pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

I'm glad you pointed it out .. I didn't notice .. none of the addresses in mine are real .. very weird ..

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

To be fair the rule doesn't hold true on this forum as there's a good number of posters with no icons that I would never want to hear from

It seems to be more of a trait on the general automotive forums rather than the marque specific ones.

Anyway it was just a light hearted obseervation until Ant turned up flaunting his idyllic life at me

Ant

DYK

So it kind of the same thing when buying a windows laptop or pc,and you had a variety of little stickers plastered over it.making it look all fab and glittery.
Thankfully you don't have that with a MacBook.

Peedee

iTrader: (4)

Surely this thread has set a new scoobynet record?

It's turned into an 'anti F1_fan' thread after only the 3rd post

Just thought I'd point it out like.

That is all

Peedee

iTrader: (4)

Buttplug testing.

David_Dickson

Its a similar theory, but I believe that the more someone uses Twitter, the bigger a ***** they are.
I have yet to be proved wrong.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Couldn't agree more (I don't have a Twitter account )

Peedee

iTrader: (4)

It's a sad state of affairs when people's lives are so empty and non-active that they have to take to 'following' someone else's life.

I can understand facebook as for many people its a way of communicating, especially for people like me that work away a lot. I can stay in touch with friends and family at the touch of a few buttons. What I don't understand is why you want to hang off someone else's every word......9/10 times somebody that you don't even know and will never ever meet??

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Yes exactly. I don't get FB really either, but that's just because I have no real personal desire to use it whereas I can see what you are saying about keeping in touch when away and for that it is probably perfect.

Twitter though... yep it seems to be exactly as you say.... folliowing other people's lives ... and I can't see much beyond your reasoning as to why!

Instagram is another one.... a friend has an Instagram account and whenever she shows me it it is full of pictures of her friend's food/drinks and numerous pictures of their kids... wtf?

Turbohot

You know that paedophile catcher strategy of the Government, I think Twitter is like that as well, with the hidden agenda to catch the stalkers.

I'm not fond of Facebook format, and don't get Twitter and Instagram either, nor do I have any address icons under my name here. But I can't understand why it should be such an issue if someone else does use them for whatever reason. If I don't want my life to be taken too much interest in, then why do I have to watch their way of life; care about what they do; how many icons they have under their names; which social media networks they use; and if they do, they must be fecking lesser beings than non-users??? Seriously, I don't have to watch what they do in their real or their cyber lives, either.

About people from internet, I have met some people from Scoobynet, and I hope you guys have been to some car events too, where you must have met real and human beings who post here. I don't think all of them are bad people, do you? So, if any of them reasonably ok people that are real, with real addresses icons under their name, what's the problem? Even if those people are of no value to you, what is the problem? Why should it bother you if they are open to be contacted, regardless of which site they are from? By letting other people have their email addresses, they are opening themselves to either other real humans like themselves, or inviting non-humans to abuse them. In either case, I'm safe, so what is the problem?

I think it's a non-issue tbh.

*matthewturb2000*

iTrader: (11)

they are opening themselves to either other real humans like themselves, or inviting non-humans to abuse them.
yea youve gotta watch out for the non-humans real nasty people.....

Turbohot

Exactly.