Facebook - is it worth it?

[demonAfro]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

I actually find myspace a lot easier to check out artists. The layout is really easy to use .

[Steve Graham]

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lol

[DIDI]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

I watch everybody else doing it

Fascination, like watching a car wreck !! So many people I know have been really upset by things that have happened to them on facebook. I guess it isn't "just" the internet when it has this power.

[DIDI]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

Facebook has its advantages and disadvantages like any social networking tool imo, I mostly use it to track all my fav artists; which is rather cool or else I would never find the time to individually look them up.

On the flip side I do believe that all these social networking apps will be the death of us eventually

I actually find myspace a lot easier to check out artists. The layout is really easy to use . You can check out their music get tours dates etc. a lot easier. Not a member there either.

[floridaorange]

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Someone used a photo of mine as their main profile photo on facebook.. which a friend of mine pointed out... apparently it's happened to her several times as well...

...pretty crazy considering I've never even used FB.

[Kat]

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Don't understand the Mafia Wars/Farmville/etc. BS at all, though.

+1
dont even know what that is but ppl say they are addicted to it so i wont even check lol

[dusk]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

On a side note, don't mean to hijack this thread but found this quite relevant -

What you should read this weekend = http://gigaom.com/2010/02/28/what-yo...-this-weekend/

[chunky]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

They had a 4 part documentary called the Virtual Revolution on TV recently. They did a great bit on Facebook. Apparently Bill Gates was getting 10 thousand friend requests a day

[toasty]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

Facebook is a non-obtrusive way of keeping abreast of what is going on in your friend's lives. It has enabled me to reconnect with dozens of friends that I hadn't seen for years, and it's sort of nice to just see what everyone's up to. I don't really see the harm in it at all.

Don't understand the Mafia Wars/Farmville/etc. BS at all, though.

[DjNutcase]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

I watch everybody else doing it

Same here After a few weeks of observation, I wrote this post wondering why everyone is putting their whole lives online...

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000620167998&ref=search&sid=641014172.1351608336..1

Hmmmmm.....

[nick007]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

I watch everybody else doing it

[dusk]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

Facebook has its advantages and disadvantages like any social networking tool imo, I mostly use it to track all my fav artists; which is rather cool or else I would never find the time to individually look them up.

On the flip side I do believe that all these social networking apps will be the death of us eventually

[chunky]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

Has anyone mentioned stalking and cyber bullying yet?.

Yeah I mentioned stalking earlier.

My friends 14 year old daughter put some photos of herself posing in her underwear for her friends to see. My friend only found out because he hacked her account.

[DIDI]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

it depends what you're trying to use it for.. i've met and kept in touch with a lot of friends on fb, re-connected with some old friends etc..

if you don't like it or think you're too cool for it, lol, who cares, don't use it.. but please don't attempt to make people that do use it and enjoy using it feel inferior, just makes you sound like a twat

Definitely don't think I am too cool for it. Just scares the shit out of me


Has anyone mentioned stalking and cyber bullying yet?? Appears to work really well for those activities. !! And because other people feel it's ok to put anything up, even if you are not a member you can be stalked through it.

[Steve Graham]

Re: Facebook - is it worth it?

Call me old fashioned but i manage to stay in touch with family and friends without facebook. People i've not spoken to or seen for years remain just that, usually for good reasons.
Whatever people get from the site for their own ends, fair play to em - but from what i've seen of some of it, it's just not for me.

"today i think i might stroke my dog"

you just hide people or delete them, it's really easy