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Oiotįri
Tol Eressea
Feb 11 2011, 2:21am
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Facebook has come up in quite a few threads lately
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So, what are your thoughts on it?
I've arranged the poll as allowing multiple votes, but try to pick only one out of each category
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Witchy King
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Feb 11 2011, 2:37am
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It would be fair to call me an addict
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But it's a love-hate thing. I love being in touch with my friends and how it facilitates sharing, not just of personal information but also of articles or videos we find interesting...
...but sometimes I wish I could be free of it. I hate that, at least in my social circles, nothing can happen without there first being a facebook "event" created for it. Or angsty status' posted by people in your networks. And you wish you could unfriend them, but what if they notice? It's a real nail biter. ;p
Nonetheless, I find it fascinating how it has completely changed how my age group (let's say, 18-25?) interacts and socializes.
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Ataahua
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Feb 11 2011, 2:40am
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All right, who voted for the dividing lines?
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Jokers. 
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SirDennisC
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Feb 11 2011, 2:44am
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I wanted to say as well that I appreciated Witchy King's comments here very much. Nicely said Wyki.
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Oiotįri
Tol Eressea
Feb 11 2011, 2:48am
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I fully expected someone to do so, but it took less than 10 minutes from the time I put the poll up *rolls her eyes* (we should have an smiley for that, by the way)
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Magpie
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Feb 11 2011, 2:49am
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it doesn't suit me. It isn't because I hate it but because it isn't a form of communication that suits my personality and preferences.
When the whole world is on it, I'll sit in the garden by myself and enjoy the birds. :-)
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RosieLass
Valinor
Feb 11 2011, 3:27am
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I have it, I *like* it, and I'm on it a fair bit.
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I'd probably be on it more, except that it's blocked at work. 
Anyway, I'd love to have more TORn FB friends, so send me an IM!
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SirDennisC
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Feb 11 2011, 5:47am
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does that make me an iconoclast? Willfully impudent? Weird? 
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Patty
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Feb 11 2011, 6:42am
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I told you, I don't have Facebook.
Magpie, when the whole world is on FB, you and I can go back to watching "Day After Tomorrow".
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Laerasėa
Tol Eressea
Feb 11 2011, 7:48am
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The world would be much nicer if it were quieter and more peaceful.
Sometimes I think I'm a premature fifty year old, but sometimes I don't.
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Faenoriel
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Feb 11 2011, 8:09am
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Facebook is exactly the kind of media I don't like. And everybody saying "You absolutely *must* be on Facebook" is exactly the kind of comment to strenghten my decicion to stand against the current.
If I need to connect with someone physically far away from me, I call him/her through Skype. And then we can see and hear each other through video conversation. That's it.
(This post was edited by Faenoriel on Feb 11 2011, 8:10am)
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Starling
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Feb 11 2011, 10:39am
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Is there room in your garden for one more bird watcher?
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I ignore Facebook as much as I possibly can. But one thing that really irritates me is the way the lazy media here will base a report around what sort of comments people are leaving on it, for example if there is some sort of tragic accident, they will just pull out a whole lot of 'txt speak' direct quotes and print those. I know that is not exactly the fault of Facebook itself, but I dislike the way it seems to be permeating everything.
Okay, rant over. Now, where are those lovely birds...
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Magpie
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Feb 11 2011, 3:06pm
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Darkstone
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Feb 11 2011, 6:14pm
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Everyone in the family has a facebook page but me.
I used to keep up with lonelygirl15, but that's about it.
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silneldor
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Feb 12 2011, 1:16am
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Funny man
... We should start posterior maximus book perhaps, the perfect place for pants puns perchance.
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SirDennisC
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Feb 12 2011, 1:17am
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Wasn't that more of a Youtube thing?
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Just around the time I "discovered" FB I started going to Youtube as well. My first taste of clicking on popular videos was a series of video rants by people who had been duped by the ostensibly real lonelygirl videos. I remember thinking then that I do not like where this appears to be headed...
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Compa_Mighty
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Feb 13 2011, 12:24am
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Seeing most of the TORnsibs opinions...
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I'm almost embarrassed to say I was one of those two who voted for "I love it". I don't know, but it really keeps me in contact with many people I wouldn't easily have contact with.
It allows me to share the stuff I find on the Internet, and to be aware of what friends both past and present are doing with their lives. I have met wonderful people through facebook as well.
To me, it really has become an extension of my life -for better or worse, I know-, but I must say I thoroughly enjoy the site.
On the other hand, I opened three twitter accounts I never use (I just wanted to make my name unavailable)... Unless you're famous or a communicator of some sort, I don't think anyone has something *that* important or interesting to share all day, but that's just me.
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Witchy King
Bree
Feb 13 2011, 12:30am
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I'm not the ONLY one who loves facebook. ^^;
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Ethel Duath
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Feb 13 2011, 2:34am
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It helped me to vote accurately based on what I really think!
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Hamfast
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Feb 13 2011, 4:18am
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or twitter, but I have instructed close friends that they are to sock me directly in the jaw if they ever see me participating. I don't want to know my own thoughts sometimes...why would I be interested in following somebody else's ? Hold on a minute...what if Professor Tolkien were alive and he had a facebook page/ twitter account ? Hmmm...i'd probably have to follow that. I seriously doubt he would though
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Oiotįri
Tol Eressea
Feb 13 2011, 3:28pm
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I'm glad I could pull off a successful poll
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