Facebook

[Echewta]

Its starting to get confussing when it was such a simple format. I enjoy looking at pictures of myself (you should see my office) but with my face all over the front page as a possible comment, I can't find where my groups are, blah. You aren't twitter, don't try to be. People were jumping on the ship in droves the way it was before. Why change pinheads? Wait, to you even read this board?

[Nuzzolese]

Why can't we look at your facebook? I have one but I only have two friends. Whatever happened to MySpace?

[jabumbo]

agreed?


parts of it seem better, but its still too bulky and i can't find the things i actually want to use




lol at nuzzo's 2 friends :p

[ms.peachy]

I'm alright with the new interface TBH. I wasn't sure at first, but I'm OK with it now.

[Nuzzolese]

lol at nuzzo's 2 friends :p


I tried to add my mom but she didn't reply

[Nuzzolese]

I have a livejournal, with two friends. They're not my facebook friends, they're different. I actually don't even talk to them and they're not even allowed to read my entries.

One is a Canadian neuroscientist who made a very detailed miniature Hobbit hole out of wire and paper mache. It's amazing. It has real lights, and the outside is covered in fake moss. She even decorated if for Christmas. I like to look at it. She also makes impressively decorated cakes and I like to look at those. Other than that she's pretty boring.

The other is a Finnish ballerina who suffers from depression and likes to dress up like a gothic lolita. Most of her entries are in Finnish so I can't read them, but I like the ones in English, and I like her photos. I have actually communicated with her before, but I don't think she likes me.

[funk63]

I was thinking about getting a facebook. Most of my friends have one and I feel like a fag checking my myspace.

[Echewta]

You have to be my pal to look at my page or a pal of a pal. I'd be more than happy to accpet you though I don't know your real name so if you were Tim Lancolf who wanted to be my friend and I declined, my bad.

[yeahwho]

I have a facebook thingy and all was cool the first few months, then a couple of old girlfriends (two who are married) started wanting to become my friends, it was getting creepy and sort of completely fucking off track.

The first few months were great for communicating with people at work, we could send project pics and info and those who were involved could keep updated.

Now some skeleton's from my closet are coming back to haunt me.

I knew I shouldn't have dranken so much boooooze

[paul jones]

I've been out in the garden all day,tanning and reading.Oh and I cleaned some windows.

VITAMIN D is only available from sunlight so get off those facebooks and myspaces!

Well,when it's sunny of course.

Echewta's 100% right on the facebook trying to fix what wasn't broke.This I blame for idiots who only started going online 2 years ago who used to knock the internet when it first materialized,saying that only nerds used it.

Now that the pricks have discovered that they can save their fat asses the trouble of going to the bank by doing their banking online or gambling away their life savings or stalking old girlfriends they leave their dumb fingerprints all over it and start suggesting new ways of something they were better off without in the first place.

I could go on about this but I need to pee(y)

[paul jones]

Now that the pricks have discovered that

..............also they can watch porn 24/7 for free without having to wear disguises in newsagents

[Adam]

Not seen the new interface yet, I like twitter now. My facebook fad didn't last long at all - I did break the 10 friends barrier though :-)

[Nuzzolese]

I did break the 10 friends barrier though :-)

Is that like red rover? Did anyone's arms come out?

[mickill]

I recently broke the 1,000 friends mark on Facebook. I work very hard to maintain these relationships, though.

[Adam]

just logged on - I have 22 friends. Go me! Not met one of them though, but I know 'em from here!

A losing scratch card to who ever guesses who it is.

[checkyourprez]

Why can't we look at your facebook? I have one but I only have two friends. Whatever happened to MySpace?

the government gave it to all the sexual predators out there.

[checkyourprez]

i dont mind the new facebook. its been through like 4 makeovers since i joined in college and after every one people bitch "i want the old facebook back."

1. it aint coming back.
2. you'll get used to it.

you never see people clamoring for the old old old facebook. they just want the one previous because they were used to it. eventually you get used to the new one.

shit do you see people saying ooo i want VHS tapes back. hell no. thats life. stuff changes.

[beastieboysbaby]

facebook is gettin boring cause nobody tlks to me on there anymore :confused:

wtf yo

i guess i really am a nobody
:o not.

[b i o n i c]

ive still not made a facebook acct. i like how on myspace you can design it like a website, you can't do that on facebook

BUUUUUT.... dundundun... today im gonna sign up for an accout because a 50 year old work associate is making me for work. RRRRRRRRRGGGH

[Lyman Zerga]

i only use it because of the apps, fuck the rest

[Lex Diamonds]

Something I've been thinking about recently is the longevity of Facebook. A lot of people use it as their sole storage of pictures, videos etc and I've already got around 500 pictures of me tagged on there that I haven't got anywhere else. Are they going to be able to store all this shit say ten years down the line when everyone's tagged in like 10,000 pictures? Won't the internest run out?

[Lex Diamonds]

And pretty much everyone my age in the UK has Facebook, like it's weird not to. Chicks usually spend a lot of time on there- it's a weird feeling when some hot chick you've never met introduces herself to you and has already seen 500 pictures of you.

But anyway, if you haven't got Facebook you're basically not getting laid.

[paul jones]

But anyway, if you haven't got Facebook you're basically not getting laid.

I'm not getting laid but have Facebook......

ah shit I want my money back!

I just went on to facebook and couldn't get on.Maybe Twitter is hacking it or something or maybe it's all them birds looking at 10,000 + padster pics

[Lex Diamonds]

Probably a mix of the two. It is gay how obviously they've copied Twitter with the new design.

[paul jones]

Probably a mix of the two. It is gay how obviously they've copied Twitter with the new design.

Social Networking Wars....it was bound to happen

[checkyourprez]

Probably a mix of the two. It is gay how obviously they've copied Twitter with the new design.

most of life is copying people.

[Adam]

As for what Padster was saying about everyone keeping their digital data on a cloud - yeah it is dangerous. Partly because as soon as you upload onto their server they own that information and have the right to sell it on, jizz on it or move the goal posts so you can no longer access it.

Its a dangerous game people are playing not having other storage. There should be education for people about how to look after their data and who they give it to. If you don't want someone else you don't know never gathering access to it - either the government or a redneck in middle america - don't put it on the web that is not a secure server where you can manage the access rights. If you don't have a non-cloud copy on a HDD somewhere, be prepared to lose it.

[ms.peachy]

People don't have other storage for their photos and stuff? I didn't realise that. I only ever post pics that I already have in my iPhoto.

[roosta]

i was on the page of a girl and it said she was in over 1,000 photos.
that is mind bending to me.

sometimes i'd like to go and ask everyone who has a picture of me to remove them. but really what i should do is not pose for pictures like a tool when im out and about and drunk. or carry round a picture of my face blurred that i can hold up and cover my face with.

in fact, i think i'll do that.

[jabumbo]

in a way i like the tagged photos on facebook. i mean, 90% of the photos that have me in them are taken/posted by somebody else. most of my shots are of other people/things. and since they all tie back to your profile, you can see all these photos without having to scan through every friends albums and such

[Knuckles]

it's a weird feeling when some hot chick you've never met introduces herself to you and has already seen 500 pictures of you.



I hear ya man. It happens to me at least ten times a day. :(

[b i o n i c]

can somebod splain me what in the hell makes facebook so great? is it all the poking, superpoking going on? is it the fake bonzai trees jpegs you can gift people with? god thats stupid

facebook reminds me what would happen if twitter had sex with pokemon

edit: rather, it reminds me of what would happen if myspace, twitter and pokemon had a threesome and a love child

[fucktopgirl]

scrapbook is very popular here, in quebec,i have one but i dont buy into all their stupid application, i keep it simple.

[Dorothy Wood]

I pretty much hate facebook, but I do like it because a bunch of my friends from real life who were never on myspace are on it. and they post pictures and recipes and links to science articles.

the interface is hella annoying though. I feel like it always has been.

[Waus]

I feel like a fag

?:confused:?

[hpdrifter]

I'm always surprised how easy it is to find people. I keep getting these inquiries from people from high school and middle school.

[Nuzzolese]

I'm always surprised how easy it is to find people. I keep getting these inquiries from people from high school and middle school.

That's a good reason not to join

[b i o n i c]

facebook creeps me the fuck out.

oooh and this....
D: WATCH THIS:

http://www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/

[Adam]

That's a good reason not to join

heh, was about to put something similar.

Re myspace, its not big in the UK at all I don't think. I've never heard anyone mention it for anything other than web-marketing.

[yeahwho]

I pretty much hate facebook, but I do like it because a bunch of my friends from real life who were never on myspace are on it. and they post pictures and recipes and links to science articles.

the interface is hella annoying though. I feel like it always has been.

The interface is shit, they track your links and usurp your right to privacy. The ads on the site are fucking ridiculous and the ass games, prizes, quizzes are drainage quality.

It's a sight for folks who really have no internet savvy, older housewives and recently divorced men. It does creep me out.

facebook is more an information gathering tool than a user friendly information tool, i can't shake the feeling that the whole site goes beyond just a social network. It's more like an instant census data machine.

My gut feeling is someone will come out with a much easier web based social program and facebook will have jumped the shark before 2010.

[yeahwho]

I'm always surprised how easy it is to find people. I keep getting these inquiries from people from high school and middle school.

for me that creates more bad than good... but then again, i was a teenage alcoholic

[funk63]

?:confused:?

I'm takin the word and turnin it around, nigga.

[jabumbo]

My gut feeling is someone will come out with a much easier web based social program and facebook will have jumped the shark before 2010.

there are a few professional networking sites out there, but the average bloke isn't going to drop facebook for that since it doesn't support all the extra media.

facebook basically mashes a site like that with myspace and makes millions with all the data. its certainly a genius plan, really.

[hpdrifter]

I'd rather hang out here than on Facebook.

[yeahwho]

I'd rather hang out here than on Facebook.
because we're fucking a trillion times faster, wittier and not constrained by some over-riding information gathering tool, even the anonymous sites on facebook seem like they're populated by cretins.

if i were desperate to meet the ladies i can see how facebook could be a tool to make me something more than i am (which would be like superman because i am all that). my OCD will mainly stay here with the beasties

[Miho]

So I registered to Facebook just now, only because I want to see if I can get in touch with my childhood friend. He moved to Texas when we were younger. I'm not into taking part in social networking sites, so I won't be using it regularly. I dig their aim, but they aren't for me. I'm more into forums, instant message, and IRC.

[beastieangel01]

the first change I kind of liked. Now? WHY DID THEY CHANGE IT, AGAIN. WTF.

Yeah, I hate it. It's lame. It's not twitter, it's more dynamic than that. Not sure which idiot came up with the idea to make it similar to twitter.

[yeahwho]

there are a few professional networking sites out there, but the average bloke isn't going to drop facebook for that since it doesn't support all the extra media.

facebook basically mashes a site like that with myspace and makes millions with all the data. its certainly a genius plan, really.

I admit it's a brilliant idea, but in the long run it's just source code & tags, it's not really anything but a giant tracking cookie with your name, photo(s), personal information and your friends names photo(s), information attached to it.

Once the average person figures this out they will search for a new venue to share their lives on.

It reminds me of AOL, for years millions of people thought it was the internet.

[jennyb]

I like it for all my real world peeps that are really computer duh but managed to finally use the internet for social purposes. Like Ms. Wood said, all of em post pics of what they're up to and stuff. Childhood friends and stuff, it's trippy. I do get frustrated with all the girls who've grown up lucky enough to be housewives as I'm living a life of work... ok I'll stop that rant. Don't get me started on the inadequacy I feel for being the only one my age without my own family portraits to post or status updates about potty training and uh... yeah... blah whatever - it's cool for what it is.

[Lyman Zerga]

So I registered to Facebook just now, only because I want to see if I can get in touch with my childhood friend. He moved to Texas when we were younger. I'm not into taking part in social networking sites, so I won't be using it regularly. I dig their aim, but they aren't for me. I'm more into forums, instant message, and IRC.

add me

[hpdrifter]

Yeah, but you've got a hip younger boyfriend and you two go to hip hop and rock shows all over the country.

That's pretty fucking cool in my book.

[jennyb]

Yeah, but you've got a hip younger boyfriend and you two go to hip hop and rock shows all over the country.

That's pretty fucking cool in my book.

:o *hugs*

[yeahwho]

I like it for all my real world peeps that are really computer duh but managed to finally use the internet for social purposes. Like Ms. Wood said, all of em post pics of what they're up to and stuff. Childhood friends and stuff, it's trippy. I do get frustrated with all the girls who've grown up lucky enough to be housewives as I'm living a life of work... ok I'll stop that rant. Don't get me started on the inadequacy I feel for being the only one my age without my own family portraits to post or status updates about potty training and uh... yeah... blah whatever - it's cool for what it is.

That is a pretty good explanation of facebook, I rant and post pretty much the same as I would on here and I know it puts some people off, I'm not on that site for my families approval. I became a member because it really did help continuity on projects at work. Then I added a few interested friends, fuck next thing you know it's like a dinner party but nobodies cooking anything.

That's cool. I'm pretty sure all of our bitches about facebook are going to be addressed in the next phase of virtual social networks and actually have been with blogs, websites and peer to peer sites. It is a site like jennygirl says, for computerduh folks.

[Documad]

All my old lady friends have joined now. EVERY DAY someone asks me why I haven't joined. I've never seen it so I don't know how it works. What I do know is that I don't want people I supervise to see what concert I went to out of state last week. Also, I interact with some scary people because of my work. I want them to know as little about me as possible.

Just through friends, I've found out all kinds of creepy things about my friends' husbands because of shit they posted on line. :rolleyes:

[yeahwho]

All my old lady friends have joined now. EVERY DAY someone asks me why I haven't joined. I've never seen it so I don't know how it works. What I do know is that I don't want people I supervise to see what concert I went to out of state last week. Also, I interact with some scary people because of my work. I want them to know as little about me as possible.

Just through friends, I've found out all kinds of creepy things about my friends' husbands because of shit they posted on line. :rolleyes:
I'm going to delete my account, it will be a drag for a few acquaintances I have at work, but the stuff being posted there is really boring. One guy I always thought was pretty cool is hiding easter eggs in peoples profiles or some such nonsense, the people in the underground Seattle scene are a bunch of hip hop haters and wanna be's plus the same thing your saying about husbands goes for wives, I've had two married chicks try and hook up with me through facebook and that ain't my bag baby.

I can use email for those who are serious about work, actually yahoo email (which sucks) is faster and easier.

fark (http://www.fark.com/) is way cooler

[checkyourprez]

I'm going to delete my account, it will be a drag for a few acquaintances I have at work, but the stuff being posted there is really boring. One guy I always thought was pretty cool is hiding easter eggs in peoples profiles or some such nonsense, the people in the underground Seattle scene are a bunch of hip hop haters and wanna be's plus the same thing your saying about husbands goes for wives, I've had two married chicks try and hook up with me through facebook and that ain't my bag baby.

I can use email for those who are serious about work, actually yahoo email (which sucks) is faster and easier.

fark (http://www.fark.com/) is way cooler

send em my way. im not one wrecking the one home ya know what im saying. thats on them.

[ms.peachy]

See now, I read comments like yeahwhos and I wonder if I am in some totally alternate universe of facebook or what. I guess maybe it all depends on what expectations you have of it, but personally I really like it and find it very useful. For example right now with mr.p in China, it's a really great way for us to both keep up with eachother one on one, and then also to share in real time what is going with us as a family with our friends and family. If I log in and see he's online we can have a quick chat straight away about whatever ordinarly thing we might need to discuss (a bill that needs paying or a detail of the move itinerary, that sort of thing); no need to make a costly phone call or take time out to write an email. Also as he has been doing an apartment search there he can go on a viewing, take some pics and post them and I can feed back to him, also our friends and family can chime in at any time. Considering we have f & f one three different continents in eleven different time zones, this works really well for us.

I've also been able to reconnect with a number of people whom I thought were basically lost to the sands of time, and who are now part of my daily life again, which is brilliant. You know how it is - you leave a job, move house, maybe start a family, move to the other side of the world etc and people drift away. But now look, here they are, isn't that nice. Yes of course too there is the odd weirdo from high school or wherever that wants to 'friend' you and makes you think "....but we weren't even friends then", but so what, that's easily enough dealt with. I am so pleased that some of the people I've found/who have found me are now back in touch, I can't tell you. It's so funny to look at photos of eachother's kids, hear about our jobs, etc - all these people I shared some of my most drunken, depraved, promiscuous adventures with, LOL Ah, and look where the road of life has led us.

So for me at the moment, it pretty much ticks all the boxes. I'm not sure what other people want it to do TBH - I don't give a crap that it's not the lastest most hot-shit computer thang. I don't really feel any need to be part of the latest greatest zippiest zappiest thing or whatever to prove that I'm ms.supertechnosavvy. This works for me - not because I 'don't know any better', but because I know enough to know what I need.

[Adam]

I'm not a fan of facebook and nothing displays except my name in search unless you're my friend.

Anyway, like Ms. Peachy said I've kept my account as its connected me to people I forgot about etc. However, I generally send them over to one of my IM accounts, sms or tell them to email me and even twitter now rather than contact via facebook. So for me its a pretty good tool for that. I can also not give them any of that information if they aren't a friend who I want with that information (mainly relatives).

But I can see why facebook can be a All In One interface for what I've just said above but I personally like to spread my eggs.

[yeahwho]

See now, I read comments like yeahwhos and I wonder if I am in some totally alternate universe of facebook or what. I guess maybe it all depends on what expectations you have of it, but personally I really like it and find it very useful.

I do say if you haven't tried it, do try it just so you can see if it's your bailiwick.

I deleted my account, I'm going to go without it for a few months. It's the friends from out of state and country that I will miss most, but really 90% of the people I had as friends live right here in the NW. (I was up to over 60 friends, a half dozen I shared stuff with daily)

I think I started my account up last summer and really got into it for a few months right up until last month. I went on vacation to So. Cal. for a week and had no computer or contact with anybody on facebook and it felt kind of good.

I think I'll checkout some of the other sites in the coming months and make a sort of judgment on how they compare. I probably won't have any friends on these other sites seeing hows everyone just accepts facebook.

I will survive.

[Adam]

kinda related: I went without a mobile phone for a week or so other week and it was great, kinda annoying at times but pretty great most of the time. Then when my new phone arrived that one broke to and now I'm without again.

I don't have a house phone either. Well I don't plug it in, I only have it cus the web is cheaper if I have one. Anyway, I can see living without certain technology is pretty nice sometimes :-))

[yeahwho]

I must of picked the worst day to stop facebook,

I had a dozen or so pics i was going to post this week from my adventures in Disneyland, Laguna and Hollywood... plus a super cool machine shop I've been working on... I feel remorseful already.

facebook is a gateway drug I've abused and I'm going through withdrawals.

cold turkey

[Adam]

flickr? Then send emails, twitter etc?

[hpdrifter]

I decided this week that I am not going to have my personal email account open all day. I find myself obsessively clicking over to it to see if I have new mail and I need to break myself of this habit. I have felt a little freer these last few days.

Though in some ways I feel I have just replaced it with the BBMB. :|

[Praying Mantis]

[I need a new facebook friend. whos interested.

[yeahwho]

the funny thing is when you delete your facebook account just before you click delete, all the pictures of your friends are there with each one labeled joe blow is going to miss you, like you kicked your friends to the gutter because you no longer want to be part of a tracking scheme with them.

[Dorothy Wood]

I don't like the idea of being tracked, or having my real name anywhere. I somehow got away with not having my full name on FB.

sometimes when I worry about getting tracked, I just start searching for all kinds of nonsense and numbers. and if I feel like looking at porn I look at all kinds, even gay men. so I can be like, "ya, what? it wasn't me, check it out you spies, I'm not a gay man, why would I be looking at gay porn? huh? track this, bitches!" *types in 1234887399038*

I doubt that makes a difference. I wish I could live off the grid sometimes.
at least I can take comfort in the fact that the more information there is online, the harder it is to sort. right? I hope.

[yeahwho]

I wish I could live off the grid sometimes.


exactly, the more popular facebook gets the less appealing it is for me, if i come on here as yeahwho and tell you of my personal exploits i can also tell you about my buddies whore wife, w/o my buddy getting all bent out of shape and wanting to kill me.

[ET]

I'm not a fan of the new design either.

At least it's not myspace. Shit, my friends list is super fucking streamlined and I can throw up video and music links to bug my friends. How can I not like it.

[checkyourprez]

i think myspaces are the gheyiest thing ever. ones for bands are ok because they can play their music directly from their page. but ones for people are way to over the top in my opinion.

[hardnox71]

I recently jumped aboard the facebook bandwagon thinking it would be great to talk to some old friends from highschool. I did. It wasn't.

I graduated in June of 1989. The few guys I talked to I haven't seen in twenty years. It was like I hadn't seen them in twenty minutes. Conversations lasted all of about five minutes and then it was "hey, I gotta run but I'll message you next week." After laughing about all the dumb shit we did together, it really wasn't that great.

I guess what they say is true: You can never go back.

[monkey]

i have a really large extended family all over the world that has been able to recently reconnect because of facebook. everyone has it. both my parents use facebook. so it has changed the dynamic of its use for me. i don't want to have drunk pics of me up there because my little cousins will see them. so i have to monitor the content.

at the same time, it's still a widely used college-network thing for me as well. and a good way to keep in touch with the peoples. oh, and it's a great tool for knowing things you're not supposed to know. hahaha.

[yeahwho]

It's only been 3 days since I've deleted my account (technically it isn't deleted, they store your information intact, it's deactivated (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703)) and I feel off, I have received a half dozen or so emails wondering wassup.


I recently jumped aboard the facebook bandwagon thinking it would be great to talk to some old friends from highschool. I did. It wasn't.

I graduated in June of 1989. The few guys I talked to I haven't seen in twenty years. It was like I hadn't seen them in twenty minutes. Conversations lasted all of about five minutes and then it was "hey, I gotta run but I'll message you next week." After laughing about all the dumb shit we did together, it really wasn't that great.

I guess what they say is true: You can never go back.

You've summed up most everybody outside of work on my site when I said fuck it...

Can I ever relate to your scenario, fuck a lot of people stay exactly the same as they were at the kegs before they turn 21, awkward

i have a really large extended family all over the world that has been able to recently reconnect because of facebook. everyone has it. both my parents use facebook. so it has changed the dynamic of its use for me. i don't want to have drunk pics of me up there because my little cousins will see them. so i have to monitor the content.

at the same time, it's still a widely used college-network thing for me as well. and a good way to keep in touch with the peoples. oh, and it's a great tool for knowing things you're not supposed to know. hahaha.

I really do not have an extensive network across borders such as you, I do have a few friends on the east coast and in europe that have kept in contact weekly through facebook, I miss them because their lives were interesting and they enjoyed my local take.

I also have a handicapped friend in Portland who's whole social networking is the internet and particularly facebook, he emailed and told me to get my ass back on pronto, everybody else sucks is what his email said.

So goes my dilemma, I feel as if I should get back on site and clean up my act, but like my pal in Portland says, he likes me telling people to fuck off from our social group (in jest of course).

I really don't want to start up two sites, nom de plumes become difficult for me.

[yeahwho]

10 days no facebook and still living large. I just read this pretty comprehensive NYTimes article about facebook (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html?em) and figured some of you facebookers might enjoy it.

The one thing that really bugged me about facebook was it's clunky upload, no use of animated gifs and the stupid new twitterlike update on everything... they sort of address that in the article, but mainly overall it's a pro-facebook piece.

[Lyman Zerga]

facebook and myspace will be much more fun, now that my sister has internet access too

[jennyb]

I find it odd to devote this much thought to Facebook. If it affected you that much and you still think so much about it, probably a good thing you gave it the ol' heave ho!

[yeahwho]

I find it odd to devote this much thought to Facebook. If it affected you that much and you still think so much about it, probably a good thing you gave it the ol' heave ho!

i put the o in double d

[p-branez]

the funny thing is when you delete your facebook account just before you click delete, all the pictures of your friends are there with each one labeled joe blow is going to miss you, like you kicked your friends to the gutter because you no longer want to be part of a tracking scheme with them.


it really is crazy how much they try and get you to stay. it also gives you reasons for why you are leaving (another site, too much time on facebook) and offers suggestions for each problem, eg. it's better than other sites for x and y reason, it has all the best privacy features, and you can change the settings so that you get fewer notifications and spend less time on it.

[Documad]

I've never used facebook -- how do they know whether you're using your real name or making one up?

[checkyourprez]

I've never used facebook -- how do they know whether you're using your real name or making one up?

they dont.

and it doesnt matter.

[jabumbo]

I've never used facebook -- how do they know whether you're using your real name or making one up?


see, this is the funny thing about this site.

when it was first started, you had to sign up using a valid university email address (and your school had to be registered with them). so at that time, i don't even recall having the option to put a false name down.

i thought it was pretty sly at the time. i could easily search lists formed by fellow high school grads, people in my major or just someone i had a class with. now it has so much extra shit (those stupid applications drive me mad) that it really is no better than any other site out there.

[Documad]

And don't forget -- it's overrun with middle aged women.

I wish I had access sometimes. Like apparently someone I know got in trouble at work for something she posted. One of her coworkers saw it and ratted her out. I didn't get to see it. :(

[ms.peachy]

And don't forget -- it's overrun with middle aged women.


That's because we have the biggest networks, duh. And not just 'ooh look I have 500 friends' as a number exercise, but we are the maintainers of relationships. Neighbours, co-workers, family, friends - we are the ones who manage the links. That's we we keep the calendars and do the Christmas card list, too. Underestimate our value at your peril.

[Documad]

I'm a middle-aged woman who doesn't send Christmas cards and doesn't speak to most of my extended family. That probably explains a lot. :p

I love to get together with people in real life. I love going out for coffee. I will exchange emails with old friends who live out of town. I love direct interaction or small groups. I won't host a party at my house and invite lots of people at once. I don't want my circles to collide. So I'll be damned if I want my boss or the people who work for me to interact with my college friends.

One of my coworkers follows her employees around on the internet. I don't want to do that. The people who work for me swear that they barely use facebook. I hope it's true. :o

I'm sure this has more to do with me than facebook. Several years ago, I tried to merge some circles and invited people over to my house who had some things in common. The first time, it worked well and everyone loved each other. But things turned shitty really fast and I won't be trying that again.