Shit like this is the reason I avoid Facebook like the plague.

I rule my Facebook with an iron fist. I'm incredibly selective about who gets to see what on my page and I regularly do culls to get rid of "friends" on facebook I never keep in touch with or have no interest in divulging information to.

I actually had an incident there a few weeks ago when an uncle of mine who's only out of jail after being there for 14 years decided to set up a facebook and add me on it. He proceeded to show my father, who I don't speak to, photo's of me partying at gay pride in a Mileena outfit. I felt it was completely unnecessary of him to do so, considering I only added him because I wanted to make the effort to get to know him, only for him to do that. I had an arguement with my father, deleted my whole family off Facebook (bar two cousins who are from my mam's side of the family, and my eldest sister) and never heard the end of it. So many people were insulted and offended they were deleted despite never getting in touch with me when they where there. Their noses where just disjointed from not being in my business.

I post what I want, do what I want and upload what I want on my Facebook. I'm known to be a bit of a loose canon to those who know me well so they're generally not that shocked if I joke about drug abuse or sex addiction on my status's. But I have that information very, very finely controlled. Nobody can even see my Facebook page unless I add them, and literally every month that goes by I delete friends I don't see the need for holding on to. But I do know some people who literally take a deleted friend request or a tagged photo way too seriously, and it's laughable.

That's what led to my roommate threatening me with a knife to the face. And it wasn't even my fault either, some hacker got into my account and started doing bullshit to it.

It wasn't so much the fact that she ran to another roommate's Facebook wall and started complaining about it, it's the fact that she's rooming right next to my room and she couldn't have the ovaries to talk about the issue, which I would have fixed since I was fixing the entire thing that day anyways.

Another thing that bothered me about this entire incident was that her best friend, who I also friended, called me a bitch because I deleted her... But I deleted her long ago, before this hacker even took control of my account. I only friended her because my roommate asked me since she and I were best buddies before we met. The pre-meeting kind of stuff. I thought that she, her friend and I were going to hang out a lot, so I friended her bff. Unfortunately, me and my roommate did not become close friends, and since I never saw her friend, I thought, "you know, this girl doesn't talk to me on this site, I've never met this girl, I don't want her knowing my personal business." So I deleted her.

The whole issue splurred out of control when I finally confronted her and asked her that if she had an issue with me, that she needed to tell me in person and talk things out like adults, since we're in college and not in high school anymore. So, this is the perfect opportunity to complain about the way I do things in the apartment, which I couldn't understand why she was accusing me stuff in the first place because I am somewhat OCD when it comes to bathrooms and kitchens. Accusing me of doing things I never did, no... I had enough of her complaining, but then she bitches to me about stealing her stuff and that;s when the knife came out, grabs me by the arm, shoves the blade in my face and, blah...

Facebook does wonders to you.

There is no need for a Facebook. It's called pick up a house phone or cell phone and make a call to whoever you want to talk to.

I think it's time to trim my FB down some. I'm kinda pissed that a girl I used to have a crush on friended me and has said NOTHING to me.
We didn't talk before, so u can see why it's kind of annoying.

"Hey, I'll use this guy to pad out my friends list." which in itself is pathetic. *le sigh* Bitches these days. ;)

I used to have a ton of people on my Facebook, but I didn't talk to 90% of them...so I deleted them. Some have sent me friend requests again but I ignore them. I don't really care if they get upset. If they don't make any kind of effort to talk or anything then what's the point of them being there? None. Especially since most have my phone number anyway - if you want to talk just call.

I mostly just keep people I’m good friends with. And fellow MKO’ers! I usually muse about this or that. People shouldn’t take it to seriously. If people get so upset about getting unfriended then honestly... They need to grow up. It’s not to be taken so damn seriously like its life and death.

"Facebook is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game in which the objective is to collect "friends"." - Somegreybloke

It shouldn't be taken seriously. I have my site on private. I just use it as a photojournal. My life happens to include substance abuse, but the only drugs explicitly seen ever are alcohol. All of my statuses are usually racist or sexist because that's how I joke. I hope to never be important enough for any of this to matter to anyone anywhere.

I just get on to troll people on a PS3 group from my country.

1st: Yay for icbaby and good post

2nd: I use Facebook only to keep in touch with my many cousins and aunts that live out of state, and for acting (and Facebook has helped a few times with acting)

Majority of my FB is used just to keep in touch with friend and family; more so now that I live in MiddleOfFuckingNowhere, PA. However, I too have had some issues with relatives and friends about what I post up there, and you know what I tell them? Fuck off, so what! People who know me know that I'm a very honest person who can tolerate alot of shit before I blow up; but when I do go off the hook they know it's for a specific reason and that I was pushed to that point. And when certain individuals hit me up on FB (who really don't know me as well as they think they do) and try to act like the "FB Police" on my page, I personally call them up to tell them to mind their own damn business and if they have a problem with what I'm posting, just delete me or disregard my post all-together. It's not that big of a deal.

Icebaby, the personal issues you've pointed out don't seem like Facebook problems but people problems. Anyone who threatens you with a knife is not healthy in the head.

Facebook isn't the problem; stupid people are.

Even tho I disagree with teacher, I still feel that unfair to fire someone because they don't have same point of view. When it come to job, only question that should come to boss's head "Is this person doing a good job?". Only time you should get fired for point of view is if that view effect that person doing job right.



That another thing I hate about work place. Work life and socal life are not same thing and should never connect. I wouldn't come into work place drunk nor would I go out at weekend with business suit. It only matter time until companys start stalking people in real life. They need grow up see that people do have life outside work because life is not about all work and no play, it should be 50/50 (work hard, play hard).

I agree that they are people problems, but they started because of something that was stated on Facebook. It literally started because either the person took something out of context and blew a fit about it, or something was said directly on Facebook to that person which started an issue.

But yes, stupid people are the problem, and they happen to be on Facebook a lot to take some things seriously when they shouldn't.



I agree with both of your points here, especially about the last part. Companies really shouldn't force you to be friends with them either if they know you have a Facebook. Because that's just asking them to watch what you do and fire you the instant they read something about how you're expressing your opinions on stuff that others might get weary about. That's not fair. Hell, I said to myself that if I work at a company that forces me to be friends with them, I'm making a new Facebook account just so that they can't read my personal life. It's still me that they're friending, they're just not friending the account that shows my personal life.

And with the teacher, yes I did strongly disagree with what he did, but to get fired, that wasn't fair. Everyone is entitled to free speech, whether or not they agree on the subject at hand, but they should not get fired from their jobs if some co-worker they friended thought that was a bit too extreme and rattled to their boss about the issue.


But then again, there's always the arguments about "that guy shouldn't have posted that because they don't know who's watching." Yes, they don't know who's watching them. They could have friends who aren't really their friends and showing stuff that they wrote to others for fun and games. Some people show off their buddy's Facebook to someone who isn't a friend of theirs and see what they think of them. And that's not really fair, but people are scumbags at times. There are times where people do have to watch what they say, but then again, there are people who have to not take everything so seriously.

So there's a conflicting issue that really has good points to argue about with this kind of issue. And to be honest, I'm on the side where people shouldn't take things so seriously when it comes to Facebook.

A good point to show is that I have this one friend who literally told me that he despises people who likes their own statuses. He thinks they're very cocky when they do so. I like my own comments/statuses every now and then, and this guy literally writes back, "Did you just like your own status?" I couldn't quite understand the issue that he has with that, nor do I understand it with anyone that does have an issue with it. It's not personally effecting you in some manner is it? It's not going to cause a virus to spring up into your computer is it? I even asked him, "Why do you take that so personally? It's Facebook, you shouldn't take things so personally on this site." He responds, "I don't know, it just bothers me." Well, if you don't have a reason why it bothers you then I quite don't get it on why it bothers you... As well as other people. I don't see that being cocky or having a meaning behind it. I just see it as something someone does either for the hell of it, or for the lawls...

Sorry, I've been in a very heavy-thinking mood since last night around 11:30 and still doing so. Sorry if this post is rather long and seems like I'm angry or whatever kind of mood you think I am...

When FB first took off, I decided not to join 'cause I'm really not that interesting and doubted that I could fill an FB page with anything of substance.

A few years later and I don't regret the decision to avoid it. South park hit this nail on the head last season. People take it as a virtual profile of thier whole life. Who your friends are, where you work, who you're dating, and your opinion on just about anything. But the fact is that a person takes up more space than Facebook can ever provide and things can get taken out of context much easier than with face to face interaction. Getting fired over a facebook message, or having a knife in your face it pretty much proof of that. People need to learn that the internet is not real life, and it can't be used to make decisions about life events.

People are different in the real world than they are online. In real life I'm not nearly as outspoken as I am online, because online offers a level of anonymity that the real world doesn't. On the internet you can be as brazen as you'd like and the worst thing than can possibly happen is getting hacked or banned. You could claim that the world needs to start killing off the remaining Panda population to save bamboo. In the real world Greenpeace would set your house on fire. On the internet, it just more insane internet chatter. If you posted that on Face book, all of the sudden it's public record because your name is attached to face book.

Sometimes it's better to keep things to yourself. I rather enjoy my privacy. And if someone wants to call themself my friend they can call me on the phone or e-mail me. I don't consider my friends sisters husbands daughter a friend so why the hell would I want her on my facebook page? I'd rather have 1 solid friend then 10,000 facebook friends, and it's a little sad that some people don't.

Whether you can't make a RL friend to save your life or you're the life of the party it's part of the human experience to be social creatures. I'm not sold that sitting infront of a computer screen accepting 'friend requests' from people you don't even know qualifies.

I get on facebook to chat with friends that half the time are never able to contact(i have friends in other states or they dont have Verizon so it will charge me to talk).Recently ive just been trolling Jazwares on there but ive toned that down bacause im trying to take a more serious direction in my life.But any way I have friends on FB that are here and the Alien vs Predator site im on.And btw im on the AVP site more because MOST(not all of you)have become Douchebags so this place has been more avoiding than fun for me.So for me its mostly FB and the AVP website.And I only get on Twitter to talk to NECA TOYS on the new Predators.

Facebook shouldn't be taken seriously. You see, the death trap with using a social network as a blog is it lets people snoop, and some people are more curios than others. I post whatever the hell I want on facebook, but very seldom do I post something personal. If people get offended, odds are they aren't one of my good friends and I tell them to get fucked. It's a simple solution really. If you don't want to hear bullshit, don't give that bull laxatives.

There is no reason for Facebook and Twitter and all that other shit to exist, Its all so damn useless.

There are reasons for Facebook to exist, especially when you're away at school and want to still keep in contact with your friends and family and don't feel like using the phone to call them.

So yes, there are reasons to have a Facebook. Not everyone needs to have one, but it's suggested to have one if you're away at school and don't want to use the cell phone all the time to keep in contact with some people.

Then you can use skype if you really don't feel like using the phone. I mean yes people do have reasons to use Facebook, but for most of the time people use it as a popularity contest to have the most amount of friends. I mean come on, no one has 500 real friends. Most people have like 10 good friends at the most and add family to that number so its all bullshit. Not to mention all the stupid poses everyone does in their pictures lol. Just giving my opinion on this and not to piss anyone off that has a Facebook.

Do you live in a small city? Not work? Don't go to school? It's not hard to have more than five hundred friends, surprisingly. Right now I am sitting at 575. I used to always delete friends until I was sitting at under 400 because I felt like some people weren't friends, but acquaintances. But right now, I'd say yeah I'm friends like like 94% of my friends. The other 6% might be Top Model girls, or people from the internet.

I mean, my phonebook is crazy filled through numbers of people I've met. And since I've never gone through a routine cleaning of it, it's number far surpasses my facebook friend count. And it's not just like I accept whoever on facebook. Right now I've got 73 people sitting in the friend request queue who I don't feel as if I know enough to accept into my social networking site.

I don't know if this post just seems like self absorbent gloating, but I just felt like I had to say that yes it is possible to have a large amount of friends.

I have to disagree. This man's job one that requires him to be tolerant and unbiased. His right of free speech was forfitted when he became a teacher. If you'd like to discuss such things while in the position of molding young minds, it's best to do so privately to avoid controversey.

But keep in mind: Nothing on the internet is private. Nothing.

Nothing is private on the internet and people shouldn't post personal stuff they don't want getting out, people post pictures of themselves in lewd clothes, their drama/who they hate, etc.

I rarely if ever use Facebook, I talk to one or two of my friends from high school and one friend from Drum Circle regularly, most people love the drama and stupidity that people create on Facebook, maybe it's not Facebook's fault, but it helps foster an environment of irresposible conduc

In terms of jobs, I don't really think if you're of legal age, you should be punished for having photos of you out drinking or whatever, provided it's a legal practice, but honestly, if you're worried about it, there's no need to post pictures of you out drinking anyway, it's like with people posting pictures of their abs and stuff, it's stupid and not necessary. I'm 21 now, but I'm not going to be posting pictures of me stumbling around at the bar(never been drunk, never will be), but common sense tells me that I want to present myself in the best light possible, while still being me.

I don't support companies being nosy in people's private lives, they need to mind their own business, but when you post it on the internet, it's not private, it's out there for billions to see.

The person who pulled a knife on you over accidentally being deleted off your Facebook should seek serious psychiatric help and I'm not saying that to be a dick, I'm dead serious.

A best friendship ending over a Facebook remark is absurd, people take Facebook way too seriously and it's a shame.


I got out of Facebook's web a while ago, I check it every 2-4 weeks and am not on it long, nobody really posts on my wall, but that's how I want it, the way I see it, people worth talking to I can meet for Coffee, a movie, or at Drum Circle, not to mention most people don't know or talk to most of their Facebook friends anyway.