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Would you leave Facebook if a better social network came out?

Yes, for sure.

33% (11)

Maybe.

21% (7)

Nope.

15% (5)

I don't like social networks.

30% (10)

Total Votes : 33

(last vote on : 10/8/2012 5:06:45 PM)
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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/29/2012 9:51:37 PM

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Facebook has also apparently been changing users email addys without anyones knowledge or consent so unless users change it back, anyone that wants to contact other FB users has to go thru FB email system. What I dislike the most about FB are the games like this example, that they do without telling anyone..

I dont have a FB profile, if there was any social network i would join, it would be LinkedIn but that is not what i would consider a "social" network but rather a business network.. LinkedIn has had a major security breach tho, recently..

I agree with other posters that another social network will come along and take its place.. its just the circle of life..

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/29/2012 11:17:37 PM

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I have precisely zero loyalty to facebook. I got on because it was an easy way to stay connected, as my family members rotated in and out of Iraqistan. Something better will come along, and I'll be gone.

It has been handy lately though. Apparently, all the privacy settings default back to "no privacy at all," when people switch over to to the timeline. Makes cyberstalking ex-girlfriends much easier.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/29/2012 11:23:04 PM

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"Better social network" means the one where everybody else is. Facebook is ripe to be knocked off, but if you've paid attention, all the big networking sites were hip niche sites (Myspace for bands, Facebook for students) before they started opening their doors to everybody.

I'd happily go somewhere else if everyone else were there too. It's just a question of building that sort of userbase in the first place.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 2:45:15 AM

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Very nice. So I'd say majority of the reason why people would join another network is that all there friends and families are there, and of they are there they'd need to offer something more "better" I should say.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 7:50:36 AM

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I left facebook for a way better social network a long time ago.
It's called Life.
It's amazing, you can access it anywhere, any time.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 8:15:46 AM

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If I were still 15 yrs, old, I might actually be interested in a faux-reality 'social network.'

At age 19, I communicated with family in Ireland, years before the internet. We got pictures and everything. But this being before the advent of modern marketing, we actually didn't get the T-shirt.

Am I a genius, or a Luddite?

Neither. But it doesn't escape notice here that Einstein or Newton would be considered Luddites in today's terms.

I wish all the best to MyFace and SpaceBook, etc.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 8:19:45 AM

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I'm with the folks that would follow friends/family.
Personally, I detest FB, but since it is the easiest way to keep up with old friends/family/co-workers.... guess I'm there for the duration.

Dammit.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 8:39:55 AM

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I hear ya.

Aside the semi-pompous rant earlier, my dad lets me into his FB account when I visit, where I discovered that I have half-a-bazillion relatives in Texas, and that my youngest cousin in CO was a cheerleader for two years for an arena league football team. But I already knew she was going for a Masters degree in child psychology from our last visit, but now I know she's a counselor at an elementary school for three years now.

I used to have to write thank you letters to my grandmothers/grandfathers and aunts/uncles for their Christmas and birthday gifts. I could have used pencil, but I felt that the occasion called for the fountain pen that I was forced to use in school. The relatives meant more to me than the teachers, you might say. When I think of my 70-80-something yr. old (widowed) granny holding a letter I wrote in her quivering hand, it's one of the few things I did right in life ('God took her away' at 96 yrs.).

Being the history student that I am, I know that we don't know what any of this means until at least 100 years after we're dead and gone.

On that subject, some of the best sources in history are from written letters, which we don't have anymore.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 8:55:21 AM

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I mourn the loss of hand written correspondence, while admitting that I am worse at that than I am at emailing...LOL

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 9:02:12 AM

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OTOH, the 'diary' was the 'Facebook' in times past, one could say. The girls showed their diary to their closest cousins and friends, so not meant to be all inclusive and 100% personal.

Carrie Berry's diary is still available, at the library or on the internet. A "must read," to put in those terms.

Internet files, whatever the network, have to get cleared out eventually.

One of my sisters is the family librarian, so we still have hard copies of some of the best writing I've ever seen. Then again, I threw out half a ton of useless family drivel when my mom died. Don't tell my sister, please. The picture of my grandmother's friend leading a goat that was hauling a child's wagon (proper sized harness for the goat, the whole shebang, this apparently an everyday thing, in that time), with two small kids in it, in Macon GA in 1904 is beyond priceless. Yes, we have the original photo print of that event. My grandmother herself got her nose bent, in a most alluring way, in getting run over by a horse-drawn wagon a year later.

She survived, safe to say, and the picture of her holding her youngest brother in her lap while five other siblings to the side (and one further yet to come, from her smiling mama, behind her), and 15 cousins to either side, and half-a-bazillion aunts and uncles, all in the same picture ... made me say; what the f*ck did we DO to ourselves!?

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 9:38:49 AM

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I was just going through some letters
and cards that my grandma and a friend
who died recently sent me when I was
away at school. Stuff like that is something
to treasure. Just seeing the handwriting
of someone you love can be emotional.

I still send notes and cards and holdfast
that love letters should be written by
hand. I do notice that my handwriting
which was never great has gotten
worse since I went online.

People can spend to much time online,
of course. But that doesn't mean all
social media is a waste of time or a
bigger waste of time than some real
world stuff is.

Other than staying in the loop with
people from various parts of your life
I don't see that facebook offers much
unless you have a quota of how many
photos you think you have to put online
every day.

The sites that revolve around music,
books, crafts, cooking, art are a good
outlet for people who may not have
people in real life that share their interests.
And you can learn things and share
something you might no with others.
I don't see that as a big time waster
if you don't let it monopolize your life.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 9:40:04 AM

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 11:59:38 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

I mourn the loss of hand written correspondence, while admitting that I am worse at that than I am at emailing...LOL

This.^ I do too, I think there is nothing more thoughtful that a hand written letter. My mom still does that for me.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 12:22:45 PM

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I might be more tolerant of FaceBookshite if they had a switch for "block ALL game requests and never show me another one again"

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 3:11:24 PM

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I think is Facebook is a really selfish company. They only enhance the website to there desires. As soon as a new social network comes out that has much more to offer, I get everyone I know to join it as best as possible.

People need to hit reality in Facebook (lol ironic) because the company violates our privacy and we can't help it but to stay. Because everything out there is not innovative.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 3:35:52 PM

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If it wasn't for FB I would not always know what my daughter is up to or when she's having problems since she refuses to call me to let me know when she needs help. Instead she usualy FB's something to her friends which I have to decipher.

If it wasn't for FB I would not have found out that my nephew just graduated from college or that my niece just got married or that there are problems with the family land that's been in our family since the mid 1700's.

For me it's the easiest and fastest form of communication with those I don't normally hear from unless I go back to my hometown which I rarely do. This way I'm kept in the loop and I can find out how I can help.

And I wouldn't have found out today that a high school buddy of mine is now living near me and is getting married today.

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 4:10:31 PM

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Agree with littlewonder :) (though other siblings refuse to add my parents for the spying reason lol)

Kind of wish I hadn't voted before reading the thread, I've never really liked aggressive surveys...

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 7:26:24 PM

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MySpace died and I hope FaceBook follows suit. One day, when they develop a decent social network software, maybe, just maybe I will be happier about it. I do social networking and construct commercial FaceBook identities. I hate FaceBook as much as I hate cell phones. Depersonalizing the human race and creating things like cyber friends is just fucking awful.

Picture this:

You flip on your text message, hit the mic icon to talk & type, speak as it types, then send the text. WTF is that??? . . . seriously, if you are gonna' speak a message to someone, just fucking call them and speak to them.

But, but,but...you're my cyber friend.

And you never call.

*sad*

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 8:13:12 PM

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Lol atleast that could mean your voting answer wasn't bias :P

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RE: Would you leave Facebook if a better social network... - 6/30/2012 9:34:53 PM

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

If it wasn't for FB I would not always know what my daughter is up to or when she's having problems since she refuses to call me to let me know when she needs help. Instead she usualy FB's something to her friends which I have to decipher.

If it wasn't for FB I would not have found out that my nephew just graduated from college or that my niece just got married or that there are problems with the family land that's been in our family since the mid 1700's.

For me it's the easiest and fastest form of communication with those I don't normally hear from unless I go back to my hometown which I rarely do. This way I'm kept in the loop and I can find out how I can help.

And I wouldn't have found out today that a high school buddy of mine is now living near me and is getting married today.

I supported six different brothers and sisters, six kids total from them, in the lot.

I don't do the Facebook thing.

The nephew that grew up (mostly) in my house is coming to town this week, with his wonderful wife and their two wonderful kids.

Why am I freaking out here?

No explaining that, other than running almost two miles yesterday and survived just fine. OK, not all just fine, but I survived, with tread to spare.

I have to get back to the Deutsche Wella site, so I can introduce the kids to proper language, etc.

Damn, having to work this hard.

It's always something.

It wasn't so hard, back in the day.

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