Meanwhile On BaseFook This Is How We Are Perceived

The worst thing you could ever do is read any comment from those self-righteous, self-gratifying, sanctimonious, grandstanding, obnoxious, pompous, idiotic and arrogant shithouses inhabiting that forum.
Dare to have a different opinion? Then prepare to be hunted down by the lynch mob and spoken down to like a child who needs to be "educated" and reprogrammed to make you fall in line and follow their rigid views on all things Barnsley FC like some sheep.
The BBS has always been toxic due to the perpetually offended ***** running it so do what I did and don't even offer those basement-dwelling fuckers your attention because that's what they crave to take the moral high ground and try and embarrass you in front of fellow fans. They're not worth a lick.

 

Translated:
I wanted to be a horrible two hat online and got called out for it, so now I’m going to whine and cry about it on Facebook.

 

When you're angry and have no luck
Have a rant on that Facebook
If you're furious and bitter
Tap it out on Twitter

 

The Disney comment is actually very good TBF.

 

One of my better pieces I thought. Looking at it now though, think I held back a bit.

 

Lol.

Yeah, imagine calling out people with sheitty opinions. "Waah waaah waaah I want freedom to spout my horrible views but don't want people to have the freedom to call me a tw@t"

 

Went on Facebook once.

That’s it. That’s the story.

 

This forum is the only refuge from the knuckle draggers who spout their bile all over twitter, facebook and instagram.
When you see some of the comments on the first two especially it makes your flesh creep.

 

I'm so glad I don't do Facebook

 

Rather complimentary

 

I am on FB and it pisses me off for three main reasons.

1) It is mainly comments, or context of a comment made generally.
People often seem to have a go at an opinion slagging you off for slagging something off ... except you never slagged it off in the first place, you simply wrote a factual thing and people got the wrong end of the stick.

2) I'm on many groups for a broad range of interests, but I'm yet to find one which isn't better than a forum (such as this or an other plethora of forums on any subject - even Reddit) due to layout, popularity rather than chronological order (which is a bugger to change).

3) user comments.

 

Load of ballax that. Clowns are funny.

 

I did. Wish I hadn't though!

 

Facebook (like Twitter/Instagram) is just a habit that people have sleep walked into. Once you break the habit you realise how much time it actually steals, and how mindless and full of rubbish it is. I have been off Facebook for years, and when I came off it was bad (toxic, getting worse etc.). I can only imagine how much worse it has got. People convince themselves that they need it - for business / to 'keep in touch' - but it can never replace reality; the real conversations that you have face-to-face, or real groups meeting in person and socialising like people used to en-masse. You also realise when you stop engaging in social media (I don't count the BBS because it's not the same, it's an old-school, anonymous forum) that the majority of 'friends' you have on there are not really friends at all, and it is better to have a small, meaningful circle of true friends that fulfils you (in person, not online).

My only advice would be to delete it, along with Instagram and Twitter. Even WhatsApp unwittingly prevents people from socialising IRL, to the point where when you do talk to certain people face-to-face they no longer know how to hold a conversation in person. It's very sad that these things came into being.

 

You raise some good points Redarmy87. Maybe I'm nosey and I want to know about the lives of people I used to know, I don't know.

The business point hit home though, as I've worked on Social Media and done responses on FB and Twitter. Companies seems **** scared of poor reviews and people talking about them without their ability to reply. They fear people will believe the vastly exaggerated poor experience ONE customer had. For me, companies should shut it down and concentrate on improving their direct relationship with customers via calls, web chats and online forms (email isn't accountable).

 

You're broad backed. You can take it. Could be worse, you could have Hicksys glass back ;-)