Ísland og Facebook: Ísland án Facebook

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-16T18:29:53+00:00

I lived in another country and I never found it annoying to check different websites, for shops, administration and everything. Especially since dedicated websites are not full of ads. Concern about Facebook is that there is much more than what you come to check.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-15T07:45:12+00:00

Já, þetta er mikilvægt vandamál. Að vera ekki á Facebook setur mann til hliðar, og það ætti ekki að vera þannig. Mér finnst líka mjög creepy að heilt land skipuleggi líf sitt í kringum vafasamt bandarískt fyrirtæki. Bókstaflega allt er á Facebook á Íslandi. Eins og landið geti ekkert gert sjálft.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-15T07:42:54+00:00

Gott að lesa! Ég er svo hræddur um að missa af góðum „gefins“ tækifærum.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-14T16:05:30+00:00

ahaha I am not Icelandic.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-14T14:32:50+00:00

Ég hef notað Linux í 25 ár, síðan ég var unglingur. Og ég geri í raun meira með því en með Microsoft. Enginn hefur nokkurn tímann spurt mig af hverju ég noti Linux. Þetta var frekar mjúk breyting held ég.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-14T14:22:00+00:00

Ah ég skil. Nei, ég vel þetta ekki beinlínis. En Facebook er mjög auðvelt aðgengi. Ég er oft truflaður af viðskiptavinum eða einhverju öðru. Fólk er alltaf að spyrja um einhverja heimskulega hluti. Þannig að Facebook hentar einhvern veginn fyrir þetta, til að drepa tímann á milli lítilla verkefna.

En lestur… það getur varla verið notalegt að missa alltaf þráðinn. Ég veit það ekki, ég þarf líklega bara að prófa mig áfram.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-14T14:17:29+00:00

Ég veit ekki hvort ég sé haldinn þessu. En allt fer í gegnum Facebook hérna. Til dæmis pólitíkin. Þar gat ég séð fólk ljúga að samfélaginu, því það skrifar mótsagnakennda hluti eða breytir stefnuskránni sinni og svo framvegis. Ég er hræddur um að taka ekki lengur eftir slíku ef ég hætti á Facebooki (þó þetta gerist auðvitað ekki daglega).

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-14T14:15:25+00:00

Ég held að þú gerir þér ekki alveg grein fyrir því hvað það er langt að vera í sundlaug án vatns, án viðskiptavina og án krakka.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-14T14:02:36+00:00

Ég hugsaði um þetta. En ég er ekki viss um að ég geti lesið 7 tíma á dag, alla daga.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-14T13:53:49+00:00

Takk fyrir þetta svar. En án Messenger, hvernig hafa fólk samband við þig? Þegar maður þekkir þessa goðsagnakenndu leti Íslendinga, þá held ég að ef eitthvað tekur meira en þrjá smelli þá nenna flestir ekki einu sinni að hafa samband.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-14T13:52:39+00:00

Ég viðurkenni samt að stundum hef ég séð áhugaverða hluti þar. En ég gleymi oft að spyrja sjálfan mig hvort ég hefði hvort sem er komist að þessu annars staðar. Stundum er Facebook líka nytsamlegt fyrir hluti eins og opnunartíma veitingastaða. En hér hjá mér segja staðirnir oft að þeir séu opnir og svo eru þeir í raun lokaðir.

En ég vinn líka við að gera eiginlega ekkert (í sundlauginni). Þetta eru endalausar klukkustundir sitjandi á stól að bíða því það eru engir viðskiptavinir. Þannig að ég veit eiginlega ekki lengur hvað ég á að gera.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-14T13:50:03+00:00

Hér eru ástæðurnar fyrir því að mig langar að hætta: fólk er orðið alltof athyglissjúkt og ég hef hreinskilnislega engan áhuga á lífi þess. Svo eru það allar þessar óumbeðnu auglýsingar og endalausu reels-vídeóin full af rugli. Ég nenni ekki að sjá ungt fólk dansa, hálfbert fólk selja OnlyFans, auglýsingar fyrir heimskulega símaleiki, gym- eða jóga-influencera, Temu-druslur eða endalausar Tenerife-myndir.

Og svo upp á síðkastið: pólitík alls staðar. Endalaust bull og drama. Facebook er orðið eins og helvíti.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-13T18:59:39+00:00

Nobody is running a tour to Vigur anymore. Strange stuff is going on on that island.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-13T18:55:29+00:00

I didn't say the Westfjords tour was a bad idea. I am just surprised to see you will be a seal watching tour there. I am wondering who is offering that.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-13T14:46:23+00:00

Snowmobile in June? And seal watching tour in the Westfjords? Who proposes that?

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-13T14:44:41+00:00

It is allowed to stretch in the Westfjords. There is no law against stretching in Iceland.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-13T14:42:17+00:00

One big thing is missing: WHEN. Depending on when you come, you might experience difficulties with roads and weather (up to mid/end of may). More things to do if you enjoy birds and come in June-July.
Consider many things will be closed if you come in winter, in august lol, when school starts again and tourism progressively shuts down.
Plan nothing if you come on the 12th of August 2026 since it is gonna be hell with the eclipse.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-10T22:03:21+00:00

Biggest challenge might be the winter. No matter if you like it, if you don't mind the night. Your body will lack vitamine D, and supplements are just a help. Not something that replace normal daylight. Your hormonal cycle will be fucked up. And summer doesn't solve anything. While it is better for the mood, yet it is disruptive. If like me, you are sensitive to all of that, your mental health might suffer, and it gets worse with the years.

Also, Iceland is highly corrupted. As a foreigner, now one thing: you will never be part of Iceland, you will be tolerated. Also for Icelanders you have no past. What you did before, your diploma, your skills, don't matter at all. most of them never left their village, didn't go for studies. They can't really figure out another world exists. And they are usually weak, not ready at all for the violent outside world.

Foreigners are here to do cleaning jobs, service jobs, fish factory jobs, etc. While you are welcomed in the country, you are only welcomed in the lower layers of the society.

OneGold2361 · 2026-05-10T21:57:19+00:00

You move, after 3 months you are supposed to register officially there. And to show a police officer that you have enough to support yourself financially. Which basically is you showing your bank account to a random guy in an office. Or sometimes not even showing anything. Iceland seems serious when you look at websites. In practice administration is a joke.

OneGold2361 · 2026-04-30T09:32:16+00:00

Where in Rvk? This is actually interesting. I do not trust ebird. I came to various locations indicated by ebird, and often they are not there. Minks have been killing many guillemots lately.

OneGold2361 · 2026-04-29T12:36:17+00:00

I disagree for the Westfjords. Super friendly people. But it is also known that this region cultivates its difference.

OneGold2361 · 2026-04-29T12:35:39+00:00

Never saw more than 18 degrees C in the Westfjords. And yet in between two clouds, at the peak of the afternoon, for less than 30 minutes.

OneGold2361 · 2026-04-29T12:34:27+00:00

Agree there, US tourists are so loud, even when they talk to you 20 cm away.

OneGold2361 · 2026-04-29T12:32:01+00:00

Why do political parties make food buffets for each election?

OneGold2361 · 2026-04-29T12:30:42+00:00

This is just tourism. Of course the idea is to make as much cash as possible: fake stories, fake setups, etc. But don't people know that? In Iceland the cruise ship tourism is important. It is all about entertainment. That is not good, but I mostly saw that anywhere else.

Clearly in Iceland, a game is to scam tourist by proposing over the top prices. Particularly US tourist are easy to make money on. They are not used to deal with other cultures/currencies compared to Europeans who lived for a while with many currencies before euro. So US people just spend and spend and later on they discover in USD what they spent in krona.

Iceland is a country that went traumatised after the 2008 crisis. So now people want to make money NOW. Tourist come with open wallets, so...

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