DEBATE & POLL: Has Facebook been a good thing for the world?

[Barto]

Hate it when i go catch up with mates a beer or knock off work early to go to the pub and when i get home my wife cracks the shits because one of my mates has tagged me at the hotel. I try to avoid catching up with people who do this now

Seen dickh@#ds do it on footy trip last year i was very close to knocking him clean out.

Change your settings so that people cant tag you without permission. Problem solved.

Never understood why people whinge about someone that youd get along with normally who posts lame status updates. Just unsubscribe from them.

[Lightning McQueen]

Change your settings so that people cant tag you without permission.

Nothing worse than getting tagged by a mate without your permission or buying you a drink first.

[Barto]

Change your settings so that people cant tag you without permission.

Nothing worse than getting tagged by a mate without your permission or buying you a drink first.

It's in the settings. They cant tag you unless you approve it.

I guess it's easier to start a punch up than click a button.

[Johno6]

anyone else here signed up to f**kbook?

[OnSong]

anyone else here signed up to f**kbook?

I did with a false name and profile pic. Look me up, search "Johno6".

[Leaping Lindner]

I use it promote gigs and it's brilliant. You get to a target audience and it costs nothing. It's been a massive help as the kind of gigs I put on aren't big budget prodcutions and I can't afford radio or street press.

[Johno6]

anyone else here signed up to f**kbook?

I did with a false name and profile pic. Look me up, search "Johno6".

that explains why i kept getting "Sorry username in use, please try again"

[The Dark Knight]

Facebook has one stand out:

AFL Memes

A heap of them are sh!t.

[Media Park]

But the one of Juddy grinning saying "mummy says i'm good at football."
QUALITY...

[The Big Shrek]

Bunch of sooks, facebook is the best. No cogent argument against it.

[Dog_ger]

Facebook....

Never have so many, been held in so much accountability....

Say something and it can always be re-called, scrutinised and ... manipulated....

Something to keep well away from in my eyes...

Voted No.

[Squids]

Even if Facebook didn't exist everyone would still be on Myspace.

[LMA]

Personally I would never join it doesnt really appeal to me but I don't mind logging on to the missus account every now and then to check out the young hotties she works with or knows. Probably the worst thing about it is you can't go to any social outing anymore without people taking photos for their facebook, especially the sheila's with that f**king insanely annoying pouty lips pose which they think makes them look good.

[Psyber]

Even if Facebook didn't exist everyone would still be on Myspace.

If they had heard of it!
You reminded me it exists I must look at it some time..

[RustyCage]

MySpace is still good for music

[Squids]

Even if Facebook didn't exist everyone would still be on Myspace.

If they had heard of it!
You reminded me it exists I must look at it some time..

Assuming the creators of Myspace weren't dumb they would of eventually marketed their product for the older people.......facebook beat them to it

I think a big downfall of myspace was every time you went on there you felt epileptic.

[RustyCage]

The Tom bloke who did MySpace sold it while it was at the peak of its popularity. He laughed all the way to the bank

[fisho mcspaz]

I use FB a fair bit. That being said, I'm glad it wasn't around when I was in high school. I've seen groups with names like 'Like if you think Stacey M from Concordia is a fat slut' - farrrrkkkkk. What is wrong with these kids? And I really dislike how people clog up my newsfeed with status updates every thirty minutes: 'I love you such and such for eva, never want to loose [sic] you your [sic] my life xxxxxxxxxxxoooooooooo' and then a week later they clog up my newsfeed with status updates every thirty minutes: 'SUCK A DICK you psycho motherf***er i hope you get stds and die'. I mean, I've posted a few updates to the effect of 'I love you baby' and occasionally 'You're awesome Mr McSpaz, let's have sex' but we've been together for six bloody years, not three days.

Apart from that, and people who seem to spend half their day trying to take the perfect photo of themselves in the bathroom with their phone, I don't really mind FB. It's a diversion and an entertaining way to procrastinate.

Hang on, I almost forgot. FarmVille: eat a dick.

[Strawb]

Entertainment plus added people as friends they unfriend me highly entertaining. I treat it as fun and my page as a dumpsite for crap.

[stan]

Facebook has one stand out:

AFL Memes

A heap of them are sh!t.

They are now. Mainly because the guy who started the page I think has gotten some issues from the AFL from them. In particular the ones about Ben Cousions and Milne. No need to explain further I'm sure Adrian Anderson googles there names looking for people saying nasty things!