Simply put, Facebook sucks. It's where your brain cells go to die.
It's a waste of time seeing all the 'life events' of people you probably don't even see in person. Not to mention all the friend whoring and "tagging" from other people, such as 'friends of friends' adding you as a friend to increase the amount of "friends" they already have, like it's some popularity contest. You probably don't know who's doing it, and they may never even meet you.
How often do people meet "friends" added on Facebook, or even actually know people on their Facebook personally? Like, if that person you tapped messages to all the time on the messenger was your best buddy that you see a lot, then sure, it's okay for using Facebook for easy contact, getting free fast responses, and things like that, or it can be handy for say, arranging events, and 'get together' parties, or whatever. People enjoy getting a 'like' from time to time, but it's no substitute for in-person socializing. I've deleted tons of accounts over the years due to having an obsessive compulsive disorder, and when I go and sign up a new profile, I find people add me back again, but never really talk to me or acknowledge my comments. It's the same with a lot of message boards nowadays. People go on them, but they only post when they feel like it, thus it ends up boring.
I'm on Facebook again just because I want to locate ways of obtaining bit parts in films, because most other websites operate by upgrading your free membership to get all the features there are, and that can be costly. I've got an IMDb page too, by the way. I'm not going to add the link for it here because it's not worth 'plugging' it anyway.
It's stupid, because unless you're a pro-member of IMDb, you cannot upload a demo reel (not that I have one) and the photos you have will disappear once you are up for a renewal. Everything always has to come with a catch, including dating websites which are just as pointless. It's over $150 for a year to be a pro-member of IMDb. The IMDb forums kind of suck as well.
Facebook is like all popularity cliques online. You just have to say the wrong thing, and everybody deletes you as a "friend" on Facebook or bans you on forums, due to one person causing an argument, and if you ain't as 'popular' as the other person or group, you get the boot. Had this one tart I don't even know do it to me because I asked if someone could get back into a group for zombie film extras, and I too was removed from the secret group, with the lousy explanation that I 'messaged everyone about the film' or something, which I sort of did, but nobody complained to me about it. I'm guessing that was an excuse.
Anyway, I suggest you delete your Facebook and be done with it. Unfortunately, I still kind of need mine to keep tabs on future extras work, but being an extra in a film isn't always that big a deal. Is it?
Last edited by Anonymous37919; Aug 24, 2016 at 06:38 PM.
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