to be secretly pleased at the prospect that people may have to pay to use Facebook in the future?

[lovechoc]

I recently heard that Facebook may start charging a monthly/annual fee to members who use this site. I personally don't use it but DH does and he just shrugged when I told him about it.

It is just a rumour at the moment, but if it happens, I can't help feeling quite happy about it. Means less people will be spending their time staring at a computer and putting useless 'updates' on their pages.

Ooh, it's just like reading someone's wall!!

lol

I have this friend on my facebook called custy, she keeps following me, I really must block her!

If they charge for FB I would simply stop using it. It'd be a shame, but there you go. I don't find it addictive at all.

I do like FB. I like to use it as a form of communicating with friends and also with family I don't see much, and am not actually close enough to to phone or email or text. I have kept far more up to date with more distant family via FB thnan ever before. I use the status updates for fun.

MN is way more addictive than FB IMO. But even so - if MN started charging I probably wouldn't bother with it either.

YABU
You don't get FB, but others do, so why are you so snippy about it?
I use it to keep in touch with old friends and relatives that live miles from me, I love it.
I don't dare start a Farm or get into Bejewelled or whatever because I can see how bloody addictive they are.
I pop on, have a browse, then leave. I am on MN far more.

Oh but Lizzy the farms are fun !! and like looking after a newborn!

farm are lots of fun - I have

Would also like to add that social networking sites can be politically powerful. Think of the recent elections in Iran, which got way more publicity because of sites like FB.

Which explains why my friend in Beijing emailed to let her friends know that the authorities have blocked access to FB in China.

It's also way cheaper for people on lower incomes to stay in touch via social networking sites than by other methods, esp the phone.

So ner.

not shocked by China's decision midnightexpress - it was just a matter of time, considering it's a communist country.

most people on low incomes that I know can't afford broadband so they use the telephone to talk to friends and relatives, the old fashioned way.

same here lockets.

What makes the old fashioned way any better?
I certainly don't have the time to ring all my friends every week, but can in 2 mins check they're ok on Facebook.

IMHO the old fasioned way is more personal, but using social networking isn't really speaking to just one person, you generalise everything. It's a lazy way to communicate tbh.

No-one is EVER going to have to pay to use social networking sites. It's because they know people would go to free ones instead. The rumour that you're going to have to start paying has been around for ages and is completely untrue.

Oh lovechoc just bog off. You don't like it, fair enough. But the fact that you think that because you don't like it it must be shit and morally inferior to the phone is just...well it says a lot about you.

IMHO the old fasioned way is more personal, but using social networking isn't really speaking to just one person, you generalise everything. It's a lazy way to communicate tbh.

Actually you can just speak to one person, email type messahe and instant message. I would imagine you feel even stronger about twitter then?

Lockets I second what you said WRT cost effectiveness. Dh's and my family are all abroad and although I do not use FB (because I cannot be bothered) we keep in touch with the family via Skype/Live Messenger and our phone bills have most definitely shrunk since we have broadband.

Are you mangetoo??

Lol i am on both MN anf FB as we speak!!

I don't care.....

OK so why would you be

"feeling quite happy about it. Means less people will be spending their time staring at a computer and putting useless 'updates' on their pages."

You said you don't use it anyway??

And why does is concern or bother you what people do in their own time??

Just don't understand that at all.

Perhaps it is you that needs to be doing something better with your time.

BRIE!!! haha
yes I hate facebook
tis the home of nuters imo

:smug:

I also struggle to see the merits of Facebook. Many people I know have been sucked in and then got a grip and de-registered. And talk about their experience as if getting over a pernicious addiction.

(Yet still I am tempted by all the proddings and tweakings or whatever you call them that I receive).

Not everyone gets addicted though; I post maybe once or twice a week, if I can be arsed.

I like FB chat anyway.Or arther I liked seeing Dh giving FB hell to someone who palced a child of ours at risk over the weekend. That made my day yesterday so it did.

But bibbity, most people would just not go on it if they did not like it, they would not wish it became costly enough so people would not afford it anymore. I really do not see the point of op. there is a tremendous amount of things each and everyone of us cares very little about but does it give the right to take it away from someone else who actually enjoys it?