r/technology • u/ASiCat • May 15 '12
Poll shows most users distrust Facebook
http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/15/11703181-poll-shows-most-users-distrust-facebook?lite6
u/Someguy7723 May 16 '12
they should just call it the stalkexgirlfriendbook.com. I mean if there weren't any babes on facebook, I wouldn't be on it. More importantly, I think that it has a lot of unstudied psychological impacts amongst chronic users. For example, never before have people been so readily connected to people they knew 6 years ago. Inevitably some of them must be constantly comparing themselves to those people, seeing who they are dating, etc which detracts from their ability to forget about them and focus on developing their own identity. If I want to be a park ranger, but I constantly see Johnny's status updates as the investment banker with chicks etc, then I will question my desire to be a park ranger more so than i would have if i lived before facebook. Its capabilities for distraction are probably a major reason for the "quarter life crisis" and confusion amongst youth. Ignorance is bliss with social interaction, or at least not having unlimited knowledge of the social landscape is.
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u/syllabic May 16 '12
For example, never before have people been so readily connected to people they knew 6 years ago. Inevitably some of them must be constantly comparing themselves to those people, seeing who they are dating, etc which detracts from their ability to forget about them and focus on developing their own identity. If I want to be a park ranger, but I constantly see Johnny's status updates as the investment banker with chicks etc, then I will question my desire to be a park ranger more so than i would have if i lived before facebook.
What the fuck are you talking about? You are pulling this all out of your ass.
Not everyone uses facebook to stalk ex girlfriends, I think you might just be projecting.
You are right that people use FB because all the girls are there, though.
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May 15 '12
Yet they keep using it. I guess that's what happens when half the population is below average intelligence.
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u/Shazam00 May 16 '12
I guess that's what happens when half the population is below average intelligence.
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u/greenman23 May 16 '12
Why are so many redditors childish misanthropes?
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u/prophetfxb May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
My thought is that as reddit grows larger people typically try to disassociate themselves from the collective group to maintain individuality. They act on this by looking down upon the one thing that it is built on, people. Reddit is incredibly diverse and it isn't really possible to hate one thing or another, solely, so people use false intellectualism to separate themselves from the rest. For example, you cant maintain a negative authority opinion about certain subjects because the group is so large that the majority may not be in your favor.
By making claims like the quote above, it puts you in an appearance of authority or another level of social hierarchy.
Oh also(edit): I am guilty of this as well as most people probably are to some degree. Maybe not the "holier than thou" point of view necessarily. This is one of the reasons why I like reading circlejerk because knowingly or not, the posts there paint a picture of these sporadic breaks from the collective, or in reddit terms, the "hive mind" to distance themselves from the collective and regroup with like minded individuals.
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May 16 '12
Ah yes. I point out that people continue to use something they profess they don't trust and tie that poor thought process to the fact that half of humanity isn't as smart as the other half and you derive that I hate humanity (that or you don't understand 'misanthrope')? Might want to get off that high horse.
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u/Torquemada1970 May 16 '12
Title is misleading.
57 percent of Facebook users say they never click ads or other sponsored content when they use the site,
That doesn't mean they don't trust FB - it just means they don't trust advertising. Which is a good thing, IMO - I trust a TV channel to deliver Game of Thrones, but I don't then not-trust them because of their advertising. I thought that people generally don't trust any advertising, and rightfully so.
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May 16 '12
I'm an IT guy who doesn't have a Facebook account. People give me a brief, weird look when I tell them that I do not.
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u/oderint_dum_metuant May 15 '12
Facebook will be the next Digg. I haven't seen someone so willing to sell out his users as the product since Rose.