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It's a great way to keep in touch with people you meet around the world. Email addresses become faded and memories slide..
It is essentially EVIL but it has it's uses.
The trick is not to get addicted to it while at home... It's easy to do and before you know it, you don't have a social life outside of it...
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Rode some bikes.
Fix them for a living.
Can't say anymore.
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I still can't believe how many people seem to live their life on FB.. A couple of friends are currently living out the break up of their relationship online ...never nice, but publicly ?? - I don't get it! never will
It is a handy tool - I keep in touch with my brother in Cambodia through it, but as with everything there appears to be a core of folks for who it becomes everything, I really dont need to to know that a friend has just had their morning coffee or are currently shopping etc <yawn>
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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*
It's a great way to keep in touch with people you meet around the world. Email addresses become faded and memories slide..
It is essentially EVIL but it has it's uses.
The trick is not to get addicted to it while at home... It's easy to do and before you know it, you don't have a social life outside of it...
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I actually found Skype more useful for keeping touch with people on the road.
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Not had any problems with laptops etc.
FB is pretty bad and it does keep some people locked up indoors. Friends of mine are noe divorced because one of them seemed to be 'living through' FB taking lots of pics and posting up everything she did online! insane!
Anyway, I like it because it is easy for me to share photos from trips with friends and family and keeping intouch with those around the world, I have also set-up a page for sharing things with those outside of my immediate friends circle. I like the little chat thing as its easy to have a few words with people when they are online.
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It's the add-on bits. Some fool you barely knew ten years ago with no life takes a break from posting pictures of himself being on FB on FB and sends you an invitation to join Warhammer-Gangster-Vampire killers. If you say yes (because you're polite in a real world sort of way and don't want to offend Mr. Saddo) it downloads bit of software that every few minutes will ping something to inform you that Dave-from-ten-years-ago just became a tenth level Jedi-General on WHGVK and wants you to buy him 12th level power stake launcher with your Demon Dollars (ie click ten times on some web page). Say yes to too many of these and your PC spends all it's time responding to daft little bits in the back ground.
I go on FB twice a year just to see if anyone I really do want to meet up with again has popped up. Apologies if you are one of goodness knows how many people FB thinks I should be friends with, but if we were really that bothered we'd be making plans to go to the pub or ride or drink coffee in the same place or something and would then talk by mail, phone or in person. I don't need to know that we worked in the same factory in 1993 and you are having fish for your tea.
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