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gladys_kravitz
04/06/09

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Jesus, was anyone here born before 1987?
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Understater
04/06/09

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They sure are...and they're also planning an insurrection.
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narnio
04/06/09

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MARK MY WORDS: YOU WILL ALL LOVE FACEBOOK AGAIN, SOON. ESPECIALLY OWEN. OWEN WILL THRIVE ON FACEBOOK, "I LOVE YOU BUT IM WORKING."
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Phyllis Nefler
04/07/09

@narnio: Phyllis Nefler Liked this.
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City_Dater
04/06/09

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A theory: people who bitch about Facebook have tried to "friend" a lot of casual acquaintances and colleagues who ignored their requests.

There's always such a sad bitterness to these whiny protests.
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Baroness
04/06/09

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My favorite part: Facebook is just nice!:

"The flaming, snarky, commenter-board culture that dips in periodically to bang heads against the floor and foster self-hate among humanity's ranks has been deemed not good for business. "

"Now online life is a series of Victorian drawing rooms, a well-tended garden where you bring your calling card and make polite conversation with those of your kind, a sanitized city on a hill where amity reigns, irony falls flat, and sarcasm is remarkably rare."

Uh. Mah Gawd. No, Vanessa. Na. Guh. Ha. Pen.
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stoprobbers
04/06/09

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Do you know what the most annoying thing about Facebook is? How it stopped being a college Facebook app and all these retarded people from the outside world came in and pretended like it was all serious and not just a way to post those pictures you don't remember having taken last saturday night/keep in touch with the 80 people you barely knew in college but want to be super-nosey in their post-graduation lives.

Before all you assholes came along we were doing just fine.
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aLostLady
04/06/09

@stoprobbers: The day Facebook was deemed important to society, then business, was the day it began to die. Not to mention all these media types dubbing it as "revolutionary" 3-4 years after the fact.

I agree that Facebook's only charm is as a tool for recreational stalking of one-time acquaintances, and nothing more.
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quatrevingtquatre
04/06/09

@stoprobbers:
You speak truth. I was explaining to someone that I missed Facebook from my junior year (2004), when I was just catching up with people from my college and people I knew in high school. Now it's full of people who came over from Myspace and tYpE lYkE tHiS and I cannot stand it. My entire family plus everyone I work with are now on Facebook and I'm not enjoying the work + home + school mixture at all.
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bytememehard
04/06/09

@thatonegirlsays: time to invent something new that's exactly like Facebook but just for the youngins to use!
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Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
04/06/09

@aLostLady: It also serves well as a pseudo couchsurfing.com
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onehotmess
04/06/09

@stoprobbers: uh yeah, my parents & all their friends are now on facebook, so its the beginning of the end...
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KentuckyBabe
04/06/09

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It'll be a shame if facebook collapses. I don't quite get all the backlash against people who facebook. I keep in touch with people I love and like with it in a way I can't otherwise. I've always found it extremely useful. But I unintentionally have started signing on less and less because of how much I dislike the new design.

I don't overshare, and If i don't want to be your friend, Im not... so... i don't see what the big deal is and why all the facebook hate.
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badasscat
04/06/09

@KentuckyBabe: The "facebook hate" is mostly because of the new design that you yourself say you dislike.

I was a Facebook booster for years up until this new design. The problem is they have totally changed the focus of the site. It used to be a place you go to keep up with your little circle of friends, and you had total control over that experience. Now it's like you're being constantly spammed all the time by people who, at this point, are probably half your friends and half people you really couldn't care less about. And yeah, that's all of our own faults for adding those people, but that doesn't mean Facebook gets a free pass when it comes to designing their site for the way people actually use it. They can't just ignore what we actually want and instead tell us how we should be doing things. Businesses don't stay in business for long with that attitude.

So I totally understand the hate over the past few weeks. And I've been logging in a lot less lately too. (In fact, my last status update was "I'm boycotting Facebook", which was intended to be a joke on the fact that I obviously wasn't... but that was my last status update.)
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
04/06/09

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Facebook if lonely, but Twitter if bitter.

(?)
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Darrone
04/06/09

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Someday, personal relationships will be just as important as online ones... someday.
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macbeach
04/06/09

@Darrone: You mean after the nuclear holocaust?
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Gawkchalk
04/06/09

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proudly never joined.
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Murph1908
04/06/09

@Gawkchalk:

Ditto
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TheAlmanac
04/06/09

@Murph1908: +1 Here
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notsogreatsatan
04/06/09

@TheAlmanac: wow, it must be easy to walk around all day feeling self satisfied if you've set the bar so low that you're feeling smug about not creating an account on a website.
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bytememehard
04/06/09

@notsogreatsatan: tell'em, gurlfren!
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Nic Fit
04/06/09

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Don't Face the Book.
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