Facebook: in your opinion...

[Slots]

I only take a look at it about once every 3 weeks, and I never post.

 

[RavenZ]

F) facebook is 100% drama deleted 2 1/2yrs ago smartest thing I could've done with the exception of quitting analogs

 

[duckwarrior]

F ) Deactivated mine two weeks ago. I keep going through periods where I deactivate it for a while then get back on. I am officially done and I quit for good! Way too much drama, particularly putting strain on my bf & I's relationship. Ya I talked to a lot of family members and friends on there but they will just have to find another way to contact me.

 

[Pictor]

F) for F the drama, the mass reposts, and people talking crap about everyone/everything.
i got rid of my facebook 3 years ago, and i have ben 98% drama free since. - lost alot of "friends" but thats goes without saying, apparently they werent friends in the first place

Lol I couldn't agree more. I've never even had an account

Same here: F

 

[Jorge22]

F) I know exactly what FB is but I've never used it and never will as I can remember FB banning a few ecig shops, I don't like the way it becomes mandatory in many occasions and monopolies aren't allowed, it's absolutely futile for most people and promotes futility and I hate to see groups of friends or families sitting at the restaurant and no one's talking, everyone's just using FB. It may have been a good idea but it's definitely become sour...

 

[casper304]

D) only on there to talk to old friends and family

 

[spartanstew]

D.

But it's not so much talking with old friends and family, it's just seeing what they're up to. Most of my facebook "friends" are people I went to highschool (30 years ago) and College (25 years ago). People I wouldn't see or call, but am still interested in what's going on with their lives.

 

[Caro123]

I go in spits and spats going for months without checking in then check in to post me singing and playing guitar - keeping in touch with the photos of grand kids and a handful of people. probably should take a peek it has been five months, but haven't been singing much lately.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

D I guess. I ran a BBS in the late '80's and I'm very much interested in the idea of 'electronic communication'. When I was trying to maintain 'e-mail and voice-mail contact' with some very dear friends of mine in Southern Maryland after I moved to Southern West Virginia, I was told "You should get on Facebook, everyone here is using it". Eventually I gave in and created an account there. I was slightly delighted that it was also now 'easier' to stay in touch with some family members that I haven't seen in 35+ years. Then I was friends again with a couple people from my High School days that I was friends with before.. After 5 or 6 years, I now have more 20 friends when I was only expecting to have 4 or 5.. Two extensions (NoScript and AdBlock Latitude) keep ads at bay just about everywhere, and the program Social Fixer makes Facebook a little 'less of a hassle to use' for me.

 

[KattMamma]

F FB!!

Yeah, G+, Twitter, and all the others are also sucky, but FB is supremely bad.

I read an article a few years ago detailing how CVS uses customer's pharmaceutical purchases to show relevant drug ads to FB users. WHAT???? Yeah, it was a detailed article, explaining how they got around the HIPPA laws to do this. I was livid. At the time, I was using CVS for my prescriptions - stopped using my card there, and eventually moved prescriptions to a locally owned pharmacy.

A quick search didn't turn up the original article I read, but here's a few others that detail the problems with FB and your medical privacy :

How Facebook Plans On Using Your Prescription Drug Purchase History, And How To Stop Them | ThinkProgress

Campaign for Prescription Privacy - Patient Privacy Rights

Facebook Now Knows What You're Buying at Drug Stores - The Wire

 

[DoctorJ]

The only reason I have a FB page is so my wife has another account to play Farmville on I did have one in the past, however, I got invites from people I knew in high school and some other friends and they posted the most stupid I canceled that account after a week!