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Helps you plan events and get people to come without having to phone- or email-spam everyone you know. You just invite people that you want to come, or that you think would like it. And if you want anyone at all to come and you're just trying to publicize it, you invite all your "friends" on campus. You may get a very low percentage of people coming, but you get more people at your event than you'd get otherwise.Stark wrote:So if you're in college it suddenly does more? Like what?CaptainChewbacca wrote:I use facebook as an easy way to keep in touch wtih casual acquaintances and old school friends. Its not good for much else if you aren't in college.
She's not Hollywoodified. She's a hot blonde with big lips and - real - big tits. Do the math.Diomedes wrote:Scarlett Johansson. A significant number of people seem to think she's spectacularly beautiful. I mean, she's not ugly - though she does remind me of a fish sometimes for some reason, but the fanaticism I see about her just doesnt seem warranted.
Its a bunch of bullshit designed to surrogate for sincere social interactions and to fill the time of vapid shitheads (read: college sluts). The only thing its done for me is helped organize get-togethers (you select names, and can avoid calling each person, and there's no awkwardness if the person can't make it). Otherwise, its a big bunch of "OMG Caroline changed her profile pic! Now she's got so-and-so listed as an interest!"Darth Wong wrote:I've never tried facebook. There seems to be a fair bit of social pressure to join, though: my wife has received repeated requests from acquaintances to join their little "friend" communities on facebook, and she's starting to get the sense that these people are reluctant to communicate with her any other way.Mongoose wrote:I don't get facebook. Sure, you can talk to people you don't see a lot in real ife, but more often than not you end up talking to people you don't see a lot for a reason. And the conversations never really go beyond "hi wuts up?" and "lol nt much how r u?".
You do realise you can just not add stuff?His Divine Shadow wrote:Yeah facebook, tried it, hated it. Especially that superwall shit where people put up annoying stupid crap or chain mail.
It's cheaper?Guardsman Bass wrote:What's the appeal with texting people on their phones? Is it really that difficult to simply talk to them on your phones, or is that crossing some kind of psychological threshold at which point things become more difficult?
Nerd answer: it's asynchronous.Guardsman Bass wrote:What's the appeal with texting people on their phones? Is it really that difficult to simply talk to them on your phones, or is that crossing some kind of psychological threshold at which point things become more difficult?
Answer: People's tastes are different. My tastes often fluctuate, so I've seen it on both ends. Some days the social-bug bites and I need to see people and do things with them. Other days, I've had just about as much interpersonal contact as I can stand, and need a day or two of alone-time to mentally re-center myself.salm wrote:Staying at home on weekends. Honestly, i don´t get it. I have a couple of friends who will sit at home playing computer games or watching movies every fucking weekend. They never go out when it´s so much fun to go dancing, to concerts or just chill in a bar with friends and a couple of beers.
Simple answer (in my case): Some people have one, some people have the other. When you're trying to arrange get-togethers involving people over a hundred-mile radius, and phoning isn't always the best option, these sites can be a godsend for getting addresses and times out to *everyone*. And, as some are on one site, and some are on the other, and because the sites are *free*, I just use both to quickly copypaste the get-together information.Lord Poe wrote:I can't figure out why someone would need Myspace AND Facebook, though.
Everyone at uni uses facebook, myspack I juse used first and some of my friends use that. I don't use it unless I get some sort of notification that someone wants me, though. Well, to be fair, I do use myspack to host music and share that with people.Lord Poe wrote:I have Myspace, but hardly ever blog. I usually keep the "friends" list to people I know, or interesting people in my area that are "backyard filmmakers"
I can't figure out why someone would need Myspace AND Facebook, though.
There must be some reason why Americans in general do not use Text messaging. I guess this must be one of the many.Guardsman Bass wrote:What's the appeal with texting people on their phones? Is it really that difficult to simply talk to them on your phones, or is that crossing some kind of psychological threshold at which point things become more difficult?
They don't have families that will bother the government when they die in combat. Wars could probably be sustained for a much longer time if they were just costly in terms of money rather then life.Wanderer wrote: Am I missing something here? What real advantage does Predator give or have over humans with greater thinking capabilities and the ability to be creative in problem solving?
To what real effect if any?Mr. T wrote:They don't have families that will bother the government when they die in combat. Wars could probably be sustained for a much longer time if they were just costly in terms of money rather then life.Wanderer wrote: Am I missing something here? What real advantage does Predator give or have over humans with greater thinking capabilities and the ability to be creative in problem solving?
