are only wankers on facebook?

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is it liek having a tattoo?

does tattoo plus endless whittering abotu your wall a chav make?

Yes. I joined myself just yesterday. Only as BitOfFun though. So just a part-time wanker I suppose.

Must be, because I'm not.

Yes its shit.

Tee hee. I would say yes!

I am not on Facebook, and will never be on it. QED.

Someone I have alot of time for showed me her site [or whatever is called] the other day and how it worked. I was quite shocked.
It is unbelievably inane.

Well, I'm on it, but I do know what you mean. Some people I used to go to school with are always putting their status to things like "I'd like to thank my team for their support this week"... right., so, you have a team of people working for you, okey doke, noted

or, worse, some guy you hardly know does a quiz 'how many times a week do you need to have sex' and the answer pops up in your feed. I don't want to know. I don't want to have to visualise that.

I'm a very boring person on FB, i never do anything, I'm a voyeur. It's easy to contact friends though (and the other people, lol, IN the unlikely event you might want to!) and I do laugh at other people's antics while I remain dignified and reserved. It's cheating really.

Well, I'm on face book and I'm not a wanker. I only joined as it's a nice way to keep in touch with old workmates. I am very strict though and I only have friends that I would ring for a chat in real life.
Really though, it's because I got addicted to farm town and now I can't leave.

Oh yes, I have a tattoo too! I'm not a chav either. I was young and stupid when I got it but at least only my husband and midwife have seen it recently!

why do people do all those quizzes? Is at attention-seeking or what

I quite like it, but I was sick to death, when I first joined, of people throwing zombies at me and offering me flowers for non-existent virtual gardens.

That's so 2007 though - these days it's all "Which Tube line are you?" and "What are your top 5 characters from Howards' Way"?

I see that I last updated my FB status in February. And that was to remark how rubbish DH is at Mario Kart Wii. Strangely, no-one cared.

I thought it was getting all a bit silly when the guy who catered for our wedding in 2007 wanted to be my friend. And then this was confirmed when an 11 year old girl from DS2's class wanted to be my friend.

Its only redeeming feature is that you can spy on your offspring. You won't necessarily like what you see.

Im on there, my family are spread across the world and its a good way for us to stay in touch. I block all those useless irritating applications though, so I dont get the virtual glass of wine or a poxy fluffy cat sending me a virtual purr!

Yes. It is a wanker fest

I was quite naive with the friends thing to begin with. I accepted people who were friends of friends and people who had met me once. I'm now more discerning.

So I have on my friends list two people in their early 20s who are former students from a talk I did at a university 18 months ago(!) - although that's been quite interesting as one of them is developing into a Guardian writer and the other is a very personable Who and Buffy fan.

I also have my children's former teacher on there, which I hold my hands up and say was a mistake. She was a friend of a friend of mine via school who was on the PFA.

Depends how you use it. I ignore all the crap about thrwing things, giving virtual gifts etc and just use it as a way of keeping in touch with friends who live further away, and seeing what they are up to/sharing pics of the kids etc.

I don't class myself as a wanker, and have no tattoos and only my ears pierced (once)!

Some of the seemingly crap quizzes/surveys do provoke some non-crap reactions. I've just done one about 15 most memorable novels, and it's led into a quite interesting discussion about which is the best Ian McEwan novel.

The comments facility is one of the best additions in the last year. Don't know how people managed without it before!

I want to cull my list UQD, cos I did the same thing.

I want to be like melmog now, and have a cosier feel. to have nobody on my list that I wouldn't go for a coffee with if i bumped into them in the street.

Anyone been 'culled' or done a cull? was it embarrassing? anybody comment?

It's quite useful. I have a lot of extended family on mine -- people I like to keep vaguely in touch with but know we'd be down to annual Christmas cards by now if not for FB. I do a lot of application blocking, mind you.

pmsl at UQD

After reading this i supect it is even more inane than I first suspected.Virtual flowers? Glasses of wine? Quizzezabout sex? Good grief, where do folk find the time for such nonsense.

Someone wants to be like me.... that's a first! V proud

I culled all my school friends as I realised I didn't really like them back then which is why we never stayed in touch. No one has commented.

They don;t get a notification that you have remoived them, you just disappear from their friends list.

Oh, scrap that, forgot that one girl did message me to say I'd gone and I had to make something up about deleting loads of people by mistake and she's still my friend now. Makes me cringe now!

You can hide yourself though, so you won't come up on any searches.

i like it, it is a v. lazy way of keeping in touch with people.

you are probably just bitter cos you joined and only made 10 friends

I like it because I am so nosey.

My friend is a barrister and he seems to be on it all day. I would love to make a sarky comment, but it would seem terribly bitter from an unemployed single Mum, but I do seriously wonder HOW he can find the time to be attaching news articles to FB. He's on Twitter as well. I have given that a total swerve!

Although when you are 40 like me and have some young 20somethings and teenagers as your FB friends it is quite eye-opening. (I have the students mentioned above plus my teenage niece.)

You can't quite believe how often they are renewing their status updates, and using status updates to communicate with each other, and essentially painting their lives in minute detail on the screen.

Every festival, every night out, every reunion is illustrated with a lavish photo-shoot. Every minor relationship trauma is there. You can't quite believe how much time they spend going out.

There's loads of "awwww((((hun)))" and "cu l8r" and all that crap. Their "quotes" section, which most sensible people fill with thoughtful stuff from famous people, appears largely to be made up of poncey stuff their friends said while drunk, which makes no sense out of context.