Well you are only hearing about the bad side of Facebook. And those that are passive aggressive and nasty to others are going to be that way regardless of being on Facebook or not.
Exactly!
I really like FB. A bunch of us joined just before our 20th reunion, and its brought us all so much closer than we had been. And we were close before, as close as you can be when you all scattered to the winds after HS or college graduation. But this allows us to be in our day-to-day lives with each other, not just whatever makes it to the letter or email or holiday card.
Sure, annoyances happen. I commented on something that a fellow chiropractor shared from one of our chiro school teachers, it wasn't positive about MDs...my cousin saw it, and she's currently dealing with an *emergency* situation, and got a bit bent out of shape (in an emergency she just saw the feeling, not what CAUSED the feeling, especially in me, because in MY life and family, MDs have almost always failed in emergency situations, AND have made normal problems into emergencies and I am absolutely positively biased against them, which is why I went into a profession that is NOT medical to begin with)...but it will blow over, and the SAME thing would have happened if Deb and I were discussing Bill's thoughts in front of my cousin. It's not FB's fault.
Dislike would be useful for a lot. When a friend says that someone let them down, a child is ill, or hurt, or whatever. I see no "poetic justice."
Agreed. My cousin says her daughter is dealing with some horrid infection on her face, I don't have time to SAY anything to her, I want to click a button to show her I read and am there, even though I'm running out the door and just caught her post out of the corner of my eye. Can't click Like. Would like to click Dislike. Can't.
Easy. I see the Facebook fallout all the time here on the DIS and in real life. I see all sorts of hell caused in people's lives by the use of Facebook and I will never use it myself.
Do you think that you would automatically become a drama-filled FB user, if you went onto FB?
Or maybe you would see the *good* that can come from it. And would see that the drama is momentary, or perhaps due to the users themselves...
As for this particular scam...applications on Facebook (I'm telling you b/c you don't use it, haven't read the terms/conditions of the FB applications, and therefore you do not know) ARE absolutely info-suckers. No, they don't all start posting stuff for you. But the point and purpose (says the wife of a person who interviewed at a company that CREATES applications for FB) for creating them is to get more more more information for businesses. Under the guise of "oh that's fun, let's see what sort of breakfast cereal I am like!"
So this application taking info isn't unique; they ALL do. And they don't just take the app user's info, but you're giving up info of alllll of your FB friends when you click to use an app on FB. The unique thing about this is that it takes over your page to a certain extent.
It's never been in a mean or passive aggressive way. (Actually now that I think about it, there's really nothing passive-agressive about it. It's just aggressive.)
Frankly, the people who are going to use "dislike" that way are the same people who are going to use "like" sarcastically who will make other mean comments. A "dislike" button is only going to lead to problems if you have rude, dramatic friends. And if you have those sorts of friends, then you're going to have problems with them whether or not there's a "dislike" button. The easiest solution for dealing with people like that is just defriending and blocking them.
Yep, if someone were using Dislike rudely, it wouldn't be passive!
And yep, if you have friends who would use it rudely, well, you would KNOW it already LOL, and you'd be dealing with it in non cyberspace as well.
Win-win.
