[Echo40]

Thankfully, Facebook in general is such a wretched hive of scum and villainy that nobody really takes the place seriously anymore.

Honestly, even the "good people" on Facebook only use it to complain about minor annoyances in their day to day lives or overhype something "really amazing that happened last night!" without ever elaborating on what it was.

I started a Facebook Profile back in 2011 at the request of a woman I had been fixed up with, and the whole experience was so negative that it honestly played a big role in my decision to live a life of celibacy.
Seriously, the only "good" (and I use that term in a bitterly ironic sense) thing I can say about Facebook is that if you ever really want to know who someone really is, then their Facebook Profile (or lack thereof) will tell you everything you need to know. If the person in question lacks a Facebook Profile or otherwise has one which they abandoned without ever bothering to delete, then their likelihood of being a decent person is significantly higher than someone who has one which is used/updated frequently because most decent people get fed up with all of the negativity and stop going there or never made a profile to begin with due to negative experiences from visiting the profiles of others.

 

[Echo40]

I've found the same thing. I've family that uses Facebook to gain sympathy from people. According to them and their post, I'm an evil, no good, worthless human being. As a fiend pointed out to me, he said that those posting, must mean I'm okay. It gives them something they have over me from their way of thinking as they all know I don't do Facebook. So there is no way I'll ever find out, right? :evil:


They posted last week that they heard my dad died. My dad was disappointed, he didn't get any flowers, nor did he get invited to his own funeral. He'll be 82 next Friday. My dad had fun with it for two days. He wasn't sure what time the funeral was scheduled for, but decided not to go even if he'd been invited.:devil:

Facebook is like a meme I seen, "If you can be anything on the internet, then why do so many chose to be stupid?"

Maloy

Yep, that's pretty consistent with my own experiences in regards to Facebook. I heard through the grapevine that my estranged evil sister actually accused me of being a sexual deviant on Facebook, which is pretty hilarious seeing as I've been celibate since 2012 and most of my ex-girlfriends in the past complained that I was too much of a gentleman. Better yet, as near as I can figure the example she gave was a highly exaggerated version of instance in which I flirted with a friend of hers (whom my sister herself had been trying to fix me up with) at a party by joking that we should shower together. Apparently her friend found that comment threatening somehow and had told a grossly exaggerated version of the story in which is was presented as more of a demand than a proposition made in jest and my sister was so upset by it that she felt the need to share it on Facebook some 2+ years later, long after I had stopped using Facebook and swore off romance.

To whom it may concern, my astranged evil sister is a compulsive liar who constantly needed to be the center of attention and thus frequently told tall tales throughout her life up until the point that she finally went too far by claiming to having been diagnosed with a fatal illness, which she had the whole family convinced of/grieving over for more than a decade until her mother-in-law revealed that it had all been a lie, at which point she had been rightfully disowned by everyone.

 

[Echo40]

It sounds like our sisters could be twins! We could lock them in a room together and see whom devours whom!

Maloy

That's actually pretty funny considering that an in-joke between my brothers is that our sister is a vampire who feeds on negative emotions and thus provokes negative emotions in others as a means to feed on them. In fact, I've often said that vampires are real, but that tales of them drinking blood was metaphorical due to the shear number of folks who seemingly cannot get enough drama, seeking it out feverishly to the point of artificially generating it themselves.

Bearing that in mind, I would fear that putting the two of them together would only backfire when they inevitably join forces.

 

[Echo40]

Oh my.........that is perfect.........:thumb:

As an afterthought, I think it has to do with the anonymity a person has when hiding behind a keyboard.
I would hate to imagination that some people are as rude, aggressive, opinionated and intransigent
in person as they are when they are at a keyboard.
I know a few people I could sure use an ignore button on. Maybe a 2X4 would be a viable alternative.......:blink:

You're no longer anonymous when you're posting from a social networking featuring your real name, age, occupation, contact information, etc. Many of the worst people I've seen on Facebook were either real life acquaintances of whom I could varify were who they claimed to be on their profiles or otherwise had profiles which seemed legit enough seeing as they were portrayed as nobodies with nothing outstanding or unbelievable about them.

Social Media is different from other places online, especially nowadays when many of them have begun requiring that you verify your identity before your profile can be finalized, (you can't even start a Twitter Profile these days without settling up 2 step verification with a cell phone) ergo you can't really remain truly anonymous when posting on Social Networking Websites.

So yeah, unfortunately a lot of the folks we're talking about are the most slanderous scum of the earth posting from their own profiles featuring their real names. In fact, my sister I spoke of earlier is so dumb that she actually had her home address and phone number listed on her profile, which she used to post lies from. Come to think of it, her personal information was one of the few legitimate things listed on her profile.