Facebook is the Devil

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I was trying to close my Facebook account and tried about every possibility—the lock icon at the top of the page has settings and options on it. Something I clicked on gave me the people who were last into my page.
 
acadiANNA said:
I was trying to close my Facebook account and tried about every possibility—the lock icon at the top of the page has settings and options on it. Something I clicked on gave me the people who were last into my page.
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Are you sure about that? I’ve never seen such an option and I thought Facebook intentionally avoided making such information available to people. There are, however, lots of advertisements on Facebook that purport to tell you who has last viewed your profile. But these advertisements just randomly pick pictures from your friend list in an attempt to entice you to click on their advertisement. They are not in any way accurate representations of who has actually looked at your profile.
 
Well I wouldn’t go so far as to say Facebook is the Devil…
But I found the same issue as yourself… So iv made Facebook suit myself…

I have 3 Facebook accounts now…

1. Just family … Bordering as you think​

#2. Connected to things that interest me… No people… Just astronomy pages

3. Catholic Church and religious things of interest,​

 
I deleted permanently my Facebook account some weeks ago. It just was not the right thing for me. There was a huge contradiction between the large number of ‘friends’ I had there and the friends I have in real life. And everyone’s else life was so sunshiny I was convinced I was miserable :D. Also, among many things already mentioned in this thread, the ‘seen’ private messages feature was one of the things that most upset me.

But I acknowledge that for some people it works wonders, so I am not an anti-Facebook preacher after all.

Now I have reorganized my social network life, limiting to just the essential and choosing sites according to my specific interests like Goodreads where I make friends according to books taste. As for social media news I find it way easier to control in Twitter what shows up on my timeline (clean from instagram selfies so far :yeah_me:). About the family and the few true friends that I had on Facebook, email is still alive :).
 
Wanted to do some part time work driving for lyft. A requirement to join was that you needed a Facebook acct. Didn’t have one and do not plan on signing up.
 
I deactivated my FB account because I was sick of all the negativity on my timeline and the negative comments I would read on every post and picture. I don’t think you can find a single comment on any FB page photo that doesn’t have a horrible comment written by somebody. Even the Catholic Church FB page has hate comments every now and then. I enjoyed the Catholic Memes FB page until I started reading the comments on the photos. You have Protestants arguing with Catholics, atheist arguing with Catholics, Catholics arguing with Catholics, it’s nuts! Don’t need all that drama and hate in my life. But I’ll admit I sometimes miss Facebook mainly because that is where I get my news on pop culture and the Pope.
 
  1. Yes, I’m sure. I really wish I had saved the settings-but I didn’t think I would be using it anymore.
  2. I know one interviewer who asked if you were on social media just to know if you stay up with technology.
 
RosslynV said:
Wanted to do some part time work driving for lyft. A requirement to join was that you needed a Facebook acct. Didn’t have one and do not plan on signing up.
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That would be illegal for a company to require someone to have a FB account in order to get hired, if you could prove that, go visit your local prosecuting attorney, they will press charges.
 
It is funny to me that so many people fall hook line and sinker for the latest fad, and think it will be around forever!! FB has really only been popular for about the last 5-8 years…that is brand new when looking at the bigger picture.

I do agree FB is popular now, but I definitely do not think it will be around in 10 or so years. Things like this come and go. Look back thru recent history, going back to the 1940s up to today, you will see LOTS of things that were popular, but quickly faded away, but when FB does fade away, something else will take its place…we can be sure of that, and then everyone will think that popular thing will be around forever and cannot imagine life without it. LOL
 
So if y’all’s think Facebook is the devil, what about Twitter?

Satan Lite? 😛
 
Twitter is about the same…the idea that you are someone if you have “followers” is nonsense. And given its nature, Twitter is somewhat nastier with the insults. But it boils down to the same thing- it is high school for older people, and elementary school for high schoolers.
 
Norm640 said:
Twitter is about the same…the idea that you are someone if you have “followers” is nonsense. And given its nature, Twitter is somewhat nastier with the insults. But it boils down to the same thing- it is high school for older people, and elementary school for high schoolers.
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Well then, my vote is for Pope Francis for Prom King. He is kind and loving. Best candidate ever, and I bet he would look good with a crown.
 
Norm640 said:
Twitter is about the same…the idea that you are someone if you have “followers” is nonsense. And given its nature, Twitter is somewhat nastier with the insults. But it boils down to the same thing- it is high school for older people, and elementary school for high schoolers.
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Twitter IS for high school kids and people in their early 20s and maybe some in their mid 20s, but thats about it, Im 38 and I know of NO ONE my age that uses twitter. Although im sure there are some older adults that use it, but they probably need to recognize they are too old to be using such a thing LOL

I think alot of people in their late 30s and early 40s have a desire to be young or perceived as young, so they do and use things popular with the younger crowd, but they dont realize it only makes them look more pathetic! lol
 
mikekle said:
That would be illegal for a company to require someone to have a FB account in order to get hired, if you could prove that, go visit your local prosecuting attorney, they will press charges.
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Not in the US. There are no such laws…
 
Norm640 said:
I’m partly being sarcastic…

My brothers and my sister are on Facebook and want me to be on it so we can stay in touch easier. It does help, because we all have different schedules and live far away. But for me, being so alone and poor and basically a failure at life, it is one of the worst things in the world.

When I first got on FB I thought it was a place where you could be social- meet old friends, make new friends. But in reality it is high school for “adults”. Everyone puts up flattering pictures of themselves and their families just to get comments. They post pictures of what they have, or the great places they went, and so forth. They show super happy couples in love.

I have done nothing in life, and I have nothing to crow about. My FB cover photo is blank, my profile picture is blank. I try not to say anything because all my 15 “friends” are too busy to comment. That’s because they have lives.

Facebook is depressing, and exacerbates all the bad things I ever thought of myself.

Does anyone else have this problem? Feel like you’ve wasted your life when you look at FB?
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I’m less and less inclined to defend Facebook’s moral neutrality these days. I definitely agree with the notion that it’s like high school for “adults.” While it’s never exacerbated any bad feelings I have about myself, it has severely fueled some problems amongst my family and friends and the behavior of others on there contributed to us cutting ties with one side of my family. I think the sheen of anonymity it has encourages shallow, inconsiderate people to be even more shallow and inconsiderate. At the same time, it seems to have empowered a lot of the people like this that we know to act even more like that in person, which makes matters exponentially worse. On Facebook, you can just block them. In real life, to avoid that treatment you have to avoid them entirely.

I’ve read several stories about how damaging it’s been to marriages/relationships. Unfortunately, I’ve seen this up close, as well. I had an old friend send me a message asking me to tell a mutual friend to quit sending her friend requests (both of them married). At the time, you could send a message along with your friend request (I don’t know if you can still do this since I haven’t sent one in a long time). He was sending her extremely inappropriate messages with each request. When he refused to stop, I advised her to block him. Once he realized he’d been blocked, he started asking me questions about her and if I could send him certain pictures of her that she’d posted. His wife found out about it, which caused huge issues in their marriage. My wife’s friends are even worse, and we’ve watched several of her friends’ marriages and long-term relationship come to end, all played out in painful detail on their timelines.

I tend to keep things positive on Facebook since reading the constant negativity from some people can be extremely stressful. I’m also much quicker to unfriend and block people now. They’re a lot easier to deal with if you never see a thing they post.
 
Facebook has the potential to be an excellent tool for evangelization. It’s a great way of keeping touch with old friends, a great way of organizing events (such as benefits), and a great way to communicate if one is in a new city without friends or bed-ridden. It’s a possible occasion of lust, anger, vanity, and envy, though it forbids nudity, fighting on FB is rare and limited to certain segments of society, and my friends’ successes in life inspire more joy than envy.

I don’t think it’s “just a fad”. It’s been around for 10 years, which is a long time in the technology world, and has attracted almost 1.2 billion members - an enormous swath of humanity. Myspace was just a fad; Facebook is not.

Personally, I like Facebook. It’s helped me through my cancer journey.

I have an account on Twitter, too. It’s far inferior to Facebook, but quite convenient for brief snippets of news.
 
tvdxer said:
Facebook has the potential to be an excellent tool for evangelization. It’s a great way of keeping touch with old friends, a great way of organizing events (such as benefits), and a great way to communicate if one is in a new city without friends or bed-ridden. It’s a possible occasion of lust, anger, vanity, and envy, though it forbids nudity, fighting on FB is rare and limited to certain segments of society, and my friends’ successes in life inspire more joy than envy.

I don’t think it’s “just a fad”. It’s been around for 10 years, which is a long time in the technology world, and has attracted almost 1.2 billion members - an enormous swath of humanity. Myspace was just a fad; Facebook is not.

Personally, I like Facebook. It’s helped me through my cancer journey.

I have an account on Twitter, too. It’s far inferior to Facebook, but quite convenient for brief snippets of news.
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I think it is a fad.

Think back to when you were in high school, or back to 20 yrs ago, how many popular things at that time are still popular today? I graduated high school in 1994 and cannot think of anything that stood the test of time in this sense. Usually things like FB, that are widely popular, end up crashing suddenly with no warning and are quickly forgotten.

I expect the same thing will happen with FB eventually, and kids in high school today, 10-20 yrs down the road, will be looking back,laughing, remembering how popular FB was, just as older people do today about popular things in their school days.

When a fad is at the height of its popularity, very few people can even speculate about that particular item being a fad and often say, it will be around forever, dont know what I did without it, and other such sayings.
 
“A flash in the pan” “A fad”, “forgotten in a year or two”----------------What my Dad said about Elvis.

How did that play out?
 
Indyann said:
“A flash in the pan” “A fad”, “forgotten in a year or two”----------------What my Dad said about Elvis.

How did that play out?
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That is much different than FB, an artist can be timeless if they appeal to a large enough audience.
 
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