someone here just showed me how to do facebook and I think it's lame. my profile for RTTP doesn't work right... I do have a personal account now, but have no clue how to link it.

Facebook rawks. Someone has to search your name to buddy up, or you can make a "badge" that links someone to your profile.

i hate facebook

Fuck that social networking shit.

I also was told to sign up for a buzznet account and then I found out that I already did like a year ago.
http://revaaron.buzznet.com/

It was a lot cooler before it started adding faggot applications and facebook messenger.

myspace is enough! Go out and get some exercise instead of being a fat social internet blob

*before it allowed people who aren't in college to join.

fuck on my dick

Facebook has its advantages, especially for finding old classmates.

facebook is definitely better than cryspace. most of the kids i know on facebook are either in college or at least doing something productive with their lives. myspace is just full of annoying teenage garbage and rapists.


...although i still use it to check out bands. blech.

What are you, a popup ad?

it's like I don't even know you anymore.

both sites should be dragged out into the street and shot to death.

facebook = seawars = awesome.. thats about it.

myspace just added apps like facebook did.

you'll be back.

yea, I'm taking a break.
I'm sick of reading people's updates and also making my own updates. It's nothing but self wankery. Some people are the worst. Half my feed is gone now because Wombat stopped posting as much WTF.

commendable. wish i could do it but im too linked in for band shit. maybe i'll finagle a break from it though.

rev 2008 says what?

I try to make a point or post some cool song 90% of the time and use it as a means of seeing if anyone's around the other 10%. My success rate sits at about 0%.

I post stuff and people laff and laff. Then I post something poignant about pooping.

Yup.

why is it so difficult to just not belong to these things? i hear so many people bitch and whine about how much they dislike Facebook, but are hopelessly addicted to the narcissism. just delete it and walk away. UNPLUG!

Exactly. It's fucking terrible. Fuck your Facebook. Fuck your twitter. "Oh. You didn't get an invite to the party? It's all over Facebook". Sorry. I didn't know Facebook was the only way to communicate nowadays.

couldn't agree more

actually, one of the VPs in my company believes that email is on the way out from company's too. Everything will be over social media. That includes resumes. There we some company where the CEO is getting rid of email all together in the next year or so. I think they are using chatter

Facebook can be full of weaksauce at times but I just can't take it seriously so it doesn't bother me too much. I have one but it is more to to talk to people I went to high school with because I hate talking on the phone.

I've gotten a fair amount of mileage out of Facebook... without it, my band wouldn't exist, there are people I've gotten to connect with more, it's easy to keep track of shows, and a lot of my friends on there are music friends who post rad things sometimes. May make me sem like a friendless loser, but no complaints or plans to stop using it, and this is from someone who resisted as long as I could.

I got rid of FB a few months back. I just kept hiding people from my feed because of the absolute fucking nonsense they would perpetually post. Haven't looked back since. When it comes to band shit, I'll make a phantom profile to admin the band page.

I think the only thing that really annoys me on facebook is that person that posts inspirational quote after inspirational quote...I am like STF up already. One or two is fine...but come on lol. But then again I am a snide cynic...

Yeah, people barely ever quote that shit properly, making it seem like they came up with it. that and people post song lyrics or poem snippets so that people think they're deep and intellectual. So people constantly updating their virtual buddies with what they are up to 16 times a day doesn't get under your skin?

I'm thinking of creating a ghost account just so I can admin my band pages.

I dont like having a personal account.

meh I just filter people out of my news feed, eventually my newsfeed will be blank at this rate lol at that point I suppose I will dump facebook

that's what I did too until eventually it was just people that I stay in contact with through text, phone and the like. That shit just isn't for me.

I don't mind texting actually, I am just not a fan of talking on the phone

Agreeeeeeed.

One of the few recent changes that I think is for the better is the way the news feed consolidates multiple people posting/sharing the same thing. It helps me not have to see 30+ people sharing the same so-hilarious George Takei or No Hope For the Human Race meme because they forgot that all their friends already "Like" those same pages.

The worst part about Facebook is listening to people that you know are regular Facebook users complain about how much they hate Facebook.

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over Patskrieg.
Which reminds me, where the fuck did RustyPS go?

Look at all these whiners

Using it to keep track of shows is the best part

Loading my FB Purity block list with every annoying keyword is a close second. Post about Kardashians or Charlie Sheen or Chik Fil A all you want 'cause I don't see that shit no mo

Phonechat sucks, SMS 4 lyfe

There are people I have fairly regular contact with that I don't have phone numbers of (usually long distance people) and the only times I text are when it's either the best way to get a hold of someone or they text me first. Not super into using the phone except for the Internet.

social networking is a wonderous creation with many benefits, it's an amazing tool with a lot of great options for bands and organizing get togethers.

however i really hate that argument, because it's used by everyone to internally justify the one thing that keeps them there: feeding their malignant narcissism.

plus, who wants to keep in contact with everyone they ever knew? it's like the idea that heaven is spending eternity surrounded by family and friends. that actually sounds like a hellish nightmare to me.

What's wrong with feeding your own narcissism? If someone doesn't like what I post then they're more than welcome to delete or hide me, I pretty much admit that one of my favorite things about using Facebook is that I can share my thoughts and other things I find interesting to people who might give a shit.

thank you Lamp, no one else admits it.

now watch a flood of agreements now that ice has been broken.

I don't keep contact with everyone I've ever known either. I delete people on a pretty regular basis, reject friend requests sometimes, and am very lazy about adding people. I only friend people I think might give a shit about me or have some quality that I may give a shit about, so my list is smaller than that of a lot of people and I prefer it that way.

rttp's forum is a social networking site. its just more centered around something alot of us have in common (metal/humor). facebook isnt that much different but its all inclusive. i've found that there are equal parts positive and negative interaction for both, depending on how and where you focus your efforts when utilizing each site.

Everyone has narcissistic characteristics in one form or another. I changed my cover photo to a scene from the big lebowski and I enjoyed exchanging witty movie quotes with a friend.

As for a potential argument about there being tons of tools on social networking... so what. Honestly, I'd rather have an enemy than another stranger, because knowing what I don't like helps me learn just as much about who I am as what I do like.

nope, gay as fuck, you're all narcissists.

disagreed.

keep a real journal.

tru dat...I will forever be posting LOLcat photos and other garbage

NO U

The search for self is very important in finding out what you have to offer the world, I honestly don't really believe you can reach your true potential as a human being without being somewhat narcissistic.

Everyone is a narcissist...especially the people who like to remind us that they are better and more special for NOT doing something

I could easily turn this thread into Philsophy 101 but it's pointless.
What I will say is EVERYONE is more annoying on fb than in real life. That includes myself and everyone else posting.
Why do you think I deleted Cher and Alx Casket? Annoying on facebook.

The only useful part of Facebook is the Events managing for parties and shit.

they should make "Facebook Lite" or something so you can just use the parts of it that are helpful (ie. events, band promotion, etc.) and sift out the bullshit like newsfeeds and status updates. I would pay a monthly fee for that.

Okay Mr. "Old News." If anyone finds my shit annoying, feel free to delete me and set me on ignore on here.

For the record, you re-added me a few days later, whined to me when I didn't accept right away, then when I did you deactivated a few days later. Been using zircon stones for suppositories lately?

I've never had Alx Casket on Facebook but if he's even half as annoying on there as he is on this board, I wouldn't last more than a day or two either

lol nice try aril

Lol @ a few days when it was over a month. You and.cher both tried adding me right away. I "re-added" you because made a "truce" via text message. You make a screenshot of it, why?
I can't believe you think people don't find you creepy or annoying. ASK ANYONE.
I don't read your feed.

The only thing creepy is your logged-in lies. Log out and post anonymously to tell me how you really feel. I'm used to your cowardice at this point.

^ also, it's reasons like this shit above why social networking can suck. People complaining about adding or readding or deleting other people. Does it matter that much?
I like my friends real, not e-friends.

You really think I'm Lamp nli? Sorry dude. I'm not a pussy. I'm logged in:

YOU

ARE

ANNOYING.

I only posted when you started talking shit about me. I'll see you at your next show, "real fake aril."

<insert shit talk about alx here>

continually bitching about something is now considered just as (if not more so) annoying as the subject you were initially complaing about.


Hereby naming this the "Hipster Effect"

Alex, that post really was me, I've been posting on my phone from a Greyhound bus.

Thanks for making me log in and not recognizing my typing style. Totally sick, bro.

I don't understand how being honest constitutes as bullying.

FIMs, by that definition we are all hipsters.

:C

maybe we are jim... maybe we are..

We are all human beings. Except Dwyer.

Dwyer is all that ever was.. and all that shall ever be.

I've travelled to many dimensions and many times, and still found a celestial Dwyer. The big bang of this universe was actually the amps of his band being too loud on their 2nd multiversal tour.

ITT:

Lies. You're a natural Charlie Chatterbox on the phone.

HO SCALE AND IMITATION CRAB MEAT, GUYS.

I had 34 minutes of phone time all of last month.
1500+ texts.

Here is what I think- and in before HYPOCRITE, i've been just as guilty of this in the past. Lately, I prefer face to face or telephone conversations for anything that requires discussion.

Men shouldn't be text messaging much - conversations and the like have no place via the blank and emotionless realm of text. For confirming and/or making plans or following up on something, surely text is fine. I, personally, love to hear peoples voices. I like to hear the tone in ones voice, the emotion, real laughter. I don't understand why people are afraid to real talk.

In a way, social media, text messaging etc. is turning us into less social creatures and less manly men. It disconnects us from actual human interaction. It feeds us the chemical rewards from the social "validation" (likes, messages, friend requests, pokes or whatever the fuck it is now) without the actual human interaction. You cannot form a strong bond with any human through a computer screen or a phone keyboard. Share a beer with me, talk to me over a fresh hunt, look me in the fucking eyes and talk to me. Don't send me facebook message if you want to talk about something.

This also leads people to not having any idea how to talk to strangers anymore. A man cannot approach a woman he does not know without fear of rejection. Awkward silences are now worse than nuclear war.

Every text convo I have involves at least one interlude of "was that serious or sarcastic? I can't tell".

Real conversations > anything else.

Texting is great when you have bad hearing and work in a datacenter with tons of white noise

Hanging out in person > everything

90% of my texts from last months were to Ross about Age of Wonders. El Oh el.

CRAB. MEAT.

BRING BACK REIMROC

You know who I miss? David Myatt.

this and more this

I can't hang out with rttp people IRL. too IMMATURE.

FOR THE EMPEROR

RELATED:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-21...s-psychologists-say-suspicious.html

you basically answered your own question about why people are afraid of real talk. they are afraid because they are afraid of people finding out they aren't who they say they are. you can be anyone you want behind FB, and those guilty of it know exactly who they really are inside. they believe that if enough people "like" something then they are "likeable". how many times have you been in a situation where it was a group of people, most of which just sit on their phones and don't interact with anyone, but will then go and post on FB about how much fun they had? or a couple who feel the need to broadcast what they are doing at obnoxious volumes because they think everyone cares, simply because their FB posts get "likes"? the lack of social interaction means demons are not being faced. combine that with the demise of punching-someone-in-the-face-for-being-a-douche and you have a volatile mix of fragile egos and inflated senses of self-worth.

granted RTTP is a form of social networking, but comparing a message forum about dicks and abortions to the exposé of ones entire life solely to feed the ego is not a valid argument. FB is making me hate social gatherings because it makes otherwise mundane and boring people feel like they are awesome for no reason. just because you were born does not mean you are anything.

wait what about nikki?

this is a prime example of what i'm talking about. oh you don't have FB for people to "like" your boring bullshit life? oh you must be a psychopath.

not everyone interacts the same way on FB either. granted many people do post inane worthless crap, and are very narcisstic, but its pretty inaccurate to make such a huge generalization that everyone acts the same way just because they participate on the same networking forum. how is being judgemental any better than being narcissistic?

THIS is fucked up.

STOP READING THE FUCKING DAILYMAIL

i like passing judgment about FB because it always gets frequent users' drawers in a bind.

LOL

not trying to defend facebook or the use there of. merely arguing that there is another side of the matter outside of broad generalizations. if that consitutues drawers being in a bind then so be it.

Never had a facebook account. I used to have a myspace. I think it might actually still exist. And it was used mostly for talking to bands and anything music related. So, I'd be hard pressed to say it's useless (obsolete at this point, yes) and as goes for FB.
I enjoy real conversations with real people in real life. I know you can have similar versions online but not quite as authentic. When someone tells you to your face that your band sucks or your opinion on something is way off-based you actually learn something and sharpen your own angle. When I'm online I don't even consider taking it personally because it's not personal.

You're so chill.

I think it's impossible to not sound conceited

*tips pink teacup, pours tea.
You are so genuine, good sir!

People are the fucking worst.

And how!