I'm flooded by conflicting feelings (re: Facebook)

I'm more inclined to wonder why people use Facebook, when they can go out and have real friends.

ur doin it rong.

There's your ignorant assumption. It's not one or the other. Most people use Facebook to stay in contact WITH their real friends since their real friends tend to have jobs, school, and families of their own... Thus leaving very little time for meet ups at Denny's.

I vote "go for it", as long as it has a block option just like other applications for one's feed.

• Those who use Facebook and have friends who play CoH can follow along with their friends' accomplishments. There's nothing wrong with using Facebook.
• Those who use facebook and don't want to be bothered with it can simply use the Block function. There's nothing wrong with using Facebook.
• Those who don't want to use or don't like Facebook won't have to worry about it. There's nothing wrong with not using Facebook.

Remember to play nice kids. Arguing over using/ not using Facebook is just silly and not likely to change opinions (and therefore fruitless).

I've reported this to @IneffableBob and suggested finding a way to make the Twitter reporting differentiate between badge earning and title setting, as well as pointing him to this thread. Hopefully he'll be able to do something about it.

You know... just for the record, you made it "one or the other" (jokingly or not) in your previous post, hehe.

Look, haters, lovers and all in-between, recognize these words...
Whatever vehicle used, it is all the same thing.
Letters, telephones, emails, myspaces, blogs, facebook, blah blah blah...
Yes, there are differences to each and every one of these things, but they are all just tools that some may enjoy using, some may not. Some may use well, some may not. Someone's definition of how to use such a tool well or poorly may be different than another's.
It's rather simple.

Someone can defend any of these tools with how they use it for better social interaction while another could suggest that greater interactions such as you speak of can be attained without the use of facebook or any other of these popular tools...
In the end, it doesn't matter.

Myself? I like person to person interaction. Not simply in-person... but... if I want to know what's going on... or if I want to share what's going on with someone... I prefer to make the effort to do so in my own way.
I don't care if someone else prefers to do such things via any modern (Or archaic) tools... Whatever works, works.

So, don't dismiss not using any of these tools... and don't dismiss using these tools.
If you do... just realize that... you're all just tools. *drum hit*

Have a nice day.
Contact me personally if you really wish to tell me about it. I'm not going to look it up to see how your day was, haha (But I'm glad if you have other people that enjoy doing it that way, so yay for us all).

The Electric-Knight ______ Malfaz _____ Zox'Oculox

@Zethustra

"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan

www.pauldamonthomas.com - Original Music

I only have one who abuses this (in my mind) and even he has only posted his eating stuff twice. Everything else (like stupid Farm Wars and Mafiaville) you see once, flag it to hide, and you never see it again.

I thought I made it clear in the original post that it was a Facebook friend posting that. I don't play WOW.

Fixed - just restart HeroStats and download the new message file when prompted. Sorry folks, I screwed this up when I updated the Issue 17 messages. It was working before that, as Rod said earlier. Rod, SaintNicster, thanks for pointing it out.

As for the rest of this thread...all I can say is what many others have already said: If you don't like it, turn it off and/or block it. If you do like it, enjoy.

Because I'm not on your list.
When I get my Cadbury Creme Eggs, once a year, I definitely post about it!

Let's see:
- One cousin is living in Amsterdam at the moment.
- Another cousin moved to Australia.
- My brother lives 1100 miles away.
Do I need to continue?

Knowingly cherry-picking intentionally biased data to reinforce your opinion makes you a great statistician, hehe.

'Twas a FB joke.

I live in Seattle. Most of my family is back home in Iowa. My mom, my sisters and brothers, cousins, nieces and nephews... almost all of them live within one state of Iowa. (One brother and sister-in-law live in Connecticut.)

Yep, I can just drive down the street and chum up with them. Family gatherings are easy! (NOT.)

One of my friends from high school is moving to Austin, TX (put a bid in on a house and got it last week, woohoo! posted pictures too, nice house). Another one is moving to Florida (or has already, not sure, hasn't posted in a while).

Yep, I can go out and have dinner with them. Easily. On a semi-weekly basis. From thousands of miles away. Sure.

I have one friend who regularly goes between Missouri and SPAIN. Now that's easy to get to! If it weren't for Facebook, I wouldn't know where he is at any given moment.

I have a few people on there who are my boyfriend's friends from when he lived in California.

In fact, a very large majority of my fb list does not live within "go out and have real [friends/family]" distance, mainly because of the awesomeness of the internet making the world much "smaller", so I know people from all the hell over the place.

So get the hell out of here with your "go out and have real friends" comment. Thanks very much.

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

I do.

And we often use Facebook to arrange events.

You could just post to facebook yourself.

I have local friends. Heck, a couple of them are on my fb list. I keep in touch with them largely through the phone. It's a new-fangled wireless contraption that lets you talk long-distance via voice without having to be attached to a computer or wired into your house.

I don't spend "all my time on my computer in Facebook or whatever talking to my remove friends", btw. Nice attempt at condescension. It takes about 10 seconds to read a status update, another 10 seconds to make a comment (if I do, which most of the time I do not), and then it's on to the next status update from someone else. All in all, it takes about 10-15 minutes to catch up on Facebook if I don't go there for a couple days. If I visit daily, it's typically just a few minutes. I visit daily so that I can do other things instead of sit on Facebook for 15 minutes at a stretch. It's part of my daily "I'm awake but I'm not happy about it" routine: breakfast with a side of internet. I don't, in fact, lose any time with my "real life" friends because I wouldn't be spending those few minutes with them anyway.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Once!

The Electric-Knight ______ Malfaz _____ Zox'Oculox

@Zethustra

"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan

www.pauldamonthomas.com - Original Music

yes, but you probably deserved it. so it's alright then.

Also, couldn't it be set to check against a list of "Only report once, ever" badges? So it would only report vet badges once.