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Prothet_of_Doom

I don't do farsebook, twatter, or !!!! like that.

edwink

Sorry I don't do Facetube or Youbook :rotfl:

jmarko

I refer the honorable gentlemen to the answer I gave some moments before...

...not that one. The one before that!

jmarko

Genuinely, thank you to everyone who has completed the survey so far (and everyone who does it after too!).

:beer:

Nile

Hi jmarko


Right, I've only been around here forever on and off so, naturally, I have no idea where the right place to post this is!


The best place for your thread is the 'Surveys' board.;) It's just above the 'Quick! Grabbit' board and is a sub board of the 'Referrers' board.


Here is what MSE Andrea has posted about it:


What's the board about?

We regularly receive requests to post surveys on our forum, often from students looking for help with their studies. We'd like to help, especially if the subject's a MoneySaving one. So, if you're an ordinary forum user and have a survey you'd like to post this is the place to do it. Please post it once only though and remember, our usual Forum Rules apply.


Good luck with your survey.


Nile

System

torbrex wrote: »

Facebook Fatigue is something that I can guarantee that I will never suffer from as I have never and will never use the thing

This answer is more interesting than the survey :rotfl:

Why wont you ever use facebook? You use this forum and in a way with the bants and the questions that get asked it is similar to facebook, just not with people you know. You could also chat on the regs with old friends and share things with family you dont see very often

DKLS

Facebook vastly improved when I deleted all the idiots off my feed.

Mrs_Bones

Facebook is what you make it as Joansgirl said. I resisted for ages joining as I wasn't interest in the small chat and games etc that everyone seem to say was the main stay of FB. Yet I've got family abroad and eventually I got persuaded to join to keep in touch with them.

I've found that all the small chat nattering and games are completely optional. I've got a very small circle of friends that I know from elsewhere other than FB. We're just a group of friends that meet on line due to circumstances and distances making meeting in person difficult. Our conversations tend to cover our interests rather than who's had what for diner. Children and work tend to be off the conversation menu as most on my friends list have more interesting topics and come on there to get away from the first two. I'm also a member of a couple of groups that coincide with my hobby interests. Again the talk on those revolves around the hobbies.

FB can be interesting and a useful tool provide you make it work how you like it rather than be sucked into the vacuum of banality and don't fall into the trap of thinking the quantity of friends makes up for the quality. As in life choose your friends wisely.

joansgirl

Mrs Bones has put it far more eloquently than I did

In answer to the OP I have never taken a long term break with the account I have now. I have stomped off a couple of times when I've been a bit miffed about something but have never deactivated or gone longer than 24 hours without logging on

I did have an account before which I deactivated as people from work were putting in friend requests that I didn't want to accept. I don't mix business with pleasure :rotfl: To fix this problem my current FB account is in a different name so no one who knows me in real life can find me, with the exception of my sister and a couple of cousins who wouldn't be shocked by the stuff I share :eek:

And the original one I deactivated now belongs to my dog :rotfl:

And I have a third one that I hardly ever look at for those people who WOULD be shocked at my stuff, like my in-laws

Missli

I recently took more or less an 18 month break from my usual social media, but had been involved in a community for an online game during that time. That took up far more of my life than fb or forums ever had, so inadvertently I had swapped one 'hobby' for another.