I finally broke down and signed up for Facebook a few days ago after a friend and co-worker Tiffany kept harassing me about it. I’d seen (never joined) many a MySpace page and never saw one that look any better than the average Geocities or Tripod page from last decade and just figured Facebook was a MySpace clone.
Possibly it is, but at least it looks cleaner. Near as I can tell, it’s a sort of combination of Twitter and a (mini-) blog. Or something. I’ll be honest, I don’t really know what to do with it yet, or why I’d want to do whatever it is I’m supposed to be doing when I’m already using Twitter and already have a real blog. I’ll probably do like I did when I first signed up for Twitter and just stare at it for awhile and see what everyone else does then decide how or if I want to participate.
I really didn’t appreciate that just any Schmoe I work with can automatically add me, though. I already got added by a co-worker I avoid any and all contact with. Great, just great…
Ok, just for a second, I need to say something purely from a “guy” (read: shallow) standpoint. One of our flight attendants added me. Rather attractive gal. Now, some of the IM clients let you “nudge” your friends, which makes a little sound or sends a notification that you want their attention. Facebook, however, calls this a “poke.” I think it’s obvious what a guy’s first (shallow) thought is when he clicks [Hot Chick]‘s Facebook page and the first two things under [Hot Chick]‘s picture is “Send [Hot Chick] a message” and “Poke [Hot Chick].” Needless to say, the proper response is not the first response to that last one…
I’m just sayin’…
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I use it to share pictures with family for free..
btw you can always ignore them and if you do they can’t see your stuff
I’m no fan of Facebook. Unsubscribed.
Unless you post pictures of the hawt flight attendant…
Make sure you lock your security down. I have it so that only friends I signify can ask to add me and I am invisible to everyone that is NOT on my friends list
I have a Facebook account, but never use it.
Hehe thanks, I’ll see if I can find the security stuff and adjust the settings. I’ve had more people I don’t even know from work try to add me today. Grr…
If I ignore them do they get a message saying I ignored them?
If I get a new camera anytime, I might be able to arrange to post hawt FA pics for ya, Smaken
If you don’t add them as a request they cannot see anything, UNLESS you have something set as ‘friends of friends’ and they happen to be a friend of a friend. They also will not receive a message if you just ignore their friend request — they’ll probably assume you never log in and check.
Finally, you can create multiple lists, so you can always accept them as a friend and then create a list that you then don’t give access to anything, or perhaps to your status, or whatever. (I have some distant relatives friended whose status I don’t actually care to read on a daily basis, so they are on a separate list that I just don’t go to often, and I have a reading list for those I actually do want to see regular status updates for).