Is it normal facebook makes people horrible?

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Ever since this website was created its been nothing but problems. It seems like a simple enough concept but it makes adult revert to a teenage state and just brings out the worst in people.

There is people who are supposedly suffering from depression because they cant post enough pictures on Facebook. There is people neglecting children because "Oh I was playing on Facebook" and people who just treat others on crap since they believe Facebook makes them powerful.

Than we have the stalkers who are stalking people on facebook pretending to be other relatives. I mean why did something so simple turn people into lower life forms?

I didn't hear about the suicidal dad on myspace or any other site I have seen. So whats the deal with Facebook? Why does it make people act so terrible?

Than even people will ignore you in a middle of a conversation and are like "Wait I have to update my Facebook" like you dont even exist anymore.

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Based on 37 votes (25 yes)

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green_boogers

9 years ago

In a way, Facebook is like the tabloids. Except because it is interactive, you can write your own tabloid about yourself to let the world know that you are a loser.

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NeuroNeptunian

9 years ago | pl

Oh my God, I hate seeing claims like this. Not because they are false, no, because they make it a feasible idea that people are not responsible for their actions.

People aren't suffering from depression solely because Facebook makes their social lives look like shit. Depression is a chemical imbalance and usually the precursors exist before the triggers.

Parents aren't neglecting children because of Facebook, they are neglecting children because they are shitty parents. Yesterday it was booze, today it is Facebook, tomorrow it may be fucking poker.

Social skills aren't degrading themselves due to Facebook, they are degrading themselves due to lack of self discipline and appreciation for company. I don't check Facebook in the middle of a conversation because I respect the people I am around. If you don't get that same respect from your friends, you may have a deeper issue at hand than Facebook.

Don't blame the catalyst, blame the dickfaces who channel their inner idiocy through it.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  9 years ago
  
  I am completely for people taking responsibility for their own actions. I would never do any of the listed things because of Facebook either.
  
  I just don't understand why Facebook became a reasonable excuse to be an asshole. People seem to have accepted this as a legitimate excuse.
  
  Why were you speeding? "I had to get my mother to the hospital" vs Why are you swerving in the road? "Oh it was because I was updating my Facebook status. I saw a robin and I need to tell everyone right now"!
  
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  - NeuroNeptunian
    
    9 years ago
    
    It isn't a reasonable excuse and whoever thinks it is is a fucking moron. It's like me blaming my car for my reckless driving habit. It doesn't make sense.
    
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Cuntsiclestick

9 years ago

Facebook didn't make them horrible. They were horrible before Facebook.

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- shuggy-chan
  
  9 years ago
  
  yup, facebook is just their Media of choice for their horribleness
  
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green_boogers

9 years ago

Sometimes it is refreshing to laugh at losers. Facebook delivers losers for your humorous enjoyment.

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RegGuy

9 years ago

It's a free world. You don't have to use it if you object to it.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  9 years ago
  
  That really was not the point. Thanks for missing it.
  
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HoneyBadgerChic

9 years ago

Yea I hate facebook, its made a demeaning society of us. I'm going to blame the internet and Nintendo

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Barracuda

9 years ago

FAcebook has this new feature have you heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHefhIId4qY

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  9 years ago
  
  What use could this possibly have? Knowing where you went wrong doesn't mean you can fix it. This is just mocking you. What the fuck?
  
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  - Barracuda
    
    9 years ago
    
    yeah thats what i said. its like, they also use it to compare your life to others. its pretty depressing really only sorry pathetics would do that
    
    thankfully i live a facebook free healthy active life
    
    idk what use this could have. also, it gives facebook more power than it already has on the sheeeple
    
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plainsight90

9 years ago

Even though I don't have Facebook, I don't think it's horrible. It can be very useful for keeping in touch with family members and for networking.

What's horrible is people's thirst. THIRST IS THE REAL EVIL. And that thirst was probably there before they logged onto Facebook. Facebook merely aided in the activation.

Thirst, you are not the real MVP.

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[Old Memory]

9 years ago

I use facebook regularly and I don't do any of that shit.
For me it's a good way to communicate with people and keep in touch.
I have never once had "facebook drama" and I would never post about my personal problems. I come here to do that.

The problem you are seeing is the result of just how some people are and how they will act when they have a new way to complain.

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SkullsNRoses

9 years ago

Can you give us some examples of where people have claimed to suffer depresion and neglect their children because of Facebook? Also the suicidal dad point wasn't very clearly explained.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  9 years ago
  
  Dont you watch the news? Most of the news channels cover this nonsense now. http://guardianlv.com/2013/08/facebook-causes-depression-new-study-says/
  
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  - Anonymous Post Author
    
    9 years ago
    
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-year-old-girl-drowns-as-babysitter-reads-facebook-police-say/
    
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    - SkullsNRoses
      
      9 years ago
      
      Wow, my faith in humanity decreases once again. But where did you find the suicidal Dad?
      
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      - Anonymous Post Author
        
        9 years ago
        
        People are claiming to be depressed and believing their lives are now meaningless because they don't have fun trips to post on facebook.
        
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