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Facebook.
You all know what it is (if you don't, its time to come out from under that rock). A social networking site created by some harvard kid a few years ago. He planned it to be a site for college kids to use to connect with eachother.
Since then, it has expanded to a HUGEamount of people of all ages, from pre-teens to seniors.
That is all fine, because there should be no limits on who uses social networks.
The thing that bugs me is that Facebook is no longer a social network. It is a site you can live on.
Not only can you get status updates from friends/'pictures from friends/whatever, but you can also get your horiscope, recipies, buy/sell your friends, play gameshows and run a virtual farm/mob.
This is blurring the line between a gaming site (like pogo or addictinggames) and a social networking site. I do not like this. I am tired of getting spammed with "help me level up in X facebook game" or "join y game so we both get bonus credits.
THIS IS NOT THE POINT OF A SOCIAL NETWORK
A social network should be somewhere where you can say something about what is happening to you/friends that your friends can see, and remember. Not somewhere to play games and waste hours of your life.
Now you may be saying "But this way I can share my scores with all my friends from this one game I played."
Listen. NO ONE CARES if you got 1 million points in Crazy Taxi, or if you won a race in Speed Racing. All they want to do is get back to their games and focus on their high scores.
THIS IS NOT THE POINT OF A SOCIAL NETWORK.
So I am proposing that anyone who agrees with this (assuming they have facebook) will delete all game/horiscope/whatever apps from their facebook account, only leaving the basics (notes, videos, pictures).
So whos with me?
Also, sorry for any spelling mistakes, its midnight and i am kinda tired.
 
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Because of the reasons you mentioned above the only application I have is a Tetris game. I hate all that other shit too so if I get sent any of that crap from people on my list I just remove them off my list so I don't get spammed with more shit. ^^
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Can I jump on this bandwagon and add in, Fans of XXX Company pages too? Just because I buy toilet paper doesn't mean I want to become a fan of the company on facebook.
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CA10835 Posts
you can block any application with about 3 clicks of the mouse...
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I pretty much only use Facebook for messaging and keeping up with events at the moment..... It's already done by me.....
I don't like the privacy policy they use (especially since I've put my privacy settings nearly as high as they go, and I've seen how some people were able to see stuff they shouldn't). That is definitely another part of that.....
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how about just avoid facebook games and invites entirely? according to my sidebar i have 32 pending game requests and 44 application requests but i just continue to screen them all...
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i deleted facebook
if i really want to talk to someone il skype or phone them..
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Floating at 99 game requests since I experimented with an auto-decline tool I experimented with a few months ago. I just hide application requests and control my feed/wall with the settings provided. :s No biggie here 
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My brother and mom are addicted to facebook games, and when I critisize them for playing those games on a SOCIAL NETWORK they critisize me for playing legit games like Starcraft and Minecraft.
*-.-
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Funny how facebook gaming has thrived when gaming networks have not.
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People on Facebook were wasting their lives on Facebook long before there were any games on it. There are better reasons to dislike that site.
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Comeon, just don't take it so seriously. Facebook can be whatever you want - it's very simple to block the inane games. It's like criticising google mail for all their extra optional features...no I never want to use buzz, but who cares if it's there for other people?
The basic application still does a fine job, so what's the problem?
To use another analogy, it's like saying "Starcraft 2 shouldn't have a map making engine, as that's 'impure'. People should just ladder competitively instead of messing around on custom maps."
See why this is a little silly?
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a great deal of information harvesting can be done with apps
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i dunno i just ignore all the spam people send me from those applications and just let it pile up.
if you're too OCD to let those little request notifiers sit around and you MUST deal with them when they spring up i guess it could be really annoying but thats really the main source of spam so i suggest just ignoring it.
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Who are you? Tyler or Cameron Winkelvoss?
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i dont get facebook hate if you dont like something on facebook block it and if you hate the site for other reasons dont go on there your not forced to by any means
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my facebook has always had no games/apps/etc...just simple as it originally was
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On November 16 2010 14:50 Horrde wrote:
Who are you? Tyler or Cameron Winkelvoss?
lol'd.
but really, you can block pretty much ANYTHING you want in facebook.. so use the features you're provided.
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Canada11577 Posts
I was annoyed with all that farmville, mafia stuff, but then I realized how fun it is and now I spam all my friends with updates
No I don't.
I found the 'block application' to be a real godsend on fb. That and ignoring /eliminating spammers from my news feed. So for me it still is a social network. (That and grouping friends- the chat only has people that I talk to in real life rather than that random dude that you haven't seen for years that keeps ALWAYS tries chatting with you on fb.)
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United States16368 Posts
I'm not a huge facebook fan, but I find that, most of people who have beef with facebook simply do not know how to use facebook and complain for the wrong reasons.
I keep facebook very personal, literally everything I have is either friend-only or myself-only. It has its flaws, but it serves its purpose; just spend some time and learn to use the thing properly.
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On November 16 2010 14:13 LosingID8 wrote:
you can block any application with about 3 clicks of the mouse...
This. Seriously. I havn't seen any application spam in years.
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And now they have email. Great....
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I removed myself from all those stupid games exept for one and removed all the pages I was fans of except for things I actually liked. I went from around 1500 different types of things allowed to around 100. Most liberating feeling ever.
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The people who I noticed who seem to hate Facebook are either elderly people who are not technologically apt to begin with and nerds. It is amusing to hear people from LANs bitch how FB is Hell on Earth.
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I'm not sure why people use Facebook. Is it to socialize or what? I honestly see zero point in it.
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I honestly see no point in watching people play a video game for money.
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I use Facebook just to fuck with people. I like to put really crazy status updates that are totally not true, just to see what peoples reactions are.
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I got a facebook account to troll and to accept the irl noobs that flood me about it.
I very hate how stupid this site is "hurrdurr i go to mc donalds, i take 350 mores pictures"
and all the stupid philosopher "like is hard ok but sometimz u can get mor hard bcoz it not that hard to live hurrdurrderpaderp".
Facebook dont socialize you, i see my friends irl, not in the internetz
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get a life nub :D (jk)
Just use it as you want, communicate with friends and stop bitching to kids who like farmvile its their life... I use facebook well i got it open all the time im on the comp. just to talk with friends, look at photos from parties, read some gaming news from Razer, Stealseries atc...
its nice to got everything on one page, i dont care that my gradpa plays only Farmvile and is lazy to answer my messages...
it should connect ppl and yes it is connecting em so i dont see a problem
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Like people said already, you can block it. And while I agree with you that these features are pointless in a social network, I think people have the right to use them as they want, since they're already there. We all spend a lot of time reading a Starcraft forum and watching tons of streams ridiculously early in the morning and such. It's not that different.
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I deleted Facebook a long time ago... Never regretted, if somebody wants to know something about me, they can call or MSN... So yeah instead of wasting precious hours on facebook, I do the same thing, but on TL.net
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On November 16 2010 14:35 cascades wrote:
Funny how facebook gaming has thrived when gaming networks have not.
FB games arent hard that's why
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i personally dislike facebook because
1. i hate the news feeds on everyone, i don't care if someone ended their relationship or if someone posted on wall on another friend.
2. The advertisements piss me off on the side, and the friend suggestions of people who i don't even know.
3. The drama, if a friend posts on the wall to a picture she thinks you look good in and your girlfriend reads the comment and its just something more you have to deal with. Or people giving you shit that you dont message them enough on facebook ect.
i just don't like it lol its definitely not for me
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I just don't like that people just add others to have the higher friend count. Really, you talk to all 400~ of your friends? Then it recommends I add random people it thinks I know. It becomes a friend's list war, who can have more people added.
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I've been on facebook since 2005 when it was exclusive to college students. I remember it being a privilige to have one since you needed a college email AND your college needed to be recognized.
I'm ok with the fact it's not exclusive anymore, but I hate what it does to people (especially those who get addicted to the silly little game applications).
I will continue to do my part and mercilessly make fun of everyone on Farmville.
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Facebook is for stalking.
No more. No less.
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On November 18 2010 01:18 Comeh wrote:
Facebook is for stalking.
No more. No less.
The sad part is this is true for alot of people lol.
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It's relatively easy to ignore/block... lol
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My reasons despising it are completely different. It's a complete invasion of privacy first of all. People spending ALL their time on there is quite sad. My main problem is people who do so in libraries. Whenever I need to print something, all the computers in the libraries are taken for people to check their bloody Facebook. Personally, I don't play anything on Facebook and if anyone invites me, I just ignore it.
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On November 18 2010 01:04 vica wrote:
I just don't like that people just add others to have the higher friend count. Really, you talk to all 400~ of your friends? Then it recommends I add random people it thinks I know. It becomes a friend's list war, who can have more people added.
That happens in all social networks and I'll never, ever understand it either. Also since it's facebook, don't people get annoyed at all the news feed for a hundred million people they don't even know?
And speaking of the news feed being annoying, there is worse kinds out there. There's this one lesbian social network where everything you do is shown in a global news feed, so everyone can see it. Doesn't matter what it is.
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