ah.... I'd say there are a whole lot of us on facebook

even those who said they would NEVER do it!!!

I spend more time on Facebook these days than I do here!!!

Just sent you a friend request, Rik.
Between Meg, myself and Gazza, you'll find many Stones freaks.

yep

Moonisup wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 9:56am:



Check my friends list and you'll find quite a few more of us - and dont worry, if you dont, they'll certainly find YOU.   

Martha wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:27am:


I don't get it either, Martha.  I had the same experience but ended up joining after being invited as someone else's friend and now I'm drifting in a cyber world of forgotten passwords.  I can't even find my own page.  Just wanted you to know you're not alone in the Land of Lost Cyber Souls.  Many things remain a mystery to me and that's okay.

I remain in the stone age (no pun intended) and refuse to join facebook,my space.twitter or anything like that. Although the temptation is great. I cling to the brief hope that I may one day get a life.

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:47am:


I jumped on twitter last year and even though I'm still registered, I find it pretty much useless. There are the odd music-related tidbits/reviews I enjoy reading about, but they're all linked from sites where you'd read about them eventually any way.

I really don't find it interesting to read about what type of java someone just consumed or what tv show they just tuned in to...

Martha wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:27am:


Let me explain, Martha: Facebook is a place without a function whatsoever, it's for exhibitionists and voyeurs and bored people without anything constructive to do with their lives except to sit on a fucking computer all day wasting their precious time. AND for Lord Gazza and his friends, of course ! I fucking hate it. It's a bloody disease. I thought it would be a good idea to go on, but get extremely infuriated by all the shit-messages like "farty-face has invited you to eat a banana split at the Trump Cafe" "Invisible Nobody has requested to become your friend" Friend?? WTF! I want REAL friends . I'm not bloody interested to start a pretend snowball fight with a pretend friend, or to be greeted by someone from my past I haven't heard from for the past twenty years, to whom it doesn't even seem to bloody occur that I would happily carry on not hearing from them for the next forty years either.

The only cool aspect is that all my daughter's friends requested to become my friend and every now and then I log on to see what all the teenagers are up to. Yes, I know, but that's "protective parental voyeurism", which is sort of alright. And I have a few friends scattered all around the globe with whom it actually is rather nice to exchange the odd word every now and then. I have been threatening to cancel for a long time now and may even do it very soon.

So, People: don't even fucking think about sending me a friend request, send me a fucking email instead, or even better A LETTER!!!!!!

Facebook, or "My Face" as I call it, is just another one of those idiotic things people can do while working, making love, cooking, having a shit, killing the husband,watching TV, etc... We seem to live in an era of "PARTIAL ATTENTION" to everything, with no one really concentrating on anything specific anymore, everything is "instant", instant messaging, instant gratification, etc......And the bloody thing generates constant messages to keep you logging on, self-perpetuating the crap, like "suggest friends for this poor loser",  "help this other poor loser to find his friends", "make a "which word describes your personality the best questionnaire", I mean, fuck off already, and never mind the bloody banks collapsing, we would be a lot better off as a global economy if everyone wasn't wasting time on their fucking computers all the time...

AND WHICHEVER PICTURES YOU PUT ON ARE AUTOMATICALLY COPYRIGHT-OWNED BY FACEBOOK. Great, huh?

OOOH! I feel better now after this little rant. Just like Joey after one of his bowel movements....

...what Peter said....

lotsajizz wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 11:16am:



Agreed!
I am happy to call Jizzy my Facebook friend.
I enjoy getting to know a different side of him and I hope he feels the same.

LJ.

LadyJane wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 11:22am:

All of the above is right with me.
I welcome meeting other RO folks there.
I will also add I have learned from my time there
where sugar is better than vinegar.
Really did not hit me until this week.
I am in my third day of political therapy.
So I am done with the political thread on RO.
It's all about what things are worth in life.
I need to deal with the online time in a more positive manner.

I'm waiting for Assbook and Clitter myself..............

LadyJane wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 11:39am:

We will go when you do not run out of the room during "the fitting"....

jostorm wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 11:08am:


WTF? I've only had the fucking thing two months, post nothing more than the occasional music video and thats it. I'm hardly the epicentre of the Facebook Universe. You can hide or block all these meaningless applications easily enough (no more fucking Farmville. Thank Christ), and as LJ so eloquently points out, if someone feels the need to tell the world they've just had a bowel movement, blocking any further annoying updates from their tedious lives is easy enough.

The whole thing is only as intrusive or trivial as you want or allow it to be.

Lazy Bones wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:43am:



I did not grow-up with one single skill that is transferable to this machine.  You LB are quite knowledgeable and adept so FB must be a cake walk for you.  For me it is insufferable darkness and frustration.  Just like I grew up in. 

I need the light.

LadyJane wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 11:05am:


I'm glad there is a use for it that sounds sane and normal.  Of course you would be using it sanely!  And I admire that you know how to do like "hide" things etc.  I have yet to figure out how to make myself an avatar since we've moved to this server.  Doh!

xoxox,
Martha

Nellcote wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 11:11am:


Even for front row tickets (COOL for you though) to Bob I am not going there.  And I have no children.  My niece and nephew don't have computers so I have no one to monitor.  I need to hang with Charlie or Keef. 

Rock on Nelly!

xoxoxox,
Martha

Starbuck wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:50am:

Oh but Bucky, I enjoyed seeing your cute little  "kids camp photos"

Jo- yeah it is kinda a waste of time, but so is hanging out here.  I did it to keep up with my grown children.  I have learned more about what they are doing and their friends from facebook then talking to them on the phone or in person (I was blessed with boys)!  Yes, it is a sad world we live in where the internet is our communication tool rather than face to face conversation.

I hate the "games and quizzes" but every once in a while I have a weak moment..

On a positive note,  I have kept up to date with my favorite musical groups and interests via facebook.  You can hear it hot off the presses. I use facebook like Gazza uses his 100+  internet bookmarks he checks at least daily!

awesome rant jo! you go girl!

Facebook really is a double edged sword.  It's great for keeping in touch with friends that have moved out of town, in our case family that lives in Europe.  My best friend from grade school and jr. high reconnected through it.  I had to move away and we lost touch.  We erased 20+ years in days.  It's like a lot of things on the internet.  Take the good with the bad.

well,i´m there,in fact i will log in,,in couple of minutes

Honky Tonk Man wrote on Mar 5^th, 2010 at 4:56am:



Ben (Flairville)'s regular outbursts are comedy gold and worth logging in for in their own right, although not for the easily offended or faint hearted. 

Cheers. Cant get it at work, but can access it on my phone when at work if I really needed to.

Ben's rantings are pure 'Derek & Clive' material at times. 

i have no interest in this service/feature.  emails and cell phone service work fine for me.

I'm on there too.

Martha wrote on Mar 7^th, 2010 at 10:48am:



Lucinda Williams is one of my facebook friends, Martha. She posts some nice updates and messages every so often.

Gazza wrote on Mar 7^th, 2010 at 11:30am:

She hasn't caught on to the fact that yopur stalking her yet.

Gazza wrote on Mar 7^th, 2010 at 11:30am:

what did i tell you?

gazza...he's got connections.

strangely enough, wayne coyne asked to be my friend on facebook. i kid you not! he has since defriended me.

great thread

Heart Of Stone wrote on Jul 18^th, 2010 at 5:15pm:

Well I just recently joined after much reluctance and procarastination. I've heard about the privacy concerns. Hopefully it doesn't become a problem for me. I'm not on there much....and I'm not that interesting enough to have my identity stold anyway.LOL.