Facebook: Nothing But Trouble?

[Thai Gibbon]

I find it hard to fathom why every single website or business has to be linked to facebook now and have a like option. Like its shoved down your throat without choice.

Thats why I too believe its more than just an innocent social networking site. They are watching us. The sheep have fallen for it. Half the world are walking round on it on their smartphones. They don't look where they walk down the street whilst gazing into their smackberrys..sorry blackberrys or high phones...sorry iphones..

[mania]

I find it hard to fathom why every single website or business has to be linked to facebook now and have a like option. Like its shoved down your throat without choice.

I could be wrong but IMO the like feature is there

to opt you into their news/updates

They no longer have to spam everyone in cyber world in the hopes of hitting someone

truly interested in their product etc.

When thought of that way it is actually a better more polite system than the old

spam email system. It is left to you to decide if you want to hear about them in your news feed.

It is easier for them because like someone mentioned about emailing so many different family members now

a business needs only do a single update & it reaches all those who clicked their like button because

they are interested in that company

Edited April 5, 2013 by mania

[Louisblackbird]

I use Facebook so my famy know I'm sr

Alive while traveling South east Asia by motorcycle and my children can visualize where I am,posting photos of the country

Found out about my friend who died last week

And was able to

To contact his family

I always delete my account when I'm Home

Back in my country

But fb does cause problems

Use it to your advantage

Good luck face bookers

[XINLOI]

I agree with Soutpeel, It is a great way of keeping in touch with friends. That is my only regret of deleting my profile, but looking back it isn't worth having the missus questioning every photo or comment that includes you or something you did...That and the cringe-worthy photos of what I just cooked her for tea!

You FB information is still there my friend. It is very difficult to remove an account from FB. Type in your old info, you will be brought up to date with your supposedly deleted account. It is there forever......

[scribe]

The article the OP refers to mainly served to demonstrate the writer's lack of knowledge about Facebnook. Quote:

"One of the problems with Facebook is that, with the exception of private
messaging, your interactions with your Facebook friends are generally
visible to all of your other friends. The moment that you “friend” a
Cambodian woman on Facebook, this event will be broadcast to all of your
other Facebook friends."

That is BS and only true if you classify everybody you interact with as a "friend". Regrettably, this is what a lot of people do and it produces a hopeless amount of clutter on your Facebook News Feed. You can very easily create categories such as "close friends", foreign friends", Cambodian friends", "family", "work friends" etc and and set your privacy settings so that specific content addressed or received from such groups is ONLY seen by the people in these categories.

Go here if you want to learn more about privacy settings:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B8F0MN6

[chonabot]

Seems like a lot of people are using facebook without having gone to the trouble of learning how to use all of the options.

It is not for everybody, but it can be very helpful, particularly the poker

I used to make money selling the Texas Holdem chips via ebay and never once got found out about my multiple affairs...

I since learned from my mistakes and now use it mainly for more profitable reasons .

If you wish to remove data from your profile, simply 'remove' it using the Edit/remove option. It will not return whether or not your deactivate and reactivate your account.

Edited April 5, 2013 by chonabot

[FredLee]

I have a facebook account for the same reason I have a thaivisa account; they are beneficial to me. While neither is perfect, I think both are pretty good.

[BoonToong]

Why do anyone need a facebook-account?? To share your pathetic lives with the rest of the world!

What purpose does it serve?

So I can post pics and little ditties about what I'm doing in Thailand. My kids (in UK) do the same and I get to stay a little more involved in what's going on with my family back home.

What was the question?

[Mrjlh]

As soon as you set it up go into the security settings and set every single choice to "Only Me". Because if yo don't the advertisements and SPAM will over whelm you. Then and only then do you start changing the settings to more friendly ones. Trust me on this. FB has so many security holes its unbelievable. They want you to be friends with every one in the world. Including people for whatever personal reasons, you have cut ties with. FB seems to think you are going to be friends again!

[StreetCowboy]

Why do anyone need a facebook-account?? To share your pathetic lives with the rest of the world!

What purpose does it serve?

I use it to get vicarious enjoyment from the pathetic lives of my acquaintances, since my own is so dull as to be not worth publishing on facebook.

Also to keep abreast of what friends and former colleagues are doing in whatever part of the world they are in now.

SC

[DoctorG]

Seems to me to be a lot of hot air about nothing. If you keep your "friends" to people you actually know, then FB can be a good tool. I use FB mainly for photo sharing and to let my far flung family know what country I might happen to now be in.

My friends/family and I post very little so it is not intrusive.

I believe that those with Twitter are far more into broadcasting every moment of their boring lives.

[theblether]

It's called Social Networking for a reason, there seems to have been a surge recently on Thaivisa of people declaring how anti-social they are, and how few farang friends, ( in some cases none ) that they have.......and yet they post on here. This contingent reminds me of the no mates at school, squirreling around in the corners while the rest of us got on with job of building lifetime friendships.

A prime example of the power of Facebook happened to me last March, I was in the Boys Brigade for years and there was a 60th Anniversary dinner taking place. The BB Brigade tracked me down through fb and invited me to the do. I was stunned, and I mean stunned, that of all the people that turned up, that of all the members that had gone through the company in 60 years, the keynote speech was about me. Half way through the speech the keynote speaker invited me to stand up and finish the story, which I duly did. There was a rapturous round of applause by the assembled company as I turned the story round to recognize a long forgotten member of the brigade, a young man called Steel. He was the Joe 90 type, he was terrible at every sport but very intelligent. The fact he was terrible wouldn't stop him from always showing up and trying his best. We were caught in a winter squall while hill walking at the age of 15 and Steel was in tears, there wasn't anything I could do to help him, we were all in it together. Then he said something to me that I will never forget " Don't worry about me, I'll be there at the end "......and he was.

Young Steel taught me a lesson that day that I will never forget......

Anyway, back on topic, I met 50 or 60 people that night that were important to me at one point in my life, I don't know how they would have found me without fb. I'm grateful they did.

Thaivisa is also a Social medium, for all the bitter and twisted clowns sniping from the corners, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of members that interact with each other socially. That's what makes the twisted trolls look all the more pathetic, they don't realize how many people here are known to each other in the real world, and how much enjoyment we get from each others company.

So rather than bickering about the worlds biggest social media website that many of us use properly and get great enjoyment from, ask yourself, what have I become? The little no mates squirreling in the corner? If that's the case, then that's sad, very sad.

I appreciate and thoroughly enjoy the social interaction that both fb and TV bring to me, and I know for a fact, I'm not alone.

Just sayin'

[MrWorldwide]

Deleted my FB account shortly after seeing 'The Social Network' a couple of years back and haven't missed it. Felt a similar sense of relief to changing mobiles a year or so later - all I have to do now is change my name and I'll be ready to move into that shack in Tasmania. Now, where did I leave that tinfoil sombrero ?

[rotary]

FaceBook or FarceBook as many call it should be shut down. It has caused more divorces and international problems than it is worth. It should be banned.

[Beetlejuice]

Facebook is about a bunch of morons who like to display to the world their beautiful, most cleverest, most talented children in the universe, how they have succeeded in life way above everyone else, what a great time they’re having and how outgoing and contemptible they can be.

The reality is, that these are not persons of any true character, have lost all confidence in themselves and have lost the skills of interaction with real people in the real world. If not posing on facebook, I very much doubt if anyone would be interested in their exploits within their alleged perfect worlds.

It is all as fake as fake can be.

Welcome to the modern world.

4052 posts on an anomynous forum later!!!

It appears that farcebook users have a low standard of education and cannot spell.

ANONYMOUS.

A-NONY-MOUS.

It is fact that many farcebook users are nomies and also displays the low levels of intelligence of those who liked your post.

Would anyone like to join them on farcebook? I don’t think so.

[chonabot]

FaceBook or FarceBook as many call it should be shut down. It has caused more divorces and international problems than it is worth. It should be banned.

Facebook doesn't cause divorces...ill matched/suspicious/philandering couples do

[mad mary]

Facebook is about a bunch of morons who like to display to the world their beautiful, most cleverest, most talented children in the universe, how they have succeeded in life way above everyone else, what a great time they’re having and how outgoing and contemptible they can be.

The reality is, that these are not persons of any true character, have lost all confidence in themselves and have lost the skills of interaction with real people in the real world. If not posing on facebook, I very much doubt if anyone would be interested in their exploits within their alleged perfect worlds.

It is all as fake as fake can be.

Welcome to the modern world.

4052 posts on an anomynous forum later!!!

It appears that farcebook users have a low standard of education and cannot spell.

ANONYMOUS.

A-NONY-MOUS.

It is fact that many farcebook users are nomies and also displays the low levels of intelligence of those who liked your post.

Would anyone like to join them on farcebook? I don’t think so.

yeah the red squiggly line told me that i'd spelt it wrongly, if i'd corrected it you wudda had xxxx all to post about.

[Beetlejuice]

Facebook is about a bunch of morons who like to display to the world their beautiful, most cleverest, most talented children in the universe, how they have succeeded in life way above everyone else, what a great time they’re having and how outgoing and contemptible they can be.

The reality is, that these are not persons of any true character, have lost all confidence in themselves and have lost the skills of interaction with real people in the real world. If not posing on facebook, I very much doubt if anyone would be interested in their exploits within their alleged perfect worlds.

It is all as fake as fake can be.

Welcome to the modern world.

4052 posts on an anomynous forum later!!!

It appears that farcebook users have a low standard of education and cannot spell.

ANONYMOUS.

A-NONY-MOUS.

It is fact that many farcebook users are nomies and also displays the low levels of intelligence of those who liked your post.

Would anyone like to join them on farcebook? I don’t think so.

yeah the red squiggly line told me that i'd spelt it wrongly, if i'd corrected it you wudda had xxxx all to post about.

wudda had xxxx? Never hears of such words whares ids come frum.

Is this some sort of facebook slang, or have you been watching too many old episodes of, The Beverly Hillbillies?

[pgs]

I set up a FB page with a fake name & an email address that was given to no-one I know.

It has no photos of people or anything that can be connected to me.

The list of 'people you could know' FB sends out to encourage linking regularly contains 8 - 10 people that I do know.

If I haven't used any even remotely identifiable details, and details that no-one I know could know, how does FB generate a list containing so many people that I do know from a DB of supposedly multi-millions of people?

The email being used has no people listed in the contacts, and does not connect to any of my regular email accounts.

All I can put it down to is some variant of spyware used by FB.

Anyone got any ideas?

[BlackArtemis]

I set up a FB page with a fake name & an email address that was given to no-one I know.

It has no photos of people or anything that can be connected to me.

The list of 'people you could know' FB sends out to encourage linking regularly contains 8 - 10 people that I do know.

If I haven't used any even remotely identifiable details, and details that no-one I know could know, how does FB generate a list containing so many people that I do know from a DB of supposedly multi-millions of people?

The email being used has no people listed in the contacts, and does not connect to any of my regular email accounts.

All I can put it down to is some variant of spyware used by FB.

Anyone got any ideas?

Are your age and location entered crrectly

work or schooling?

Maybe using the same machine and having to do something with the other facebook cookies?

otherwise, it's tinfoil hat time

[bangarang]

Funny how most of you that are against facebook seem like your back in the past ranting about how you hate technology. The fact is that its a tool that can bring family and friends closer together while we live out our dreams over here in the LoS. Just embrace the technology we have and be thankful that we have such brilliant ways of connecting with people.

[bangarang]

I set up a FB page with a fake name & an email address that was given to no-one I know.

It has no photos of people or anything that can be connected to me.

The list of 'people you could know' FB sends out to encourage linking regularly contains 8 - 10 people that I do know.

If I haven't used any even remotely identifiable details, and details that no-one I know could know, how does FB generate a list containing so many people that I do know from a DB of supposedly multi-millions of people?

The email being used has no people listed in the contacts, and does not connect to any of my regular email accounts.

All I can put it down to is some variant of spyware used by FB.

Anyone got any ideas?

Most likely its information you entered. For instance, if you put where you work/worked it will seek out others that worked there too. Its all about the information you provide to them.

and multi-millions you say? not even close!

1.06 billion monthly active users (MAU) as of December 31, 2012

[joecos]

I agree with Soutpeel, It is a great way of keeping in touch with friends. That is my only regret of deleting my profile, but looking back it isn't worth having the missus questioning every photo or comment that includes you or something you did...That and the cringe-worthy photos of what I just cooked her for tea!

OP, you need to think like the Thai woman. You must have at least 3 FB accounts. Different circles of friends get to see different stuff.

How can any westerner think like a Thai.

[StreetCowboy]

Funny how most of you that are against facebook seem like your back in the past ranting about how you hate technology. The fact is that its a tool that can bring family and friends closer together while we live out our dreams over here in the LoS. Just embrace the technology we have and be thankful that we have such brilliant ways of connecting with people.

It's worse than the telephone, so it is.

[Beetlejuice]

Funny how most of you that are against facebook seem like your back in the past ranting about how you hate technology. The fact is that its a tool that can bring family and friends closer together while we live out our dreams over here in the LoS. Just embrace the technology we have and be thankful that we have such brilliant ways of connecting with people.

True to a point.

Social networking can be a useful faculty and beneficial if it is used as just that; a form of communication technology.

The problems arise when participating in social networking becomes an addiction and a mainstream of people`s lives. There are those who would be unable to delete their FB accounts, almost affined with drug taking, smoking or drinking for many. These people`s lives are lacking in real social skills and because of this, online social networking is in many cases their only means to communicate and interact outside of their boxed mundane lifestyles.

[Indrid Cold]

what is a facebook?

[bangkockney]

FaceBook or FarceBook as many call it should be shut down. It has caused more divorces and international problems than it is worth. It should be banned.

This highlights the problem with the world: take the easy way out and blame everything but the root cause of our problems.

Edited April 5, 2013 by bangkockney

[mania]

what is a facebook?

It is kind of like a cyber version of Thailand.

Folks either love it for what it offers or blame every conceivable problem on it.

How it is run, what type of people inhabit it etc. etc. etc.

[Indrid Cold]

what is a facebook?

It is kind of like a cyber version of Thailand.

Folks either love it for what it offers or blame every conceivable problem on it.

How it is run, what type of people inhabit it etc. etc. etc.

Like this app Line that i have been more or less forced to install.

If i fail to comunicate the right sticker back to my gf an avalanche of drivel floods my phone as result.

[theblether]

what is a facebook?

It is kind of like a cyber version of Thailand.

Folks either love it for what it offers or blame every conceivable problem on it.

How it is run, what type of people inhabit it etc. etc. etc.

Like this app Line that i have been more or less forced to install.

If i fail to comunicate the right sticker back to my gf an avalanche of drivel floods my phone as result.

been there