Every year on my birthday I talk to my “once-a-year friends”, the people whose total interaction with me is a “Happy B-Day!!!” posting on my wall. I also keep it active because occasionally people will use it to manage invites for parties or events.
Mostly I wish the term and concept of “Facebook Integration!” would just go away. Go. Away.
I have a page. But I’ve come to not like it very much. The only reason I still keep it active is to communicate with my band-mates easier (we also have band fan page).
I was really hoping it was going to be more like Live Journal when I signed up, but I quickly came to the discovery that it is more about flashy-blinky things, a million and a half applications for god-know-what that I didn’t care about, all wrapped up in a package that doesn’t let me type out more than 250 characters or whatever their limit is.
I still think they way it is organized is for shit. There is no real thread of anything. It’s a bunch of crap throw against the wall willy-nilly. With Live Journal you could tell who was saying what to whom on what days in a fairly straightforward way. Facebook is just a hash.
I left Facebook because it wants to insinuate itself into my online life far more than I want it to. Also, there aren’t enough Privacy settings for me, and I don’t trust the ones they already have. I tried to set up a Facebook account for my charitable group, and next thing I know, it’s datamining my computer and trying to suck me back in. Piss off, Facebook! My information is private! Well, private-ish - I understand I’m getting datamined constantly by everyone.
I use Facebook, but my friend circles tend to run on the geeky side and I have no qualms about ignoring friend requests so my page is pretty clean. There’s a cousin who annoys me but I keep tabs on her to laugh about her with my mom.
I also live in a different city than lot of my friends, so it’s an awesome way to keep in touch. My wall is basically a bunch of posts from my best friend.
You are more likely to reach me via smokes signals than Facebook.
I have one, I used to use it constantly but for various reasons a few months ago I pretty much stopped and dropped back to just logging on once a day or so to check for messages specifically directed at me. After a few weeks of doing that I found that I really didn’t miss it that much. Turns out I really don’t care that John just cleaned his bathroom or Jake just finished a great run and is exhausted. In fact, about a week ago I just saw a picture of one of my high school friends with her newborn baby…I didn’t even know she was pregnant.
The downside is that since I backed out of it I do miss some of the important stuff. For example another high school friend just lost their 2 month old baby a few months ago and I just happened to catch a post that mentioned it.
I have one and use it on a daily basis. Aside from playing Words With Friends, I hate it.
Unfortunately, most of my friends and family seemed to have completely forgotten what email is, so it’s the only way I have to keep in touch with them. (I’m hard of hearing, so talking on the phone is difficult at best, out right impossible at worst.)
I have one and log on probably twice a day. Once in the morning while I’m eating my breakfast because everyone else in my house is still asleep, and once at night, usually after I’ve put the kids to bed and before I’m ready to sit and read or watch TV. I don’t think I’m ever on for more than three minutes. It’s more out of habit at this point. I just see what others have posted- which is usually worthless but occasionally my sister will write something funny- and log off. I think I post my own status or a make a comment about twice a year.
Have one, use it all the time, it’s the best way to keep in touch with people. It’s free, everyone’s on it (and if they’re not they’re a loser with no friends), and it’s accessible anywhere.
I like chatting on it, actually. That’s my main use for it. And I let my friends know I’m still alive (I’m… not very social. Me dying and no one knowing is a legitimate possibility. Not likely, but possible.)
I pop in once a day, give or take, for 10 minutes or so. Long enough to update my status if something has actually happened (which isn’t often) and to do a quick scan of recent posts from my friends. I used to spend a lot of time on Farmville, but I haven’t really missed it since I stopped maintaining it.
I’ve seen a post going about “15 things white girls like to do on facebook” that could have been narrowed down and been more of a “what people post on facebook”.
It pretty much encompasses 95% of the crap I see anytime I check it out.
People like to:
-express annoyance at this workdayand hint that it deserves a much needed alcoholic beverage at the end of it (wink wink)
-thank their significant other for being the best SO in the whole world while their SO is sitting right next to them.
-Complain about bad service at restaurants.
-Express their extreme excitement about seeing their best firiends tonight!
-Post pictures of food.
-Make their status some random song lyric.
-Post or link to people, articles, situations, photos they find inferior to themselves with the question “Really?”
-Write angry letters to companies, strangers, and non-enties (Dear Comcast / dude who cut me off / cold weather, I HATE YOU!!)
Pretty much why I loathe facebook and a good description to give people who ask “What do people use facebook for?”
I live in a different city from all but two friends. I find it very useful, and use it quite a bit.
I still kind of hate it, though.
Yeah, I would have liked a “Sometimes” option. I do check it at least once a day, but I only update my status once or twice a week. I’m not addicted. To Facebook, at least.
Hi, my name is Sally Mander and I’m a Words With Friends addict.
I have a page, and use it a lot for playing games (I always have 8-10 games of Scrabble/Lexulous/Words with Friends going), occasionally chat with a HS friend or someone of that sort. I have fewer than 150 friends, almost all of them people I actually know IRL, plus a sprinkling of Dopers, etc.
Have more than 1. Use them.
I check mine a few times a day, but it’s quick. I play scrabble and leave. I keep it so that I can hear about family that is far away. I just learned of an Aunt’s passing that I might never have known about otherwise.
I started an account specifically to verify a rumor that my best friend from high school had died. I soon found a few old schoolmates who sadly confirmed the rumor. She and I had lost track of each other for a couple of decades, and she died a couple of years before I thought of trying out Facebook to find her.
I chatted briefly with a few friends from grade school and friended a handful, and have gradually lost interest since then. One of my school favorites had changed from “outgoing, brash tomboy” who I admired, to “backwoods survivalist looney” whose current gallery of friends look like they should be posted on the wall of the post office. ::shudder::
I barely visit it at all now. I think I have my privacy settings on maximum, but I’m not familiar enough with the technology to be sure that unwanted folks from my past don’t find me.
Have one, but use it rarely. And when I do, it seems that the same people are always on. Don’t they have lives?
I use mine a lot to keep in touch with friends and share interesting stuff. Not interested in any of the games.