Not so FriendBook

So over the last few months I've become weary with Facebook. Not Facebook itself because ultimately its a great communication tool. In saying that it's the lack of communication on it that bothers me. That and the communication that is on it and it's overall use is either self gloating, self publication, voyeuristic and of course pure rubbish that people feel the need to share. I myself can be found guilty of all of the above. 

So over the last few months I've started deleting people I'm "Friends" with on Facebook. Some because I feel if I don't talk to the person outside of Facebook well then we weren't really friends in the first place. Some because I wanted to see if they would make the effort to keep in touch if I felt the ball was more in their court for them to make the effort. So far none of those people have contacted in any shape or form. 

So with that it leaves me feeling like I only want to be friends with people on Facebook if they are true friends. Friends that you'll talk to on and off Facebook. 

So the next time you are on Facebook and it prompts you to "Friends you may know" or the "Find Friends" screen ask yourself before adding anyone else are you really friends with the people you have added already and are you really friends with the person you want to add.

Get this on Facebook already

Things got a little heated.... lol !

See below for what turned out to be a good old laugh/heated but for the fun of it conversation.

My over all point is SO WHAT if some x-factor crap song gets to number one. I won't be listening to it, no one is forcing anyone to listen to it or buy it so what exactly is the issue. From what you'll see below and the points I raised is it's people trying to be way too cool for school with the whole "Rage Against the Machine for No.1" campaign. Basically cheating their way to get a result. Buy no more than 2 copies and all this. The so called "down with it" people who listen to "real music" are in fact the ones who are acting like a bunch of bitches in my opinion. Where are the "real music" listeners all the other weeks of the year when other crap gets to number 1 ??? It doesn't say much when the people that are going out buying the crap x-factor song are just buying it normally. Not starting a big agenda to get it to number one....

Either way I'd love if neither song gets to number one though I'm sure one or the other will leaning more towards R.A.T.M. At the end of the day the big point they are trying to make is lost because it's a fabricated number one. Be it the fabricated x-factor song or the fabricated R.A.T.M agenda...

Brant Clarke BLEH and I mean BLEH to the "Rage Against the Machine" for the Christmas No.1 group. The real bang of trying to be too cool for school, down with the corporate machine vibe of it. Trying to "not conform" with the masses but yet doing it in the most conforming way... ON FACEBOOK. Go to your theology class in Trinity and shut up. Meh, MEH IT TO HELL !

Yesterday at 11:10pm · Comment ·

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P_______

haha, someones got the claws out!!

Yesterday at 11:16pm · Delete

T_______

Be great if they get number 1 now though I must say. Lol

Yesterday at 11:21pm · Delete

Brant Clarke

well they have a huge following in the group, it's the principal of when was the last time R.A.T.M were No.1 ?? So what if some shit X-Factor song gets to No.1. If someone wants to go out and buy it thats their own business and at least they are doing it without a "down with the corporate machine" nonsense reason". I'll have the last laugh

Yesterday at 11:24pm · Delete

Brant Clarke

and half of these will be using "daddies" credit card to buy the fucking song from their dorm.... Yea way to go with bringing down the machine. Pffft

Yesterday at 11:30pm · Delete

M_______

And now you do what they told ya! Don't be such a capitalist Clarke, introduce a little anarchy as the Joker once said. Nothing wrong with playing Cowell at his own game. Although I'm at a loss as to what it has to do with theology???????

Yesterday at 11:34pm · Delete

Brant Clarke

Theres just WAY too much of a bang of the b.s student life off this. the theology students and the likes. trying to be all too cool for school using daddies credit card to buy the down with the machine song while they are in their angst phase

Yesterday at 11:43pm · Delete

M_______

I think it's a great thing that there's still people out there that haven't been brainwashed into thinking that we all have to lie down for the X Factor juggernaut and that it's NOT, as opposed to what Louis Walsh et al might think, a given that they should be no. 1 in the charts. I'm all for it and long may it continue. Sick of having X Factor forced on me for weeks on end and then being told that this is what is going to be no. 1 and there's nothing we can do about it, well no, I like RATM because it's proper music and so I'll be buying that and hoping that we won't be subjected to the latest manufactured pop karaoke for once at the top of the charts

Brant Clarke

There's more people out there that don't watch x-factor than there is that do. Mindless crap gets to no.1 every week of the year and as most of these people don't actually go out and put their money were their mouth is every week what will this be, a once a year event ? It's trying not to conform in the most conforming way. No one forcing anything on anyone. Like I said if people want to go out and buy "proper music" or "un-proper music..." that's their choice. If the song does get to no.1, either song, it's not a true refection in either case. It'll be a fabricated number 1. That in point is my issue.

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P________

now that's a lot of ranting!! Can anyone say grumpy old men....?

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Brant Clarke

I'm not old, I'm just right.

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M_______

Can't beat a good old revolution, granted it's an organised revolution but that's how to get results. One voice wont be heard so people are coming together to do this. Put it this way - on Christmas Day when they play the Christmas no.1 on tv / radio, which would you rather hear, another banal cardboard cover or a band who are the extreme opposite of everything that stands for

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M_______

I'm always grumpy Phil!

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