What will replace Facebook?

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Mike, I was abiding by some outmoded and outdated thinking that I keep in touch with my friends in real life, and, so on.

I understand that it's so much more than that.

H

Ditto. The idea you only have physicAl contact witt friends at the pub is daft these days, I don't know anybody of interest in a 5k radious, the opposite to life 30 years ago. As IIS shows, ppl with similar interests can live all over the country and can really only be in Regular contact via forums such as IIS and FB.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Ditto. The idea you only have physicAl contact witt friends at the pub is daft these days, I don't know anybody of interest in a 5k radious, the opposite to life 30 years ago. As IIS shows, ppl with similar interests can live all over the country and can really only be in Regular contact via forums such as IIS and FB.

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[Barrykgerdes]

If face book was banned/closed there would soon be another alternative to satisfy the masses.

I have a Facebook A/C but never use it for communication. It is a source of information on many family members who have totally different interests to me. If anyone sends information directly to me I respond by email rather than Facebook and advise them to do the same.

I much prefer specialised forums like IIS where I meet and talk to people I can relate to.

Barry

[icytailmark (Mark)]

a real social life

[Varangian (John)]

^What he said^

[Analog6 (Odille)]

Originally Posted by stephenb

Another FB rant thread. Was there any point to this pointless thread being started?. Ok, I'll bite..

There are definitely two schools of thought towards Facebook: those who use it, have a bit of fun with it, keep in contact with friend, family etc.,

The other type is one who looks down on people who use FB in an underhanded, derogatory manner all the while crapping on about how they don't use/never used Facebook or any form or social media like it's some superior badge of honour.




The feeling of connection is "totally false" ? Remember "totally false" in your opinion only. And a forum like IIS is "way better" than FB? Not in my world/life because I have far more reaching interests than this little hobby.

I connect with friends, family, work colleagues and work contacts interstate and around the world, share travel stories, meet in person when traveling interstate and overseas, swap ideas and thoughts, arrange reunions and group catch-ups in places from airport lounges to pubs - like many millions of people do, so I don't subscribe to your theory that the feeling of connection is "totally false".

For the record, Facebook allows me to keep in contact with family and friends all over the globe, in a cheap and instant way, no STD call charges for 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

Totally agree on the timeliness of long distance comms. warwick's father died a couple of weeks ago and we awerre able to get the word to relatives in the US and distant parts of Oz very quickly indeed. Wouldn't have been possible without it.

There are always people who like to take the high and mightly stance and denigrate others. I just don't worry about them.

My pet peeve is the photographers posting their 'straight from the camera' DSLR images. Considering all DSLRs' algorithms to produce that 'straight from the camera' image involve considerable post shot processing they are right up the pole. The only true 'straight from the camera' is an unadjusted RAW format image, and trust me, you won't see those on FB or anywhere else.

Let everyone do their own thing and do yours and keep it to yourself is my modus operandi.