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Memos Tagged anti-facebook


Issues, Technology, Women
Aug42010

Dear Ladies Of Facebook

 Most of you already know how the Captains feel about Facebook. If you want to post a bunch of almost naked photos of yourself far be it for us to try and stop you. However, don’t get pissed when people think your a slore or the fact that you have creepy people ogling your photos. Another thing, it’s not cool to post pictures of you drinking, nor is it attractive to the opposite sex. Once you get out of college (hopefully) you will realize that.

facebookdrunk Dear Ladies Of Facebook

Please do not post 246 pictures from a single night you and your 2 friends making a bunch of stupid faces over and over again. Why do teenage girls sit in their house taking pictures of themselves making a pouty face a trillion times then take 30 more in the car doing the same thing? It’s fucking stupid. Is this what passes for fun these days for kids? It’s fucking retarded.

And another thing ladies. Guys know that when you put your hand on your hip in a picture it’s so you can appear thinner. Give it up.

That is all.


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Issues
May112010

More Reasons to be Anti-Facebook

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I think we’ve illustrated how much we love Facebook on this site. There’s a movement afoot on it’s popularity and all signs point to us starting it, here, here, and here.

But seriously, if you haven’t read the archives or are new to the site, we hate Facebook. It’s just a shitty web site that took a really good concept and turned it into shit. Here’s more of a reason to hate it now. Apparently there is so much more going on behind the scenes that you care to know about.

Send Facebook a big “Fuck You.”


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Characters
Dec12009

Social Characters: the Out of Control Facebooker

We here at TCM have been very candid in the past about our disdain for Facebook. I have an account, but don’t normally use it. I like having an account so I can get messages from friends I no longer see because of distance and receive photos (not ones of me being a drunken idiot though).

I’ve been totally enamored with Facebook now that my job is now creating a profile and have decided that there are really four types of users:


- There are people like me that like to use Facebook as a means to communicate with distant friends;
- There are people that use Facebook to plan their social activities and keep up on the gossip;
- There are people that use Facebook for entertainment by looking up old friends, flames, etc. and using all the apps;
- Then there are people that combine all of these uses and then some making themselves what I’ve coined an Out of Control Facebooker.

facebook gifts Social Characters: the Out of Control Facebooker

The Out of Control Facebooker is a crazy bird. No one knows where they originate from, but there has to be a great deal of neglect in their lives. Signs to detect an Out of Control Facebooker include, but is not limited to:


- Commenting on your photos when you haven’t seen them in years;
- Liking/Disliking photos or status when you haven’t seen them in years;
- Friending your friends;
- Friending people they don’t know so they can look at their pictures which includes their friends;
- Friending people they just met;
- Updating their status more than 3 times daily;
- Consistently sending apps to people that do not use them; and
- Sending blast Facebook generated emails to people inviting them to events that they have no intention of going to.

The reason this blog/rant is happening today is because I’m at my braking point. I friended someone a year ago and something happened to this person that they now insist on sending me invites to their birthday party, business meeting, etc. I haven’t talked to this person for close to 10 years. I was never true friends with the person so I was surprised when they wanted to be friends in the first place.

Looking back I should’ve blocked the invite, but I didn’t. I can defriend the person, but that’s too much effort. I’m not up on that term, but apparently Webster picked it as the word of the year for 2009. Man we’re fucked.

I’m not looking for pity in this post. I’m just looking to highlight the fact that there are people out there that are just out of control in their Facebook usage.

If you use Facebook, are reading this blog, and you think I described you, well I halfheartedly apologize. You got to realize that you are annoying the shit out of people that just don’t give a shit about what you are doing.

If you were directed to the site from Facebook, like 23% of our readers are, well at least you know we’re disgruntled about Out of Control Facebookers and are only milking Facebook’s teets so we can increase our readership. Speaking of which, I found this image when looking for an appropriate image for this post:

facebook bans breastfeeding pm Social Characters: the Out of Control Facebooker

You probably saw this already from an Out of Control Facebooker. This rant is over. Where’s my Xanax.


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Issues
Sep292009

Substituting Emotions For Technology

Kids today don’t know how good they have it. Think about it, teenagers will never have to speak to someone’s parents when they want to call a friend. Or even better when they want to call someone they have a crush on.

With the advent of cell phones, instant messenger and various other social networking websites teenagers won’t ever have that dose of healthy fear or teenage suspense. They will never have to ask someone on a date in person ever again. They only need to text them or send them a message on facebook. This bothers me because it will take away from the universal feelings that come along with being a teenager.

Perhaps after 50 or so years those parameters that define teenagers will be completely revised and redrawn. Maybe every generation feels this way about the generation that succeeds them. I’m sure my parents are pissed that when they had a paper due in college they had to go to the local library and search for books with the card catalog then photocopy any pages they thought would be useful. Than they watched me do a whole paper without moving from the computer.

It’s a give and take process for sure. But to think technology will be a stand in for masking emotions, no matter how advanced it may be is still a sad state of affairs.


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News, Technology
Sep212009

Dropbox

Facebook is great for a lot of things: networking, wasting time, stalking, etc., but there’s got to be better ways to share media – especially pictures. A few reasons I’m interested in bypassing Facebook for sharing photos are fairly straightforward:

1. I don’t want every asshat that has befriended me or stalking me to see my photos.
2. I also don’t want Facebook to own them. Side note: they own all of your content.
3. When I receive photos, I want the best resolution and quality as possible.

So after an atypical bachelor party I put on for a buddy this summer (atypical because there were no strippers at his request), I was approached by some of the attendees to share photos. The easiest way is using Facebook, but there had to be a better way. One of the guys told me about this site called Dropbox and it has since changed my life.

I’m now able to upload pics to it and can send them to friends, family, etc. without having others look at them. Not that they are intimate pics mind you, it’s just that not everyone needs to see me as a drunken idiot all the time.

In exploring the functionality of the site, you can actually upload music and movies as well. I haven’t gone this far, but it seems promising. Best thing is that you can select who can see specific folders. A good thing when sorting your pics you took on vacation with your special lady and pics you took in NYC with some college buddies.

No, I don’t work for Dropbox. I just started using it and thought others should check it out. I do use Facebook for networking, but I’m alarmed at how rapid the functionality of the site has progressed, how many people are using it (over 300 million), and how much personal information people are displaying. This site at least gives me the power to control who can look at pics and that’s good. I know, not a humorous rant, but as Bill Murray once said, “trust me. I may save your life one day.”

PS – A big shout out to Mr. Bill Murray on his 59th Birthday Today. Here’s a look back at Bill’s best work.


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Random
Feb232009

I’m going to throw it out there…

Is Facebook necessary?

Is it necessary to know that your next door neighbor in college’s favorite food is pizza bites because they included you in a “note”? Is it also necessary to know that they cried during Bambi, tried to sync the Wizard of Oz with Darkside of the Moon, or once tried pot?

Is it necessary to see everyone’s photos of them drinking, vacationing, or just triyng to rub something in to other obsessed facebookers? I’d like to shake the hand of the first person that posts photos of themselves lighting farts, getting kicked out of a strip club, or shaking hands with Sasquatch. Hell, I might even kick him in the sack if he posted photos of me doing any of these things.

Is it necessary to be a part of mob wars, a baseball tycoon, or fantasy football? Is it necessary to keep inviting everyone you know to do this for no reason? Is it necessary to even have this crap on there? Is it necessary to share a plant, starfish, or fish from an aquarium? What the fuck?

Is it necessary to have a wall or have people write messages on there that everyone can see? What’s the point? Is it necessary for every one to know last weekend was amazing, that girls night was off the hook, that Johnny moved on with a new girl, that the frat party rocked, or that Sean pissed his pants?

What the hell is a group? What is their function? Is it necessary to have them? You want a group? Make a business; it’s easy, will give you money, and is less gay than making a “Seniors Rule” or “My bar is better than yours” page.

Is the news feed necessary? Do you need to know that the girl you work with made spaghettio’s and they were awesome or your old roommate is relaxing then watching 24? Whose idea was creating this stalker page? The CIA?

Is it necessary to friend everyone you once knew? Is it necessary to friend the person you met in the library, the person on the subway that geeked you out, the person that served you fries with that, the person that blew up your toilet, the person that you once loved, the person you once hated?

Is this post necessary? Probably not. Why don’t you start a group about it.

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