The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: skyrocketneko on February 22, 2012, 02:53:33 PM
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It was tough call, but it was time. I was heavily addicted to it, and would check it religiously all day! I mean, every 10 minutes or so. Most of my "friends" were not real friends, it was tough to weed out the ones who posted offensive stuff, and I was just tired of feeling like I should respond to everyones' pleas for whatever.
And honestly, I'm not really a fan of babies, and most of my feed was full of them. I guess I'm just at that age where people enjoy posting pictures of their children drooling/ with food everywhere etc.
I'll miss entering the contests and keeping up to date with my favorite brands, but this will force me to get off my butt and get myself in shape (and do other things around the house).
Anyone else do this and feel good about it?
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Haha I almost never check my facebook. I don't like deleting old accounts on sites if I don't have to, because then I have to go and make sure I have all the pictures saved that I had there and make sure I get all the contact info for anyone I may miss someday, etc etc.
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How do you delete a profile on facebook? I've tried to remove mine, but so far it just gets 'deactivated'. It's supposed to be completely removed after two weeks of not logging on following the deactivation, but that turned out to be nonsense...
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I didn't delete mine, but I recently scaled my time I spent on there way, way back. I feel so much better now. I felt like I knew too much about everyone, haha.
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I have it, but I rarely check it.
My life is just fine here!
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I have an aversion to talking on the phone, so facebook is a good tool for me to keep in touch with all my friends. I don't over share, and I check it a few times a day for updates :) I only have family and good friends on it, so it weeds out a lot of the drama/excess.
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I have FB up most of the day so I can use the little chat box to talk to some of my arena friends. :yikes:
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I can count on one hand the number of people I really care about keeping up with on facebook. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't have one.. or I'd still have one but probably rarely ever use it.
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I don't really have a normal Facebook account. I only use it to like a few (okay many) brands (and a few musicians) that I follow. It has been good to be able to know when Taco Bell has a certain limited time item or when MGA puts out a new Lalaloopsy. The good thing about liking brands instead of people is they don't expect me to chat back. As a matter of fact I am sure they dread my comments as they are usually complaints of what they did wrong. I am sure the white Celestia has more to do with Facebook complaints since I think they tend to ignore emails.
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I was obsessed a little with it before I lost my job, and now I mostly avoid it to avoid hearing my past coworkers updates since it depresses me. :\
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Good call. I'm deleting my facebook account in a few days.
Main reason being all my FB friends are people from university, and we've all gone our separate ways.
I don't really post anything except random thoughts or facebook anyway - Facebook content demands a life I don't have have, or holidays I can't afford.
I think facebook is at best a neat distraction.
I'm hoping to get to work creating some really cool stuff when I move out my parents (been here 7 months post-university, wages for a tiny apartment should be coming down the tubes in the next month or so). Then I'll be onto building a portfolio/personal website of choice photos, articles, and documentation, and I think that's a better presentation of oneself than a facebook profile.
Strogg
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I have FB up most of the day so I can use the little chat box to talk to some of my arena friends. :yikes:
This ^^
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I'm self employed in a creative industry, and Facebook is the easiest, and often times the preferred way for my clients to communicate. It's way too useful of a tool for me to give up.
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I have FB up most of the day so I can use the little chat box to talk to some of my arena friends. :yikes:
This ^^
:tackleglomp: Hi hanna!!! :biggrin:
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Did you know that Facebook opened up their API so you can use Facebook chat on any IM client that supports XMPP? It's pretty easy to do, create a new account in your IM client, select XMPP as the protocol, punch in your facebook URL (mine is, for example, edward.mowinckel), select chat.facebook.com as the domain, and punch in your password. So long as you're signed into facebook chat on the site, you'll be online with your IM client. It's pretty handy.
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It's so hard for me to keep off of facebook because I have the app on my phone. Whenever I'm bored, I usually always go to check it on, you guessed it, my phone. I recently deleted it from my phone though. I'm already having withdrawals haha! But I figure, the important people I have are all in my phone, just a text or phone call away. Facebook is just a huge stalker dome where you learn stuff about others you normally wouldn't care about. And I always find myself facebook creeping and finding out stuff I didn't want to know and it makes me depressed the rest of the day. For example, I'm kinda jealous of my boyfriends' friends and whenever he posts on their walls or them on his, it makes me frustrated. So, not being on facebook for that reason and finding out stuff I don' t want to know, I think it'll make life a little bit more stress free. I'm going to see if I can make it to once a week checking it.
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I usually have it opened, but I'm not constantly checking every single thing posted. I've hidden/blocked most games or pages - unless it's a game I play. I do culls of my friends list periodically - if I can't figure out who you are or what connect we have at a quick glance, byebye (and if we never talk). Mostly it's mods, family, school/work friends, bunny people (rescues), or game neighbours.
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I think the problem is not Facebook but how you use it. I like being able to complain or pitch ideas directly on a company or product's wall (like My Little Pony for example). I was one of the first ones to mention on Lalaloopsy's wall that they need to make smaller ones and now look there are Minis.
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I say congrats to you :) I've thought about deleting mine many times- but there are some people on there who would be hard to stay in contact with otherwise, which is why I decided to keep it. I don't know, I guess I'd rather spend my free time online here :biggrin:
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I haven't deleted mine because my friends mess up their phones a lot and I want them to have another way to easily contact me and there are a few people I keep on there for networking purposes, but I rarely go on it anymore unless I get an email notification.
And I did stop playing those facebook games like a year ago. Petville consumed my life for a while. @_@;
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I hear ya about not enjoying photos of peoples' babies and children. No offense to anybody, but it just annoys me to see photos of babies and children. I honestly think it's due to my Asperger's. Thank goodness for the unsubscribe from photos option. That way I can enjoy what the person has to say but not have to endure the child photos.
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thats how i am with the mlparena!!!
i neeeeever am on FB!
here on the other hand...
every 10 minutes, thats me on a mlp diet!!!
im more like every 10 seconds!!!
maybe i should delete my mlp arena account??
naahhh ;)
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I check it a couple times a day but mostly to play Farmville.
Good for you though to have the will power to delete it. :ohyeah:
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I've never even had one and when I hear people talk about it I'm so glad I never did. If a potential employed demands me to get one, then perhaps I will. But til then, I enjoy knowing that people I don't even care about don't know what I ate for breakfast.
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I got talked into getting a FB account a little over a year ago and I think about deleting it all the time because most people get annoying and I end up blocking updates from them (I seriously feel ya about the babies). >_> I recently deleted most of my friends list and would delete my account it it weren't for 1. having a few ex co-workers on there I like to keep a contact with for networking. 2. My sister and my best friend and I keep in touch best through FB since I don't have texting and generally don't use my phone much 3. a couple brands, companies and local groups I follow because they only post news or meetup info on FB anymore. I feel like I'm stuck with it now for those reasons. >_<
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The thing is, we were able to keep in touch with people before Facebook and MySpace- even before email! People have gotten lazy and sometimes don't keep relationships well, can be socially awkward just because nobody needs to talk by phone or face to face anymore.
My career is online marketing, so I still handle my company's Facebook, but I've had it with mine. I was one of those people who posted something and kept coming back every 10 minutes to see if anyone responded yet.
Yes, my account is deactivated. Facebook makes it really hard to completely delete things. In fact, I've heard that your profile is NEVER gone. That's another thing that bothers me. If you delete pictures, they are going to be online forever. Just sickens me how much of our info is out there now.
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How do you delete a profile on facebook? I've tried to remove mine, but so far it just gets 'deactivated'. It's supposed to be completely removed after two weeks of not logging on following the deactivation, but that turned out to be nonsense...
That is no longer... it has been changed so your profile is merely deactivated. It is never fully deleted. I'm not sure whether all the content that you've posted gets permanently deleted when you deactivate, though.
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I've never even had one and when I hear people talk about it I'm so glad I never did.
Same here. Never had Facebook, and after hearing various things about it, I'm glad that I don't have one. Besides that, I value my privacy, which is why I ended up deleting my account on MySpace. I'm just happy with LiveJournal as my blog of choice.
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thats how i am with the mlparena!!!
i neeeeever am on FB!
here on the other hand...
every 10 minutes, thats me on a mlp diet!!!
im more like every 10 seconds!!!
maybe i should delete my mlp arena account??
naahhh ;)
Lol...tick! This is me....
Sometimes I feel like one of the last "hold outs" against facebook - dont have a page, never had a page and dont plan to have a page...just a little uncomfortable with it...but thats just fussy old me!
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Facebook content demands a life I don't have have, or holidays I can't afford.
So true :huh:
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Good for you! Sounds like you'll be happier without it. I admire your willpower, haha. And I also totally get the non-interest in the babies. I already have one fb friend who is posting baby pics (though she's not going crazy with it so it's not that big a deal). It's almost depressing having to see it when myself and my peers are only barely into our twenties...
I think I have a love/hate relationship with facebook. I rarely talk to people on there anymore, I don't use it for a whole lot of things...but I think I'd still feel lost without it, lol. It's especially important to me at this time since my boyfriend is abroad for a few months, and we use it to chat sometimes (it generally works better for me than Skype chatting..grumble grumble).
I also get a real kick out of going back and looking at older pics of my friends and I. The pictures are fun to look at, but so is reading our hilarious comments. Makes me so happy. I'd hate to lose them!
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I haven't deleted mine but I've been tempted to do so. I've gotten in a little bit of trouble with it. Drama starts fast on there.
Now I'm more careful about what I pose. But I'm not nor have ever been hooked on it some like people have gotten. It's a fine time waster and I mainly use it when I'm playing on my phone.
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I deleted my facebook and it felt GREAAAAAT. I can't stand Facebook, so I was super happy deleting it hahaha. :P
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a couple brands, companies and local groups I follow because they only post news or meetup info on FB anymore. I feel like I'm stuck with it now for those reasons. >_<
This is exactly why I have mine. For some dolls I collect there aren't any communities where I can find out the latest news like I can with MLP. As far as privacy concerns I don't really have them. It isn't like Facebook forces you to post every personal detail about yourself and make it public. Of course I am sure it helps that I don't use my real last name online.
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My mom had an intervention on me and convinced me to chill out on my online times. I check everything in the morning before work, then at night before bed. That's about it, unless I have some shipping labels to print out or an eBay item ending that I want to pay for right away or a message I need to respond to and forgot. I'm surprised I had the willpower to do it. It's hard though, I have so many things to keep up with. When it comes to Facebook, I just scroll down the page pretty quick only stopping for the worthwhile things. I ignore the stupid. Funny thing is, my mom will just unsubscribe to people who annoy her. :P Even though I didn't delete my account, I feel better not being on as much. I get more accomplished, and that's a good feeling. :)
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I have never had a Facebook. Or a Myspace. Or a Twitter. And I'm so much happier without. I'm a NY State certified teacher, and the last thing I need is to lose my job and/or certification because of social media. I get really really strange looks from people I meet when I tell them I don't FB, MS or Twitter, but I do think I'm that much happier without them all.
My friends and family understand and are respectful of my wishes, and don't post pics of me on their social media either. Once my teenaged niece posted a pic of me in my wedding dress months BEFORE my wedding on her FB, she got in so much trouble!!!!! lol
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I have never had a Facebook. Or a Myspace. Or a Twitter. And I'm so much happier without. I'm a NY State certified teacher, and the last thing I need is to lose my job and/or certification because of social media. I get really really strange looks from people I meet when I tell them I don't FB, MS or Twitter, but I do think I'm that much happier without them all.
My friends and family understand and are respectful of my wishes, and don't post pics of me on their social media either. Once my teenaged niece posted a pic of me in my wedding dress months BEFORE my wedding on her FB, she got in so much trouble!!!!! lol
You are right this is the best decision when you are a teacher..reallyl for any job to find you on facebook is a mistake.
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I deleted mine also! good for you!
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All I can say is how can employer find questionable material if you don't post it? It isn't like Facebook magically scans your brain and then puts all your private information on there for everyone to see.
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I've never even had one and when I hear people talk about it I'm so glad I never did.
Same here. Never had Facebook, and after hearing various things about it, I'm glad that I don't have one. Besides that, I value my privacy, which is why I ended up deleting my account on MySpace. I'm just happy with LiveJournal as my blog of choice.
Same here too, right down to Livejournal only. Even though I don't use that much either, haha. I'm also not a fan of baby photos all over the place, I just don't care about seeing them anymore.
If I ever did get a Facebook - It would probably be just to sign up some apps of mine to it :/
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I have never had one, and I will never get one. Same for twitter. Why bother to keep in touch with people you are not interested in? There are better and more personal ways to stay connected with friends and family!
Besides, I don't like how they collect all our private data. It scares me how easily people give away their private information nowadays.
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After some recent events, I'm a Twitter-only gal now.
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Yay! Good for you! It's so incredibly easy for things to blow up on Facebook- which I've also found out. I think I like my privacy.
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Good for you!
(I'm starting to feel that FB is a total waste of time especially since I'll post things and never have any responses from my 200+ "friends"...)
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I cant delete mine, I use it as a business type thing :) I raise show rabbits and i have to sell some occasionally. But the stupid drama over christmas was insane! Majority of it all was unemployed old women who loved causing drama. But I've trimmed the dead weight :)
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I check it at least once a day cause I;m nosy, but other than that...eh. I also use it to communicate with others, since that seems to be everyone fave mode of communication. Truthfully, I am way more obsessed with checking updates on the arena.
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I've not really been posting to FB much latley. I check it a few times in the day but the only reason I really use it is sometimes its a better way to get messages about college posted and I use it to keep up to date with some bands, games and the like.
I recentley 'unsubscribed' from some feeds though there was this nasty bout of really petty drama between some of my classmates and I was stick of seeing it and generally fed up of this one person posting rather annoying attention seeking statuses and being tagged in drunken party albums.
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I never signed up for a facebook account, i refuse to join in with other people's drama. If you have my number and wanna chat, just text me, that's how i see it.