sharke
If you ask me Facebook is just a tool and you're not obliged to use it a particular way or partake in everything that goes on. You don't have to take a single selfie, you don't have to brag, take part in inane political discussions or share endless identical photos of your kids. If you like you can just use it to get updates from people you're geographically separated from and read the news from your favorite plugin manufacturers.

If anyone annoys you, you can unfriend them, unsubscribe from their posts or even block them. You can cut yourself off entirely from any of the Facebook "culture" which annoys you.

If you get sick of it you can just leave it alone for a while. Nobody forces you to click that link. It's YOUR page and you can enjoy it however you want. It can be a fantastic means of communication. I would never dismiss it just because other people are making an ass of themselves with it.

sharke, very practically said.  It doesn't need to be completely a "cut the cord" on it.  In my case, I just log on once every year and maybe update my password, accept a few friend requests and forget about it for another year.  I'm probably about the worst Facebook friend possible because I never post.

Facecrack is bad.
Just say no

sharke
If you ask me Facebook is just a tool and you're not obliged to use it a particular way or partake in everything that goes on. You don't have to take a single selfie, you don't have to brag, take part in inane political discussions or share endless identical photos of your kids. If you like you can just use it to get updates from people you're geographically separated from and read the news from your favorite plugin manufacturers.

If anyone annoys you, you can unfriend them, unsubscribe from their posts or even block them. You can cut yourself off entirely from any of the Facebook "culture" which annoys you.

If you get sick of it you can just leave it alone for a while. Nobody forces you to click that link. It's YOUR page and you can enjoy it however you want. It can be a fantastic means of communication. I would never dismiss it just because other people are making an ass of themselves with it.

yep - sharke has it
 
baps fears change

I think it causes an alternate social reality and we may loose the skill of of interpersonal real life social skills.
 

Facebook = Social Disease Website

Maybe someday I'll have a Facebook page too.     Maybe...
 

stevec
Maybe someday I'll have a Facebook page too.     Maybe...
 

First you need Friendster, then myspace....

 
I'm with sharke to some extent.
 
I don't see anything inherently bad with Facebook, it's the same as any platform, it's the people who use it that make it 'good' or 'bad'.
 
I've got back in touch with a few guys I was at school with, and some who I played cricket with many years ago. There are a few political, sports, photography and music groups I've joined, some of which are really interesting places to drop into once in a while.
 
I can't for the life of me understand the appeal of Twitter though. Or exactly how it works for that matter. I suppose if it takes a lot of the "I just ate a doughnut" type status updates away from Facebook that's fine with me.
 
 

What kind of doughnut?

Hi,
 
My admin friend, has said for ten years, that the spoof'ing in those places is out of line and there is no security by the company at all.
 
I have, always, refused to enter into any of these ... I never thought myself as "paranoid", but I simply don't like the shoot to kill and don't give a damn, type of attitude in some of those places, even with "friends", who for some reason, always come up with a post that belongs to some weird Fred out there that is a bad copy of the original Fred who is OK in my book!
 
I feel safer here, than I do in Facebook!