Swoopo.com - anyone know if it's any good?

[outlaw118]

Just come off facebook and there was an advert for this auction site on the side of the page.Said bargains to be had etc, but turns out you have to pay to bid, £10 or summat a go.Does anyone here have any opinions,etc?

[FredTransit]

sounds like a scam!

[Richard]

I'd be wary of anything that's advertised on Facebook tbh.

[Station]

LOLZ @ facebook ads. As dodgy as Facebook's privacy rules itself!!! Like a virtual version of those auctions where you can get a Plasma for 10 quid.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Guess that's the 'price' for Facebook being free, they have to bombard you with adverts to anything they think they can entice you with. Being single again, I get constant dating ads with titles like "26 and still single?" and "Looking for a girlfriend?". Also plenty of dodgy auction / online bidding stuff & "I gave up my job to work at home for $1000000 a day, you can too!"

[Justin Case]

Just come off facebook and there was an advert for this auction site on the side of the page.Said bargains to be had etc, but turns out you have to pay to bid, £10 or summat a go.Does anyone here have any opinions,etc?

This may throw a little light on it:http://technologizer.com/2008/09/17/is- ... d-gimmick/If it sounds too good to be true, it normally is

[dollywobbler]

Guess that's the 'price' for Facebook being free, they have to bombard you with adverts to anything they think they can entice you with. Being single again, I get constant dating ads with titles like "26 and still single?" and "Looking for a girlfriend?". Also plenty of dodgy auction / online bidding stuff & "I gave up my job to work at home for $1000000 a day, you can too!"

You didn't need to reveal your singleness. I'm far from single and still get bombarded with "how to pull girls" and "find sexy singles" adverts! Oh and ones asking if I want to be friends with the blokes who stared in Slumdog Millionaire. Rubbish.Annoying thing is - Ad-blocker works well on most sites, but not Facebook.

[CortinaDave]

Its a bag of shite. Basically you have to be the last bidder to win the item, but when you bid it auto extends then someone else ALWAYS bids againYou are highly unlikely to get anything out of it other than an empty wallet.

[MrRegieRitmo]

As an aside, are you all 'Facebookers' a member of the 'Autoshite' group??

[pogweasel]

Still stubbornly refusing to join in with 'social networking'.

[seth]

Still stubbornly refusing to join in with 'social networking'.

Me too! Shall we set up our own group or something?

[pogweasel]

That would rather defeat the point though I shall sit in one corner of a virtual pub, nursing a pint of 'Hen' and browsing the paper (perhaps classic car weekly)You can sit in another with your beer and appropriate reading material, and we can simply view each other with guarded suspicion and perhaps acknowledge each other's presence with a small nod of the head and grunty noise. Other than that no social interaction is required. It's for the best really.

[Richard]

Isn't this forum a form of social networking?I was a member of Faecebook for a while but I deleted my account because I was fed up being invited to participate in playground games by grown adults.It's strange, people get all upset about civil liberties and privacy etc., then they put every minute detail of their life on Faecebook.

[Station]

Guess that's the 'price' for Facebook being free, they have to bombard you with adverts to anything they think they can entice you with. Being single again, I get constant dating ads with titles like "26 and still single?" and "Looking for a girlfriend?". Also plenty of dodgy auction / online bidding stuff & "I gave up my job to work at home for $1000000 a day, you can too!"

[sad smug nerdish gloat]I use firefox adblocker, I never see an advert.[/sad smug nerdish gloat]The price of Facebook selling your details, or merely giving them away to governments and their quangos is enough reason to stay away. I found it was just 100% keeping up with the jones's anyway.

[dollywobbler]

Meh. Allows me to keep in touch with distant friends and family without having to pick the phone up, so it works for me. Plus, unlike real life, if your friends start annoying you, you can kill them off! (Well, ok, remove them from your friend list...)

[andrew e]

That would rather defeat the point though I shall sit in one corner of a virtual pub, nursing a pint of 'Hen' and browsing the paper (perhaps classic car weekly)You can sit in another with your beer and appropriate reading material, and we can simply view each other with guarded suspicion and perhaps acknowledge each other's presence with a small nod of the head and grunty noise. Other than that no social interaction is required. It's for the best really.

As I'm not on facebook, can I stroll in your virtual pub and get the evil eye over your papers while I wait to be served?

[Guest]

To be honest, I don't understand Facebook much at all despite having an account. Though I must admit, it serves as a useful tool for sociopaths who wish to avoid unwanted real-life social contact."So yeah, I was searching on Facebook for old buddies and I found Dan's account, you know Dan, from the old days""Oh yeah! I remember him, he seemed sort of OK, we should get in touch with him and go clubbing or something, I'm sure he would love that""Don't bother, all he does is bang on about Daewoo Esperos and tinned pies, plus he looks a bit creepy to be honest""Let's avoid him in future"

[outlaw118]

I've gotten bored with myspaz, and I'm proud to say, all my facebook friends, barring two, I've met, and are real friends with. Of the other two, one is a friend of a friend, and the other is someone off retro-rides who I thought was Pog, coz he had the Mr Trebus avatar, found on the facebook Autoshite!!

[MrRegieRitmo]

someone off retro-rides who I thought was Pog, coz he had the Mr Trebus avatar, found on the facebook Autoshite!!

Pog? On Facebook? Don't be so silly man! He's made his position clear on that lots of times

[outlaw118]

Well, I realise that now......

[HillmanImp]

I cant diss Facebook as it has proved an invaluable asset whilst stalking ex girlfriends.I know everything they do now.....

[AnthonyG]

I'm with Pog and Seth on sitting in the virtual pub, virtually ignoring each other...

[Mr Lobster]

I'm with Pog and Seth on sitting in the virtual pub, virtually ignoring each other...

+1Don't see the point in Facebook at all. Actually, if you are single and trying to meet people you were at school with or something then maybe I see a use. Otherwise it seems pointless unless you really want to get in touch with people who you haven't seen in many years and don't give a flying fuck about.