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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.176.41 |
Hey - FB really tries to keep you, doesn't it? That final page they pop up - 'So-and-so will miss you', 'so-and-so will miss you', with all these people - some, frankly, you hardly know - looking out at you like sad puppies. It's played like a mini tragedy. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face doth hide what the false heart doth know. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I must admit, I've never been tempted to even try Facebook. I did take a look at MySpace. When everyone I was involved with on Pantechnicon was on it, I thought maybe I'd better join myself. But it looked so clumsy and .. well, frankly, so pointless. Then I saw someone raving about how great Twitter was, took a look at that and thought it was even more pointless. Am I missing out on anything by not getting involved in any of those things, do you think? I wonder why I just can't see the point of it when everyone reckons it's the only way to communicate nowadays? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Facebook is a good networking tool, and it's also a great way to chat to people you rarely get the chance to see in person or only ever se at conventions (it has a live chat function). It's also a good laugh, in my experience. It keeps me amused during my lunch breaks, anyway. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
I know what you mean Zed, but it also made me sort of gloomy, seeing folk having better lives than me, some crazy people trying to be my friends. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>some crazy people trying to be my friends.<< Aw, I'm not that crazy really, Tony.  >>seeing folk having better lives than me<< I wonder if they do though? I mean, I wonder if a lot of it is in their imagination - all these things they reckon they're doing, and so on? Just a theory anyway - I know little about these networking sites. But I do wonder just how much is "put on". | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
Sigh, coming off something I never really used and feeling somehow really sad about it. What the hell phenomena is that when it's at home? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
One guy saying he knows Richard Matheson, that he's like a family friend. Going to Copenhagen global warming thing talks, festivals. My news? Someone stole our cockerel last night. A tragedy to us but to who else on God's earth? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I got dreadful withdrawal symptoms when the Pantechnicon forum died. I know several others who found it hard to cope without it too. Crazy really. But I guess the internet is so addictive it must be due to that somehow? Personally, I reckon you're better off without your Facebook friends anyway Tony. Stick with us instead!  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
We keep crossing posts Tony! Sorry about your cockerel.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
Some of them were family friends. Some family. A few were real siblings and my birth mum. I just couldn't bear hearing from them. More than anything FB made me feel like bloody Dexter. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
Oh, we loved him. His exultant cry in the morning made everything worth it. We're trying to track down the kids we knew/feel who took it, so we MIGHT get him back. God, I hope. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Jesus, Tony, you're odd.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
I know. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Oh heck, sorry! I didn't realise they're people you really know in real life. But I still do wonder if they really are doing all these things they talk about. I bet the feeling is, when you're on one of those sites, that you really *need* to have something interesting to talk about, so they maybe embelish things a bit to make them sound more interesting? That's the way I felt when I looked at it - like I'd have to be in competition with everyone over what an interesting (not!) life I led. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
Yesterday I lay in a darkened room for three-five hours pretending to be ill so as to avoid family/visitors. I've got worse lately. I actually, truly, empathise more with sorry-looking strangers I glimpse than people I can actually talk to and know. At least it's interesting, I suppose. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
'I didn't realise they're people you really know in real life' Oh, not all of them. But I see them in real life anyway - when I'm not hiding from them! I do fear for my future though if this is how I am now. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Well, this is my latest Facebook status update: Gary McMahon is considering nudity as a valid profession. But who would pay me to simply sit in the nude? No fibs there. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>But who would pay me to simply sit in the nude?<< I'll give you a tenner if you do it at WHC next weekend, Gary. Tony - hubby and me are a bit like that too. Yesterday, hubby went round to his nephew's to deliver a birthday card which we'd forgotten to post. I made some excuse that I couldn't go anyway. But when hubby got back, I remarked he was very quick and had he seen anybody. No, he said. Apparently he'd noticed the lights on and the curtains open, and fearing there would be someone in who'd see him, he crept up to the door as quietly as possible, pushed the card through the letterbox very carefully so as not to make a noise, and then ran like hell back to the car to drive off before anybody noticed. So you're not the only one - not by a long way.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
It's sad, isn't it? Is he quite sensitive about things almost invisible to others, tiny possible problems? My biggy is reading things into things people say and do. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
All negative, of course. Think it makes us observant writers though. Thank heaven for small mercies, eh? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
"I know what you mean Zed, but it also made me sort of gloomy, seeing folk having better lives than me, some crazy people trying to be my friends." You've NO IDEA what kind of lives they're living from what pictures and words they choose to put up on FB. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Yeah; they could be having even more fun. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Tony: engage with life, mate. Connect with people. Please. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
And I don't mean on the internet - I mean in real life. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.241.147 |
I'm not on Facebook myself, or Myspace, or almost anything... I'm one of the few the pods have not reached, but I wonder how long I'll last.... In the latest New Yorker, Roz Chast has a cartoon, showing a nervous-looking guy walking down the street, the title being, THE UNGOOGLABLE MAN; around him are flash-banners: "Even the most powerful search engines cannot detect him!"; "No Facebook page, no Myspace page... no nothing!"; "And yet he walks amongst us!" | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>Is he quite sensitive about things almost invisible to others, tiny possible problems? My biggy is reading things into things people say and do.<< Not really. It's me who's like that. Tony, if you and I weren't already married (to other people) I'd say "marry me" and we could both live like hermits together. Zed's right though. It *is* necessary to push yourself to interact with people in real life. I try to. If I manage to get to WHC I'll try to talk to people rather than sit in a corner on my own, but I won't find it easy I know. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Talk to me, Caroline; I'm gregarious. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.31.179 |
'Tony, if you and I weren't already married (to other people) I'd say "marry me" and we could both live like hermits together.' - Ooh, that's the best offer I've ever had! (I had to make the other one myself.) Just been out talking to scary dads about the possibility their children stole our cockerel. One of them was far too laid back for my liking, and he and his son smiled at each other way too much. I still can't figure how I can talk to such people but not people who might actually want anything to do with me... :s | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I'm a big fan of Facebook and go through stages of being hopelessly addicted to it... a great way of meeting new people who share your interests and spouting drivel to them and essential for keeping in touch with far distant friends. | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 62.30.117.235 |
It's been a while now since I used MySpace for anything except reading Peter Tennant's blog, but I like Facebook a lot. It's easy to block the annoyances, and then you're just left with people chatting. And maybe they're chatting about nonsense, but that's just human... I think you'd be really at home there, Caroline. Like me I think you work at home? It makes a nice replacement for the everyday human contact you get from office chat and gossip. I just have to block it during the day when I'm working. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.13.37 |
Agreed with Zed and Stephen. I actually only use the instant chat for one person and then occasionally for others but if you want to get hold of someone quickly it is much better than a phone. I stopped twitter after a couple of months though ...far too brief etc. We also have a laugh so it breaks up the day when you are working from home. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.13.37 |
That would be plural Stephen | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.240 |
Facebooks ok...It's quick, easy to keep in touch...I see a lot of people at Fantasycons, and it's nice to pass the odd comment with those people. Sometimes I 'speak' with other musicians . It's communication. Can that ever be bad? The biggest lure of the internet is when you you idly keep flicking between sites awaiting replies or simply something to happen - then it's time to go to bed.... gcw | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.240 |
What the difference between going on Facebook and coming here? Very little really. gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.183.206.114 |
If I manage to get to WHC I'll try to talk to people rather than sit in a corner on my own, but I won't find it easy I know. You won't have a chance to, Caroline - we'll look for you! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
"What the difference between going on Facebook and coming here? Very little really." The level of inanity... much higher here than FB | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Only when you're here, Weber. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Ouch. I guess I set myself up for that one. |