Bros lettuce discuss Facebook and what it can possibly mean 20 years from now...

[ksteezy]

Ok so it's obvious Facebook has social media In a chokehold followed by twitter and whatever else is out there, now that this timeline feature is pretty much what it will be and how easy it will be to skip back to any year since you joined do you know how this will affect the way we view one another let's say 20 years from now!?...idk about you guys but I tend to think memories is the single most important part of us, is what we are made of, is what most people dwell on through the bad and the good times, you get together with your lifelong friends and more than likely you will talk about that one crazy night or that one girlfriend or the first time one of ya had sex, etc etc....memories is what that 89 year old man at the park will talk to you about...now imagine how awesome it will be if we can literally scroll back through a database of memories?...I know there is the negative, but when you think about it, both the negative and the positive is ultimately what shaped us into who we are today.

Anyways I wish there was a way for me to go into my dads Facebook page and get a glance of what he was like, negative and positive...he died when I was 2 and never got a chance to know him, had FB been around then I'm sure now I'd be much more content seeing what he did, his interests, his letdowns, his relationship with my moms in the early beginnings, etc....right now all I have is an album and what my other relatives tell me. I know there are a lot of anti-Facebook people out there and I won't deny this new era of social networking has a lot of negative aspects, but it also has its positives, 20 years from now this will be our time machine, a way to revisit our youth, a way for our children to know us in a much more personal level, should we God forbid are no longer present....I seriously just found a whole new level of appreciation for this thing called social media.

Cliffs
-facebook social media 20 years from today will be the closest thing we would have to time traveling.
-I personally wish this media was around 20 years ago, so that I had an opportunity to know my dad.

 

[hewlett615]

My timeline will be myspace from 9th grade(06) til senior year(2010)..... -__- , i still dont have a fb.

 

[antidope]

I don't think Facebook will be around in 20 years. It doesn't have the potential to me. People are already starting to get bored/tired of it, and sooner or later some new, easier thing will overtake it that might or might not be labeled as a social media outlet, but what I really think will happen is that social media as a whole will be done in 20 years, only so long people can tolerate looking at the same people doing the same thing over and over. It will go the way of AIM, Motorola Pagers, Pen Pals, and things of that nature. Theres no staying power with these things. My definition of social media is pretty narrow though and if it includes things like Forums then its impossible and will be here forever now.
Sorry about your father though, thats rough, every man should get the chance to know their dad.

 

[kramer]

I seriously doubt it will last that long. Didnt the users numbers actually start to drop recently? Personally I think fb is lame cuz when you actually get together with your friends theres not as much to talk about cuz you already know everything about them.

 

[Jordan8]

FB is actually falling off tho

 

[neukicks]

Originally Posted by Kramer

I seriously doubt it will last that long. Didnt the users numbers actually start to drop recently? Personally I think fb is lame cuz when you actually get together with your friends theres not as much to talk about cuz you already know everything about them.

very good point. socializing in general is going out the window, people meet up to go out to dinner or whatever and they just sit on their phones.

 

[antidope]

Originally Posted by Kramer

I seriously doubt it will last that long. Didnt the users numbers actually start to drop recently? Personally I think fb is lame cuz when you actually get together with your friends theres not as much to talk about cuz you already know everything about them.

Word I was talking about this a couple of weeks ago. What will be the point of a high school reunion? I already know what everyones doing with their lives and how they look

ksteezy wrote:

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I hope it stays around, I hope it evolves and it becomes everyone's new family album....to those of us born in the pre-social media era, we know how close to our hearts we keep those photo albums, at least I do, I go to my mothers house and we seriously get together and flip through the pages...she tells me about my dad and how I remind her of him, we talk about all the people in those pictures who are no longer present...I hope one day my kids can go into my page and laugh at something I personally posted, my status update the day me and their mom tied the knot, etc...take away the negative aspect of it and we are left with something truly amazing....hopefully it won't phase out like MySpace or all the other ones...At this point is what 7-9 years strong?

You clearly are one of those people though already from what I've seen. You wouldn't need FB cause if you ever had a kid you would be on it from day one, 15+ albums of photos, wouldn't put it past you to make a videography, and I mean that in a good way.  Unless you're talking about for other people.

 

[ksteezy]

I hope it stays around, I hope it evolves and it becomes everyone's new family album....to those of us born in the pre-social media era, we know how close to our hearts we keep those photo albums, at least I do, I go to my mothers house and we seriously get together and flip through the pages...she tells me about my dad and how I remind her of him, we talk about all the people in those pictures who are no longer present...I hope one day my kids can go into my page and laugh at something I personally posted, my status update the day me and their mom tied the knot, etc...take away the negative aspect of it and we are left with something truly amazing....hopefully it won't phase out like MySpace or all the other ones...At this point is what 7-9 years strong?

 

[BranchLifestyle]

What about the people who don't have Facebook?

Will they be written out of history?

 

[thunderchunk69]

http://mydeathspace.com/vb/content.php

 

[tr1ll]

Originally Posted by Antidope

Originally Posted by Kramer

I seriously doubt it will last that long. Didnt the users numbers actually start to drop recently? Personally I think fb is lame cuz when you actually get together with your friends theres not as much to talk about cuz you already know everything about them.

Word I was talking about this a couple of weeks ago. What will be the point of a high school reunion? I already know what everyones doing with their lives and how they look

ksteezy wrote:

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I hope it stays around, I hope it evolves and it becomes everyone's new family album....to those of us born in the pre-social media era, we know how close to our hearts we keep those photo albums, at least I do, I go to my mothers house and we seriously get together and flip through the pages...she tells me about my dad and how I remind her of him, we talk about all the people in those pictures who are no longer present...I hope one day my kids can go into my page and laugh at something I personally posted, my status update the day me and their mom tied the knot, etc...take away the negative aspect of it and we are left with something truly amazing....hopefully it won't phase out like MySpace or all the other ones...At this point is what 7-9 years strong?

We had out HS school reunion on FB.

 

[ryda421]

don't you have some pix to take some where?

 

[1chainz]

Problems.

1. I'm in high school and it is already concluded by my peers that Facebook is mainly inhabited by hoodrats and naked middle school girls, and the occasional exposure of some nudes. Twitter is pretty much the jump now.

2. This sort of ties in with number one, nobody uses Facebook, at least in my age group.

3. Not everyone lives the same life they do in the actual world, that they do on the internet.

 

[Peep Game]

I would say if anybody is completely immersed in FB/social networking, you're doing more damage than help. Everything (depending on who you are)
is put out there for everybody to see and there isn't any surprise or mystery. It's taken a toll on face-to-face interaction completely. Just look at reunions
now, is there even a point to having them? I'm asking that mostly for HS/college grads who were born after '78-'80, cause that is the group that first started
using FB/social networking on a mass scale.

I first got on Fb in the fall of 2005, and my entire college years from 2005-2010 is online, but I guess I subconsciously used discretion when having my pics
put on there, cause I don't have anything really revealing. Plus, I was only heavy on FB from 05-08, and on top of not accepting every single friend request
that shows up, there's still an heir of mystery to me for new people or people I haven't seen in a long time. I'm big on face-to-face contact, and phone calls.
Maybe I'm just too old school even at 24, I don't know.

 

[mcraptor]

Do you even lift... 

 

[cap1229]

Originally Posted by Peep Game

I would say if anybody is completely immersed in FB/social networking, you're doing more damage than help. Everything (depending on who you are)
is put out there for everybody to see and there isn't any surprise or mystery. It's taken a toll on face-to-face interaction completely. Just look at reunions
now, is there even a point to having them? I'm asking that mostly for HS/college grads who were born after '78-'80, cause that is the group that first started
using FB/social networking on a mass scale.

I first got on Fb in the fall of 2005, and my entire college years from 2005-2010 is online, but I guess I subconsciously used discretion when having my pics
put on there, cause I don't have anything really revealing. Plus, I was only heavy on FB from 05-08, and on top of not accepting every single friend request
that shows up, there's still an heir of mystery to me for new people or people I haven't seen in a long time. I'm big on face-to-face contact, and phone calls.
Maybe I'm just too old school even at 24, I don't know.

Basically everything that was said i agree with. That air of mystery is so important and if its lost

. I dont have a facebook anymore

 

[the boss don]

myspace in its prime>>>>>>>

 

[dj rashy]

 I think more people will catch on how it just paints an unreal image of others.  There was a study that frequently browsing on people's walls and photos on fb makes you depressed and bitter since you see their happy photos and success updates then think your life sucks a lot more compared to them. It's still a great tool to promote and share stuff though. 

 

[smedroc]

Originally Posted by DJ Rashy

 I think more people will catch on how it just paints an unreal image of others.  There was a study that frequently browsing on people's walls and photos on fb makes you depressed and bitter since you see their happy photos and success updates then think your life sucks a lot more compared to them. It's still a great tool to promote and share stuff though. 

This

The only people who are keeping it 100 on fbook are the ones you delete cause they're are always whining about some +%%!.

Everyone else make their schedule out to be on rockstar type +%%!

 

[ksteezy]

Originally Posted by Ryda421

don't you have some pix to take some where?

Corny.I get what all of you are saying, but then again the problem wouldnt be with FB now?...is the people using it, I'm sure there are far more mature people who use it for its positive perks, for example my father in law uses it to keep in touch with his family back home, he's actually been away wth my mominlaw since January in DR...we keep in touch with them through Facebook....we were able to share our niece recognizing them in a picture through a video we posted on his page, dude was mad happy...this is the positive that I'm referring to, only of we could filter out all the negativity.

 

[ksteezy]

Antidope - I'm not doing a videography, but I plan on doing a photography blog dedicated to my kid....I'm sure he/she will Appreciate it as an adult.

 

[tomdiginson]

Originally Posted by Smedroc

Originally Posted by DJ Rashy

 I think more people will catch on how it just paints an unreal image of others.  There was a study that frequently browsing on people's walls and photos on fb makes you depressed and bitter since you see their happy photos and success updates then think your life sucks a lot more compared to them. It's still a great tool to promote and share stuff though. 

This

The only people who are keeping it 100 on fbook are the ones you delete cause they're are always whining about some +%%!.

Everyone else make their schedule out to be on rockstar type +%%!

True story. People who are quiet in real life are very talkative on Facebook.

  People post statues of them doing or going somewhere when its a lie. In my opinion this online social network business  isn't really good for society because soon people will be so use to talking on Facebook that face to face conversation (which is suppose to be a common thing) would become almost like an awkward experience. Hell I've seen people who would talk with others on Facebook post on their walls and all  etc but when it comes to real they are very shy.

 

[allreds]

p4l this is really interesting

 

[cap1229]

Originally Posted by TomDiginson

True story. People who are quiet in real life are very talkative on Facebook.

  People post statues of them doing or going somewhere when its a lie. In my opinion this online social network business  isn't really good for society because soon people will be so use to talking on Facebook that face to face conversation (which is suppose to be a common thing) would become almost like an awkward experience. Hell I've seen people who would talk with others on Facebook post on their walls and all  etc but when it comes to real they are very shy.

I've noticed that too. The same goes for people on twitter. Not really about the image they project at all. Boring as +@!# in real life and stage half of the pics they post for attention. When I saw one of my friends in real life do this and I know she is a boring chick I was like this is no good.

 

[Peep Game]

Originally Posted by ksteezy

Originally Posted by Ryda421

don't you have some pix to take some where?

Corny.I get what all of you are saying, but then again the problem wouldnt be with FB now?...is the people using it, I'm sure there are far more mature people who use it for its positive perks, for example my father in law uses it to keep in touch with his family back home, he's actually been away wth my mominlaw since January in DR...we keep in touch with them through Facebook....we were able to share our niece recognizing them in a picture through a video we posted on his page, dude was mad happy...this is the positive that I'm referring to, only of we could filter out all the negativity.

I can see where you're coming from with that, cause now that I've been out of college for a bit, FB for me is exclusively to hear/catch up with HS friends I haven't
seen in a long time, and college friends who may still be out of state. Usually if somebody I have pretty good contact with posts/sends stuff through FB, I just call/text

them back cause that's what I prefer.