To wonder just how many Arguments have been caused by Facebook?

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I have seen so many threads on here about someone notcing something someone else has said about someone else on facebook.

I don't use it (makes me too accessible to my weirdo family) but i do wonder whether it has done more hamr than good.

it seems no one talks or phones anymore.

I recently missed news of a freinds pregnancy because she anounced it over facebook. she just assumed everyone would have seen it so didn't bother telling anyone out in the real world.
Family get togethers are all arranged over facebook.

I would go so far as to say that i reckon a fair few marriages have collapsed due to it.

I think we should do a survey.

I agree, people forget that others might read something that perhaps they shouldn't.

I haven't been on it long and already experienced two 'incdients' of upset along those lines.

Facebook seems to be used by menchildren and ladybabies who have somehow not made it out highschool in terms of maturity of outlook and ability to communicate effectively with other grown ups.

It is for the infirm, the vapid, the troubled and the lost.

Those who (mis)use it deserve everything they get.

I'm always quite astonished by the things some of my FB 'friends' say. It seems as if they use FB as a 'third party' to let the offending person know that they're annoyed with them.

What CD said.

Never been on it, have no intention of ever using it.

ach - it's just a replacement for the gossips in the community and the snidey phone calls that used to go around.

My marriage collapsed - but it was sod all to do with facebook.

i totally agree! what happened to the real world!! its annoying and jeremy kyle... most of the altercations mention facebook in some respect! i hate it!

Yep fb has caused a couple of friend fallouts for me ...a bit of bad feeling and being in trouble for not thinking what im writing before thinking who im friends with but hey its my own call isnt it and i have to deal with the repurcussions of that!!

CD u in a bad mood you refer to children as brats and insult people who use fb!! If someone doesnt like facebook DONT FECKING USE IT!

Apparently it features in over half of new divorces.

really BoF? gosh that is high.

I think the divorce thing is probably linked to people getting in touch with ex's or old school crushes ...no different to a dating website really just a name .

I hate it now. Hate FB chat even more. Hate txting too. Stops people actually talking or phoning, meaning get misconstrued etc etc.

Am blaming as a factor in a recent fallout with a good friend :(

See i got the idea of facebook being some sort of facility to find long lost friends. though i am of the opinion that they are long lost for a reason mostly.

but this whole dating aspect seems odd to me.

how can you date via facebook? surely you just talk to people you already know?

god do you remember the days when we used to send letters with all the gossips/rumours/malicious stuff in - you know snail mail -

I mean meanings get misconstrued obviously

Agree with stoppinchingthedummy

in this place you may have you identity hidden but it's far more bitchier!!!

Facebook is not the root cause of those problems though. It doesn't make you a twat. But if you have twattish leanings..it's as good a place as any to evidence it.

Nonsense. I've made some great RL friends on Facebook, just by talking to friends-of-friends. I've also been able to stay in touch with my UK friends when I moved to the US.

It's more convenient and informal than email.

It's also great for organising social events. Really easy to send out invites or to share details of gigs, classes, parties, events..

Marriages don't collapse because of Facebook. They collapse for the same reason they always have done - because someone has an affair or gets bored with the marriage or because the people involved are no longer compatible. Yes, Facebook makes it easier to have affairs because it puts you in touch with more people and lets you communicate more easily but that's because it's a social venue.

It's a bit silly blaming a venue - it's like blaming a pub or an Open University class because your partner met someone there.

I have only just joined FB.

It boggles my mind.

But I am not on it in my RL name. Only my MN name.

my sil unfriended me on facebook the other day. i had thought that at 40, she would be a bit old for that kind of behaviour. obviously not!

I have the tiniest facebook list ever. Strictly no twats.

I love FB and have never had any FB related arguments.

It's a great way of keeping in touch.

YABU

But i cannot tell you how many times i have had people really desperatly upset because they have fallen out with someone.

i can almost guarentee that at some point in teh conversation facebook will be mentioned
"she amde her status xyz" "she messaged him saying this" "she posted on his wall about that"

If they pick up a phone and bitch to a friend then it is a conversation between two people. to put it on your facebook you are conversing with the world.

I agree that facebook in itself is not to blame. but i am thinking maybe the users of the site seem to have forgotten how to behave.
or has facebook helped evolve our idea of social ettiquette?

"But why on earth adults would want to use such a method of communication is beyond me"

oh right - so only 14yr year old girls are bitchy

You haven't stood in either of the school playgrounds and listened to the parents round here then

Im an adult and quite like using fb ...i have a sister who lives away ,we share pictures of our children on so we can watch them grow ...a friend in oz who i wont see for a few years ,we can keep in touch ...how is facebook any different than emailing someone?! Its all modern technology and how i see it is i can keep in touch without writing long letters :D