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[LewEngBridewell]

It's the same vicious cycle that goes on and on and on, in the same tedious and rose-tinted spectacle-adorned fashion it has always done so. The Victorian parish-boy, beaten and whipped by his cruel master, became the next bigwig to employ stern discipline. Just as the luxury-festooned baby-boomers are now the ones who look down upon the so-called "lost generation" of today.

I wonder what we young ones will become? With what condescending slanders will we brand the youth of tomorrow?

[Jabberwocky]

Computers will be the biggest downfall of man. IMHO we are heading down the route that Wall-E tried to teach us. Most people I know spend far too much time in front of a computer. (read this as hipocritical as you like)

Plus computers along with Social Networking has taken away peoples face to face communication skills.

I may be looking at this with what will be the worst of what the human race can become.

Gene Roddenbery once said "technology is not of vast importance in itself, but as a tool in which we can better reach our dreams"

I am sure that no one at any age has ever dreamed of becoming "The Lawnmower Man" which sadly I see the 1st world becoming. We should be leaders, noble, and wisly lead the 3rd world into the technology age avoiding the pitfalls we have made.

[LewEngBridewell]

Facebook and the internet often comes into all this chit-chat about how the human-race is going down a slippery slope. But what is Facebook founded upon? Friends and relations. Facebook is very surface, when compared to the real-life intertwining of emotions which have helped formulate its creation.

At its heart, the human race NEVER changes. This is my view. We're all as good and bad as we always have been, and this will never change. The old lady in the isle at the supermarket talks of a time when crime was non-existent, yet she wasn't even alive when Jack the Ripper terrorised London, or when poverty stricken louts in the poor districts spent all their rime robbing and murdering the middle-classes, if they weren't banged-up in a workhouse, under the former British poor laws. If this deceived old person were to be transported back to Victorian times, they wouldn't know what had hit them.

So all this nonsense about the internet and Facebook driving people into mutes, unable to communicate, is unlikely ever to come to fruition. I come from a generation where ALL my friends are on Facebook. But would we rather by logged into Facebook, than be spending time together as friends? Would we f!ck. The whole idea of it is ludicrous.

Facebook and twitter will one day die out, and something else will take their place. Friendships, relationships and love for fellow human beings will never die out, and so the whole argument is thus made redundant.

[Jabberwocky]

The woman in the supermarket is sort of right about crime though. In her mind there was not crime because she never heard about it. However with modern technology, how long did it to take for the whole world to hear about 9/11 or the Japanese earthquake? minutes hours at the most. So now there does appear to be more crime because "The bad side of humanity" draws our attention more than. How many people would read an article saying "Jim saved a cat" compared to "Jim slays his friend with a fish hook"?

However on the flip side of that 60 years ago when Ms Supermarket was young, if you lived in a small village and a stranger was about everyone would know. That person would of been treated wearily because the stranger is not a pedophile or a rapist. However nowadays with people easily travelling hundreds of miles in a day. Only a stupid criminal would pee on his own doorstep. We as desensitised to strangers because we have lost the community? People no longer are born, lived and died in the same village.

Your right facebook is built on friendship but when was the last time you actually spoke to some of them? I have people on my facebook I have not seen since school and as I was not one of the cool kids I have probably never spoken to then.

[Hammer278]

The woman in the supermarket is sort of right about crime though. In her mind there was not crime because she never heard about it. However with modern technology, how long did it to take for the whole world to hear about 9/11 or the Japanese earthquake? minutes hours at the most. So now there does appear to be more crime because "The bad side of humanity" draws our attention more than. How many people would read an article saying "Jim saved a cat" compared to "Jim slays his friend with a fish hook"?

However on the flip side of that 60 years ago when Ms Supermarket was young, if you lived in a small village and a stranger was about everyone would know. That person would of been treated wearily because the stranger is not a pedophile or a rapist. However nowadays with people easily travelling hundreds of miles in a day. Only a stupid criminal would pee on his own doorstep. We as desensitised to strangers because we have lost the community? People no longer are born, lived and died in the same village.

Your right facebook is built on friendship but when was the last time you actually spoke to some of them? I have people on my facebook I have not seen since school and as I was not one of the cool kids I have probably never spoken to then.

Very interesting post. I share a lot of your thoughts here...though I do not have any 'friend' on facebook who I've never spoken to/got along with (so my friend count is well below the average fbook page ). I still find it very awkward on how personal people are on that page with basically strangers who have access to your thoughts/pics/daily life when they barely know you in the first place. I still think it's a great site, since it helps you keep in touch but it's just so easy to misuse it...which is what contributes to its popularity in the first place. I'm sort of glad it's not doing so well in the sharemarket though.

[LewEngBridewell]

Your right facebook is built on friendship but when was the last time you actually spoke to some of them? I have people on my facebook I have not seen since school and as I was not one of the cool kids I have probably never spoken to then.

I have long since removed the people from school who I never really spoke to. In fact, I regularly go through my friend list, and weed out folk I've not seen or spoke to in ages, that weren't particularly close in the first place. And then you have one or two people that I've never actually met, such as a couple of people from this forum.

[vlad]

It's just a phase... Next one will be shutting down, like myself... That's the best and the final one.

[LRW]

about to go for Friday pub lunch....

Two pints of Guinness, and a Bacon and Mozzarella baguette, with curlie fries. Yum.

[LRW]

Very interesting post. I share a lot of your thoughts here...though I do not have any 'friend' on facebook who I've never spoken to/got along with (so my friend count is well below the average fbook page ). I still find it very awkward on how personal people are on that page with basically strangers who have access to your thoughts/pics/daily life when they barely know you in the first place. I still think it's a great site, since it helps you keep in touch but it's just so easy to misuse it...which is what contributes to its popularity in the first place. I'm sort of glad it's not doing so well in the sharemarket though.

I agree. Every couple of months, I do a Facebook cull, and remove people that I dont interact with, outside of facebook. My numbers hover around the 100 mark. Most my friends have between 200-500 'friends' on facebook. I use Facebook as a tool to communicate, en mass, with all my friends - thoughts, photos, banter. But it is most definetily NOT a friendship substitute.

[andrew]

I don;t have want or need a facebook page or anything like that. It's all a bit of a fad to me that seems totally pointless.

[andrew]

Watching a programme on BBC4 about punk. Hoping for some good guitar riffs.

[LewEngBridewell]

Sitting down at home after a long day at work. Listening to Enya music.

[Jabberwocky]

I don;t have want or need a facebook page or anything like that. It's all a bit of a fad to me that seems totally pointless.

is that because you don't have friends


To be fair about facebook I have a special group that means that people can see nothing on my profile apart from the fact that they friends. Only because to unfriend someone who might in future come back into your life so that you don't have to friend request them again.

[andrew]

It's not that I don't have any friends. I just don't like any of the people I know.

Nah, the whole facebook thing has kind of passed me by. I did think about it a while ago but lost interest pretty quickly.

[geetface9]

It's not that I don't have any friends. I just don't like any of the people I know.

brilliant!!