Current rumours and other baseless tosh on facebook

[RootsBooster]

What ? If you think that facebook is full of twaddle--"don't go on it".

" It a portal to hell" ("Hell is other people " .John Paul Sartre ). It lets loose the monsters that reside in the "Id" of imaginary friends . Facebook friends are not real friends.

Real friends require cultivating by being in the presence of real people (human contact). Making friends requires personal skills and personality: charm,intelligence,warmth ,honesty,humour, etc. Making real friends takes time.

 

Socialising requires leaving your home and interacting with other people -mixing with fellow human beings.Getting out more and socialising contributes to a person's evolvement into a proper person. Staying indoors ,prattling to your imaginary friends, is not good for a person's mental health. So it goes.

 

I'm off out to see some real friends . Ting-a-ling.

 

I take it you didn't read my opening post, how am I supposed to go outside and interact with the people if they're in another country?

 

The 'what?' was in regards to this...

Go out in the street and shake a person's hand -and see how long it takes to get arrested. We laugh!!

[Cyclone]

Facebook friends are not real friends.

Real friends require cultivating by being in the presence of real people (human contact). Making friends requires personal skills and personality: charm,intelligence,warmth ,honesty,humour, etc. Making real friends takes time.

 

Socialising requires leaving your home and interacting with other people -mixing with fellow human beings.Getting out more and socialising contributes to a person's evolvement into a proper person. Staying indoors ,prattling to your imaginary friends, is not good for a person's mental health. So it goes.

 

I'm off out to see some real friends . Ting-a-ling.

 

Yeah... The weird thing is that all my facebook friends are real friends.

Admittedly some of them I don't see very often, I can't exactly pop out for a coffee with the guy who moved to Seattle, but we will meet up in April.

Some of the others, we will meet up this evening at 1930.

I have no friends on facebook that I wouldn't happily meet up with for a beer or a coffee.

[petemcewan]

I take it you didn't read my opening post, how am I supposed to go outside and interact with the people if they're in another country?

 

The 'what?' was in regards to this...

 

Of course I read your first post. What I said wasn't aimed at you. Take a chill pill.

I've found with this Forum,people are so bloody touchy.They seem to think a reply is some sort of personal insult.

 

I found your original observations quite insightful. Don't take things literally ."If they're in another country". Facebook internet communication is a poor substitute for face to face human interaction.

 

I do not consider you to be addicted to: Facebook,twitter, and instagram or whatever.

 

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Yeah... The weird thing is that all my facebook friends are real friends.

Admittedly some of them I don't see very often, I can't exactly pop out for a coffee with the guy who moved to Seattle, but we will meet up in April.

Some of the others, we will meet up this evening at 1930.

I have no friends on facebook that I wouldn't happily meet up with for a beer or a coffee.

 

Good for you. You've taken your evolution to a higher level. Write them a letter maybe one day. Go to their assistance when they fall sick. Offer them shelter if they become homeless.Empathise with them if they are depressed. Lend them a few quid when they're skint -and much more.

 

Don't take things literally -"guy who has moved to Seattle". You know exactly what I mean by "get out". So it goes.

Edited December 18, 2015 by petemcewan

[JackK0]

I don't go on FB too much anymore mainly because my timeline is filled with people sharing and liking all that false rubbish fake stories and meaningless posts about life.

 

The friends I have on there are my old school friends and family I do think Facebook is a great tool for finding people I found long long lost family on there just by searching family I no and then searching there friends and there friends and so on until I found people we haven't seen for 30 years amazing there would have been no way I could have seen them I don't think without it!

[Solution]

I've had a look today, and its full of pillocks with light sabres on their profile picture.

[Cyclone]

Of course I read your first post. What I said wasn't aimed at you. Take a chill pill.

I've found with this Forum,people are so bloody touchy.They seem to think a reply is some sort of personal insult.

 

I found your original observations quite insightful. Don't take things literally ."If they're in another country". Facebook internet communication is a poor substitute for face to face human interaction.

 

I do not consider you to be addicted to: Facebook,twitter, and instagram or whatever.

 

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Good for you. You've taken your evolution to a higher level. Write them a letter maybe one day. Go to their assistance when they fall sick. Offer them shelter if they become homeless.Empathise with them if they are depressed. Lend them a few quid when they're skint -and much more.

 

Don't take things literally -"guy who has moved to Seattle". You know exactly what I mean by "get out". So it goes.

 

Well, he's still my friend, and it's obviously difficult to meet up.

I know that he's been for a run this morning though, and he's going hiking in the mountains today (and they have snow). I'll see his photos from the hike tomorrow.

 

And the event arranged via facebook went perfectly yesterday, 30 people, club meal, drinks, taxi home. I got out thanks.

 

I'm not sure why I'd write anyone a letter these days, torture for them and me, my handwriting is awful. The rest of the suggestions are nothing to do with facebook though.

 

I wasn't insulted btw - I just dislike the anti FB fervour that some people display. They don't quite understand how it works, make something up, and then use that ignorance to criticise people who don't think like them.

I'm not going to criticise someone for choosing not to use FB. I will criticise them for judging other people who do use it, and particularly if they are ignorant.

[RootsBooster]

Well, he's still my friend, and it's obviously difficult to meet up.

I know that he's been for a run this morning though, and he's going hiking in the mountains today (and they have snow). I'll see his photos from the hike tomorrow.

 

And the event arranged via facebook went perfectly yesterday, 30 people, club meal, drinks, taxi home. I got out thanks.

 

I'm not sure why I'd write anyone a letter these days, torture for them and me, my handwriting is awful. The rest of the suggestions are nothing to do with facebook though.

 

I wasn't insulted btw - I just dislike the anti FB fervour that some people display. They don't quite understand how it works, make something up, and then use that ignorance to criticise people who don't think like them.

I'm not going to criticise someone for choosing not to use FB. I will criticise them for judging other people who do use it, and particularly if they are ignorant.

 

On my way to Seattle now with a crow bar and swag bag...

[Cyclone]

Made me chuckle RB.

[petemcewan]

I don't mean to be rude. But of course I understand how Facebook etc works.

 

I'd suggest that a review of what constitutes "friendship" might be enlightening. Aristotle's

Nicomachean Ethics is a place to start. Friendship has to be practiced to be of value. It cannot be done at a distance. A sociological review of Facebook reveals -what is called - a "weak network " of acquaintances . Acquaintances are not friends.

 

"Perhaps the central quality of some of my oldest friendships is that they have endured long periods of being apart" ( Love Undetectable , Reflections on Friendship, Sex and Survival , Andrew Sullivan ,p 194).

Making lasting friends requires more than wittering on -on Facebook-about what we had for breakfast ! So it goes .

 

I'm now off down the Sheath to make a whole cabal of new friends by buying them beer. Ting-a-ling (We laugh).

Edited December 20, 2015 by petemcewan

[Cyclone]

Well, that's pretty unfortunate. I better cancel my trip to my friends wedding, and tell him we're no longer coming to Seattle for a fortnight to celebrate my birthday.

 

Ah, but perhaps Aristotle had not heard of social media, or email, or indeed the phone.

Perhaps a 3000 mile move to a different continent (that would have been months of travel) was the effective end of a friendship to an ancient greek.

 

Or perhaps he's already a lasting friend, that seems likely. And so facebook is an excellent tool for keeping in touch, which is what I've been describing. Facebook is a tool, use it appropriately. Many of the anti-facebook posts read like someone criticising a screwdriver for not being good at knocking in nails.

 

I'd be interested to read the study, where's the link?

 

BTW - I didn't say that you don't know how facebook works. Did you think I was speaking about you in the plural when I said "they"?