Facebook craziness

Most epic non-story of the year so far. 

And I love how newspapers now consider the content of Twitter to be newsworthy now. It's all over the place. Imagine if there was no Twitter....God forbid they would have to hire some real journalists. 

Yep... they're out of news... who gives a rip...

Hes the Quarter Back for their football team Christian.

We are right on the border in Michigan just North of Notre Dame so of course the news blows this stuff up when something happens.

Unfortunately I like most of the news that comes across from liking my favorite news station, but this kinda stuff just rubs me the wrong way.  Once they report a piece of news, I wish they would move on to something else.

Id hate to remove the like which I have in the past until stuff like this settles but that method get old fast LOL

For a second I though it was one of those strange rapper names... lol

I don't trust any of them. Never did.

Mr. Harper recently met the two winners of a reality TV show (an abomination from back home called Occupation Double - think Jersey Shores), didn't he? Meanwhile, the First Nations protests went on and on...

Keeping people stupid and misinformed is a lucrative business.

Facebook has become annoying. Several pages seem to no longer have an option to "like" or "comment" only to "share". Perhaps it is something that I don't understand but that would be nothing new.

If something shows up on my newsfeef that I don't like, I just "hide" it. I am amazed by the occasional friend who tells me they are going to remove me from their feed because of something like, "dude, the election is over". Well that does not lessen my rolse as part of the loyal opposition. I do not understnd people who do not want free speech. I never look for an argument and shy from engaging in them because they accomish nothing and I am quick to remove a post if someone points out to me that the facts are wrong, no problem with that. I welcome the truth. I try to listen to a counterpoint to my POV and I learn from it, I may still disagree but I listen.

Oh well... maybe that is why I spend a day on FB and then forget it for a week. Sometimes I don't check my email for a week or more and if I didn't have my business line forwarded to my cell I would turn it off most of the time. I have no MP3 player, I listen to music or mre likely talk radio when in my truck.... musi is either Album 88 (88.5 FM Georgia State University) they mostly play new music. I detest hearing the same old music I have been hearing for 30-40 odd years.

News... FOXNews. They present both sides but I don't care for their opinion shows except for Wednesday PM I like O-Reilly when Dennis Miller is on.... gotta love Dennis. A local legend did his last show on Friday and I consider it a real loss. The Neal Boortz Show is officially history, to be replaced by Herman Cain (I am really unsure about this replacement) ifHerman talks about tax reform more than once a week... I will be looking for something else but I have a feeling that he is a one topic man.

Facebook is weird to me... too many people either reposting things they have not researched or posting what they had for dinner. I don't get Twitter at all. I have a Twitter acct but I cannot imagine anyone reads anything I have to say... why would they care?

I think we shuld all take the advice of The Bonzo Dog Band: "Lets Make Up and Be Friendly".

FB... eh.

J

ampfixer


//rant//

More and more, I find that the stuff on TV and online doesn't match the reality I see when looking out the window.

//rant//

EXACTLY brother!!!   Gets so old seeing and hearing it all now to me now.  Guess the only way around it is to get a weather radio,  thats why I watch the news anyway, I aint interested in anything else  

The title is redundant.

sharke


I think Facebook is great for communication between friends and family who are separated by distance. I use it almost exclusively to keep in touch with my old friends back in the UK, and have friended very few people here because I see them in person. I have trouble understanding why people who live around the corner from each other spend half their time talking to each other on Facebook. It seems a little sad. 

How about people in the same room? Or the same bed? :P


My wife and I msg each other via FB all the time - links to news articles, videos and such. 


But I totally get what you mean. :)

When my daughter and her boyfriend are here for dinner, we'll often sit down and watch a movie in the evening. Within 5 minutes they'll be sitting side by side with their iPhones, both on FB.

I asked them the other night why it wasn't possible to just do one thing without having do something else at the same time - i.e. just watch the movie? Blank looks.

Seems to be an addiction of sorts.

That's the way many people's brains are "trained" to work these days - seems we need a new thing to focus on every few seconds or minutes. 

Yep - it's pretty insidious. Every time I pick a book, it takes a while before my brain quits the nasty habit of scanning for new info. It's like it's expecting a new source of excitement. So I make an effort to regularly focus one ONE thing - a book, a tutorial or whatever.

But long gone are the days when I could sit there for hours just listening to albums - and doing nothing else. 

Furthermore, since my record collection resides on the computer, it's way too easy to start reading something on the web, then looking up a word, clicking on a link, ending up on wikipedia - and then another word reminds you of that cool plug-in you want to buy, and all of sudden you realize that you have like w/ 20 tabs open in your browser, yet,  you have no idea why you ended up watching those funny cat videos on YouTube... :s

Rain




I don't know even what or who a Notre Dame BQ is. 

I think "Rudy" when I hear "Notre Dame".
I haven't read the book but I did see the movie. I think it's a great movie.

sharke

That red notification icon on Facebook is like a hit of cocaine. 

  Thats the BEST description Ive ever seen on it,  Not for me but what has happened with everyone I see around me.  


I dont even have a phone anymore. Just got so tired of giving AT&T an extra $70-80 a month when there are so many phones and ways to catch me.  So nice not having one.  


The other day out driving around getting things done felt so good not having that thing constantly bothering me.  Kinda took me back to the days before cell phones when ya felt like you were getting things done without being constantly bothered or getting side tracked by some gadget.


Really feels good  

digi2ns

sharke

That red notification icon on Facebook is like a hit of cocaine. 

  Thats the BEST description Ive ever seen on it,  Not for me but what has happened with everyone I see around me.  


I dont even have a phone anymore. Just got so tired of giving AT&T an extra $70-80 a month when there are so many phones and ways to catch me.  So nice not having one.  


The other day out driving around getting things done felt so good not having that thing constantly bothering me.  Kinda took me back to the days before cell phones when ya felt like you were getting things done without being constantly bothered or getting side tracked by some gadget.


Really feels good  

Unfortunately I need a phone with email, web and advanced calendar functionality for my biz. Knowing how addicted I would probably become a few years ago when I moved into the world of smartphones, I started with a BlackBerry because they're more "businessy." But I still managed to browse the web and use Facebook on it. Then because I needed more advanced multiple calendar functionality than a BlackBerry could provide, I "upgraded" to an iPhone. I mean it does have a lot of great business and productivity apps right? Hooooo boy. I had Angry Birds on that thing in a flash. At one point I had this stupid game where you manage a hi-rise tower and all of its little 8-bit occupants...Tiny Tower I think....and I was checking my phone every five minutes to see how my little guys were doing. It comes to something where you're taking your gloves off in 20C weather to take a pixelated cartoon character to the 25th floor in an elevator because he has a package for some other pixelated cartoon character