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Are you addicted to Facebook?

How addicted are you?

  • I creep you all day

    Votes: 9 33.3%

  • I visit once a day

    Votes: 9 33.3%

  • I visit once or twice a week

    Votes: 1 3.7%

  • I have it but really don't use it often

    Votes: 3 11.1%

  • I don't have Facebook

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • Total voters
    27
Venom2053

Venom2053

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Its all in the title though before you post or vote watch this...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frd6hXF6Idc[/youtube]

Or listen to this... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/c ... 721390.stm
I find myself going on FB everyday now, though about a year ago I only went on about once a week. My increase is probably from my new smart phone and having my own laptop. How are your FB habits ?
 
Since I graduated college, my fb living has turned down.. but I still visit multiple times a day. Since I don't live near where I grew up, it is a great way to keep it touch and see what my friends back home are doing.
 
At work I flick though every now and again on my phone. It's always logged on on it as well since it's an actual pain to log off.

At home, unless something is being organised through it, I forget I even have it. There better **** on the internet to waste my time on.

Never watched the video since I'm on my phone. Gimme a run down.
 
The video is very good and does a good job of summing it up :lol:

Personally, I use Facebook as a tool, probably much like Snoo. I live a long way from were I grew up, well, far enough to be out of contact. I had a very busy social life at university and with re-enactment, but again the people are spread all over the country/world. So people I genuinely like I just can't talk to. So it's good to keep up with them and (like has happened recently) still be on "friendly" terms when they are in the area so we can meet up. We use Facebook to keep the relationship ticking over until we can get together. It's the same with local friends too, we've all got families now and work, so finding time to meet up and get together isn't as easy as "see you in the pub on Friday as usual". Again, FB allows that ticking over until we arrange a special meet up together (usually once every three to four months).

It's great for distributing photos of family and friends too that you take while you're out actually socialising, so everyone has a record of it. I also use it to chat to people on here I'm good friends with. I'm not a "phone you up for a chat" kind of guy. If I'm with you physically then I'll talk your ear off, but I don't feel the need to just talk. So Facebook lets me discuss things with people who are important to me privately (or publicly if it's okay) . It's just a different way of doing it, it fits in with my own time schedule and I can "talk" at my own pace. If I'm making dinner, or out shopping, then I just wait until I've got time and then type. It's why I'm never on MSN or have Facebook Chat open, it's too intrusive on my private time. It's why I like forums too :)

I usually check FB once a day at least, but I'm happy to go a couple of days without reading it. It's not the backbone of my life or anything, but it's an exceptionally useful tool for me.
 
Jesus, that guy in the video looks like he's about two days away from shooting up his college.

I love Facebook. Don't see anything wrong with it, it's just a different way to interact with people I never would otherwise. So, getoverit.
 
On my list of stuff to do on the computer, Facebook is usually near the bottom. I still usually get on about once a day though.
 
The video is pretentious crap: "Facebook's so awful, so I'll make a YouTube video about it and stand in front of a bustling cityscape to heighten my point of how alienating social media is."

Twat.

It is what you make it. You don't have to go down the road of "I've got 2,000 friends therefore I'm popular", like the dick in the video suggests.

Personally, apart from some people from CF, I don't add people I've never met. Obviously, they're not all close friends, but they're all people I have some kind of personal connection with. If I don't know someone, then I don't accept them as friends on Facebook. Similarly, I don't add people I didn't get on with at school, and I'll tell them that if they try.

For me, Facebook is an easy way to keep in touch with people. Without sounding like a dick, I've got friends all over the world from when I was living and working abroad. Most of those people have, like me, left and gone elsewhere now. Facebook is perfect for staying in touch.

Yeah, you can e-mail, but what's the point in making work for yourself when you can get all your friends in one place?

When I was in the States and Canada a couple of years ago, I met up with a lot more old friends than I expected to simply due to the fact that I was "advertising" my whereabouts on Facebook. I was going to Toronto specifically to see one very close friend, and ended up catching up with three others who I didn't know were there. These were people I consider friends (used to hang out around the same bars in Seoul most weekends, went to the same parties), but wouldn't necessarily make the "effort" of regular e-mails to see where they were or what they were doing.

The same thing happened in New York (was staying with one close friend and ended up meeting up with 4 others over the course of the week) and San Diego (5 people who I was pretty close to at one point), and I even ended up going for a random night out in St Louis with people I hadn't seen in a few years when they saw on Facebook that I was passing through.

All down to Facebook. What's anti-social about that?
 
gavin said:
The video is pretentious crap: "Facebook's so awful, so I'll make a YouTube video about it and stand in front of a bustling cityscape to heighten my point of how alienating social media is."

Twat.
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:lol: I just found the video interesting and thought provoking. He does bring some valid points. Facebook is used as a major judgement tool for some people and it does give some people (including me) some kind of "rush" when you see a large number of 'likes' or comments on a post and a sad depressing feeling if no one found your video you posted to be funny. It's nothing life altering but it does play with some peoples social lives and emotions.
Also Facebook's definition of a 'Friend' is much different from my own.
 
Nah, never used it on a personal level.
 
I'm on it (or have a tab open on it) pretty much all the time.

How else are you meant to stalk people?!

Plus, it allows me to actually be social every now and then by actually talking to people, and I'm able to get my feelings/views out. :)
Also, pretty much all of my photos are stored there (so I'm pretty screwed when FB vanishes, as I've got no photos stored on my computer :?).
 
I am addicted to Facebook" is something that you have probably heard someone say - perhaps even while on Facebook. Although Facebook Addiction is definitely not a formal clinical diagnosis, it is fair to say that many people spend far too much time on Facebook and may at the very least describe themselves as being "obsessed", if not addicted. thanks .
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During the week when I'm working I only look in once a day if that but at the weekend I look in more depending on if I've posted pics etc. Not addicted though, now my wife, that is a different matter. :lol:
 
Deactivated mine almost a year ago.

Pros: Don't have to read, scan, or get bombarded with stupidity ranging from cat videos to people talking politics.

Have anywhere from 15 minutes - 1 hour of rededicated free time (now that I have a kid its spent watching him).

Cons: More difficult to stay in touch with friends and family. My wife still has it and she will tell me whats going on with my own cousins.

When you go on a cred run, the only place to brag about it is on coasterforce.

Either way, I still maintain my linkedin account as that, for now, is passing as a professional networking tool. But I only visit that site once or twice a week.
 
I don't really post much but I'm always active and will check it regularly.

I don't see any harm in Facebook, and where else am I going to save starving children and cancer victims from death with a single click of a button.
 
I typically always have it open...for chat. It's how I keep in touch with people and when you have moved several times like I have, it's nice.
 
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