the same room as then facebook is a must have.

[1781cc]

I have used facebook, myspace, linkedin, twitter, youtube and instagram extensively to sell my books over the years, I have no issue with it, great for making contacts, developing business and in the case of twitter picking up news on investments.

Its all about how you use it

[europeanme]

I find this thread funny, if you dont like facebook dont use it, but starting an anti facebook because you don't use it is like trying to ban the mobile phone because you don't own one.

It's a form of communication as is twitter, use it how you want. I find it funny that my parents / uncles even grandparents are more in touch with technology than those here all using facebook

thats the exact reason I started the thread, to see what reaction I got...funny is good and to read some of the other posts is grand!....

as per the first sentence, I don't care...and I did not mention any form of anti FB action but if that waht happens then so be it!!......probably a poor thread title but still gets everyone talking doesn't it..... :mischeif:

I respect freedom of choice.....and I like others on here choose not to join...

one would call this thread a debate en masse..AKA ...

[Error404]

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[djh]

[Amended by Sonic]

trust alex got out of hand..

[Error404]

I might leave it like that

[dspl1236]

been using Fb since i had to wait to be allowed on. that was the time in which you had to have a college email to even register....as long as your @college.edu email was on facebook. i liked the days of exclusivity.... but I like facebook and use it everyday. i may not make any posts, but i watch peoples car projects such speeding-g60, slobo, and many others.

If i have a audi question i post it, "tag" someone i know who may know the answer and it will get answered...by someone i know in an normal fashion..... unlike today where I ask a question on a forum sift out the BS and hope to not get ripped up by others for pages....

I use Fb for image hosting. works great. that is how my friends can keep up with all that i am doing. Its also great for business as an advertising tool.

its just a great tool.....i am sure the email lists fought being changed to forums...and one day forums will move to whatever the next great way of communicating is.


i have a few friends that deleted their facebook account for the sole reason it was getting annoying....then don't check it every 10min...pop in every few days like any other website. its almost like saying your uninstalling microsoft word because you dont like the annoying paperclip assistant and using notepad from now on


but ya twitter is dumb

[Error404]

The paperclip is a wa nker. I much preferred that dog, he was cool.

[Cottis]

Colesy has it bang on. If you only allow proper friends, then you dont have to read the many posts of mindless drivel (of which admitedly there can be many). Used correctly, it is brilliant for keeping in touch with people abroad. Not as good as the phone or even better, in person. Anyhow, this is an odd topic for a car forum. Has Facebook pis*ed in someones pot somewhere?

[Jamo]

Non facebook users have been missing out on project pics, a few me included update facebook 1st

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[EspenW]

Twitter: Quite alright, don't have any problems with that.
Facebook: In the words of Grampa Simpson: it is the tool of the devil. How did they basically manage to take over the internet with this slightly more advanced version of AOL? Remarkable.

[Faheemo]

I dont Get the facebook thing, its mostly a bunch of people trying to show off or irritate. I dont really care what you did , ate or got. I Just couldnt be bothered. I have enough friends around me IRL to fill my social req.

I can understand people using it as a business tool and people far off from friends and family using it to keep in contact ...

For me atm - No thanks.
one day if i cant use my legs and mouth, then maybe.