Originally posted by riv6672i think its boring for the most part too but it's useful for keeping in touch with people. i have moved around a bit and lost quite a few friends i had in other states that i might have kept if i had a facebook. but i hate having my business out there on the internet like that.
I just have no use for it.
Been out if HS for decades, and FB smacks of that type of atmosphere.
As an aside, i heard there was a shooting in Detroit recently? The culmination of a FB feud...to be fair pretty much every dispute in detroit is resolved with a shooting.
Originally posted by bluewaterriderhow old could you possibly be? my mom is 50 something and facebook is the only reason she ever goes online. there are a ton of your people on there man.
I'm too old. 🙁
Originally posted by bluewaterrider
I'm too old. 🙁
To answer the OP, it's not hypocritical because when you spend money you're performing an act of worship to your God. It's just not the God you thought they were referring to.
The social and professional benefit of FB, when used toward those purposes in a deliberate, controlled manner, far outweighs any security concerns for me. We all have some kind of info on dozens of sites, if you've ever used a credit card or signed up for anything. And I'm not overly concerned with the NSA knowing, say, my favorite movies. Paranoia is more rightly aimed at smaller or shadier sites whose security is more suspect. I'd wager that no site is completely immune from such worries, but with FB you at least have a billion-dollar corporation capable of fixing any problems, and the benefit of statistical anonymity among billions of other users.
Everything else is just ad tracking, and that's easily dealt with via browser plugins.
i don't care about the nsa either. i don't even care about ad tracking. i'm talking more about companies i might apply to jobs for. tbh i don't filter myself online and a lot of friends that i have would be putting dumb shit on their walls so i just assume have no real identity online. like you said yea i could do it in a deliberate, controlled manner but that would sort of defeat the purpose to me cause i find that boring and facebook is supposedly something i would do in my free time.
i do have a linkedin which is basically just for career purposes.