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sealwhiskers

A facebook moment that froze time

Jan 21, 2012 00:26

I came home after a long (but good day) and did some internetzing just to wind down, and then I guess I made the mistake of logging on to faceboob. (which I don't check into that terribly often, maybe a few times a week or so). You know how faceboob makes "friend suggestions" for you periodically...well today was epic ( Read more... )

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jophan January 22 2012, 12:17:12 UTC

I'm saddened to see all those comments above me. Personally, I have never had any problems that even remotely resemble what you describe. I am convinced that me being male is not unrelated to this fact. On the contrary. It's still a very lopsided world.

sealwhiskers January 22 2012, 20:21:02 UTC

Maybe you never saw anyone on fb that really bothered you in your life. Or you're not bothered much by assholes. I think that would make a big difference with the fb experience.

jophan January 23 2012, 09:20:35 UTC

I'm bothered by assholes in real life, but on Facebook I just hide updates from them and forget about them, it's true.

geezer_also January 22 2012, 17:00:48 UTC

Things like this are why it's hard to have nice things.
I have a fb account because most of my HP friends all did and they pretty much left LJ. I rarely go on it.
I skim thru every couple of days, mostly to see what family have posted. I almost never read the recommendations.
I have the added advantage of being a guy and so do not have to worry about stalkers; my biggest problem are people who post dirty jokes.
I'm sorry you had an otherwise good day partially ruined.

sealwhiskers January 22 2012, 20:19:04 UTC

I've had the same experience you've had, with good people and good writers leaving LJ for fb, and suddenly they stop writing anything interesting. Basically, I was in the best poetry community on here, and also a great women support community, and some writing related ones that were pretty damn good too. They all vanished and the communities are ghost towns today.

Sad :(

That's why I don't take all of us on LJ and the communities we have here for granted one second. I know what the options are, and how much poorer they are.

kejn January 23 2012, 21:30:50 UTC

speaking of people (or as they say in scrubs; bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling) have you heard of this?

http://svt.se/2.161944/1.2646019/information_in_english

(for swedish tv, i'm pretty impressed after having seen the first episode.)

lelain January 25 2012, 15:04:26 UTC

Wow! That is scary! I don't have a FB account because there are so many people I really don't want looking me up. My brother-in-law's wife keeps harping at me to get a FB account "so that we can stay in touch". If she wants to stay in touch she can email or call me - neither of whch she does. I don't want to mix my real life with my online life - with the exception of here where I can open up to my elder sis.