Poll -- Do you have a Facebook account?

[Jingthing]

About a QUARTER of the world's population now has a FACEBOOK account.

 

How does the Thaivisa crowd stack up with that?

 

 

 

[richard_smith237]

I know only a handful of people without a FB account.. One of them is my father!... 

 

Its a handy communication tool, it nice to see photos of friends and their growing families back home. 

There's some fun stuff on there, but it does seem a little too addictive for some and tends to bring out the narcissistic tendencies...  

 

[kunfish]

Mine is on life support. Don't really have a use for it anymore.

[gmac]

Yes I've got one but absolutely hate it and the constant attempts to get me to log in when I search for some information on a business but they can't be bothered to have a proper website just a facebook account.  What a waste of time, no relevant information ever available just a load of stupid pictures and crap comments. 

 

[transam]

I am tired of seeing what Mrs.Trans is eating on there when I have already seen it live....

 

 

 

[bert bloggs]

Yes in a fake name with a fake e mail address and used on a vpn , i just use it to look at pictures of family and friends who know its me but never contact me through it . big brother is watching you .

[transam]

  On 6/28/2017 at 2:35 AM, bert bloggs said:

Yes in a fake name with a fake e mail address and used on a vpn , i just use it to look at pictures of family and friends who know its me but never contact me through it . big brother is watching you .

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Do you have something to hide....?  

[Suradit69]

Have one. Only occasionally use messenger and never use the regular FB thing ... whatever it's called.  Joined some Thailand group and found it too lame and unwieldy. Have no interest in sharing what I ate for breakfast or other aspects of my life that even I find excruciatingly boring.

 

Use Twitter about once a month. 4cd 2 use 40 chrtrs 2 say smthng is 2 limtng

[PETERTHEEATER]

I read that You Tube, Facebook and Twitter are to merge into an media application named Youtwitface...

[lucjoker]

6 people in a restaurant ,

5 of them are on FB, 1 is staring true the window.....it is called "socializing"

 

80 friends on FB , but you never see them in real ?

Eat with them ,so you dont have to send them a picture of every single thing you eat or drink..........

 

It is Fake Book.....for anti social people ........

 

[transam]

  On 6/28/2017 at 6:51 AM, lucjoker said:

6 people in a restaurant ,

5 of them are on FB, 1 is staring true the window.....it is called "socializing"

 

80 friends on FB , but you never see them in real ?

Eat with them ,so you dont have to send them a picture of every single thing you eat or drink..........

 

It is Fake Book.....for anti social people ........

 

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Weeeeell, I have found a few long lost friends from yesteryear, so not all bad...

[seancbk]

  On 6/28/2017 at 6:07 AM, Suradit69 said:

Have one. Only occasionally use messenger and never use the regular FB thing ... whatever it's called.  Joined some Thailand group and found it too lame and unwieldy. Have no interest in sharing what I ate for breakfast or other aspects of my life that even I find excruciatingly boring.

 

Use Twitter about once a month. 4cd 2 use 40 chrtrs 2 say smthng is 2 limtng

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Twitter's character limit is 140 characters not 40 and as of 2016 any quotes, videos, or images no longer take up your limit.

 

You are a bit behind the times.
 

[catman20]

  On 6/28/2017 at 2:35 AM, bert bloggs said:

Yes in a fake name with a fake e mail address and used on a vpn , i just use it to look at pictures of family and friends who know its me but never contact me through it . big brother is watching you .

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i dont have f/b but the way you have it is the only way in my book

[catman20]

  On 6/28/2017 at 6:53 AM, transam said:

Weeeeell, I have found a few long lost friends from yesteryear, so not all bad...

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i dont want anyone from yesteryear finding me, if i did i would never of lost contact with them in the first place.

[Suradit69]

  On 6/28/2017 at 6:59 AM, seancbk said:

You are a bit behind the times.

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U r rite. 2 few 4 me anyway

I think my number was truncated by the internet auto-correct spirits.. 

[transam]

  On 6/28/2017 at 7:11 AM, catman20 said:

i dont want anyone from yesteryear finding me, if i did i would never of lost contact with them in the first place.

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So you don't want to have a chat with your chums from school days like I have...?

[Denim]

Nope.  But I do know several people that do.

 

Every now and then they have to reinvent themselves and start a new  account when some of their new ' friends '  turn nasty and start sending nasty comments or stalking them.

 

And surely facebook has done more to devalue the meaning of the word friend than any other site on the internet.

 

Still....there is no denying we live in the ' Look at me , look at me '  generation

and  washing your smalls in public seems to be more addictive than even porn.

 

 

 

 

[sanemax]

  On 6/28/2017 at 7:22 AM, Denim said:

Every now and then they have to reinvent themselves and start a new  account when some of their new ' friends '  turn nasty and start sending nasty comments or stalking them.

 

And surely facebook has done more to devalue the meaning of the word friend than any other site on the internet.

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All they have to do is to delete that friend from F/B , LOL , no need for them to delete themselves .

  They can also block people from being able to see their profile or to be able to contact them

[Rc2702]

My 2 closest friends have never had FB accounts and never been outside Europe.  We have been to amsterdam together 15 times and I can only remember boarding the flights. Pair of bores yes but they are my mates and we have not a single thing in common besides those trips to Amsterdam and a lot of rave tickets from days gone by.

[klauskunkel]

no have, no want, no care... mii chiwit.

[shadowofacloud]

Well, yes and no. I've got a dummy account to track news and updates, but no "friends" and I don't post stuff.

 

So basically using FB as a glorified RSS feed.

[Prbkk]

I have a dormant account. Can't see that I would ever use it. We sell every detail of our lives to these rotters at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitters, Instantgram, Pinterest.....they know, can trace, everything about your life. Everything. We give it to them in exchange for peanuts.

Good on the EU to sticking it to Google...with other countries to follow suit and the other companies under scrutiny. 

Try googling a news item: before too long you are taken to a site high on the list of returns but likely to be a subscription site....not because the story is better than other sites, or more widely read....simply because that provider has paid Google to have it given greater visibility. Posing as an honest broker, Google is rotten to the core. Same as ALL those US companies.

[Ulic]

I deactivated mine.

[sanemax]

  On 6/28/2017 at 7:56 AM, Prbkk said:

Try googling a news item: before too long you are taken to a site high on the list of returns but likely to be a subscription site....not because the story is better than other sites, or more widely read....simply because that provider has paid Google to have it given greater visibility.

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You can go to numerous free sites to get news .

BBC , SKY , CNN , Fox and mant other outlets , all free

Very few media outlets charge a fee to view their site

It just isnt true that news providers pay google to get to the top of the page .

Some companies do advertise on Google , and these are quite clearly marked as advertisement .

[sanemax]

  On 6/28/2017 at 7:56 AM, Prbkk said:

We sell every detail of our lives to these rotters at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitters, Instantgram, Pinterest.....they know, can trace, everything about your life.

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Why would anyone want to trace every aspect of my life ?

Do you think that theres some anonymous person wanting to watch everything that you do ?

   If there is someone out there like that , all they have to do is to send me a FB request , and then I can watch everything that they do , also 

[Prbkk]

  On 6/28/2017 at 8:04 AM, sanemax said:

You can go to numerous free sites to get news .

BBC , SKY , CNN , Fox and mant other outlets , all free

Very few media outlets charge a fee to view their site

It just isnt true that news providers pay google to get to the top of the page .

Some companies do advertise on Google , and these are quite clearly marked as advertisement .

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Almost every newspaper service has a subscription requirement. You may read up to a certain number of articles free each month but are then locked out; more commonly these days they have "premium" articles, ie never free, only open to subscribers.

I think you will find that there is a nexus between advertising on google, google analytics and the positioning of returns: for ALL businesses, including media ( but excluding services such as ABC, BBC, NPR , DW, etc). Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Prbkk]

  On 6/28/2017 at 8:07 AM, sanemax said:

Why would anyone want to trace every aspect of my life ?

Do you think that theres some anonymous person wanting to watch everything that you do ?

   If there is someone out there like that , all they have to do is to send me a FB request , and then I can watch everything that they do , also 

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If it doesn't bother you, then that's your choice.

[sanemax]

  On 6/28/2017 at 8:12 AM, Prbkk said:

Almost every newspaper service has a subscription requirement. You may read up to a certain number of articles free each month but are then locked out; more commonly these days they have "premium" articles, ie never free, only open to subscribers.

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TBF , People write the articles and its only fair that you should pay them to read what they have written.

It you would like to read their articles in print, you will have to buy a newspaper

But those are articles , the main news is usually always free .

 

 

[sanemax]

  On 6/28/2017 at 8:12 AM, Prbkk said:

I think you will find that there is a nexus between advertising on google, google analytics and the positioning of returns: for ALL businesses, including media ( but excluding services such as ABC, BBC, NPR , DW, etc). Correct me if I'm wrong.

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   I thought that it was solely done on click and popularity , even so , if you do not find the source that you want, you can scroll down , or even explore a bit and go to page two

[Techno Viking]

Had one but forgot the login details a few years back.