Watch FOX News....

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


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

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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  

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. 

In fact I feel sad about spme of my old friends back home who seem to spend all of their free time (or all day if they're not working) either drinking, watching TV, watching 80's music videos on YouTube or (usually) all 3 at once. And they're posting a running commentary of it on Facebook. It's always "Can't wait to finish work so I can make a start on the beer" or "Shall I open another bottle of red? Why yes, I think I will!" I can't understand what makes people want to broadcast their drinking habits online, every day of the week 



Or they're watching TV and posting updates about the things they're viewing, as if they expect everyone else to be watching it as well. Loads of them seem to have no hobbies outside of drinking or watching TV. Makes me depressed. 

The title is redundant.

craigb


The title is redundant.

  Mmm Hmmm   Says it all doesnt it?

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. :)

Rain

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. :)

Yep...that's the sadness I'm talking about 


I know couples who post things like "Can you bring the humidifier upstairs with you when you come to bed xxx"


Sick, just sick!

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.