Time for a rant! - Social Networks

(if you frequent chat rooms/social networking sites, you might want to avoid this...)
God damn CHAT ROOMS *starts puching random things/people/animals*.
It seems like every freaking day that I get an email from some random, unheard-of social networking site that one of my blithering idiot friends has stumbled accross and joined for no other reason than extreme boredom. "have you got Bebo" i'm always being asked (my reply is usually "no, F*CK OFF").
Now, I have Myspace, so call me a hypocrite if you must, but I rarely use it, I also used to have that Book of Faces, but I decided that it was about as useful as a mash potato laptop.
It worries me that all these millions of people now assume that they have a fantastic social life just because some random paedophile in Russia has added them as a friend.
What happened to cinema/town/road trips with real live mates?
I also hate it how people seem kind of put out and almost insulted if you admit that you aren't a member of Bebo or whatever, I mean, get a life, it's a bunch of HTML code sitting on a server, it's nothing to get upset about.
Whats with the "poke" or "punch" or "drive-by shoot" features in Facebook? I can't think of any feature that is any more pointless.
Myspace can stay, it was the orignal and the best. Facebook and Bebo, you can both sod off, as can all those random rip-offs that keep appearing.

Time to get a real life in the real world people.

(Feel free to flame me, I welcome it. I'm that sort of a mood)

Heehee! Dabamash, is it that time of month again?

Grant wrote:

Heehee! Dabamash, is it that time of month again?

Lol, it would seem so.

Actually, ive got some kind of cold, so i'm in a grouchy mood. I feel better now though

Actually I agree completely with you. A total waste of time, energy, bandwidth, resources blah blah blah. Pointless bolloxs. I prefer going to the pub and having a real pint with real people. I don't understand someone sending you a virtual drink. Feck off! I want real beer....that tastes of something....and makes me feel drunk (but only in a nice happy mellow way...not a shouty, ranty, fighty sort of way)

well people like me and grant arent old enough to do on a russian road trip dabs

and i think theyre ok. i hate obsessive who will only speak to you via the interweb.

i use myspace for comedy really - thats it

Les Walkins wrote:

russian road trips

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ho ho, the irony of a bunch of people on an interweb mongboard ranting about people spending too much time on their computers. Get a life! etc.

Anyway. Myspace is utter, utter shit. If I wanted eye-wateringly garish colours, absurd waiting times and an altogether disagreeable experience with a computer, I'd dust off my ZX Spectrum and attempt to load a 22-year-old pirated copy of Brian Bloodaxe (google it). I don't think I've ever spent more than five minutes on whyspaz (as it shall henceforth be known) without wanting to insert cocktail sticks into my scrotum, just to take my mind off the fact that I've wasted the last five minutes of my life waiting for some godawful band's crappy player to load.

I think you have to get your mum and dad to sign something to say you're under 13 to join Bebo, so that's most of us out.

I don't mind Facebook though - I agree that all the poking and prodding and "you have been sent a cutesy-wutesy ickle bunny wabbit" stuff is rather irritating, but I just ignore most of that. It's great for getting hold of people quickly without having to remember their email, and I like the events thing too (there's a monthly club night I go to in London every once in a while, and without Facebook reminders I'd forget it was on).

Lee Spoons wrote:

ho ho, the irony of a bunch of people on an interweb mongboard ranting about people spending too much time on their computers. Get a life! etc.

lol, it wasn't lost on me, but i'm sure you can see what I was trying to get at.

Lee Spoons wrote:

I think you have to get your mum and dad to sign something to say you're under 13 to join Bebo, so that's most of us out.

Hmm, never realised that. Glad i've never tried to get an account (under or over 13?)

You have some interesting points lee.

Dabamash wrote:

Lee Spoons wrote:

I think you have to get your mum and dad to sign something to say you're under 13 to join Bebo, so that's most of us out.

Hmm, never realised that. Glad i've never tried to get an account (under or over 13?)

no idea, I made it up Most people on Bebo seem to be under 20 though. My son's 3 in January, and he's probably got an account.

lol, tut tut Lee. I wouldn't be surprised if you son has already befriended that Russian that I mentiond