If you can't figure out how to get value out of facebook, you're doing it wrong.
Facebook.
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As mpbiz requests, enlighten us. And please avoid the tedious marketing platitudes. We're all marketers. We know that FB can be used to generate leads. And we all know that's not the theme of this thread.
So marketing aside, tell us how to "get value out of facebook." Rather than post something vague and condescending, post something worthwhile for once.
Are you referring to checking out hot girls? hot guys? or networking? getting to know someone? or are you referring to Facebook sales?
Cmon Jeffrey
Evidence Facebook objectively sucks:
1. It leads to fucking depression.
2. Nobody's even remotely honest or transparent on Facebook. It's all about image crafting. Personally, this makes me lose faith in my friends and family.
3. Study finds your newsfeed is actually capable of spreading misery and angst on a viral scale:
Yes, I know you can use it for marketing or getting laid.
That's why I have it (for marketing that is, I don't get laid anymore).
Besides exploiting the masses, it has very little use.
Fuck Facebook.
1. It leads to fucking depression.
2. Nobody's even remotely honest or transparent on Facebook. It's all about image crafting. Personally, this makes me lose faith in my friends and family.
3. Study finds your newsfeed is actually capable of spreading misery and angst on a viral scale:
Yes, I know you can use it for marketing or getting laid.
That's why I have it (for marketing that is, I don't get laid anymore).
Besides exploiting the masses, it has very little use.
Fuck Facebook.
Here is the proper way to use Facebook and not get depressed or kill yourself after seeing all the pregnancy posts. 
There is a thing called "interests". It's located somwhere on the left side of your profile when you scroll down. Here you can define your interests by topics.
For instance "business". After that you add as many pages of websites that you generally follow "techcrunch, inc, business this, business that". Most of the time, the sites and blogs with daily published content are updating their facebook pages with interesting content from their sites.
Snooze all the posts that you don't like (facebook takes this into account) by selecting "dont show this kind of shit again".
Click "turn on notifications" on the posts you like and facebook will push more of that to your newsfeed.
Now the best thing. With interests defined, you will be able to completely disregard the default newsfeed stream, since now, you have different newsfeeds based on your interests to choose from.
So you scroll down, select your interest newsfeed, and you get a feed of things that you really want to see.
In the interests settings, apart from selecting pages, you can select certain people that you would like to follow as well and see their interesting stuff based on your preferred interest.
There is a thing called "interests". It's located somwhere on the left side of your profile when you scroll down. Here you can define your interests by topics.
For instance "business". After that you add as many pages of websites that you generally follow "techcrunch, inc, business this, business that". Most of the time, the sites and blogs with daily published content are updating their facebook pages with interesting content from their sites.
Snooze all the posts that you don't like (facebook takes this into account) by selecting "dont show this kind of shit again".
Click "turn on notifications" on the posts you like and facebook will push more of that to your newsfeed.
Now the best thing. With interests defined, you will be able to completely disregard the default newsfeed stream, since now, you have different newsfeeds based on your interests to choose from.
So you scroll down, select your interest newsfeed, and you get a feed of things that you really want to see.
In the interests settings, apart from selecting pages, you can select certain people that you would like to follow as well and see their interesting stuff based on your preferred interest.
Facebook is the most powerful demonstration of the ugly side of giving the power of publishing to the commoner. Democracy is blindly awarded such noble credentials, but it is quite another thing to be subjected first hand to what small minded purposes the vast majority of "the people" apply their liberties.
The true value of 95%+ of social site participation (including forums) is in cultivating traditional offline contacts and relationships, which almost nobody does. Almost everything else is a waste of time (like this post I've just spent 3 minutes writing).
The true value of 95%+ of social site participation (including forums) is in cultivating traditional offline contacts and relationships, which almost nobody does. Almost everything else is a waste of time (like this post I've just spent 3 minutes writing).
My entire feed turned into baby pictures and my friends bitching about bullshit. I deactivated my account a bit ago. I don't miss it. Probably won't be back.
If they care to keep in touch, they have my address, phone number, and email.
If they care to keep in touch, they have my address, phone number, and email.
I dislike communication on facebook but can't pretend that I find text messaging that much more edifying.
I've deactivated a few times but it's hard to completely leave as it's used to arrange things, and without it I'd be even more of a hermit. e.g Football (Soccer) each week.
My pro tips for keeping facebook...hide your birthday date so it doesn't pop up, and turn your timeline off so no one can post on it. There's never any need for messages to be made public except for reasons of vanity in 99% of all cases.
I've deactivated a few times but it's hard to completely leave as it's used to arrange things, and without it I'd be even more of a hermit. e.g Football (Soccer) each week.
My pro tips for keeping facebook...hide your birthday date so it doesn't pop up, and turn your timeline off so no one can post on it. There's never any need for messages to be made public except for reasons of vanity in 99% of all cases.
There are better examples to demonstrate the shortcomings of society. You can't blame Facebook for being the mirror that reflects the values of society. Is there some magical website where people are transparent and only speak of things with deep meaning of which they are experts? Just get it over with and say you hate everyone and the reason is that you see the things in them that you hate in yourself.
Sure, political polls for one. But I don't see how this negates Facebook's role in facilitating bullshit.
Facebook doesn't reflect society so much as it incentivizes people to behave in certain ways.
But in a way you're right - some of my problems with Facebook are just people in general. From afar, many (most) people are a bunch of predictable lemmings, and it depresses me. Acting like mindless biological robots who's principles and opinions are entirely contingent upon the ebb and flow of trivial social memes. I know we can do better as a species.
Yes, it's called WickedFire. Or any other number forums in which people open up to each other about real shit and/or drop domain-specific knowledge.
Even Reddit's better than facebook.
Anonymity breeds brutal honesty. Or brutal trolling. In any case, it's either refreshing or entertaining, so fuck it.
What a load of bullshit.
You just lost all credibility with that last bit, buddy.
"OH, I'M UNABLE TO PERFORM BASIC INTROSPECTION, SO INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH MY OWN ISSUES, I'LL JUST FIND THOSE SAME ISSUES IN OTHER PEOPLE AND HATE THEM FOR IT INSTEAD OF MYSELF. I NEED THERAPY."
What is that, an Eckart Tolle quote? lol
I'm pretty sure that level of personal misdirection only happens in Hallmark Channel movies.
I know the feeling.
When I see someones birthday come up in the feed I generally ignore it, unless it's someone who I haven't seen in a while.
The worst is when you get a ton of happy birthdays on your page, so you think fuck I have to thank them for it now. I used to write some gay shit like "thanks for all the birthday wishes guys!". Fucking cringe.
Now I just "like" the comments and forget about it. Luckily for me I am getting less of them, due to becoming an outcast from working on my business.
Such is life.
Here's a good example of Facebook. Gotta admit, I never knew IQ was measured in percentage points, and it was possible to get 173% on something. Have we really become this fucken stupid? I sure hope not.
Here's a good example of Facebook. Gotta admit, I never knew IQ was measured in percentage points, and it was possible to get 173% on something. Have we really become this fucken stupid? I sure hope not.
Are you referring to the way people measure their e-penis by the number of Facebook "friends" they have?
Or did you actually find this on Facebook?
I have about 450 - winning...
Facebook is a constant reminder that there are millions of people who believe anything that advertisers sell.
GimpSpack, here's an article you might find interesting...
The Flight From Conversation - New York Times
It's about how people are losing the ability to hold conversations as social, text and email become more pronounced in their lives.
Fascinating!
I don't even own a smartphone. Literally use a £25 phone. I've completely distanced myself from all the "noise" that social media and other such garbage "inventions" create.