Thread: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me

I don't do social media but today my mate told me to sign up to instagram so I could see his biirds niece or some shit like that

as soon as I signed up it dragged all the contacts out of my phone, I had a look at what they were posting, I've seen mates that couldn't drink holy water posting pictures of 9% lager, I've seen pictures of ugly birds filtered to fuck looking rather fuckable, I've seen pictures of mates who can't cook for shit posting pictures of gourmet dishes, its fucking bollocks, is this what the fucking world has come to?

You cunts on here are pretty much the only contact I have with the "real world" when I get out of work, I live in a proper shitty fucking area (someone was shot in the face 2 roads away from me last week) but looking at my mates profiles on Instagram they are living the fucking high life, these are people that I wouldn't have expected it from.

Fucking frightening, it just further compounds my misanthropism, I sit alone night after night and do you know what, I'm fucking happy, I don't take photos of myself sitting alone to prove I'm happy, I just am, I don't feel the need to prove it to anyone, I don't understand why these people try to make out that their life is better than it is, I live in a shit hole, I fucking hate the shit hole that I live in, but it is my shit hole and I embrace it, I don't feel the fucking need to take a photo of a fucking burger that I ordered in my fucking local, if it is a nice burger then I'll say 'that was a fucking nice burger' I won't take a photo of myself eating it just so I can justify how fucking nice it was.

After seeing peoples posts on instagram it just makes me glad that I don't fucking pander to shit like that.

needless to say I won't be using that fucking poisonous app again

rant over

Well said, Batman. I won't sign up for any of that not even to stalk exes. I am the same as you, don't really do the selfie stuff, know I do not need enhancement anyway, and just get on with my life, which is not perfect, but I have everything I need. You twats are enough. No Skype, no Facebook, no Twatter. Don't need or crave it. Would rather others remain a mystery.

Plus they are fascists. Try saying the word Tommy Robinson and see what happens to you.

I used to be on Facebook. I tried Twitter which is a bloody cesspool! I can't do it. I deal with people very face to face. On here is different unless @Saddo is stealing our personal information and eavesdropping on our phones.... I personally think he just sells ads on this and other sites and is too busy for that bullshit or doesn't have the capacity to inact and profit off of it else he would (I know I would....probably depending on the amount of money)

....though there are still some I vehemently disagree with and have argued with in the past I don't wish to spend my time like that anymore espescially when I get along well enough face to face with damn near everyone.

Originally Posted by El Kabong

....though there are still some I vehemently disagree with and have argued with in the past I don't wish to spend my time like that anymore espescially when I get along well enough face to face with damn near everyone.

Same here kabong. If I wear my trump hat or shirts I’ll get a couple nasty comments twice to be exact but I’ve gotten in 10-15 comments of people saying they love trump but dont want to show it as they just don’t want to get hassled. I told them I perfectly understand but I also told them they shouldn’t let a few idiots stop them from evpressing themselves. Having said that I’ve recently been wearing my Boston bruins jacket and I can’t beieve how many conversations people have strarted with me about hockey. One day six people started conversations , I’ve had many more than that but six in one day was impressive. One guy actually yelled “bruins suck” I forgot I had the jacket on so it didn’t register and I got in fight position, low guard I didn’t want to be obvious. He then kept walking up to me but at about four feet away he put a big smile on and shook my hand saying he was just busting balls. We then had a twenty minute convo. Real nice guy he and his wife offered us over to watch a game when we found out we were not far from each other.


I don’t do Facebook but the fact they have over 2 billion users is amazing. When faceburg went into all that trouble with data uses and congressional hearings the stock tanked. @Master will probably deny it but I told him to buy the dip. He told me Facebook will soon be gone and worth nothing. Well it went from around 140 then to 190 now. Facebook is part of the culture now, I refuse to use it but I’ll buy the stock if it has over two billion users, a pile of cash and great earnings. So @MATer you were wrong again.

I will admit I use Reddit. Love the damn thing, boxing, stocks, economics anything you can think of they have it. They even have a shit subreddit where people post pics of the best dumps they took. I almost threw up when I find it but if you want to see some great piles of shit I highly recommend it. But seriously if you have a hobby like guitar, coins, gold watches or anything I suggest you give it a look. I saw a video game sub as well and it looked real busy I just didn’t check it out yet.

Let me get into watches for a minute. Reddit isn’t a place where you put selfies and explain your life. But in the watch thread it’s quite amazing. People will put up pics of the watch they are wearing that day. Guys I shit you not there are people wearing 5-600,000 dollar watches and even a couple million dollar watches ball made by hand and in ten years will prob be auctioned of at twice the price. Don’t get me wrong normal people will post casios, times, seikos and other basic watches we are all familiar with. They also have a watch sale and trade section.

I think I just fucked up though. A guy is selling an omega cosmic seamaster for 475 bucks. It was made in 1957. It has a few scratches on the crystal and some dings but I could take care of that for prob a hundred bucks. The watch is worth about 1,300 mint and idiot me offered him 135. If I put two hours of work into it I could have flipped and made a quick 350 to 450 bucks. I may have blew it with a low ball offer but maybe he will come back at me with a counter offer of something in between but I’m sure he will get plenty of full price offers. This week I missed another omega auction by 10bucks. Now that pissed me off, it was an online estate the watch sold for 410 it was a straight seamaster prob would have cost me another 3-4 hundred to for parts, maybe eight hours of my labour carefully replacing the crown and I could have sold it for 2,000 easy.

Ok, so obviously you are all wondering what watch is Walrus wearing now. Funny you ask. I’m wearing a 1970 Rado that I payed 30 bucks for, reserviced it for 175 and the watch is worth prob 450 but this one I’m not selling. I’m too happy with the work I did. It’s an automatic watch which I’m sure you know means it’s powered by the movement of your hand. Well automatic watches have a power reserve meaning it will store energy for a period of time after you take it off. Good ones like Rolex, Omega etc have power reserves of eighty hours. This little Rado I have needed so much work my friend bet me I wouldn’t get over a five hour power reserve. Well, I made a few adsutments and sure enough I beat his fun and have exactly 25hr power reserve. That may not sound impressive to you but try working on a motor that is 40mm and come back and we will talk.

Alright I’m sure I bored you with my watch talk but this whole story began l, and I must emphasize, that @Master is an idiot. By the way if any of you have any interesting watches laying around contact me maybe we man make a deal.

Only got Twitter because Tam Seddon told me to go on there and have a couple of posts on but not an active user when Mike Tyson did not reply to my post. It is all adverts and selling his T shirts. Cunt.

Whatsapp take all your contacts and start texting them about joining them and that has costs me on my bills. Do not know how to switch that off.

All the apps in the house such as the tablets, phone, TV and computer have my email account on google so I have to be careful what searches I type nowadays.

Never look at other people posting they have to try and make their life so great, want to be the centre of the universe and project that everything is perfect. The fact that you have to do that is very sad. It is worse if you spend your time watching them. Get a life.

I cannot open a face book account I have been banned for some reason.

Batman, get out and about, read, ride a bike, go to gym and socialise with people.

Originally Posted by walrus

Originally Posted by El Kabong

....though there are still some I vehemently disagree with and have argued with in the past I don't wish to spend my time like that anymore espescially when I get along well enough face to face with damn near everyone.

Same here kabong. If I wear my trump hat or shirts I’ll get a couple nasty comments twice to be exact but I’ve gotten in 10-15 comments of people saying they love trump but dont want to show it as they just don’t want to get hassled. I told them I perfectly understand but I also told them they shouldn’t let a few idiots stop them from evpressing themselves. Having said that I’ve recently been wearing my Boston bruins jacket and I can’t beieve how many conversations people have strarted with me about hockey. One day six people started conversations , I’ve had many more than that but six in one day was impressive. One guy actually yelled “bruins suck” I forgot I had the jacket on so it didn’t register and I got in fight position, low guard I didn’t want to be obvious. He then kept walking up to me but at about four feet away he put a big smile on and shook my hand saying he was just busting balls. We then had a twenty minute convo. Real nice guy he and his wife offered us over to watch a game when we found out we were not far from each other.


I don’t do Facebook but the fact they have over 2 billion users is amazing. When faceburg went into all that trouble with data uses and congressional hearings the stock tanked. @Master will probably deny it but I told him to buy the dip. He told me Facebook will soon be gone and worth nothing. Well it went from around 140 then to 190 now. Facebook is part of the culture now, I refuse to use it but I’ll buy the stock if it has over two billion users, a pile of cash and great earnings. So @MATer you were wrong again.

I will admit I use Reddit. Love the damn thing, boxing, stocks, economics anything you can think of they have it. They even have a shit subreddit where people post pics of the best dumps they took. I almost threw up when I find it but if you want to see some great piles of shit I highly recommend it. But seriously if you have a hobby like guitar, coins, gold watches or anything I suggest you give it a look. I saw a video game sub as well and it looked real busy I just didn’t check it out yet.

Let me get into watches for a minute. Reddit isn’t a place where you put selfies and explain your life. But in the watch thread it’s quite amazing. People will put up pics of the watch they are wearing that day. Guys I shit you not there are people wearing 5-600,000 dollar watches and even a couple million dollar watches ball made by hand and in ten years will prob be auctioned of at twice the price. Don’t get me wrong normal people will post casios, times, seikos and other basic watches we are all familiar with. They also have a watch sale and trade section.

I think I just fucked up though. A guy is selling an omega cosmic seamaster for 475 bucks. It was made in 1957. It has a few scratches on the crystal and some dings but I could take care of that for prob a hundred bucks. The watch is worth about 1,300 mint and idiot me offered him 135. If I put two hours of work into it I could have flipped and made a quick 350 to 450 bucks. I may have blew it with a low ball offer but maybe he will come back at me with a counter offer of something in between but I’m sure he will get plenty of full price offers. This week I missed another omega auction by 10bucks. Now that pissed me off, it was an online estate the watch sold for 410 it was a straight seamaster prob would have cost me another 3-4 hundred to for parts, maybe eight hours of my labour carefully replacing the crown and I could have sold it for 2,000 easy.

Ok, so obviously you are all wondering what watch is Walrus wearing now. Funny you ask. I’m wearing a 1970 Rado that I payed 30 bucks for, reserviced it for 175 and the watch is worth prob 450 but this one I’m not selling. I’m too happy with the work I did. It’s an automatic watch which I’m sure you know means it’s powered by the movement of your hand. Well automatic watches have a power reserve meaning it will store energy for a period of time after you take it off. Good ones like Rolex, Omega etc have power reserves of eighty hours. This little Rado I have needed so much work my friend bet me I wouldn’t get over a five hour power reserve. Well, I made a few adsutments and sure enough I beat his fun and have exactly 25hr power reserve. That may not sound impressive to you but try working on a motor that is 40mm and come back and we will talk.

Alright I’m sure I bored you with my watch talk but this whole story began l, and I must emphasize, that @Master is an idiot. By the way if any of you have any interesting watches laying around contact me maybe we man make a deal.

This is where I think we differ. I think making money is all well and good, but when it is in complete disregard of morality, freedom and health, you are bordering on mafia behavior. People who invest in public spying agencies, arms manufacturing, and big pharma are a bit sociopathic IMO. There are plenty of ways to make money, but if you believe in freedom of speech, that people don't deserve to be bombed for profit and don't want people to be dying in their thousands because of the medical industry, there are better ways to invest. More to life than maximizing profit, at least IMO.

Originally Posted by Master

Only got Twitter because Tam Seddon told me to go on there and have a couple of posts on but not an active user when Mike Tyson did not reply to my post. It is all adverts and selling his T shirts. Cunt.

Whatsapp take all your contacts and start texting them about joining them and that has costs me on my bills. Do not know how to switch that off.

All the apps in the house such as the tablets, phone, TV and computer have my email account on google so I have to be careful what searches I type nowadays.

Never look at other people posting they have to try and make their life so great, want to be the centre of the universe and project that everything is perfect. The fact that you have to do that is very sad. It is worse if you spend your time watching them. Get a life.

I cannot open a face book account I have been banned for some reason.

Batman, get out and about, read, ride a bike, go to gym and socialise with people.

Don't tell me you got tipsy and posted the words Tommy Robinson. Utter deviant.

Lmao, if Master has been banned from it that should speak volumes I still have a facebook account, but never go on there. Dont really get the objection to it, its as much a part of your life as you want it to be. The more you use it the more you are reminded how stupid most people are, Im not sure it actually changes anyone though.

P4Pking is right. It is 'as much a part of your life as you want it to be'. Plenty of vacuous shallow peeps posting vain selfies and bigging up themselves etc I am sure, but you are not some powerless drone slave forced to sit thru crap unless you choose to. If your friends, family and colleagues post interesting, relevant stuff then keep them on your feed, if they don't you take a break from their posting or simply select disconnect /defriend/block/I don't want to see anymore of Walrus' watch pictures etc. Yes it can suck away a lot of productive time and the sheer proliferation of so many types of social media can give people a distorted view of reality that depresses them or makes them more arrogant, but I hardly think it is frightening.

The idea that it is somehow taking a moral stand for freedom of speech or displaying an Independence that others do not aspire to by choosing not to subscribe is a bit ludicrous when many of the people being banned from these platforms are standing on a promise to shut down others with a different opinion, ban journalism and have for years been back by violent supporters silencing people who do not agree with them. It's almost as funny as talking about ethical investment whilst for decades having boasted of the wisdom of investing in Gold. All so you can stand in your destroyed rainforest with arsenic and mecury polluted rivers and look at your shiny new God whilst telling everyone how morally corrupt religious people are

It is worth it if only to see the real Brits remind Tommy of why he was right to be afraid of Sheikhs

The reason why I cannot open a Facebook account is not anything sinister.

I recently had to set one up, forgot the stupid reason why as I have never bothered before and seemed to have missed the boat on the fad.

The new privacy protocol wanted a picture of me so I chose someone else and they must have known and do not allow me in. Their loss.

There is of course more than one side to every story. The rise of Social media for small business is a double edged sword. For Musicians. journalists, filmmakers, photographers,actors etc the story is just as complex and often very damaging. Many smaller independent magazines and newspapers are now huge corporate entities that will no longer buy pictures and stories from people like myself, when there is such a proliferation of people with phones flooding feeds and newspapers becoming online entities has removed the local contents relevance.

For musicians the ease of distributing music has helped connect fans and zines etc with their heroes but in the process destroyed the possibility of artists to indulge themselves for a long time in studio projects when sales of those recordings go down and down by the minute. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy where they less interesting and more instant an art work is the more successful it becomes. It creates in a digital world where variety and diversity should be easier to access a very homogenized version of popular culture without the nuance and eccentricities even the most commercial work absorbed from their former isolation. Think of Radio and how it used to be able to break a song before an artist was known and the image of that person was formed in your head long before you saw that single or EP cover down the local record shop or in a magazine. Now the first thing you often see is the image and the content is secondary.

My feed is now full of musicians and artists often talking directly to their fans and I am happy to have been able to benefit from that more direct access in person and online but it has impacted careers and the ability of quite obscure artists to make big statement pieces. There is no going back either. So Facebook will insist that I pay for an ad knowing full well that it will in all probability have less reach than a normal post. It is not in their interest to build communities or inform the public, it's all about the dollar. So venues can no longer list events on their pages in the hope that Facebook will force them to take out an ad for each event however small. Instagram is full of accounts where people posting very average pictures about their lives have thousands or more interactions than fantastic photographs, paintings and videos made by people who have dedicated their lives to perfecting that craft.

Even giants lie Google and Youtube started off as disruptors. They ripped up the rule book and created a new world. Google pushed technology forward but now the advertisers that funded it will in all likelihood kill it too. Amazon has started to corner the search market taking out the Google middleman and it has just occurred to me this is what is happening on a macro scale too. The middleman who could make a living is now being eclipsed by the unskilled budget provider with technology that even a monkey can use (Check out the chimp using instagram) and the multinational neo liberal 'profit is everything' religious entity, making sure that profit trumps everything including enterprise.

Social media is on that level a social experiment in making people compliant as their resources are depleted and replaced by apps and subscription to neo liberal dogma. How many phone numbers can you remember now compared to the 70's or 80's or even 90's? How willing are you to find an answer to a question without using a search engine? When was the last time you physically went and socialized with someone in their homes and not on your phone? It's a nightmare and we are all getting dumber.

Look at May and Trump. Fucking hell man 2019 and that's the best we can do

Stop being happy or doing and making stuff to make you and your friends, community and families happy and BUY STUFF. That is the mantra being repeated.

Originally Posted by Beanz

P4Pking is right. It is 'as much a part of your life as you want it to be'. Plenty of vacuous shallow peeps posting vain selfies and bigging up themselves etc I am sure, but you are not some powerless drone slave forced to sit thru crap unless you choose to. If your friends, family and colleagues post interesting, relevant stuff then keep them on your feed, if they don't you take a break from their posting or simply select disconnect /defriend/block/I don't want to see anymore of Walrus' watch pictures etc. Yes it can suck away a lot of productive time and the sheer proliferation of so many types of social media can give people a distorted view of reality that depresses them or makes them more arrogant, but I hardly think it is frightening.

The idea that it is somehow taking a moral stand for freedom of speech or displaying an Independence that others do not aspire to by choosing not to subscribe is a bit ludicrous when many of the people being banned from these platforms are standing on a promise to shut down others with a different opinion, ban journalism and have for years been back by violent supporters silencing people who do not agree with them. It's almost as funny as talking about ethical investment whilst for decades having boasted of the wisdom of investing in Gold. All so you can stand in your destroyed rainforest with arsenic and mecury polluted rivers and look at your shiny new God whilst telling everyone how morally corrupt religious people are

It is worth it if only to see the real Brits remind Tommy of why he was right to be afraid of Sheikhs

Gold is not exactly a mass surveillance system or a drone. The continued use of oil and coal is far more problematic and with every newborn increasingly so. That is the hypocrisy of environmentalists. Every person should insure themselves with diversity of a financial kind, though it is better to consider where and how. Investing in fossil fuels and arms is very lucrative and far more destructive to humanity than a reversion to traditionalism. Without planning for one's own retirement one has very little and you know that whence purchasing property in a country that exploits it by building little and importing many. You cannot consider rain forests when you live in a country with no trees. Plenty of trees my way.