Took the advice

[piemma]

Originally Posted by BigFish

I love my FB! Its fun, informative and I keep in touch with everyone......plus I hate telephones!!! Saves me a bunch of time!

Interesting. I found it to be a waste of my time.

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by piemma

Interesting. I found it to be a waste of my time.

And this site isn't ?
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[piemma]

Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

And this site isn't ?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

No Ronnie, I don't find it so.

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by piemma

No Ronnie, I don't find it so.

FB is no different than this and every other Internet forum.
People get addicted and spend way too much time on both (me included)
FB, Twitter, Snap Chat and similar are the worse things to happen to furums like S-B, THT, SOL,ect..........
MUCH larger scale of different people getting together for different reasons.
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[FishermanTim]

All internet forums are pretty much the same.
They start out as an informational tool used to convey needed or required information.

What they end up turning into a means for self-centered egotist, lonely hermits and social miscreants to flood the forums with completely useless information and mindless rants and raves.

Once you get to specific sites like this you see these tendencies get reigned in and more constructive conversations.

All I can say is that if we (the entire planet) were to experience a massive solar flare, all the internet heroes would be thrust into the dark, dark world of having to actually talk to their fellow humans.

Then there's the generations of people that have relied on the internet for all their needs, so they would be completely unable to do most of the most common things in order to survive.

I was talking to a neighbor yesterday regarding this very topic. I asked her "If you were to ask anyone under the age of 25 if they knew how to make anything from scratch, or repair ANYTHING if it broke?" Her look said it all (The look of understanding that we would be screwed if it were to happen).

[rphud]

If today doesn't make you quit, I think you are there for life. Convention fall out for at least the next two weeks.....brutal.

[bloocrab]

This may be a stupid question.....but what ever happened to self-discipline?

Lots of lonely people out there, seems they need social media to help them cope.
Not everyone has a spouse or significant other who has the compassion to simply listen to their daily struggles, issues or to simply chat with. I see just as much of that as I do egotistic-hear-me-roar people, perhaps even more?

If you don't like what you see or read, move on to something else, police-yourself so as not to let it upset you. It's much easier to click the red X than it is to walk away from a real conversation.
Social media is here to stay...not really sure why people stress over it so much. Some people live some pretty funny lives, I find it entertaining sometimes....I mean dammmn, they share enough of it with the world, mini -sitcoms is all.