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Facebook, like many social media platforms, has become an intersection of the private and public sphere. The overlaps show. Employers are looking through facebook accounts to judge potential hires. I don't know if schools do the same for applicants, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.
It's caused a lot of conflict as well. Here in Manila, there was a recent case where two girls were barred from their graduation march for posting pictures of themselves wearing bikinis on facebook (it was kind of bullshit, and a legal court overruled the school's decision). Several months ago a NJ schoolteacher was penalized for her anti-gay rant on Facebook, complaining about LGBT History Month being acknowledged in the high school she worked in, saying it was akin to parading "unnatural, immoral behavior before the rest of us."
I guess the safest thing would be to assume that all social media, like Facebook and Twitter, to be a legitimate publishing platform no matter how "private" they seem. Would that mean anything you publish online is fair game? (Like, would a stupid gossipy tweet about a celebrity be considered libelous?) Is there even a line between Facebook behavior and "real" behavior anymore?
PS. If you can, try your hand at giving some of the others a bit of feedback. If you already have, thanks, can you do some more?
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People feel safer, and sometimes justified to hang their dirty laundry and private thoughts in public forums like facebook, which aren't as private as people think they are with the like and share button. They also feel that places like facebook and twitter are safe places in a way, because they can say whatever they want safely behind a computer screen, with minimal repercussions, which is ultimately not true. Face to face, many of us wouldn't say half the shit we say online.
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sites like face book and twitter make people forget to act intelligently that's for shore.
i've seen stuff you wouldn't find in a private journal on them. signing up for a social media site is like self administering stupidity steroids. i think it's the crowd mentality where anything goes and regret it later when you're sober.
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Indie,
I can assure you that I would say to your face anything I would say on line, and probably even more because I am even worse in person than I am online, but that is because I really am a Cantankerous Curmudgeon! But I am sure you are correct about those "other" people!
Billy,
I would suggest they never acted intelligently to start with! And as most people are spineless jellyfish people pleasers, nobody ever gets any negative feedback, only supportive murmurs and coos! What I can't understand is why anyone would think that anyone would care that you went to the lake with your butt ugly grandchildren last weekend, or that you nearly killed them while driving drunk and trying to snap a picture of yourself with your iphone, which is set to automatic upload to facebook page, so everyone will be automatically updated to your latest conformation of your inherent stupidity! Fortunately my phone does not take pictures, and I am much to lazy to figure out how to do auto upload. Of course I can't figure out why I sit here wasting my time responding to such inane commentary, with even more inane commentary! But by god I'd still do it to your face! colon piss on yer!
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I don't say anything online that I wouldn't say to someone's face... the big difference is, I "talk" to people online I probably wouldn't bother with in real life, because occasionally they intrude on my personal cyberspace and I'd hate to be rude :p
I'm generally fairly well behaved and law abiding so I'm not too concerned about embarrassing myself online -- at least, not in a potentially litigious way, otherwise I don't embarrass all that easily. I avoided Facebook for a couple of years after growing very tired of being updated on the inane activities of people whose lives I was terminally uninterested in, and now I've reactivated I'm less concerned about offending people by defriending/ignoring those I really couldn't care less about.
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07-02-2012, 09:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-02-2012, 09:33 AM by billy.)
i do tend to be less nasty on line 
in real life i absolutely don't give a toss what i say. if someone displeases me i say something about it. on face book if you upset one person you know you upset loads. I'd unload with the expletives on my two girls and my family here but would never do the same in facebook or any other media site. it would be like washing one's dirty linen in public. that and the fact i love them too much to make them feel embarrassed amongst people they know. as for the grand kid thing, i love seeing new pics of them so until my horrible girls start emailing them to me, I'll put up with the cooing and aring just so i can see them again and keep up with what's going on. i got rid of my face book account so now i have to view those pics using my partners facebook account....i know, ...I'm a hypocrite 
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i'm actually contemplating to open a facebook account so i can be more abusive to a wider audience
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"Yes, I'm unpleasant and antisocial. It makes me happy. "
I am antisocial because most people are not worth being social with. I should probably unfriend about 90% of my "friends", most are those from high school I knew. I find them just as insipid as I did back then.
dale
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just abuse the shit out of'm
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(07-03-2012, 01:34 PM)Erthona Wrote: "Yes, I'm unpleasant and antisocial. It makes me happy. "
I am antisocial because most people are not worth being social with. I should probably unfriend about 90% of my "friends", most are those from high school I knew. I find them just as insipid as I did back then.
dale
More insipid, because now they've got insipid kids they can't stop talking about...
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and really, who cares what mundane events they experienced over the weekend. They act as each breath is an original idea...what is the word one would use to describe sophomoric as it relates to everyday events instead of non-original ideas? Whatever it is, this self fascination with ones utterly boring and meaningless existence is what I would apply it to. Myself and my personal life quite being interesting to me many years ago. Parading it in front of people is the equivalent of pulling down ones pants, shoving your fat hairy ass into someone face and farting then expecting the recipient to praise such effort as being the equivalent of great art. The really disgusting part are those who comply out of fear of hurting someone's feelings.
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(07-03-2012, 02:10 PM)Leanne Wrote: More insipid, because now they've got insipid kids they can't stop talking about...
i hope you realise how deep that fucking cut went
if i'm honest it is a point of contact for me that i don't want to lose. i just saw pics of my daughters villa in spain and was able to feel that fatherly pride one feels by knowing of their kids achievements. i suppose i should be nastier on line but age has worn a fair bit of my roughness away, unlike dales edges which are made of diamond
i do use to rip now and again but there's no fun in it if you do it on facebook. forums on the other hand are perfect for it.
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"Friend" is a pretty disingenious word anyway, in facebook terms.
Facebbok definitely has its uses as a social interaction tool, keeping in touch with family, etc. But somehow a lot of people feel compelled to put their entire life there, and things get messy quick.
PS. If you can, try your hand at giving some of the others a bit of feedback. If you already have, thanks, can you do some more?
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i suppose it could be renamed idiotbook without losing any credibility 
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