[Malacite]

Originally Posted by Yellow Mage

IIRC, TGM uses it . . .

Urban Dictionary: woosh

[TheGrandMom]

Originally Posted by Aksannyi

Also, people over 40 on Facebook ... /facepalm.

Ummmm excuse me?? Do you think the internet is only for people in their 20's? Shit like Facebook wouldn't even be around if it weren't for the older geeks so cut us some slack.


Does anyone know if anything happened with this suit? This was from back in January so I was wondering if there was an update to this. (And yes, I'm too old to use the internet to research it myself!)

[Durahansolo]

Originally Posted by TheGrandMom

Ummmm excuse me?? Do you think the internet is only for people in their 20's?

(Epic Side Story: my mom's hard drive on her computer died so I had to reinstall windows on a new one.)

Kinda like last night when my mom screamed "OH NO!!!!!! ALL MY YOUTUBE FAVORITES ARE GONE!!!" Well, because I replaced windows and she hadn't signed into youtube (She hadn't "Signed In" in so long that she didn't know that's where her favorites were stored since the old IE auto-logged in.) her favorites didn't come up. She also couldn't remember her password. SMH. All of her favorites were Music Videos with the majority of them being Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.

But I agree, the internet is for everybody....(Cept my mom)

[Aksannyi]

The thing is, people on Facebook act like fucking twelve year olds. They bring all of their high school catty passive-aggression to the damn site and act like idiots, then bitch when they lose their friends and/or their jobs.

If people could just use the internet and act like grown ups instead of returning to high school every time they log on, I'd have no problem with it. Fact is, I see way too many pictures of Facebook walls where people are acting like fools to consider it worthwhile for anyone over the age of 15, since that's probably about the maximum maturity level for some of those sites.

[Durahansolo]

Originally Posted by Aksannyi

The thing is, people on Facebook act like fucking twelve year olds. They bring all of their high school catty passive-aggression to the damn site and act like idiots, then bitch when they lose their friends and/or their jobs.

You know, I couldn't even imagine what it would've been like if facebook would've been around back when I was in HS. We already had enough drama and randomness going on inside the school as it was. The exact same thing you're talking about is the same thing that one of my coworkers was talking about. I myself can't stand when people comment one thing, comment again for contradicting purposes, and then get mad at the world when one person calls them out on it. I mean seriously...come on.

There are just some things you shouldn't post about on facebook, putting all of your business out in the the street. For example: this girl I went to highschool with, posted a bunch of comments about her baby's father who wasn't helping her and the baby wasn't even born yet. She then decided to post that she was trying to get him out of her life and wanted to know what would be the easiest way to do it. Another friend of mine decided to get on facebook and post a note about his baby's mother who has custody of his child. They went back and forth slamming each other about silly stuff and then her friends jumped in and it became a big mess. There are days like that when I just shake my head at the nonsense and the majority of it, I don't even read or entertain.

[Clever Ninja]

Originally Posted by Yellow Mage

IIRC, TGM uses it . . .

TGM is an 18 year old girl!

[Ziero]

Originally Posted by Durahansolo

Kinda like last night when my mom screamed "OH NO!!!!!! ALL MY YOUTUBE FAVORITES ARE GONE!!!" Well, because I replaced windows and she hadn't signed into youtube (She hadn't "Signed In" in so long that she didn't know that's where her favorites were stored since the old IE auto-logged in.) her favorites didn't come up. She also couldn't remember her password. SMH. All of her favorites were Music Videos with the majority of them being Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.

But I agree, the internet is for everybody....(Cept my mom)

My mother uses Facebook since a bunch of other people in my family do and it's caused me nothing but headaches. People she didn't like would comment on her stuff, she couldn't figure out how to change her picture, she types the site in wrong, gets sent to a phishing site telling her to install something and panics that her computer is infected with viruses (which it probably is alread). The damn thing is nothing but a pain in my ass and I don't even use it.

Originally Posted by Aksannyi

The thing is, people on Facebook act like fucking twelve year olds. They bring all of their high school catty passive-aggression to the damn site and act like idiots, then bitch when they lose their friends and/or their jobs.

If people could just use the internet and act like grown ups instead of returning to high school every time they log on, I'd have no problem with it. Fact is, I see way too many pictures of Facebook walls where people are acting like fools to consider it worthwhile for anyone over the age of 15, since that's probably about the maximum maturity level for some of those sites.

Plenty of people do use these things like grown ups, you just never hear about them since there's nothing to hear about. But little miss drama mama and all her catty buddies will turn one misunderstood comment or snide remark into the worst thing to ever happen to anyone in forever. Since there's nothing actually going on in their lives, they have to make any and every slight, insult (real or perceived) or small downturn into a traumatic and terrible event.

[Feba]

Originally Posted by Aksannyi

Fact is, I see way too many pictures of Facebook walls where people are acting like fools to consider it worthwhile for anyone over the age of 15, since that's probably about the maximum maturity level for some of those sites.

I'm going to answer your opinion with a question:


Have you ever looked at this site?

[Mhurron]

Originally Posted by Feba

I'm going to answer your opinion with a question:


Have you ever looked at this site?

Oh ya! Well yo mamma so fat, her ass got its own zip code.

[Aksannyi]

Originally Posted by Feba

Have you ever looked at this site?

Nothing on this site has caused me problems in RL relationships or work. I post here, laugh at stupidity on a regular basis, but at the end of the day, no one that I care about is angry at me over something I said on the internet.

I'm mostly just anti-Facebook, but it really grinds my gears when people more than ten years my senior act like they're in high school on that damn site, which is why it makes me /facepalm in general.

[Feba]

Yeah, except this site has just as much potential to ruin lives. Most of us are open about our emails and other contact details; and most of us don't put up a firewall between our online and real lives. All of that can be traced back to us. Ffs, you post pictures of yourself; if someone wanted to confirm that you do post at this forum, that would do it.

In fact, I'm going to do some googling and send you a PM if I can find anything on you; which I probably can.

[Aksannyi]

Go for it. It's not like I'm doing anything illegal here, and any shit I talk is most likely about my douchebag ex-husband. I don't go around making an ass of my self, if anything, the only thing I do online is swear a lot, which is pretty similar to how I talk in real life.

I'm remarkably open about who I am both online and off. I have nothing to hide.

People who have something to hide have no business flaunting it on the internet and then acting butthurt when it gets found.

[Feba]

Illegal, no, potentially stupid, of course. Especially from the viewpoint of employers.

But the point is, for everything you SEE about someone being stupid almost anywhere, there are dozens of people being reasonable and respectable.

[Aksannyi]

That's true, but Facebook is still a cesspool, and I refuse to become a part of it. It seems the more people that flock to these websites (like myspace, as well) the less reputable the site becomes.

[Feba]

Originally Posted by Aksannyi

That's true, but Facebook is still a cesspool, and I refuse to become a part of it.

Real easy to judge the value of everything and everyone using a site without trying it for yourself.