Witty Name Here said:
I found an even better social Network, it's called "The Outside World"! It's amazing, I can just open up dialog with anyone by walking up and talking to them! I don't even have to add them to a friend's list! I just somehow "Consider them a friend" after I've had enough positive interactions with them! It's amazing!
How does one "walk up to and talk to" someone who lives a 40 minute bus journey away?
If I wanted to organise a group of ~10 people to go out one night, would I be expected to physically go to all of their apartment buildings, and then either wait to follow someone in or call them to open the door, and do this for perhaps 4-5 different apartment buildings (one of which, as I mentioned, was 40 minutes away by bus)?
Like I said in my post, Facebook is a tool to assist in the facilitation of face-to-face meetups with groups of people. That sounds like it would suit you very well, if I'm honest, since you seem like a rather social guy.
funguy2121 said:
Pandalink said:
While most of the people in that article are clearly rather silly, I find it difficult to disagree with the first quote. If you aren't on Facebook, at all, then you quite simply aren't going to have a life. Or at least, you're making it extremely difficult for yourself for no good reason. It simply isn't possible to do things without Facebook, and if you (upon being asked for your Facebook) reply that you do not have a profile, that's an instant question mark in the head of the asker regarding what you have to hide and what is wrong with you enough that you wouldn't have a Facebook.
I can't think of a single person without a Facebook profile. If I met someone who did not, I'd question whether they had something quite wrong with them socially.
I'm 19, by the way, so not in school anymore. If anything my post has become more true since I left school.
Clue me in, please. Do you ask someone out on a date via Facebook? Do you make plans exclusively via facebook, or apply for a job on Facebook? How exactly is it vital to living a life?
I should clarify that by "life" I meant social life. I should have made that clearer in my post.
In reply to your points: No, I would not ask someone out on Facebook (unless they were happy for me to do so, in which case, why not) because that is a single person (as oppoosed to a group of people) and a single person is easy to contact through other means.
Yes, plans are basically made exclusively through Facebook. Unless we're all on campus and decide to go the pub right there and then, that's basically how it turns out. Even evening plans we do make in advance can be checked and clarified through our Facebook group chat.
No, you wouldn't apply for a job through Facebook, clearly. Like I said, I should have made it clearer that I meant social life.
Don't get me wrong, Facebook is no replacement for face-to-face. It is a tool to organise events, and share content that is best viewed online in a browser (such as video links, or indeed escapist articles).
