Facebook is like a drug

[HDGoose]

Going cold turkey.

[atavar]

Facebook is an invasive virus.

[fotoguzzi]

Facebook is like a BAD synthetic designer drug

invented to mine your information and profile you..

[oldbike54]

 Facebook is proof that if you give 10,000 monkeys a typewriter they will NOT produce a magnum opus .

 Dusty

[Tom]

What's Facebook???     Don't use it and don't want to.

[Kiwi_Roy]

Facebook is proof that if you give 10,000 monkeys a typewriter they will NOT produce a magnum opus .

 Dusty

I have to remember that LOL

[oldbike54]

I have to remember that LOL

 It is borrowed .

 Dusty

[Scud]

Motorcycle forums are like a drug.... 

I put my Facebook account in a dormant (invisible) status a long time ago. Don't miss it - but I can re-activate it if I want to.

[swooshdave]

Is there a decent Guzzi group on Facebook?

[Cool Runnings]

Fakebook is run by the FBI.

[oldbike54]

Fakebook is run by the FBI.

 And you know this how ?

 Dusty

[Yeahoo Whoyah]

Is there a decent Guzzi group on Facebook?

Not sure, but I just requested, and was accepted, to became a member of the MGNOC FB group, one of 3916 members.  This entire FB thing is new to me, I just joined in October.  It's part of my retirement plan to keep in touch with friends I once worked with. 

[Cool Runnings]

And you know this how ?

 Dusty

https://www.facebook.com/bundyranch -> go there without logging in and tell me what happens. 

[Lannis]

Going cold turkey.

Like smoking, you don't have to go cold turkey if you don't start ..... Always seemed to me to be a place where teenagers take selfies of themselves doing stupid things, to assure that they can't get a responsible job later.

On our long ride last week, it's incredible how many people are disconnected from the real world now.    We watched a family of 6, Dad, Mom, and four kids ages about 8 to 15 walk into a restaurant and sit down.   They walked in the door like a line of ducks, all 6 with a phone in their hands, all 6 heads bent down.   They sat down without talking to each other and only looked up (Dad did) to give the order.   

It was quiet, but it was like sitting in the room with a pod from the Borg collective.   Gives me the same attitude toward smart phones as watching drooling needle junkies gives me toward heroin .....

Lannis

[Cool Runnings]

And you know this how ?

 Dusty

 The Feds are on Facebook ->

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35890739/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/your-new-facebook-friend-may-be-fbi/

[Lannis]

The Feds are on Facebook -> http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35890739/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/your-new-facebook-friend-may-be-fbi/

Why do people think that Facebook is in business?   As some sort of personal favor to all the people on it?

[Guzzistajohn]

Oh yea, Facebook is the DEVIL right, you old geezers! It's all what you make it, you don't have to comment on everything on FB. Or even read it.

And yes, Facebook has a great Guzzi page. Friendly bunch.

[oldbike54]

https://www.facebook.com/bundyranch -> go there without logging in and tell me what happens. 

 Nope , conspiracy theories aren't my thing .

 Dusty

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

Is there a decent Guzzi group on Facebook?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/328264358708/ Apparently I'm a "trolling pimp" there (and elsewhere also). <rolleyes>

I initially joined Facebook so that my mom could keep up with what my siblings were doing since the departure of my brother for Oregon. Then I created a business page which brings in customers for me. I joined a few groups - bought parts that I would have never known about since they weren't advertised anywhere else.

So, Facebook can be a tool if used intelligently. None of my Facebook friends is a teenager taking selfies (though there is few middle-aged ones that do). I'm not sure what Facebook has to do with cellphone use - I don't have one.

[Sasquatch Jim]

Fakebook is run by the FBI.

And other criminals.

[Lannis]

Oh yea, Facebook is the DEVIL right, you old geezers!

Well, you know, just because you reject some new progressive "thing", like (as an example) allowing perverted dudes in sundresses in to watch your granddaughter pee, that doesn't make you a "geezer".   

Maybe it just makes you smart and experienced enough to know when some new "thing" might be trouble, no matter how many people say "I can handle it, don't worry".   Yep, heard that before.

You like it, you go for it.   Me, I'm leaving the Kool-Aid in the little envelope.

Lannis

[RayB]

I had FB for one day about four years ago....then I came to my senses. I'm starting to now have my doubts about LinkedIn too.

[Tom]

I get invites from linkedin all the time.  I ignore them and send an email to the friend. 

[slowmover]

Don't have it,don't want it.I'm trying to avoid the friends I have.I don't need more.Put the computer down,read a book.

[Tom]

Looks like having a Facebook page is worth it to drive customers to your business.  Other than that I wouldn't do it.  No one needs to know what I look like or where I'm going.

[LaMojo]

I resisted joining until about a couple of years ago.  It' great checking up on the extended family I ordinary wouldn't  communicate with every day or once a month. Grand kids, nieces and nephews grow up so fast it seems.  I belong to several groups for amateur radio, motorcycle, etc.  whatever peaks my interest.  I do, however, limit friend's request to keep it simple.

BTW...How are you doing HD? Things back to normal yet?

[Arizona Wayne]

I used to respond to our local paper/forum website.......until they decided to make you join FB to participate in the forum.     Anything I ever said in FB is still there for anyone to see no matter how long ago I said it. Being on FB is like having no privacy. 

[Penderic]

 



 

[EldoMike]

I kinda like this one ...

Moto Guzzi Bikes and Parts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/898627433562137/

[tazio]

We have never been on Facebook, don't know much about it.
My wife recently lost both parents and her "troubled  " brother (who lives on FB) has made
disparaging remarks towards her. We get phone calls from family questioning why we
are not responding to his lunatic comments.
Well, Screw THAT rabbit hole!!
~but I'm sure Facebook has its qualities..