MachT said:

Vendetta1 said:

I'm not "friends" with anyone on Facebook who would cause drama. It's the reason I prefer it over this place.

Agree 100 %

GetAwayFromMe said:

MachT said:

Agree 100 %

[Edited 2/10/12 8:11am]

Pomade said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

do you ever get sucked into a FB drama and then feel like a complete idiot afterwards??

Ugh....I got sucked into one yesterday, and while it felt good at the time I now feel like a total idiot.

So I posted on here a while back about my husbands (ex) friend and his fiance posting shit about me on their FBs a month or two back, and the whole mess ended with the guy txting my husband and saying that I have the 'face of a man'. It's unfortunate because they are no longer friends over the whole thing but ANYWAY....

So yesterday....a third party had a FB post about Madonna and how gross she is and blah blah. So the chic from the previous drama is a mutual friend and she started saying Madonnas a hag and stuff too. I commented with something like 'Madonna looks great esp for her age and that I know some 20 somethings who look FAR FAR worse and haven't even had kids yet and that those girls should keep their mouths shut'. (My first mistake I know)

...

Well the whole thing got deleted ofcourse, but I'm sure a ton of people saw it, and now I'M the one who feels so childish. Ugh. And like my husband said.....You are 33 years old...act like it!!

People get sucked into whirlpools. You jumped into this with a big old cannonball. That's why you feel bad and your husband said to act your age. If you're going to take responsibility for your behavior, let your language reflect what happened. You instigated, you provoked and you felt embarrassed because what you initiated to pass the time wasn't so mature of a pursuit. Own it, honey. And learn from it.

Yes, I totally started it, this I know. My husband wants me to just let the previous arguement go. He doesn't understand why the whole thing bothers me. I honestly don't know why it does either. Maybe I see some truth in what they were saying about me, to be honest, or else why would I get so mad in the first place. (Not talking about the man face shit, talking about stuff that was said in a prior altercation)

Genesia said:

If anyone insults me or causes drama on my page, they're defriended and blocked immediately. And I have my preferences set so only friends can search for me or send me messages.

I don't do second chances.

EVER?? Or just on FB?

Bye for a time ... deleting org account in 3 - 2 - 1

Look me up on Facebook if you desire

"Facebook Parenting : For the troubled child."

Posted Feb. 8, 2012

no good.. no good

after drama chill music ..

[Edited 2/10/12 11:56am]

TotalANXiousNESS said:

In other news.

I just put MTV on for the first time in years for the baby to dance to.

Apparently any jackass with a camera can get their videos played on Mtv now.

try vh1 classic for your daughter....

From today's (sunday's NY Post)

Why I quit Facebook

A New York City high-scho...t Facebook

By ZACH PROCHNIK

Last Updated: 2:23 AM, February 12, 2012

Posted: 10:34 PM, February 11, 2012

More Print

It’s Saturday night, and I am at the house of a good friend. After the usual hours spent playing Xbox and watching “1000 Ways To Die,” I ask him if it would be OK if I used his computer. I want to check my Facebook, because I’d last checked it that morning — and who knows what I’d been missing since then? Best-case scenario: a notification from the girl who — despite the fact that our passion is unspoken — has posted on my wall claiming that she was checking my page and has suddenly realized her true feelings for me. Maybe on top of that a cool, funny kid sent me a friend request saying that I was “the man” and we should be homies for life. No big deal, I get that all the time.

ANGEL CHEVRESTT

Zach says that Facebook is losing ground with young people, who find the relationships built there are shallow ones.

I hit enter. My eyes immediately jump to the top left of the screen. The page loads and my heart drops. All I can see is blue. Blue, the color of 21st century social mediocrity. The color of people’s indifference towards you. I quickly realize the reality of my situation: The world does not revolve around me. My friends all have other friends. Every minute that I spend navigating the Facebook universe, I am shrinking.

But as I scroll down my home page, I realize that I’m not the only one desperate for attention. Every status and post seems to be saying “I’m here! Tell me that I’m somebody!” Hundreds of kids are selling their identities — like livestock at a market — for a couple of comments and “likes.”

As I scan my alleged friends’ profiles, I’m seized with feelings of jealousy and rejection. I want to say to them “I thought I was your friend! So who the are these 200 other guys commenting on your stuff?” As our circles get wider, our interactions become fewer.

I joined Facebook four years ago. and at first it was amazing. You’d friend someone, and you’d be linked to all their friends. In fact, the standard that classified a kid as your friend was quickly dropped. That girl your friend told you about was now your “friend”; that friend of your sibling was now your “friend.” You now shared everything with anyone whose name or face looked vaguely familiar.

This quickly wore me down. Being constantly informed that you make up just a small portion of another person’s life erodes the feeling that you are at all meaningful to them.

Adolescence, to begin with, is a time of awful social anxiety. Now a website exists that exacerbates your most irrational social fears to the point of paranoia. Instead of just a private hormonal case of nerves, this is a massive, corporate crowd-sourced paranoia that a huge economic sector is encouraging us to take part in.

On Facebook, I saw how I was taking time away from being with my real friends to feel bad about all the other people who were hardly even part of my life.

Leaving it was easier said than done, however. I couldn’t find where to deactivate my account. I had to look up “how to deactivate Facebook” on Google. After navigating multiple pages, I found a tiny link at the bottom of the security-settings page. After clicking the link, a page popped up with bright photos of my good friends and me. “Jake will miss you,” one caption read. “Jules will miss you,” and another saying “Aaron will miss you.” All of my friends were smiling at me and telling me they would miss me.

I was struck by the irony of this statement about how my different friends would miss me when I left. When you’re an adolescent, what Facebook is really all about is creating a sense of distance between you and your friends, not about strengthening the relationships. Distance because it makes you realize that you’re both lost in a crowd. Worse still, this website that profits off the data it collects about me by selling it to advertising companies is now trying to hold onto me by enlisting my friends to seduce me into staying.

Why are my friends going to miss me? My friend Raymond is still sitting next to me playing video games. I’m still talking to people in the halls at school. Maybe next time someone takes a cool picture, they’ll call me up to hang out and stare at a screen side-by-side, which is what real friends do.

I’m not the only one who is deactivating my Facebook account. I’ve had other friends tell me that they’re sick and tired of going on Facebook everyday hoping to connect, but ending up feeling only more disconnected. Lost in the hype of the company’s stock-market debut this year is that while Facebook is ubiquitous, it may also be a fad.

Before I went off Facebook, my friend made a status update saying,“Deleting your Facebook is like running away from home. You do it for attention but you’ll be back one day.” But I’m not doing it for attention. I’m doing it so I won’t go there when I’m hungry for attention, only to end up feeling more alone.

Zach Prochnik attends a Manhattan public high school.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/n...z1mDbaWg4H

The drama on Twitter is a lot worse.

XxAxX said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

do you ever get sucked into a FB drama and then feel like a complete idiot afterwards??

Ugh....I got sucked into one yesterday, and while it felt good at the time I now feel like a total idiot.

So I posted on here a while back about my husbands (ex) friend and his fiance posting shit about me on their FBs a month or two back, and the whole mess ended with the guy txting my husband and saying that I have the 'face of a man'. It's unfortunate because they are no longer friends over the whole thing but ANYWAY....

So yesterday....a third party had a FB post about Madonna and how gross she is and blah blah. So the chic from the previous drama is a mutual friend and she started saying Madonnas a hag and stuff too. I commented with something like 'Madonna looks great esp for her age and that I know some 20 somethings who look FAR FAR worse and haven't even had kids yet and that those girls should keep their mouths shut'. (My first mistake I know)

So then the dude from previous drama, her fiance tunes in with 'I know some 30 somethings who look in the mirror and pretend the person looking back at them isn't really a man'.

I say 'Sounds like a personal problem'.

He says 'I don't have to stare at it, so I don't care'.

I say 'Whatever it is you think about my face is your opinion and I don't believe that many other people share that opinion with you. But the fact that you try to diss people based on things they can't change about their appearance shows how childish you really are.'

Then he says 'You can change it, you can get plastic surgery'.

Well the whole thing got deleted ofcourse, but I'm sure a ton of people saw it, and now I'M the one who feels so childish. Ugh. And like my husband said.....You are 33 years old...act like it!!

Ugh....anyone else get sucked into the drama like that at times?

[Edited 2/7/12 4:19am]

my ultimate conclusion is that social networking sites are simply not for me. who has time to broadcast/tweet/post/blog the minutia of everyday life? and who cares to read that?

if i were you i'd delete my account and never look back. you'll thank me later!

What's your username on facebook?

TonyVanDam said:

The drama on Twitter is a lot worse.

YES! Never been in any, but boyyyy howdy. People get to typing and 140 characters just isn't enough for the craziness.

BlackAdder7 said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

In other news.

I just put MTV on for the first time in years for the baby to dance to.

Apparently any jackass with a camera can get their videos played on Mtv now.

try vh1 classic for your daughter....

From today's (sunday's NY Post)

Why I quit Facebook

A New York City high-scho...t Facebook

By ZACH PROCHNIK

Last Updated: 2:23 AM, February 12, 2012

Posted: 10:34 PM, February 11, 2012

More Print

It’s Saturday night, and I am at the house of a good friend. After the usual hours spent playing Xbox and watching “1000 Ways To Die,” I ask him if it would be OK if I used his computer. I want to check my Facebook, because I’d last checked it that morning — and who knows what I’d been missing since then? Best-case scenario: a notification from the girl who — despite the fact that our passion is unspoken — has posted on my wall claiming that she was checking my page and has suddenly realized her true feelings for me. Maybe on top of that a cool, funny kid sent me a friend request saying that I was “the man” and we should be homies for life. No big deal, I get that all the time.

ANGEL CHEVRESTT

Zach says that Facebook is losing ground with young people, who find the relationships built there are shallow ones.

I hit enter. My eyes immediately jump to the top left of the screen. The page loads and my heart drops. All I can see is blue. Blue, the color of 21st century social mediocrity. The color of people’s indifference towards you. I quickly realize the reality of my situation: The world does not revolve around me. My friends all have other friends. Every minute that I spend navigating the Facebook universe, I am shrinking.

But as I scroll down my home page, I realize that I’m not the only one desperate for attention. Every status and post seems to be saying “I’m here! Tell me that I’m somebody!” Hundreds of kids are selling their identities — like livestock at a market — for a couple of comments and “likes.”

As I scan my alleged friends’ profiles, I’m seized with feelings of jealousy and rejection. I want to say to them “I thought I was your friend! So who the are these 200 other guys commenting on your stuff?” As our circles get wider, our interactions become fewer.

I joined Facebook four years ago. and at first it was amazing. You’d friend someone, and you’d be linked to all their friends. In fact, the standard that classified a kid as your friend was quickly dropped. That girl your friend told you about was now your “friend”; that friend of your sibling was now your “friend.” You now shared everything with anyone whose name or face looked vaguely familiar.

This quickly wore me down. Being constantly informed that you make up just a small portion of another person’s life erodes the feeling that you are at all meaningful to them.

Adolescence, to begin with, is a time of awful social anxiety. Now a website exists that exacerbates your most irrational social fears to the point of paranoia. Instead of just a private hormonal case of nerves, this is a massive, corporate crowd-sourced paranoia that a huge economic sector is encouraging us to take part in.

On Facebook, I saw how I was taking time away from being with my real friends to feel bad about all the other people who were hardly even part of my life.

Leaving it was easier said than done, however. I couldn’t find where to deactivate my account. I had to look up “how to deactivate Facebook” on Google. After navigating multiple pages, I found a tiny link at the bottom of the security-settings page. After clicking the link, a page popped up with bright photos of my good friends and me. “Jake will miss you,” one caption read. “Jules will miss you,” and another saying “Aaron will miss you.” All of my friends were smiling at me and telling me they would miss me.

I was struck by the irony of this statement about how my different friends would miss me when I left. When you’re an adolescent, what Facebook is really all about is creating a sense of distance between you and your friends, not about strengthening the relationships. Distance because it makes you realize that you’re both lost in a crowd. Worse still, this website that profits off the data it collects about me by selling it to advertising companies is now trying to hold onto me by enlisting my friends to seduce me into staying.

Why are my friends going to miss me? My friend Raymond is still sitting next to me playing video games. I’m still talking to people in the halls at school. Maybe next time someone takes a cool picture, they’ll call me up to hang out and stare at a screen side-by-side, which is what real friends do.

I’m not the only one who is deactivating my Facebook account. I’ve had other friends tell me that they’re sick and tired of going on Facebook everyday hoping to connect, but ending up feeling only more disconnected. Lost in the hype of the company’s stock-market debut this year is that while Facebook is ubiquitous, it may also be a fad.

Before I went off Facebook, my friend made a status update saying,“Deleting your Facebook is like running away from home. You do it for attention but you’ll be back one day.” But I’m not doing it for attention. I’m doing it so I won’t go there when I’m hungry for attention, only to end up feeling more alone.

Zach Prochnik attends a Manhattan public high school.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/n...z1mDbaWg4H

T4P

magnificentSynthesizer said:

XxAxX said:

my ultimate conclusion is that social networking sites are simply not for me. who has time to broadcast/tweet/post/blog the minutia of everyday life? and who cares to read that?

if i were you i'd delete my account and never look back. you'll thank me later!

What's your username on facebook?

oh hell no. i am not a member of ANY social networking group/website.

XxAxX said:

magnificentSynthesizer said:

What's your username on facebook?

oh hell no. i am not a member of ANY social networking group/website, except for Bill and Beak.com. it's a porno site for bird lovers

BlackAdder7 said:

XxAxX said:

oh hell no. i am not a member of ANY social networking group/website, except for Bill and Beak.com. it's a porno site for bird lovers

chirp chirp

yes dear, i did see your centerfold

Let me artifully word my crappy life so people who knew me in 3rd grade don't think im a loser = Facebook.

ElectricBlue said:

Let me artifully word my crappy life so people who knew me in 3rd grade don't think im a loser = Facebook.

True!

ElectricBlue said:

Let me artifully word my crappy life so people who knew me in 3rd grade don't think im a loser = Facebook.

Oh, you kids and your Madonna fights.

XxAxX said:

magnificentSynthesizer said:

What's your username on facebook?

oh hell no. i am not a member of ANY social networking group/website.

What's your phone number/email?