[TI-84]

facebook is for networking with your friends/people you may know.
One of the niceties of facebook ( in my opinion) is that I have been able to get into contact with people i knew back in year 5, nearly 8 years ago.
Not only this, it is also a good way of keeping in touch with your current friends.
For example I am not leaving school, off to uni, obiviously everyone is going to different places. Facebook simply makes it easier to stay in touch.
Personally I think that if you want to use a website to "get to know" new random people ( and look at random people's pictures) then use MySpace.
Looking at random people's pictures is going to make you feel socially inadequate as you feel that your not doing anything, its normal to feel envy blablabla when you see others having fun while your wasting your time in front of a screen. Stop using facebook as a means to see what your friends' friends friends are upto, instead use it to have a more efficient means of communication between you and your friends.

[chernij]

(Original post by Zafda)
for some reason gettin bladdered is ''cool'' - i've still not understood why. some of my friends have said they get more confident bla bla bla and love seeing pictures and hearing stories of what they did, which they'd usually be embarassed about.
some people get so much nicer when they're drunk, but tbh it gets boring watching them after a while.

Haha yes I get what you mean

[yeahyeahyeahs]

if the photos make you feel socially inadequate, just stop clicking on people's photo albums.


i used to look at friend's uni photos and getting really inadequate over them because i wasnt having the 'student life' (I'm on my second gap year at the moment). i kept on de activating my facebook constantly to prevent myself from seeing them.

but you know what the heck, kept the facebook on and enjoy life without needing to brag about every single moment with status updates and photos to the public internet!

[DeSiFiEd]

(Original post by Sports Racer)
The people who use Facebook most are also those who simply must get 50 photos of everything they ever do. It's like they would go shopping and somehow turn that into a photo album. I don't get it.

LMAO yes !!

There's plenty of people that have 200 odd pictures of them at a restaurant eating, the only difference it being different days

The amount of drunken pictures are crazy, its like underage drinkers WANT to be found out..haha, I've even seen a few pictures of their guns, drugs etc...smooth, very smooth

If facebook didn't exist, people would probably only take pictures on important occasions...like a birthday, not the 20th day of the Summer Holidays!

I hide my tagged photos just for that reason...I refuse to take pictures under the premise for them just to be facebook-social approval lol.

[g_star_raw_1989]

No.

[DeSiFiEd]

oh and back to OP..I've had a few people saying how I seem to know "everyone" and be really sociable etc...so facebook actually makes me feel socially overadequate...

Probably 1 of about 400-odd people I actually know something meaningful about haha.

[sophisticated]

I hate having to check Facebook regularly but it won't notify me by email when someone has written on my wall, even though I have ticked the box asking it to.
Any ideas as to how to fix this please guys?
Thanks

[x y z]

No.

[maze.e]

(Original post by Freud)
I don't go on it much any more, I got fed up with seeing 'news' about friends of friends. So I deleted about 50 people and now, one by one, they're starting to re-add me to get their friend count up I blame that 'people you might know' bit. Facebook is getting more and more irritating

Yeah a similar thing happend to me aswell, I didnt get it because the people that re-added me I didnt even know really well or rember meeting most of them were random uni people thoe.

On the issue of pictures on facebook I think the sales of digital cameras must have increased with facebooks popularity.

[noujazeg]

YES!!!! I especially like to torture myself by looking at the facebook pages of either:
A. girls I dislike yet envy (or maybe envy thus dislike) and looking at all their comments to see how adored they are and all their pictures to see how hot they look, or
B. people I generally really admire and look at the cool comments they get (much more interesting than anything I would ever post) and look at their pictures to see them surrounded by people who are not me.

I swear I was normal before Facebook came along.

However, I have recently implemented a rule whereby I have banned myself from looking at the facebook page of anyone who would not look on mine. It's very effective. If you ask yourself 'Would this person be spending two hours looking at pictures of me?', the answer is almost always no, and the idea of stalking their profile then becomes too degrading to contemplate. You may then leave your computer, step outside, blink into the light and remember what it means to be alive.

[mipmapped]

I'm glad I have a superiority complex if this is what it's like to be 'normal'.

[*Fool'sGold*]

No, I don't understand why it would make you feel inadequate?

If you're looking at pictures of people who aren't your friends, why would you care what they're doing? And if they're your friends, surely you should be there too?

I have a lot of photos up haha so maybe that's why I don't feel the same.

[WOLLSMOTH]

anybody who doesn't use facebook is a social outcast.

[time.to.dance]

thank god this post was created. i thought i was going almost insane. facebook is damn addictive.
well at least i kept in touch/discovered ppl who i lost contact with when i left kz.and can keep in touch with friends without runnin up a 50 pound phone bill. eek. but otherwise facebook is useless.

and on account of pictures, im starting to agree that ppl who spend all that time taking 50 pictures in one park in different poses are killing time. and i do agree that the sales in digital cameras must have increased with the popularity of facebook. too true. :P i don't see why i should splash on a new 200 pound camera just because everyone else has.

and i have realised one more thing while on holiday in italy(where the access to internet was almost impossible): i was so much happier with just my phone where i kep in touch with my friends(even though it was not cheap!:P) than constantly going on facebook and ending up at looking at someone else's holiday pics. uhh.

[time.to.dance]

(Original post by sophisticated)
I hate having to check Facebook regularly but it won't notify me by email when someone has written on my wall, even though I have ticked the box asking it to.
Any ideas as to how to fix this please guys?
Thanks

have you put down the right email address on facebook..? that happened for a while to me too, then i messed around for a bit and twas sorted.
and what's the point of checking it regularly?? i would only go on facebook when its suitable for me instead of waiting for others to write on my wall.

[koko-popz]

(Original post by Greatleysteg)
Well if you're stalking people on Facebook, the chances are you're socially inadequate, anyway. Freak.

wow, your peers in oxford will love you with that sort of attitude.

[Greatleysteg]

(Original post by koko-popz)
wow, your peers in oxford will love you with that sort of attitude.

Eeeeee, get yourself a sense of humour transplant, willya?

[Daax]

Facebooks fine I find. Dont see how people can have epic bitching sessions over it. If you can't stand to see peoples photos uploaded then why did you add them as a friend? Cant stand their constant status updates then why did you add them as a friend? Hate the constant email notifications that someone has poked/written on your wall then disable the notifications. If you really can't stand it then deactivate your account and do something else, maybe talk over msn messenger?

I'm sorry if I sound bittter but I just don't get why if people are annoyed why don't they just not use facebook, its not compulsory; I must admit there are some problems with it but its still good for keeping up with friends.

[koko-popz]

(Original post by Greatleysteg)
Eeeeee, get yourself a sense of humour transplant, willya?

mine's intact.
thanks

[saraster]

(Original post by Sports Racer)
The people who use Facebook most are also those who simply must get 50 photos of everything they ever do. It's like they would go shopping and somehow turn that into a photo album. I don't get it.

I've actually been shopping with a girl like this once, it just felt so forced and not particularly fun

in answer to OP
as i said just because it looks like theyre having a great time doenst mean they are so you can just ignore it
you dont have to be like them and go to parties etc. every friday night if thats not what you like to do, on the other hand if you do maybe make more of an effort to go out more often?

and i understand i used to feel like this .. now i just feel socially inadequate without facebook win. -_-