Comments for Richard Flynn

Comment on Social Networking Sucks! (Or, why I left Facebook) by Andre Booker

Andre Booker — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:54:08 +0000

Richard,

I could not have put it better myself…If we met face to face with 90% of these so called facebook friends we’d hardly give them a nod.

Also, sending people little icons and writing on their walls is so first grade.

Comment on Social Networking Sucks! (Or, why I left Facebook) by Jackie Snyder

Jackie Snyder — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:37:02 +0000

Howdy,

I tried Facebook and left it during the first two hours. Too slow, what’s the point of wasting time with people you call Friend but won’t “befriend” in real life, and what’s more, when there’s flickr, gmail, youtube and reddit, who needs Facebook?

True, the name does sound catchy. Facebook. Oh. yeah.

Comment on Social Networking Sucks! (Or, why I left Facebook) by JT

JT — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:46:56 +0000

Well said Richard. I just left facebook yesterday, had it deactivated and emailed them to kindly delete my account which they did. For those still using it, by all means continue to do so. I’m fed up with this social networking stuff. I want to keep in touch with people the old fashion way (pick up the phone and call them).

We’re human beings after all, communicating in person is what being social is about, not “online” correspondence.

Comment on Social Networking Sucks! (Or, why I left Facebook) by Birdie

Birdie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:01:33 +0000

Hi Richard,

I totally agree with you. After several months on facebook I found myself with a bunch of ‘Friends most of which I wasn’t particularly interested in and never wished to be. I don’t know how it could have happend!!!
Probably I am one of your 39 friends that invited you and never got in touch with you. I did the very same to most of my ‘Friends’!
There was this strange urge to get as many contacts as possible - it was like a drug! I had to fight with myself not to invite everyone I had ever written an email to. But as soon as I had invited somebody whom I didn’t care about much, I wished to remove him/her again. Of course, you can’t do that unless something happens and even then it is quite ridiculous to do that.
In the end, I was soooo glad to remove everybody when I deactivated my account. I am clean now!!! And I hope to stay clean. No more social networking for the sake of social networking!

Comment on Social Networking Sucks! (Or, why I left Facebook) by Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:59:18 +0000

I agree with you. I used to have myspace and facebook but i mean it gets to much of a hassle and the older you get the more you move on. I mean i used to be a myspace crack head and i also made a facebook but man it just gets useless i mean i was always checking my messeges and chaning my page but i have better things to do now. I think its for younger people who have nothing to do. I can get ahold of anyone i want without a problem. I agree with you and facebook was the samw way with me i add like 4 pple then came the frriend request. You did the right thing. I mean every one acts like we need a social site to have a life or something but look how long we went without them.

Comment on Social Networking Sucks! (Or, why I left Facebook) by PenaltyKillah

PenaltyKillah — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:38:32 +0000

Wow. That’s one heckuva way to rage against the machine, Rich. If Facebook doesn’t reinvent itself… it will always be mislabelled as something more inferior than it really is.

(By the way, the two comments before mine really exemplifies the opposites sides of how we view the once-elusive Cyberspace.)

Comment on Social Networking Sucks! (Or, why I left Facebook) by John Mac

John Mac — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:15:56 +0000

“It’s not about you man… your so selfish to not allow all the people you have ever met the option to contact you as and when they jolly wish” What a load of rubbish. I’m not even going to justify my reasons. Thats all I had to say. Off to the pub to have a pint with my real life friends now. Goodnight.

Comment on Social Networking Sucks! (Or, why I left Facebook) by krkkwergke

krkkwergke — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:28:06 +0000

Youtube is different because theres lots to watch and you dont need to register/join or have to interact with anyone to use the site. However, online social network sites such as myspace,bebo, friendster and facebook are all a piece of boring pointless sh*t. Not only is there nothing to do on the site, but its the same moronic users doing the rounds on all the sites and lets face it most people aren’t even active users, there are millions of registered users, but most of those are dormant. Another site I can think of is okcupid.com, there are probably quarter of a million profiles on there and only 3,000 are ever active at any one time, which means theres a hell of a lot of inactivity.
If you say you want to keep in touch with your friends…why don’t you email them instead….if they were your real friends you would call them or meet up with them rather post cr*p on some sad virtual wall on myspace or facebook. And theyre not your real friends either, several academic studies show that real friendships are seldom made on the net, if we’re never gonna meet in person then I dont want to waste my time conversing or adding you as a friend in the first place. I can’t stand morons who use you for online chat, if they don’t have a good reason to add me in the first place then I block them, i don’t care if they have pretty pic or not. And I don’t think you can permanently delete your account on facebook, you can only suspend it, its still on their system.

Comment on Social Networking Sucks! (Or, why I left Facebook) by In-Your-Facebook

In-Your-Facebook — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:02:13 +0000

[…] true—I could opt out of Facebook entirely; I know of plenty of people who have, or are thinking about it. But I’m not quite ready to do that, because I’m not willing to have […]

Comment on A tale of Swiss bureaucracy by Mary Issa

Mary Issa — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:15:58 +0000

Wow Richard, I am feeling exhausted after reading that!
Your mom recommended I have a quick read, she assured me it would be funny. I did read and I laughed out loud. My colleagues proceeded to glare at me wondering what could be so hilarious at 10:45am on a cloudy morning in Sydney.
As for the Swiss bank account, I know Thomas was a little envious when he heard!
All the best, thanks for the laughs, Mary.