21 January, 2009 | 8 Comments

Facebook & Myspace are a Waste of Time and Effort

I swear every other email I get at the moment is some crappy invite to join the life and time sucking facebook, myspace, bebo, or other crappy social networking website. People who are addicted to these websites should seriously consider spending their time better… Here’s why it is pointless

1. yay we can now see drunk pictures of people we know, or dont even know
2. you can gain lots of ‘friends’ and whoever has the most wins
3. you can spend ages finding out if someone has messaged you or some crap, why not just phone, or text them, surely that is faster?
4. you can meet new people who are miles away, who after maybe 2 weeks you’ll never talk to again
5. children can get owned by pedo’s pretending to be 14 year old girls or boys

Fantastic…

Now don’t tell me about some bollox that you keep in touch with people you wouldn’t do otherwise – yeah right…

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  • http://www.mrfreeman.co.uk Tom Freeman

    WHOA! Hang on there. The true value of Facebook (screw MySpace) is that you can post events and invite people to them simultaneously, with the abilities to leave messages that people later find in they’re not available straight away.

    Secondly, Facebook is useful for university work. If you’re doing some group work, what better way to stay in touch simultaneously with everyone other than creating a group and being able to post work ont eh site for collegues to marvel at…

    And it’s a good chuckle to see the misadventures of the previous night from the POV of several cameras :D

    And who seriously adds randomers to their page? That’s plain stupidity.

    FACEBOOK ROCKS!!

  • http://www.wuup.co.uk Alan Hamlyn

    :P consider using more professional tools, like I recently discovered adobe buzzword and adobe connect now, both free. How you’re describing face book there is a pip dream, keep telling yourself that!

  • http://www.elizabethd.net Elizabeth Dearborn

    LinkedIn is more business-oriented & doesn’t have photos, at least, I don’t think they do.

  • http://www.bigtallbill.co.uk Bill Nunney

    Freeman is in denial!

    Personally i think someone should market notebooks as “Myspace Windows” :P

  • http://www.wuup.co.uk Alan Hamlyn

    I use linkedIn, its a valid and worthwhile resource.

  • http://www.wuup.co.uk Elderan

    for uni work, facebook has its uses.
    For the majority of the time facebook is pointless, but as a tool for procastination, not a lot beats it.

    I am experimenting with Office LIVE for my uni group work, it is mainly for Word at the moment, but it should be handy for report writting. I have tried to use buzzword and its not really useful on an academic front at the moment, I shall keep an eye on it tho. hopefully the beta of it will enhance it. I do like to keep copies on my computer and adding in 3 steps just to make a copy while office Live just updates the single file and keeps a history of changes. Ah well both have their uses =D

  • http://www.mrfreeman.co.uk Tom Freeman

    Look, if we’re talking aboue how useful Facebook is in terms of speed, user friendliness and functionality, It’s a winner! Uploading videos, images or audio for uni work – it can all be done on FB. Any nugget can use it, and it’s free. So there!

  • http://www.wuup.co.uk Alan Hamlyn

    After signing up to Face book recently, I conclude I was complete right, it is a waste of time and effort. I also recognize how they are clearly scared and copying rival Twitter – which is where their user base is flocking to.