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ah what a refreshing outlook (hah because you are agreeing with me). And, do you know, I'd go even further than when you say 'not one person that doesn't know me wants to know what I had for breakfast' - actually, I'd reckon that not many people who DO know you, want to know what you had for breakfast. I think that's the bit that really freaks me out. It kind of seems even more egocentric because it flies in the face of your relationship with your actual friends.

It's probably for young people isn't it. And I'm getting old. I keep finding myself doing and saying things that mark me out as such. I should just face it :)

It's not so much the "what I had for breakfast" brigade, in my opinion, but more the "I'm so fed up!" or "Wow! What a day!" lot that demand a "Why? What's happened?" from someone in order to give them meaning.

I'm trying to not be such a miserable old bastard on it (I have a wide range of age-groups among my friends, from early 20s to pensioners, so dunno if it's necessarily a "young people's" thing)

It's my belief that, being a social network, you get out of it what you put in. If you interact a lot, you get a lot out of it - if you don't then, well, you don't! ;)

G x

Actually I hardly go on FB, and agree with a lot of what has been said, just my need to argue black when I know the issue is white, a balancing up of fairness. ;)
As Goff says you get what you put in, and I don't put my breakfast in, but I am curious about the internet phenomena and how the technology has leapt forward by leaps and bounds. My son is 28, at about 12 he was playing little simple white ball games on the computer,and viruses just tumbled the letters off your screen. Now we live in a large social interacting world, where Avaaz can ask to put a signature on what ever cause you need, viruses can screw your computer dead they are so complicated; Wikileaks and Wikipedia - power to the people...Good thing or bad? ;).. its a technical world, everyone can take a half decent photo (and some of course much better than others).
Virtual communities exist on line, so maybe FB is another form of interaction not all of it bad....

Rhiannon wrote:
ah what a refreshing outlook (hah because you are agreeing with me). And, do you know, I'd go even further than when you say 'not one person that doesn't know me wants to know what I had for breakfast' - actually, I'd reckon that not many people who DO know you, want to know what you had for breakfast. I think that's the bit that really freaks me out. It kind of seems even more egocentric because it flies in the face of your relationship with your actual friends.

It's probably for young people isn't it. And I'm getting old. I keep finding myself doing and saying things that mark me out as such. I should just face it :)

I think you summed it up nicely when you said "It's probably for young people...." Yup, and I'm turning into a grumpy old man. Well, a grumpy 40-odd year old man. Young people class that as old, don't you know.

Actually, it doesn't say very much for the future of the planet when young people are obsessed by Facebook. Whatever happened to playing out? Too risky probably. Health and Safety don't like people playing out.

Regards,
Mr. Grumbly.