[steelfang]

I've been using psych central a lot more than Facebook lately. Too many shallow people

We all understand each other so much!

[LiteraryLark]

Facebook. People here are way too depressing, there's a lot of drama, and I do not have real friends here like I do on Facebook. Lately I've been spending a lot less time here.

[steelfang]

Originally Posted by DrSkipper

Facebook. People here are way too depressing, there's a lot of drama, and I do not have real friends here like I do on Facebook. Lately I've been spending a lot less time here.

You have a good point. It does seem like people who come on this site just like to vent and complain (including myself). I have been really introverted lately. I just posting here a few days ago, prob a honeymoon phase.

[FrayedEnds]

I find it's definitely easier to talk here than on facebook. It's the anonymity of course, but it's also the fact that people here understand where I'm coming from.
Now if only Psych Central would offer Candy Crush, my life would be complete

[Yoda]

I like both. Facebook is not just personal friends but I follow those with common interests as me. Like cats. And hippie music. And cats. PC can be serious or quirky. And PC has cats. And dogs and cats. Greylove has a seemingly endless supply of quirky dogs and cats.

And if somebody annoys me on FB I unfriend them while at PC I can ignore them.

Here is a quirky cat I found on FB -

[IndieVisible]

If your really really in to cats and chain letters and news about things you already knew, then facebook all the way. But if your in to out of the box out of the norm always some thing new and challenging then here is the place to go. You decide.

[healingme4me]

PC, hands down PC

When I think how many complain that FB, only shows the good side of ppls lives...
At least on PC, there's the whole picture, ppl are more real here

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[1776]

PC . . .

[gayleggg]

I spend much more time on PC. I check Facebook a couple of times a day to see if my daughter has posted, other than that I don't use it much.

[tealBumblebee]

i deactivated my facebook right around the time (maybe a month later) that I discovered pc. I like here better as far as socializing because on FB i had a gazillion friends and no one to chat with. Here i have virtual friends and people who I can talk to about things i'd never discuss with anyone else. However I am a fan of photos and games and so i did miss fb for that until i discovered mindjolt & royalgames. =] Now i'm an all around happy camper.

I feel more at home on PC and spend more time on here. I might check FB a few times a day and rarely post something myself. There is no way I could share about my mental health issues on FB, or identify with anyone else sharing theirs - - because it doesn't happen! Maybe I'm too wrapped up/obsessed with my mental health these days. My depression is so profound that it's on my mind so often.

[SilverNeurotic]

I like it better here. I get too aggravated by people on FB.

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[Webgoji]

PC without question.

Here people actually read my posts. I feel more at home here than ... well ... at home. I could tell my "friends" on FB that I had just been abducted and the bad guys were going to cut off my limbs with a rusty spoon just to hear me scream and nobody would even read my post.

Seriously.

All of my blog posts went to FB so it would update my "friends" and the Kansas Writers Association. This is a real conversation at my 40th b-day.

Friend 1 - "You should update us on FB whenever you put one of your short stories on your blog."
Friend 2 - "He does."
Friend 1 - "Really!?"
Friend 2 - "Yeah. I've never really read them though."
Webgoji - "Ahem, I'm sitting right here."

I just wanted to yell, "F-YOU ALL MUTHAF$%#$@S!"

Psych Central by a country mile. I can relate to people much more on here than I can on Facebook. Facebook actually depresses me. Everyone's life seems to be so perfect, I just feel irrelevant on there. xD

[Yogurtz]

As far as I am concerned I think PsychCentral is no better or worse than Facebook, Twitter, or other mental health forums.

Of course I don’t mean to trash PsychCentral, it is definitely a resourceful and helpful website, but I have to watch what I say and to whom here as much as I do anywhere else. It is still the Internet.

Just my thoughts.

[sweepy62]

Imo how can one compare the two ? They both are used for different puposes. Its like wanting to make scrambled eggs out of tomatoes.

Neither. They have entirely different functions.

[-jimi-]

I don't like FB period. Sites like PC and others for other topics are like small stores specialized in one thing. Like I can go to a cheese store and get good cheese, I can go to the butchers and get the meat I want... and so on.

FB is like a big supermarket that has the bread most people like which I don't eat, two types of fatty burgers I want to avoid, and plastic cheese.

No thanks. I believe in choosing, not become mainstreamed.

[PrisonBound]

PC definitely.

FB to me is nothing more than people constantly trying to impress, etc. People here are real

[Fresia]

Apples and elephants.

[Tonyh]

Psych Central post: I'm feeling a little upset today and could sure use some support.

Facebook Post: Hello world my life is perfect, isn't yours?

i'm not a facebook user, but the reason is because their is so much drama on their... people moaning about their lives, posting status messages every half second, so i think even if i was it would be PC all the way. with PC, everyone understands each other- and i'm sure their's plenty of people on facebook who wouldn't get it.

PC - Facebook is useless really, here I don't have to commit to anyone or anything I don't want too. And to be honest I think people have a right to moan and complain - here is one of the few places people feel safe to do so. If others don't like it there's always a gazillion other forums to visit instead.

Here the intent is real, I don't want a load of pointless bragging or endless memes or biased comments. It bores me.

[katheryn]

I found pc in my darkest time hubby and i use both fb and pc now but when we joined there was only pc and venting about our ongoing problems back in 06 but as the years go by i use fb more but not for the same things i use pc for, pc is a mental health forum here others understand about mental health fb is a social network i use that to socialise follow ppl with similar interests talk to old and new friends i used to do this on pc but the small group evolved some stopped coming others got better the group i talked to dispersed but i still post on my dark days or when i need to vent and ty to all who read my posts

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[Travelinglady]

Psych Central post: I'm feeling a little upset today and could sure use some support.

Facebook Post: Hello world my life is perfect, isn't yours?

My thoughts exactly. I go on facebook occasionally to check to see what my friends and relatives have posted, but it can be too braggy. Look where we are right now--on vacation or on a work trip or for a day trip. Don't you wish you could be here instead of cooped up in your house? Look at how cute my kids look today. Even cuter than they were yesterday in the pictures I posted!

I agree with the folks who have said that the two sites serve different purposes. I spend lots more time at Psych Central.