Wall Street Journal:
Notice to my friends: I love you all dearly.
But I don't give a hoot that you are "having a busy Monday," your child "took 30 minutes to brush his teeth," your dog "just ate an ant trap" or you want to "save the piglets." And I really, really don't care which Addams Family member you most resemble. (I could have told you the answer before you took the quiz on Facebook.)
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The original article is whiney, as is many of the comments. Facebook is a tool and it depends on how you use it. For me it is primarily about friends that live in different towns, ones I could not catch up with that easily in real life. Some of these friends I had not seen in 20 years, and would never have seen in real life again.
The other part that amazes me is that so many commented about the wasted comments that people put on facebook...that no one cares about. What about comments on blogs?!?!?
There is no reason for concern. This is an easy case. Leibovitz has a $24M debt, and assets worth much more than $60M. Her annuaI income should be at least around 2 to $3M. She has many options. For example, she can sell some real estate she doesn't really need to reduce debt to $10M through L-T debt, that can be easily paid off with less than 50% of her annual income. That way she can keep her great fortune in photography property and leave the rest of her assets untouched. She can also make a publicly traded company holding the rights to her photo collection, sell part of the stock or issue publicly traded debt and pay all her debts at once. That would also allow her to live forever on just rent and the Vanity salary without any problem at all.
I not sure we read the same article newyorkid. Is this a post to your facebook friends?
I really don't like the privacy invasion of FB. And I have an example in my own family of how it's hurt relationships. My snarky niece posted my wedding photos and made really rude comments about what a miserable time she had at the wedding. Fair enough except I was one of her 'friends' and got the update. I found it quite rude. I unfriended here so she could snark away to her friends without my having to know about it. I'm still cross with her! :-) She's old enough to know better (age 28)
Note----I didn't even want to post my own wedding photos as I didn't want the invasion of privacy because I have work colleagues on FB and its frankly none of their GD business, so I was also annoyed with her for posting the photos. I removed all the ones I was in because at least FB lets you know when someone posts pictures of you.
You bring up a very valid point about photos (I'm so sorry to hear about the fiasco with your snarky niece..argh!), but don't you wish it was the other way around? Shouldn't it be that Facebook members have to ask you for your permission, to put your photos on Facebook, BEFORE they post them?
If that was the case, your wedding photos would have never been on Facebook to begin with, and what your niece did was just downright cruel.
Yet, most Facebook members will defend that there is no invasion of privacy. BS! That's the reason I got rid of it.
There is a spa in my town that uses twitter to notify followers when openings occur. The spa offers a discount to customers to fill the space. Very effective short notice.
What I find odd is that Huff Post has joined with Facebook to get your socialnews and then they run this article. Kinda self defeating. I do have a fb acct., but I don't want to connect to all in one. And don't get me started on twitter. Dayuummmm enough already.
I have facebook because I feel obligated because of friends and family. It's a necessary, albeit, annoying as hell slavery.
Huh, Ruppert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal writes a negative article about Facebook, Ruppert Murdoch's MySpace competitor.
I just heard on the news that a cougar was captured in a park and released in the wild. He now has a monitoring device that will update his whereabouts on GPS every four hours. It's like Twitter for cougars. ;)
This is one issue where I actually agree with the WSJ. I don't understand this constant need to be in contact with someone else, be it on Facebook, Twitter, or cell phone. Do people need validation from others so desperately? I've noticed (as most of you probably have) many individuals that talk incessantly on their cell phones, and they aren't businesspeople ostensibly conducting important transactions; I'm talking about the ones who can't get off the phone in checkout lines, at the gas pump, strolling in the mall, etc., etc., ad nauseam.
Maybe I'm the weird one, but I don't need to confirm my existence in that way. I've also been known to (gasp!) NOT answer the phone (thank dog for caller ID, allowing me to screen my calls). I'm too private to share every freakin' detail of my life with anyone, and I'm reasonably circumspect about who I do share with. Sigh... guess I'm just getting old...
Well put.
You and me both. There's little enough privacy left. I don't even have caller ID. I just wait for callers to start speaking. Facebook sounds like a little corner of hell to me.
I think FaceBook, My Space, Twitter and a few other lesser known social networking tools are a continuation of the TV shows like Maury and Jerry Springer where nothing is too personal to share with millions of strangers. At least with Facebook, et.al, one gets to choose who see the information posted.
rivahcat, you aren't the weird one! I agree with your comments and I also don't have the need to share my private and personal happenings with even family and friends. In fact, it is bad enough knowing how much complete strangers can find out about you by just knowing your name.
I believe that some people are just fascinated by the technology and hopefully, the constant need to be in touch with others will wane as the new "toy" becomes just an everyday thing. Let's hope!
This article does seem a bit whiny, but I'm surprised the author didn't mention the aspect of FB that bothers me the most: when you meet up with people in real life, there's nothing left to say. I don't even have a Facebook account, and I still suffer from this phenomenon, because my wife and everyone else I know are constantly updating one another. So when I see my best friend, or even talk to him on the phone, he already knows everything I've been up to, and my wife has probably told me all about his latest adventures (or lack thereof) as well. There's always politics...
No thank you ... I've heard some of the stories from family and friends. I prefer my communication with people I care about have value. Facebook/Twitter diminishes it.
OK, here is an actual recent post from a facebook friend of mine: "Got my haircut now I will stain my deck." That post, among too many just like them, are making me loathe FB.
Hopefully your friend doesn't read Huffpost.
For the life of me I canot understand why I would want to let the world know what I am thinking, feeling or doing every five minutes. Why should anybody care? We are evolving into the same Big Brother that used to terrify us so much. You can keep Twitter and Facebook.
Why would you feel obligated? I just tweet when I think of something funny or an interesting bit of news catches my attention.
At least you think it's funny or interesting...but doesn't everybody?
I deleted my facebook and twitter accounts about a month ago because I just did not see any use for the service.
Some people find them useful but they're easy enough to live without.
It remains to be seen whether the creation of new avenues of communication is really helpful for people with nothing to communicate.
I think a lot of people on Twitter need to realize that they don't have to tweet, they can just follow interesting people. Just because you CAN post a message doesn't mean you SHOULD and you certainly don't have to just to participate in the site and follow informative or funny people.
I was on for months following people before posting stuff, I took my time to get the lay of the land, learn the etiquette, and figure out for myself when I had something interesting to say and shut up when I don't. Some days I tweet dozens of times when I think of something funny or interesting news comes my way that I want to share but I also go for days without posting anything because not every day or every event is tweet-worthy.
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First Posted: 09- 5-09 03:32 PM | Updated: 09- 5-09 03:58 PM