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brownbabygirl

red_devil wrote: »

dont friends and family actually speak on the phone or see each other. I think thats even worse. F and F are boring each other in front of a screen and not actually talking.:eek: in person.

:rotfl: you just dont get it. boring the whole world with your thoughts on MSE (see your own originated threads) could be seen as worse than on fb.

Zazen999

brownbabygirl wrote: »

:rotfl: you just dont get it. boring the whole world with your thoughts on MSE (see your own originated threads) could be seen as worse than on fb.

What DO you mean???
soaps and drinking

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

brownbabygirl

Zazen999 wrote: »

What DO you mean???
soaps and drinking

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

cruel:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

SugarSpun

red_devil wrote: »

dont friends and family actually speak on the phone or see each other.

I wish. I'm from the UK, Husband's American. I've lived in four countries. He's lived in four countries. Three of these countries overlap, but we've only lived in one of them together. I have a network of family in two countries and friends over all four - plus various friends who now live in other countries again. Husband is the same. Keeping in touch with our friends and family on the phone would bankrupt us inside a year, not to mention exhaust us, since we'd have to take time zones into account and be up half the night to catch my cousin and his partner in NZ (or my good friend and hers in Australia) after they got home from work. It's hard enough calling Husband's greataunt in the US at 2am on a Sunday morning.

Facebook's not the problem, although it does seem to be making it much easier for the OP's husband to communicate with these women. The problem as I see it is that he's bored and probably a little bit alarmed, since he's clearly staring down the barrel of 30 more years like this and obviously looking for a way to make his life more interesting.

OP, you've been in and out of here all day trying to convince posters here that they're wrong and your lives aren't boring. You'd be better off trying to convince your husband of that - by going out and doing something new if that's what it takes. Why not start by getting a half bottle of champagne (should be cheap after New Years) and serving Bucks Fizz with dinner? Perhaps putting on a party dress to do it? Suggesting you go out and build a snowman together when the neighbours are asleep? Spontaneity doesn't have to be expensive.

maggied_2

As much as the above threads have amused me it's a bit rich for any of us who 'talk' to people online to sneer at anyone else doing the same is it not

OK carry on for a bit and then let's get back to the OP;)

Zazen999

maggied wrote: »

As much as the above threads have amused me it's a bit rich for any of us who 'talk' to people online to sneer at anyone else doing the same is it not

OK carry on for a bit and then let's get back to the OP;)

I totally agree....people can't say one thing is boring whilst simulatneously posting nonsense on another very similar thing....because Facebook is just a 'thing' - it isn't the cause of affairs; it might expedite them but people were having affairs long before FB came into being.

honeyD

jasmine33 wrote: »

so things like meals out or visits to the cinema are very few and far between.

Hi Jasmine, can I just point you to seefilmfirst.co.uk and tellten.co.uk as they offer free cinema tickets at venues all over the country. We happened to go to one last night which was a great free night out!
I have read this thread and see people say you are boring for not wanting to go to the pub, but Im 25 and dont like to do that either. My Husband and myself are not drinkers, we have never stepped foot inside a nightclub ever and have no plans to. The only pubs we have been in were for birthdays which we didnt drink alcohol obviously. Pubs and things arent every persons cup of tea. Im sure people think me and my Husband are boring if they knew we didnt do much like that lol. I prefer a trip to the cinema and pizza hut to going out to clubs and getting so drunk I cant remember what I was doing!

Oldernotwiser

honeyD wrote: »

I have read this thread and see people say you are boring for not wanting to go to the pub, but Im 25 and dont like to do that either. My Husband and myself are not drinkers, we have never stepped foot inside a nightclub ever and have no plans to. The only pubs we have been in were for birthdays which we didnt drink alcohol obviously. !

But the difference is that neither you nor your husband want to do those kind of things. Presumably if one of you did, then the other would compromise and join in, at least sometimes?

Curious_George_2

red_devil wrote: »

Everything i have ever read on facebook is boring and nothing seems private anymore. Plus people use it to contact exes etc and cause trouble. Plus it can be dangerous to talk to strangers. You were always told not to talk to strangers yet people do on the net and give allsorts away and pose allsorts of pics?

yes it can be dangerous to talk to strangers... so, do you know all of us?
you have literally no idea who you are even replying to on this thread..

MSE is the only place where i talk to strangers online, I know EVERYONE on my facebook account in person!
and as for contacting ex's, so what? if your going to do it your going to do it... almost all of my exs are my friends on FB but it doesnt mean anything...and there is absolutely no danger of anything happening!
people can also use phones, emails, letters, pigeons, postcards, word of mouth, just plain turning up on thier doorstep and all manner of other ways of contacting old flames if they r-e-a-l-l-y wanted too...

if your going to do something wrong you will do it wether you have a facebook account or not!

brownbabygirl

Curious_George wrote: »

MSE is the only place where i talk to strangers online, I know EVERYONE on my facebook account in person!

:T exactly ehat i was trying to get at earlier!