Comments on: Social Networks are Stupid

By: kouman

kouman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:57:16 +0000

Social Networks are stupid, I agree with you! I maintained for a long time a Hi5 & a Facebook Profile & someday I realized that It’s just loss of time.. I won’t find my “Dream Woman” inside this virtual world & I can be very well with my friends & without having these Profiles.. I got annoyed that I had people as “friends” from my College that in the REAL world we didn’t knew each other… That sucks! I freed myself from these and am very happy now.. Now I prefer on my “online” time to deal with my College’s Forum as I’m a Moderator to it.. It has much more fun because I don’t give my personal details to people that I don’t want to. My friends know me! ;)

A Free Spirit from Greece

By: exc

exc — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:40:49 +0000

I think the key word is “social” in Social networking. ;)

But I think primarily the use of the networks are subjective to the one who wants to participate in the network.

some, such as you would look to find a like minded people. Social networks would only be “stupid” if they did not fulfill the intended purpose of joining the network. If someone has not gained or benefited from the network. It has wasted life and then become a stupid and fruitless venture.

and true,

by “buying” into a third party network you sell your privacy on some level to a “system that collects” but following that logic you would have to say the entire Internet can be classified as “stupid”

By: pdp

pdp — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:35:31 +0000

you, I am delighted by your lack of constructive commentary :) keep on dude.

By: dex

dex — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:13:25 +0000

I hope I haven’t missunderstood your entry, but I think people just like the opportunity to have another life where they try to be what they think they should be, just look at second life, it’s the same as social networks. the web just dont give the opportunities to rebuilt your whole identity yet and if you wanna ’socialize’ with someone you have to look at the whole person.

By: you

you — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:59:17 +0000

help yourself: commit suicide.

By: pdp

pdp — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:40:38 +0000

you, English is not my native language but you are apparently illiterate. The last paragraph is in 3rd person but I guess there is no point explaining that now. moreover, your comment is completely irrelevant as you cannot stick behind your words, posting anonymously. so what’s your real point/agenda, you?

By: you

you — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:58:05 +0000

“Me” “me” “meeeee”, stfu, you :) As usually, a bag full of shit for your ego, stop looking at yourself, stop thinking that people don’t think, help yourself: commit suicide.

By: pdp

pdp — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:24:05 +0000

Right now you and me are in a social network if you think about it. And the medium of communications is the Web. Why subdividing and emulating that? Every single social network asks you to store data that they wont give it back to you. What’s the point? I like to refer to the human race as social butterflies. We simply jump from one Data Hive to another. Why don’t we enable that? OpenID is a good start, although security-wise it may introduce new challenges.

By: ^_^

^_^ — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:27:40 +0000

i agree with you! and want to add that i was invited a few times to social networks, and when i asked – “for what reason? what it will give me?” – inviter didn’t answer anything! really, if someone know what soc.net can give – please – tell me? but i think that for *market-people* it can give very good *market sector*… well, if you want to sell something – you need to find people interested in that *something*.. so you look for social network related to *something* and… ;-)
blah blah..

pdp, my respects to you, ‘cos you are not only “my only interest is computer”, and it is good example that hacking is not only computer-related topic. stay tuned!