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Facebook Instead of Face Time
Topic Started: Jan 19 2009, 09:51 AM (251 Views)
QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1871627,00.html?cnn=yes
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Red Rice
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Facebook is a poor substitute. And if your friends and loved ones are important enough, you make the time.

I have a good friend back in Boston, and we're both very busy. We keep in touch with phone calls and e-mails, but it really isn't the same. I'm flying out on Thursday just to visit him so we can spend the weekend together and go bar-hopping for 48 hours straight hang out and catch up with each other.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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QuirtEvans
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Red Rice
Jan 19 2009, 01:00 PM
Facebook is a poor substitute. And if your friends and loved ones are important enough, you make the time.

I have a good friend back in Boston, and we're both very busy. We keep in touch with phone calls and e-mails, but it really isn't the same. I'm flying out on Thursday just to visit him so we can spend the weekend together and go bar-hopping for 48 hours straight hang out and catch up with each other.
I agree, but tell me if you have time to do that once you have kids.

Some people do, I admit. But most do not.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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ivorythumper
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I don't even like chat. With my friends I call them and see them when I can. Facebook is just a tool for keeping tabs on friends, and finding lost ones. I don't find it the least bit socializing.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Red Rice
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QuirtEvans
Jan 19 2009, 01:05 PM
I agree, but tell me if you have time to do that once you have kids.

Point taken. We all know that your life is essentially over once you have kids. :P
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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musicasacra
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ivorythumper
Jan 19 2009, 01:05 PM
I don't even like chat. With my friends I call them and see them when I can. Facebook is just a tool for keeping tabs on friends, and finding lost ones. I don't find it the least bit socializing.
dats coz ur old skool!

Facebook is great for keeping up with many people.
I use chat nearly every day, mostly with family.
I also use iChat occasionally with the family, we have four screens going at once.
I use the phone rarely. For calls anyway. I use the other parts of the iPhone all the time. :D
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DivaDeb
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yeah...put me down as one who finds chatting/emailing/facebook much more "socializing" than telephones or trying to get together. I would never see *anyone* outside my immediate family if I had to wait to...*see* them. I have many friends, and hardly any of my best friends are even in my state, much less my city. Several aren't on the same continent. But we keep in close touch, are able to keep up with each other's kids and their activities, and skype or IM to just...hang out with each other. On a sort of regular basis...if enough of us are onlne at the same time, it's like a big party.

GOOD TIMES
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dolmansaxlil
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Yep - I agree with MS, Deb, etc. I'm not good with keeping touch with people, and Facebook helps me do that. I've also actually gotten together with a few old friends because we had reconnected on Facebook - but since they're now scattered all over and we're all busy, day-to-day socializing with many of them is limited to Facebook!
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musicasacra
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On Facebook, I just came across a guy I've known since second grade. He was a friend of a friend on Facebook so I saw his name pop up. There's no way I would have connected with him except through Facebook. It's cool for things like that.
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DivaDeb
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absolutely, MS....it's so great to be in touch with friends who've moved far away. We've emailed since that became a normal thing to do, but the great thing about Facebook is it almost give you a virtual Living Room to sit down and talk to folks. You can put pictures on your wall, talk about your thoughts or upcoming celebrations and challenges, share vacations (I enjoy yours!) and go visit your friends in their living rooms to see how they're doing. Since Facebook updated to include a chat facility, it's really increased that sense of "place" on your home page. Best free advertising and communication tool ever...you can make "events" for performances. You can create a "cause" or a fan or interest group.

I probably enjoy the photo-sharing most. Whenever we're involved in any event or occasion, everybody's photos go in a place where we can all see them. So much nicer than going to 10 different photosharing sites that require different names/passwords and having to email everyone anytime you post new photos. Our whole fam is on Facebook now (even the really old people like me and David) and it's great. We had a friend's child's wedding right before Christmas. At least ten different people have posted their candid photos of that wedding on Facebook...and some of them are *priceless*...and are photos the bride and groom might never have even known about if they ended up someplace else and it wasn't so easy to get them uploaded quickly.

I also love that all my highschool students who have graduated keep me up on their lives. I have so enjoyed seeing pics of them in their college productions, graduations, and even (very recently) in their weddings. I'm sure I would have missed most all of that without Facebook. It's a treat.
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Kincaid
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I agree, it is great to keep in touch with friends but I don't find it good for socializing. I do much of my socializing here.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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plays88keys
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I'm a Facebook freak too. I love being able to stay in touch on a daily or weekly basis with friends I've known all my life, especially since most of them live far away from me.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
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