Comments on: Facebooked

By: lucy p

lucy p — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:45:08 +0000

i HATE facebook, i hate the fact that only the nerkiest people from “my past” have ever tried to find me, I hate the stupid applications, the stupid “arthur sent you a sausage/poked you/etc” the stupid photos of kittens, the AWFUL jokes people send, and i HATE the fact that it attracts complete techno-idiots who don’t have the slightest clue what else there is on the internet, and think they’re being clever and tech-savvy for using facebook and think that that’s what we’re ALL doing on the internet. … but like draconian one, I daren’t leave it.

grrrr.

(while we’re on this subject, gordon, do you have any thoughts on how to drop the hint to people who one knows in real life who send CONSTANT emails with terrible jokes and “i’m sending this to you because you’re my friend… value your friends” guff, cancer scares and really tacky pps of sunsets, to bloody well stop it?)

By: DraconianOne

DraconianOne — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:26:19 +0000

So very tempted to delete my Facebook account – especially since I’ve had a few people from my dim and distant past resurface. But every blue moon I check it and see what people have been doing and every other blue moon I update something. Fortunately I have managed to filter out the crap by not responding to anything and disabling the email notification.

The other reason I’m not about to leave FB is because I can see future networking and marketing potential related to pretty much the same thing that Mike was talking about.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:15:49 +0000

Thing is, these days: if I really want people to follow a link, then I know I’ll get more out-clicks if it appears on FB. Twitter comes second, my actual blog comes third, Tumblr comes fourth. That’s ‘cos there’s a whole bunch of people on my FB friends list with zero interest in Twitter, Troubled Diva or Tumblr – and weirdly (and perhaps unrepresentatively?) they’re in the majority.

By: Forest Pines

Forest Pines — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:03:01 +0000

I’m someone else for whom the sole purpose of Facebook is: getting back in touch with old school acquaintances. But, to be honest, a lot of those don’t go beyond adding someone to my “Friends”, and that’s it.

I am getting very good at ignoring Facebook requests for things, too. Not “pushing the ignore button” ignore, just, not paying any attention to them at all. I currently have well over 100 things on Facebook that claim to be waiting for my attention.

As for chain letters: I used to get a hell of a lot of those by email in my last job. There were some idiot co-workers who would automatically forward any chain mail they got, even the “if you do not forward this then you will have bad luck for 20 years and 37.2 puppies will be killed” sort. Unfortunately they were smart enough not to just send them out to the “entire company” list; they sent them to everyone who wasn’t in a suitable position to give them a slapping.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:44:45 +0000

Feck, proof-reading. Take out the “while” in the first par…