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Asp-Z
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21 Sep 2010, 11:05 am

KevinLA wrote:

I am 39 years old. I was looking at the Facebook profiles of people from my high school. I am amazed at how many friends some people have. Some people that I thought had nothing to do with each other in high school are friends on Facebook.

I understand that being friends on Facebook doesn't mean they are friends in real life, but I am still surprised.

Does anyone else feel the same way.

Facebook friends are like Pokemon to most people... They gotta catch 'em all. It even dosen't mean they so much as talk to someone just because they're Facebook friends with them.

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22 Sep 2010, 12:05 am

facebook is a waste of time in my opinion

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22 Sep 2010, 2:47 am

When I first got Facebook I found that I was getting adds from people who were complete b*****s to me at school, and suddenly they were sending message like "How are you getting on? Are you still living in the area? x" It all seemed very fake considering we were never even friends.

I got sick of it so deleted my account and started up a new one, but I do like Facebook for keeping in touch with friends and business contacts, and seeing what's going on in their lives can give me an idea what to say to them when I see them in person.

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22 Sep 2010, 2:50 pm

I have roughly 700 Facebook friends, mostly because of my over-the-top photo uploading and tagging habit (along with joining a coed fraternity in college, where everybody friended each other and some alumni). I uploaded several albums of high school pics, tagged my friends, and then got tag and friend requests from people who could care less about me (and a few former bullies). It was strange how the years could make mean people slightly more friendly.

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22 Sep 2010, 3:28 pm

personally, i hate facebook, no offence to anybody here who disagrees with me but i think it's boring. for social networking, I'm sticking with Xbox live

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22 Sep 2010, 7:36 pm

necroluciferia wrote:

Non_Passerine wrote:

Maybe those people that are asking about you have changed.

There was this guy in my high school that was kind of a bully to people. Not me though. He was on the message board at Classmates.com site and sincerely apologized to this girl he made fun of. This is a public forum he did this.

Maybe the bullies are just guilty about how they treated people.

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23 Sep 2010, 11:49 am

My HS graduating class had about 140 students, so pretty much most of us are facebook friends with pretty much everyone who we don't hate. But yeah, I find it somewhat odd.

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23 Sep 2010, 4:40 pm

occasionally some long lost person from school will appear using 'friendfinder'
or similar on facebook

a brief and shallow conversation then ensues:
1. what are you doing now i.e. how much are you earning?
2. where are you living now i.e. how much is your house worth?
3. married? how may kids have you got

then a brief look at the photos to see who's got the most hair left
and then you never speak to them again

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25 Sep 2010, 10:29 pm

I have been looking at a Facebook page of a friend from my childhood. What pisses me off is that it seems like we have a lot in common when I look at his page, but again he never accepts my friend request. He is also kind of an anal orafice IRL.

I know that the onus is on him, but what am I doing wrong to have him treat me this way? Why do people always want to find things to not connect with somebody, instead of building a healthy relationship on those things that we have in common?

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25 Sep 2010, 10:40 pm

phil_d1111 wrote:

Haha

Brilliant!

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26 Sep 2010, 5:20 pm

I try to ignore what friends other people have unless I know them too or maybe if they are good looking too or seem to have enough matching interests, lol. Sometimes, there might be people you didn't think of. It can be a good resource to reach out to people, but it can also be annoying with all the acquaintances and people you don't want to see too :/

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28 Sep 2010, 7:18 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lchaAtrwkE4[/youtube]

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29 Sep 2010, 12:01 pm

PerryJellyBerry wrote:

I'm not really surprised by that... but what I am surprised at is that some of the people who were in my circle of friends have old pictures of them hanging out from back in high school (I graduated 6 years ago) with people that I didnt even know they hung out with. Or they'll have pictures of them hanging out (like my whole group of friends) back in the day at one of their houses and not ONCE was I ever invited to hang out with any of them outside of school. WTF! :evil:

No one ever asked me if I wanted to hang out after school. But, yet they have pictures of them hanging out in each others bedrooms. :cry:

Even though its been years, it kind of ticks me off a little.

Yeah, something like that happened to me, too.

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29 Sep 2010, 12:10 pm

Science_Guy wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lchaAtrwkE4[/youtube]

I prefer this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psNUP_bcggY[/youtube]

:lol:

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