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I can live without facebook (in fact, I have never used it.) I could never live without the Google, and I can never envision a time when this will not be true.

I can live without facebook (in fact, I have never used it.) I could never live without the Google, and I can never envision a time when this will not be true. What am I missing here?

whatusername 17y ago
For my circle of non-tech friends.. Facebook has replaced email and IM. That's pretty big.
- nl 17y ago
  And photosharing. And gossip magazines. And sharing location ("I'm having beer at the pub. Come and join me") Oh, and they use it for little things like product recommendations ("I need a new washing machine. what do people like?") And then there's the whole "how do I fix my computer/car/whatever". Lots of people don't Google for it - they just ask on Facebook and wait for the original poster to Google it and reply to them But yeah.. apart from these things it's pretty useless really.
  - sunchild 17y ago
    Oddly enough, all of the things that you mentioned are useless to me.
    - BrandonM 17y ago
      Oddly enough, all of the things that he mentioned are crucial to 90%[1] of people aged 18-25[2]. [1] a slightly-educated guess [2] and many others as well, obviously
      - sunchild 17y ago
        [1] Wishful thinking? [2] Fickle user group.
  - what 17y ago
    I've rarely seen anyone ask for recommendations/questions on facebook. The few times that I have no one answers. Seems to me facebook is just a bunch of people screaming for attention and collecting "friends" like baseball cards. Useless.
- mclin 17y ago
  I've noticed in the last year or so that facebook doesn't work anymore for me. I'd txt a few days after sending a party invite on facebook and people'd be like, what invite? I think facebook got filled with too much noise.
  - der_ketzer 17y ago
    I agree, I need to search between 200 notifications about quizzes, games, etc etc and I miss "important" things about my friends. That's sad because I want to know what my friends are doing or what they did, not if they have reached level X in farmville or what's their "Photo of the day".
    - whatusername 17y ago
      Friend Lists and hiding Applications basically removes this pain completely. Block every crap application that appears in the field (takes about 3 seconds) and now I don't see any of that shit.
iseff 17y ago
To be fair, before you used Google, you likely thought you could live without totally fine. Perhaps if all your contacts, relationships, events, etc were already on Facebook, you might think you couldn't live without it.

I can live without facebook (in fact, I have never used it.) I could never live without the Google, and I can never envision a time when this will not be true. What am I missing here?

whatusername 17y ago

For my circle of non-tech friends.. Facebook has replaced email and IM. That's pretty big.

nl 17y ago
And photosharing. And gossip magazines. And sharing location ("I'm having beer at the pub. Come and join me") Oh, and they use it for little things like product recommendations ("I need a new washing machine. what do people like?") And then there's the whole "how do I fix my computer/car/whatever". Lots of people don't Google for it - they just ask on Facebook and wait for the original poster to Google it and reply to them But yeah.. apart from these things it's pretty useless really.
- sunchild 17y ago
  Oddly enough, all of the things that you mentioned are useless to me.
  - BrandonM 17y ago
    Oddly enough, all of the things that he mentioned are crucial to 90%[1] of people aged 18-25[2]. [1] a slightly-educated guess [2] and many others as well, obviously
    - sunchild 17y ago
      [1] Wishful thinking? [2] Fickle user group.
- what 17y ago
  I've rarely seen anyone ask for recommendations/questions on facebook. The few times that I have no one answers. Seems to me facebook is just a bunch of people screaming for attention and collecting "friends" like baseball cards. Useless.
mclin 17y ago
I've noticed in the last year or so that facebook doesn't work anymore for me. I'd txt a few days after sending a party invite on facebook and people'd be like, what invite? I think facebook got filled with too much noise.
- der_ketzer 17y ago
  I agree, I need to search between 200 notifications about quizzes, games, etc etc and I miss "important" things about my friends. That's sad because I want to know what my friends are doing or what they did, not if they have reached level X in farmville or what's their "Photo of the day".
  - whatusername 17y ago
    Friend Lists and hiding Applications basically removes this pain completely. Block every crap application that appears in the field (takes about 3 seconds) and now I don't see any of that shit.

iseff 17y ago

To be fair, before you used Google, you likely thought you could live without totally fine. Perhaps if all your contacts, relationships, events, etc were already on Facebook, you might think you couldn't live without it.