Comments on: Facebook is a little crazy…

By: twocows

twocows — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:59:45 +0000

I’ve had people trying to get me into these things since they started becoming popular. I made one (a Myspace) about a year ago; I looked at it for maybe a day or two, and haven’t looked at it since. Maybe Facebook really is great and completely different and would change the way I look at these things if I tried it; my guess, however, is that it’d just be a waste of my time.

By: Xbehave

Xbehave — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:20:34 +0000

their privacy policy is ok but dont go installing too man applications as each application gets access to a fair amount of your info!

the main thing about FB was that it was a uni thing that was ‘cooler’ than myspace, now for some reason its gone supper crazy and everybody has it. ive never spent much time on either but facebook is like a grown up myspace but just as adictive

By: Reyes-Chow

Reyes-Chow — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:16:37 +0000

Scott – Interesting because one of the things that attracted me to FB is that I actually DO know about 90% of my friends in real life. I have just recently added folks who I have met via other FB friends. I have always found that FB’s ability to keep people connected between face-to-face interactions is it’s genius.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:45:15 +0000

I’ve got 80 “friends” on Facebook. I don’t know any of them (personally that is).

So does that mean I technically don’t know them?

Not necessarily.

Most of them are “friends” I “know” from other sites (LiveJournal, MySpace, Zorpia, Friendster, Multiply, Yahoo!….).

Some of us have more Internet friends than face-to-face friends.

But technically, I don’t know anybody on Facebook (in the face-to-face sense).

I don’t care about appearing well-liked or well-connected. I add friends for me and not for anybody else.

Oh and the coolest thing about Facebook are all the applications you can install. Friendster or MySpace has no such thing.

By: Fyda

Fyda — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:28:01 +0000

The students here at my uni are Facebook addicts. I see them browsing the site on their laptops in lectures (instead of paying attention to the class). I hear them talking about it in public places — about nifty groups (“You should totally join this group!”) or about people they found (“Oh my god, I can’t believe _he’s_ on Facebook! Did you see his profile?!”). I hear people say their farewells, along with, “I’ll see you on Facebook later!” as opposed to, “I’ll talk to you on MSN!”

It frightens me a bit that Facebook, or the values/habits/abilities it encompasses, might become embedded in this generation’s culture. Some people are addicted to it like I’m addicted to Wikipedia: one can spend hours doing nothing but flipping through countless strangers’ profiles, reading personal discussions, looking at photos… except that this isn’t impersonal, academic knowledge; it’s quite personal. I suspect many people have become accustomed to “digging up the dirt” on anyone as a matter of course. I would’ve hoped that this would lead to people being more cautious and sensible about what they publish online, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Maybe it’s ignorance, or maybe it’s just optimism, or even indifference (but seriously, posting one’s address and phone number?). I don’t know.

In light of all that, making extensive use of the Privacy settings may well preserve the sanity of the paranoid/highly private user who wants to have an interesting profile without exposing that profile to the _entire_ Facebooking world. :)

By: Penguin Strangler

Penguin Strangler — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:02:34 +0000

Facebook is scary and weird. But you can play scrabble and (more importantly) rock scissor paper on Facebook. Good luck.

By: Reyes-Chow

Reyes-Chow — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:08:16 +0000

Welcome to the Dark Side, now drink your kool-aid ;-)

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By: Simon Gray

Simon Gray — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:45:49 +0000

I find Facebook useful for organising get-togethers and sharing photos (the photo tag feature is great).

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:24:44 +0000

Thanks for that little tidbit of information, Jonas. I didn’t know that’s what happened when you clicked on the I don’t even know this person option.

Yeah, I’m probably making too a big deal about this. It’s just a social networking site. It’s not the end of the world. Being connected is a good thing.