The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Carpe Mortem]

Whenever someone deletes their Facebook account or sets it to an inactive state, I assume it's due to poor decisions on their part (e.g. their boss found a picture of them drinking through a beer bong or they chose to keep company with shady/trashy folks).

Surprisingly enough, the only reason is that I spend too much time on there and get too involved with trying to make my statuses entertaining. I've totally been sucked in, been posting at least a few times a week for like five years. Time to cut the cord.

I have a disease. I'm very sick. And the closest bleeding statue is like five states away.

 

[Onder]

I got a haircut. My hate has increased.

 

[Zephyrus]

Surprisingly enough, the only reason is that I spend too much time on there and get too involved with trying to make my statuses entertaining. I've totally been sucked in, been posting at least a few times a week for like five years. Time to cut the cord.

I have a disease. I'm very sick. And the closest bleeding statue is like five states away.

That's funny. I post on average five things (statuses, links or pictures) per day. And you think you're diseased.

 

[Matt]

It's probably about the time spent. I'm on Facebook a lot, mainly to directly communicate with people. It's a great tool really. And Jeremy I never see your posts, I must've added you to my shitlist by accident.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I got a haircut. My hate has increased.

 

[Onder]

I even used the Facebook video chat today. Talked with Grant for a bit. We talked about killing people with darts and other things.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

That's funny. I post on average five things (statuses, links or pictures) per day. And you think you're diseased.

Well one person's disease is another person's norm I guess haha. I'm just not happy with how addicted I am to it, and cutting down hasn't worked in the past. Better to delete it completely.

Oh... I did fail to mention that I'm a little batshit and get really stressed out trying to determine who my actual 'friends' are, versus just facebook friends.

 

[damnromulans]

I am definitely happier with less time on FB.

 

[Eligos]

I'm pretty happy with spending a sum total of a couple hours a day checking my facebook, but I have enough interesting friends that my feed is pretty much a constant stream of awesome and hilarious.

My bus commute's also 2 hours in each direction so that's something to be accounted for.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

What kind of boring fuck uses FB anyway.

 

[Zephyrus]

My justification is that I have many real friends who are spread out across large distances, especially since many of them I met through this forum/MDF and the fact that I moved from Boston to Maine to Iowa in the past seven years. It's one of the chief ways we stay involved in each others' lives during the times we aren't in person.

I also use it to get a lot of my news, and my friends tend to post interesting articles and start fruitful discussions. There's plenty of dross to wade through, of course, but sometimes that's all I want when my brain's worn out from a long day.

 

[juxtaposed girl]

Never been on Facebook and proud of it although I will if my book ever gets published, drum up publicity for it but that's the only time I would. I can see how it helps if like Zephyrus, you have friends that live far away

 

[romanticism]

People that post statuses/pictures/links more than once a day at the most are annoying as fuck.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Facebook's useful, but I'd like to be free of it. It creates a social difference in cases where people do live close by, causing your friendship to be measured by your interactions on facebook instead of the fun time you could be having in person.

In short, I think I have a lot of fake friends. Half of them were dudes who basically stopped talking to me when I got a bf, and I don't know enough cool chicks. Facebook makes it even harder to determine who is a 'real' friend.

It actually makes me really sad and pathetic. I even posted an ad on craigslist once seeking platonic female companions.... no replies...

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I like Facebook. It's full of cat pictures and gun shit.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

Never been on Facebook and proud of it

Thats like being proud you never took 2 dicks in your ass.

 

[romanticism]

Facebook's useful, but I'd like to be free of it. It creates a social difference in cases where people do live close by, causing your friendship to be measured by your interactions on facebook instead of the fun time you could be having in person.

In short, I think I have a lot of fake friends. Half of them were dudes who basically stopped talking to me when I got a bf, and I don't know enough cool chicks. Facebook makes it even harder to determine who is a 'real' friend.

It actually makes me really sad and pathetic. I even posted an ad on craigslist once seeking platonic female companions.... no replies...

It is useful for a few things, so I still have it. However, if two of the most important people in my life were as accessible by phone as most people are, I would have stayed deactivated (For instance, my brother lives in Paris right now...). It's basically a glorified chat website for like 2-3 people for me.

As for fake friends, that's why they allow you to remove friends, don't ya know? I have roughly 10% of the amount of facebook friends I had about 2-3 years ago.

 

[juxtaposed girl]

Thats like being proud you never took 2 dicks in your ass.

That also, total anal virgin and proud of it

 

[juxtaposed girl]

my daily internet activity consists on couple UM forums, a couple of online news, and a couple Youtube channels.

Yep, im mainly checking up bands on youtube and stuff or checkin my emails and postin on here too, but thats usually done when im in bed before i go to sleep.

how u been sweetie? Hows the withdrawels, any more headaches?

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

That also, total anal virgin and proud of it

That's a shame. You're probably a real pillow princess.