I wish that, in addition to the listing of your friends, that Facebook would let you have an enemies list. Then it could suggest friends from the enemies of your enemies.
I set up a page for my electronics students as an experiment. I might end up eventually transferring the content to a blog.
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My MIL, a technophobe and late adopter, seemed almost offended when stuff she wasn’t interested showed up on her timeline. Scroll on by.
If you leave a comment on it, or use the “like” or other “reaction” functions, FB notices, and will populate your list with posts that have things in common with what you’ve noticed.
FOAF spouting bigoted rubbish about Muslims? Unfriend. Easy.
It’s pretty much taken over from evite as the default way to organize events among my circle. The Events and Groups functions are pretty easy to use and have lots of useful features.
There’s even a reasonably good browser extension called Facebook Purity which hides all the ads.
Don’t want to be found by random exes or former classmates? Sign up with a pseudonym and a bunny profile picture.
LOTS of people hate phone calls.
If you are logged in, yes.
I have no high school friends on my FB and only 1-2 college friends. I’ve only gone to one reunion each for both. Frankly, I pretend neither period of my life ever happened for various reasons.
Most of my FB friends are people I’ve known online for a very long time. I do have some family on there, but they rarely post anything.
No, because I wouldn’t want to be at party in the first place and I certainly wouldn’t try and find someone else to join in a conversation.
I love social interaction, in person, in small groups with people that I have something in common with. That way you can modulate the meaning of the words and provide context and also a risque joke or a challenging opinion remains purely within the small group itself. It doesn’t take on a life in itself and become an item to be shared and form the basis of an online storm.
So I don’t partake in any social media at all, I wouldn’t feel comfortable sharing anything about my life online and I have zero interest in the minutiae in yours.
One other concern I have with the ubiquity of facebook is that it can end up broadcasting your movements by proxy. i.e. we visit friends in Belgium and, a couple of weeks later I have a work acquaintance ask me, out of the blue, how I enjoyed my Belgium trip? WTF? Turns out our friends had broadcast this on facebook complete with photos and reports of what we were talking about. This apparently goes out to hundreds of people. I thought that was astonishingly bad mannered of them and asked them not to do it again, especially the photos.
Just because you can easily share stuff doesn’t mean you should.
Copyright concerns?
Normal, up-to-date vBulletin, sure. The shitty antiquated dodo husk this site runs, not so much.
No, just ease of use. I have to post a number of videos and diagrams as well as write out formulas and such, and I’m finding out Facebook’s interface is not the friendliest for this sort of thing. I’ll probably end up at edublogs.org sooner or later, but the learning curve is steeper.
I remembering seeing a study referenced about something like that, where a lot of articles were saying that Facebook had led to divorce, but it sounded like that most of the marriages were falling apart through jealousy or cheating anyway. In a different world without Facebook or without social media altogether, some of those marriages would still be together but a lot of them would have still ended.
I don’t understand what you mean, could you explain? There is a lot of stuff on Facebook that leads me to other sites, or to searching for more information. Either from links friends post, or from pages I follow on Facebook.
This is a very important point. I do follow a few cute animal pages. And some of the other pages I follow for other reasons, like the Houston Chronicle, will post cute animal pictures and videos.
I’ve wondered how that worked. I’d heard other people say that the feature was creepy with how it was suggesting people that they actually did know in real life, but almost all of the suggestions it has for me are people I have no idea who they are.
That is somewhat rude on your friends part, they should have asked before posting. You should definitely let all your friends know when they are taking your picture that it’s not laziness keeping you off social media but that you don’t want to be on there, most should get the hint.
Actually, I was wondering if Facebook could object to your republishing of what was published on your Facebook page. In theory.
Echoing what folks have said, it’s a really easy way to keep in touch with people. Yeah, not everyone cares about what high school friends are doing now, but it can be interesting to see what they’ve done with their lives. And I’ve definitely rekindled some friendships. I find it far more interesting for keeping up with your friends now. It’s somewhat easy to lose track of friends at times when they get busy with family or work; you haven’t gone to dinner with them in a while or they haven’t been at the local pub or whatnot. Facebook allows you to still keep in touch with them in a minimal way.
Also, I find it to be much a easier way to share interesting articles with people than email (more people will read a Facebook article that tags them than will read an email to them).
And a lot of my friend group creates events through Facebook. It really is the easiest way to invite folks for a party.
Facebook is what you make it. With blocking people I don’t like and prioritizing the people and pages I do like, FB is quite enjoyable for me and obviously for others.
It’s not for everyone and that’s fine, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be for anyone.
Well, in theory… fuck 'em.
Slashdot’s “Slashcode” does.
Stuff **on **Facebook that leads to other sites, yes. But if you’re on another site, it’s virtually impossible to to follow a link into a personal page on Facebook. Facebook take from the Internet and gives nothing back. Facebook is not indexed by external search engines. It’s a walled garden.
I love the way when you follow a link that goes outside facebook they give you a dire warning.
“Warning, danger! You are leaving fluffy bunny land and may encounter scary stuff including exposure to ideas and facts that haven’t been pre-approved as being to your liking! Are you sure you want to take this terrible risk? Really?”
Erm…what? When?
That’s not Facebook, that’s your friends. It’s no different than if you emailed a friend about your vacation and the friend forwarded it to all her friends. Would you blame the email program?
It’s probably more common to wait until you’re home before sharing pictures and vacation news, just so it’s not broadcast around while you’re gone. But really, it’s like anything. Never think that what you share online will stay private.
No, this isn’t true. It doesn’t work that way.
How it works is it will suggest people who are friends of the friends you already have, depending on how many mutual friends you have in common with them and interests and FB games/apps you use and other various things. Looking at someone’s profile does not directly trip a “put them on people they may know” list for either person, however…unless they changed that in the last few months or so.
Cite: I’ve been using FB, daily, for hours each day, for ten years now.