many GD"s have left for facebook...others are on facebook and don't come here often.

I don't want to facebook. is this the end of the fun on the GD boards?

I hope it's not the end--I doubt it will be. Some appear to have left, but others are joining. Seems the way it works on boards like this. I'm with you--I ain't Facebookin' for anyone.

I hope not. Im not on Facebook anymore

ThreadCula said:

I hope not. Im not on Facebook anymore

I am sure it will not totally replace GD but at least on facebook there is an ignore button.

Nothing can make me stop coming to the org. Love this place...

i said i would never do that... and then did. only cause everyone else has, though

BlackAdder7 said:

ThreadCula said:

I hope not. Im not on Facebook anymore

Awww....Thank you

cborgman said:

i said i would never do that... and then did. only cause everyone else has, though

you never struck me as one who follows the crowd...more of a crowd leader

BlackAdder7 said:

cborgman said:

i said i would never do that... and then did. only cause everyone else has, though

you never struck me as one who follows the crowd...more of a crowd leader

not a leader at all. i am much more a beta than anything

I do both...

cborgman said:

i said i would never do that... and then did. only cause everyone else has, though

Being an expatriate, FB should be a much needed feature in my daily basis more than most folks(to keep in touch with my family/friends back home and all) but even still, I refuse to succumb to the peer pressure didn't give in for myspace then, I sure as hell won't start with FB now.

Harlepolis said:

cborgman said:

i said i would never do that... and then did. only cause everyone else has, though

Being an expatriate, FB should be a much needed feature in my daily basis more than most folks(to keep in touch with my family/friends back home and all) but even still, I refuse to succumb to the peer pressure didn't give in for myspace then, I sure as hell won't start with FB now.

Thats what my sister said.... She's a FB'er now!!

tinaz said:

Harlepolis said:

Being an expatriate, FB should be a much needed feature in my daily basis more than most folks(to keep in touch with my family/friends back home and all) but even still, I refuse to succumb to the peer pressure didn't give in for myspace then, I sure as hell won't start with FB now.

Thats what my sister said.... She's a FB'er now!!

They said I'll be a myspacer then too and I didn't

I don't understand why people feel the need to take a stance on FB. I wasn't on it for ages as I didn't want to be, then I did so I joined.

It's like saying you don't want a phone.

I can understand not wanting internet at all, but if you hang out on the org, why get so high and mighty about FB?

It doesn't mean anything in itself. It is just a question of what you do with it.

Blackadder - I think you should come and play with us. I'll be gentle, at first.

zaza said:

Hell no, are you crazy?

LOL

cborgman said:

BlackAdder7 said:

you never struck me as one who follows the crowd...more of a crowd leader

not a leader at all. i am much more a beta than anything

is that the same as a bottom?

I can't quite get hooked into facebook the same as here. I have tried, but it seems less conducive for open discussion because i only see the discussions my friends start or comment on, not like here where it's totally open

I'd say the greater threat to our perceived "fun" is some of the heavy-handed modding that's been goin' on... talk about killjoys...

I'll keep coming back for all that the org continues to offer though...

RenHoek said:

I'd say the greater threat to our perceived "fun" is some of the heavy-handed modding that's been goin' on... talk about killjoys...

I'll keep coming back for all that the org continues to offer though...

salacious sex?

I don't have a Facebook account, and I don't plan to get one anytime soon. I did sign up with MySpace in 2006, but I hardly put any friends on it, and all I mostly got were porno span friend requests, which turned me off. You could say that I was one of the earliest adopters of Twitter, since I joined in October, 2007. I sent my first tweet then, looked around the site for about 15 minutes, and didn't come back on for nearly a year and a half. I tweeted a little bit up through last summer, but I have hardly been back since.

Facebook is like breakfast table chat with extended family and friends: We check in with one-another, share milestones and updates, reminisce a bit, make sure we're all doing well (or offer support when someone is not) ...and that's about it. Clean and sober. The org, however, is my local pub -- it's where I can escape to for a dash of energizing dysfunction, meet folk from all over the world who can teach me new stuff, pontificate myself about any and everything, get a bit irreverent, brawl a bit, kiss and make up... and do the whole thing again the next night if I choose. I love it.

I don't see the overlap, and I don't lke mixing the two worlds. They're a handy balance of one-another.

[Edited 6/21/10 17:01pm]

Lammastide said:

I don't lke mixing the two worlds.

Facebook is more like real life to me. I go there to connect with people I like from here and GD is where I can connect to the people I like who don't Facebook. Everything else I am learning to ignore.

HamsterHuey said:

Lammastide said:

I don't lke mixing the two worlds.

...Except to see pics of hot orgers (preferably Dutch) from halfway around the planet. (Not that I'd reciprocate of course. )

[Edited 6/21/10 17:08pm]

Lammastide said:

Facebook is like breakfast table chat with extended family and friends: We check in with one-another, share milestones and updates, reminisce a bit, make sure we're all doing well (or offer support when someone is not) ...and that's about it. Clean and sober. The org, however, is my local pub -- it's where I can escape to for a dash of energizing dysfunction, meet folk from all over the world who can teach me new stuff, pontificate myself about any and everything, get a bit irreverent, brawl a bit, kiss and make up... and do the whole thing again the next night if I choose. I love it.

I don't see the overlap, and I don't lke mixing the two worlds. They're a handy balance of one-another.

[Edited 6/21/10 17:01pm]

This is the same with me, I know people who would never org. They aren't into this site and so FB is for them, and the org is for my org relationships. I do have orgers friended on FB but not many.

Lammastide said:

HamsterHuey said:

...Except to see pics of hot orgers (preferably Dutch) from halfway around the planet. (Not that I'd reciprocate of course. )

the org has stood the test of time with myspace, ICQ, IRC, Bebo etc. I imagine Facebook will eventually lose it's steam.

Even with Facebook I will always come to the org.