Quote Originally Posted by Xstr8guy View Post
Lee's thread on 'social networking sites' got me thinking.

I can honestly say that I've never spent more than a few minutes at a time on myspace or it's competitors. Hell, i don't think I've ever been to facebook. I find it completely boring and useless. It's just seems like trivial garbage to me. 'My favorite movies', 'my friends', 'my favorite music'... who gives a shit? And those stupid messages with super lame graphics that people leave on other people's pages... 'Thanks for adding me!' (insert picture of a cute puppy face or bouquet of flowers). UGH! And don't get me started on the eye-destroying designs of people's pages!

Do people really want digital friends? Are people really that lonely or bored? Do they ever actually make REAL friends or at least have real conversations like we do on boards like GWW?

Maybe it's a generational thing that I don't understand. Or maybe it's because I'm anti-social (I was the kid at school that waited around for other kids to come up to me and make friends). Or maybe it's just a silly fad that will go away soon.

What do you all think?
I couldn't agree more! I thought it was just me! When myspace and all of that stuff became popular, people would ask if I had myspace??? I would ask, why would I?

I thought it was like a friend networking thing for like Jr High and High School students. So I was like ok, let me see what the hoop is all about. I checked it out and thought it was useless and boring, who cares about your favorite movies, music and your friends network. So I never got one. Just seemed like one more thing to get bothered with emails, messages, etc.

But we must be missing something! A lot of people have them and really seem to like it.

Looking forward to seeing other members feedback.