Life Before Facebook

quichebradford
quichebradford Posts: 327 Member
edited September 30 in Chit-Chat
I'm just sitting here wondering what did people do before facebook? Did you dictate your every move via phone calls to your friends? If you were upset, did you email your bff and simply put "UGH" in the subject line, prompting the questions, "what's wrong"? When your income taxt check posted in your account, did you send a mass mail out to your friends, and then let them know that you're also waiting on your baby daddy's check to hit? Did you send a mix tape of all the R Kelly songs you've listened to today by courier pigeon so everyone would know what kind of mood you're in? Did you pay $10k for a billboard on the freeway to announce that you're meeting your friend Jose Cuervo and Patron after work?

What's the craziest thing you've seen on FB?
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  • tubbytabbytales
    tubbytabbytales Posts: 5,883
    Life before FB = MySpace.

    HAHA
  • godroxmysox
    godroxmysox Posts: 1,491 Member
    Life before FB = MySpace.

    HAHA

    True, and before that, I had a Xanga!
  • Sgriffin2382
    Sgriffin2382 Posts: 360 Member
    I try not to imagine a time before Facebook. It's too scary ;-)
  • quichebradford
    quichebradford Posts: 327 Member
    LOL, I forgot all about Myspace! You're right!
  • goldnanoparticle
    goldnanoparticle Posts: 37 Member
    There was life before FB?:huh:
  • Latoyamary
    Latoyamary Posts: 140
    My baby sister posted pictures of her and friends at a "toy" party. They took inappropriate pics of themselves with a dancer in very compromising positions. SMDH!!!
  • quichebradford
    quichebradford Posts: 327 Member
    LOL!!
  • JustJudy
    JustJudy Posts: 142 Member
    I actually talked to people on the phone!! Communicaton is becoming a lost art:ohwell:
  • ChantalGG
    ChantalGG Posts: 2,404 Member
    I used to go on a forum site all the time, then i went on myspace for a sec but then facebook came along, next it will be Google's site to come.
  • lizbanks
    lizbanks Posts: 31 Member
    I forgot about Xanga! I cancelled my Xanga and MySpace EONS ago!!

    Those who post crap like that get silenced. There are A LOT of things that don't belong on Facebook...
  • alexa_image
    alexa_image Posts: 387 Member
    I know,
    It's crazy how public private has become.
    People just don't understand the concept of Network.
    They post everything, from cutting a finger (with pics) to insult their friends, to going to sleep, to it's raining,
    I mean, seriously.
    That was not the purpose of Network, you don't need to be that public.
  • lindsaylove07
    lindsaylove07 Posts: 444 Member
    I had a friend who posts about EVERYTHING, including the trips to the bathroom that are "unusual" Go to Lamebook.com for a good laugh!
  • TDBrims
    TDBrims Posts: 138
    I hate updates that are just a plea for attention like....OMG everything in my life goes wrong....I'll be the person that ignores you and then deletes you if you keep it up. I love Facebook but I do think you can overshare and to be honest I couldn't give a fig that you are making a cup of tea or heading off to bed...to be honest if you hadn't of told me I'd never have missed you :laugh:
  • DietingMommy08
    DietingMommy08 Posts: 1,345 Member
    Yea before facebook was myspace.... and before myspace was cpixel... and before cpixel... Idk... i was like 16 then so probably trouble. lmfao.
  • sarah44254
    sarah44254 Posts: 3,078 Member
    I actually talked to people on the phone!! Communicaton is becoming a lost art:ohwell:

    That is what I miss. Since then, everyone but me has become addicted to facebook. And when I call them? They don't answer. They text a return message or ask me why I didn't contact them thru facebook. Lame.
  • ohwhataday
    ohwhataday Posts: 1,398 Member
    Myspace. And before that.. Friendster. sigh.
  • ohwhataday
    ohwhataday Posts: 1,398 Member
    I used to talk on the phone for hours and hours in highschool. And a little after. I am not a fan of the phone anymore unless I really like you.
  • emadigan
    emadigan Posts: 89 Member
    I actually talked to people on the phone!! Communicaton is becoming a lost art:ohwell:

    Its not a lost art, its a changing art.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    There was life before FB?:huh:
    I find this hard to fathom as well.
  • VelcroPooh
    VelcroPooh Posts: 152
    Seriously? No FB...how else could I get to be a farmer? :wink:
  • dianerenem
    dianerenem Posts: 14
    before FB? I used to write letters - LONG letters!! to everyone I knew!! haha

    as far as over sharing? I don't share trips to the bathroom or things along those lines, but I have always been an open book. I blame it on the lack of a filter between my brain and my mouth. things just spill out and I am usually hearing it for the first time just as it reaches everyone around me :)

    I'm not mean tho, just ... open
  • weightloss12345678
    weightloss12345678 Posts: 377 Member
    Some people did those things and some didnt, it really was about the resources that were present to perform those actions and the validation that was present of those actions. FB gives you access to millions of potential friends who in your head might care about what you ate today. B4 fb maybe someone had a circle of friends they were close too and sent out mass text. Human nature has the desire to be/feel important in various ways. Sometimes that reality crosses over the fantasy world, for instance everyone on fb is an entertainer, CEO, model.......etc the list goes on some might be be most are just lying. It has become a place to booast status hierarchy with someone being able to validate what you are saying. So to sum it up for most ppl life before facebook was less of reality but on fb you can be whatever your fingers can type
  • NeuroticVirgo
    NeuroticVirgo Posts: 3,671 Member
    texting? lol You know what I really miss! LETTERS! Like when people used to actually sit down, and hand write a letter to you, and mail it with a stamp. My husbands grandma always sends us cards for like every occasion (I don't know how she does it), but I get so excited to see something other than bills in the mail!
  • tubbytabbytales
    tubbytabbytales Posts: 5,883
    I used to go on a forum site all the time, then i went on myspace for a sec but then facebook came along, next it will be Google's site to come.

    UGH. I hate Google+. It bores me.
  • luv_lea
    luv_lea Posts: 1,094 Member
    Before facebook I used email, the phone, or like some have said, Myspace.

    The worst I have ever seen is just the regular people who post tmi about their baby daddy drama or what they're having for lunch...with pics.! **Hide or Delete!!

    But at the same time, I will give Facebook applause because when a natural disaster (tornado) struck near by, it was one of the only ways (or should I say easiest ways) people could communicate because cell phones went down for at least two days. (or my phone company did) All we had was text and internet (if you had internet) and people were posting everywhere on Facebook that they were safe and ok so that their families who maybe didn't live around here could see.

    It def. has good and bad to it, I think it all just depends on how people choose to use it.
  • meggers123
    meggers123 Posts: 711 Member
    I used to live in the same state/country as my friends... so I would actually call or visit them. but now I don't think I could live without it... I only talk to my family like 1/month on the phone.
  • weightloss12345678
    weightloss12345678 Posts: 377 Member
    texting? lol You know what I really miss! LETTERS! Like when people used to actually sit down, and hand write a letter to you, and mail it with a stamp. My husbands grandma always sends us cards for like every occasion (I don't know how she does it), but I get so excited to see something other than bills in the mail!

    I hate seeing bills too lol. and Letters seem like a stone age ago. email is already outdated
  • weightloss12345678
    weightloss12345678 Posts: 377 Member
    Before facebook I used email, the phone, or like some have said, Myspace.

    The worst I have ever seen is just the regular people who post tmi about their baby daddy drama or what they're having for lunch...with pics.! **Hide or Delete!!

    But at the same time, I will give Facebook applause because when a natural disaster (tornado) struck near by, it was one of the only ways (or should I say easiest ways) people could communicate because cell phones went down for at least two days. (or my phone company did) All we had was text and internet (if you had internet) and people were posting everywhere on Facebook that they were safe and ok so that their families who maybe didn't live around here could see.

    It def. has good and bad to it, I think it all just depends on how people choose to use it.

    I agree social networking is good in disasters as a comms tool
  • lindsaylove07
    lindsaylove07 Posts: 444 Member
    I love notes! I send people notes just to say I'm thinking about them, I love it, I wish I had more people who sent/received notes! When I was dating long distance I would toss a notecard in the mail just to say "I love you" when I would go to visit his fridge was covered in note cards.
  • skittybang
    skittybang Posts: 1,525 Member
    Before FB, I was in high school.. since it started right around the time I began college. Basically I was on AIM all the time, listening to the god awful dial-in tone to get on the internet. I do wish I knew about the "Perverted Justice" back then because I used to receive the most disturbing messages from older guys, but that was in direct correlation to my joining chat rooms just to write "dirty" things trying to see how long before I got kicked out.
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