Goodbye facebook, I won`t be back........

[nickyboy]

[QUOTE 3857054, member: 259"]Twitter is excellent for anyone who wants to keep up with the news. Just don't follow slebs or morons.[/QUOTE]

Yup. Very useful for targeted information. I follow, for example, a couple of bands, a couple of cricket teams, a school and a cycling club. Gives me a great feed of stuff I'm interested in

 

[Sara_H]

Yup. Very useful for targeted information. I follow, for example, a couple of bands, a couple of cricket teams, a school and a cycling club. Gives me a great feed of stuff I'm interested in

I use it for following cycle campaign groups and groups related to work, don't have any personal stuff on Twitter

 

[Pathfoot]

Most of FB is stream-of-consciousness noise. I use FB regularly, as a way of keeping up to date with family and friends I'm not (physically) close to. I just have a few rules I stick to, like not accepting game requests, but I don't get upset with those who send them. And I just skip over posts that have 'like and share' in them, as that's a highly-reliable junk indicator, or the sickly sweet 'footprints in the sand' philosophising. Most of my posts are 'public', because I'm not bothered by the paranoia that gets cycled and re-cycled by people who've not performed elementary sanity checks on what they're repeating. I'm retired, but if I were still working, I'd tighten it down some more, and avoid work-related content and colleagues. I've seen that go badly wrong for some people.

 

[classic33]

The CIA will already have extracted, extrapolated and created a profile for you, so no worries.

NSA! You're getting your government agencies mixed up.

 

[summerdays]

I have both Facebook and Twitter. I have under 50 friends I think on FB, and I know all of them in real life. I find it is useful for keeping in touch and sharing photos. My profile pic is currently a sunset photo, and the other title photo a beach scene from holiday, and the rest of the things I post are not shared with the world, sometimes I just share stuff with my immediate family.

I find Twitter is useful for the spreading of information, mostly not from me. I follow several local cyclist and groups, which has proved very useful, such as getting an early warning of those days when there is lots of black ice about. I had a disagreement with my daughter who claimed that people stop following people who don't tweet, but actually I do the opposite and unfollow those that have verbal diarrhoea.

 

[Tin Pot]

NSA! You're getting your government agencies mixed up.

Really?

I thought it was funded by Accel Partners, a venture capital firm created by the CIA in the nineties?

I'm not much with conspiracies, so happy to be corrected.

 

[EltonFrog]

Has anyone posted on Facebook that they have deleted their CC account?

You're not allowed to delete your CC account, they won't' let you, you're on it forever. Mawhahahahahaha there is no escape.

 

[Globalti]

I heard a senior IT security specialist interviewed on R4. The interviewer asked him what advice he would give to anybody thinking of signing up with social media like Facebook. His advice? "Don't. Just Don't. We have no idea how all this information about us is going to be used and abused in the future and once it's out there, you've lost control of it."

A also heard a Police officer talking about tracing a suspect in a crime and he said: "He doesn't use social media so he's proving very difficult to find".

 

[Rustybucket]

Isn't it all about tinder these days?

 

[Saddle bum]

It may have its uses in the form of mass communication amongst like minded people.

I have never associated with it and don't regret it........................................

 

[AndyRM]

Social media is a game. You win by getting the most likes, shares, retweets or whatever.

It's also a useful communication tool. Using a fake name or picture is pointless voyeurism.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I've just seen someone I know go through trial by facebook - or more like a lynching. A couple of people voicing their opinions as facts and the whole mob descending to take what's said as truth.
Yes the victim had acted like a total tit, but I knew a few facts they didn't. But as we all know from reading posts even on this forum, knowing the truth doesn't mean the mob doesn't turn on you. I chose to stay silent.

I keep in touch with a couple of old friends, and post the odd Strava result, but my life is in the real world with real people. I've worked in IT too long to give in to the illusions of online popularity.

 

[Pale Rider]

I created a facebook account a few years ago because I wanted to look at something elsewhere on facebook and it told me I had to be logged on - as it might.

Never used 'my' page and happily, nor has anyone else.

More recently, my Sunday morning cycling group started a page.

It's proved useful to a point, although the group ran fine for years without it.

We are a bunch of middle aged fogies and several members don't use facebook, which limits its use to the group.

Facebook may have a billion members worldwide, but it's worth remembering that means there are many more billions who do not use it.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I heard a senior IT security specialist interviewed on R4. The interviewer asked him what advice he would give to anybody thinking of signing up with social media like Facebook. His advice? "Don't. Just Don't. We have no idea how all this information about us is going to be used and abused in the future and once it's out there, you've lost control of it."

I have a business studies professor friend who is very fond of the quote 'if you don't know what the commodity is, it's you' and will happily point out that a lot of stuff like this (social media, loyalty cards) are all about gathering and selling on mass data. Everything costs money to do, so ask yourself why it looks like it's free.

If you have a group and are trying to market it in the real world (just to keep member numbers ticking over or whatever) then you will have difficulty managing it without using social media. Sticking a card up for a local cycle group in an LBS might still be sufficient for a cycle group because you catchment area is tiny and your target numbers are small, but anything larger will have difficulty growing without a presence, and probably multiple ones.

 

[Drago]

They're going go to be very disappointed when they try to harvest my data!