I haven’t seen a “Are you on Facebook?” thread for awhile so I figured I’d make one. I joined Facebook about a month and a half ago and I’m completely addicted to it. Is anyone else out there as addicted as me? I know a few of you are and I lot of you are friends of mine on there but I swear, I must browse that site at least five or six hours a day.
If anyone would like to add me, here is my profile: Facebook
And don’t worry…I don’t send out those application requests often. I know a lot of people get annoyed by them so it’s my nature to only send back application gifts and requests that I GET first. If you never send me any, you’ll never get any.
But I add anyone and everyone. Like I said…addiction. It’s a terrible thing.
If you don’t wish to share your Facebook here if you have one or don’t want anyone to add you, that’s okay too of course. You can use this topic to just talk about Facebook too.
And finally, hello to everyone here who’s already on my friends list. You’re all great people. Actually, even those of you not on my friends list and not even on FB at all are great people…it’s just those who are have a certain degree of more awesomeness in my eyes.
I rarely use it to keep in touch with friends. I use it for the games and applications. There’s a lot of fun games on that site. You can keep things like a virtual bookshelf and play a virtual stock market and run races.
I didn’t really like it either when I first started but it gets very addictive if you try it for a week or so.
See, that really doesn’t appeal to me at all. I work in front of a 'pooter all day and I don’t want to spend my spare time in front of one as well, so playing games isn’t something I want to do. As for a bookshelf, well I have several real ones at home with proper paper books on that I read whenever I want to. The rest is also stuff I just don’t have time for - pressures of my social life, you know.
I wouldn’t say “pathetic”; I’d probably do the same thing. Here I am, putting off a report for tomorrow, and my girlfriend is watching a telenovela. There’s a lot of stuff to do there. Some day I’ll get to learning all of it.
I got a Facebook back in… ah mid-2004. Not sure of the date; my user ID is number 3 in my network, though.
I wouldn’t say “addicted” so much as I do check it daily and use it to keep in touch with people. I never got into the Application thing, though I did help develop one of the desktop apps that provides updates. I don’t want a FunWall, I don’t want to SuperPoke… I’m pretty much in the “these things have made Facebook more MySpace-ish, and I don’t like that” crowd.
Can you pick up the phone and call 300 friends simultaneously to let them know you’re going to be headed back to school for graduation, that you’re having a party tonight, or send them all pictures of your last vacation or newest baby? Didn’t think so.
I signed up about 2 months ago after a long resistance. I’ve gotten in touch a few old high school friends, and these are people I most likely never would have heard from again if it wasn’t for facebook. So it does have some value. I’m also getting married soon so it’s nice to be able to share pictures of the wedding/honeymoon with everyone.
Some of my Facebook friends are high school friends of mine from Texas, who are now nicely dispersed all across the continental US and beyond. Others, for example, include a really good friend of mine who now lives in Barcelona. I, on the other hand, am in Finland. Picking up the phone is a lot more difficult and costly (both for me and for them) than sending them a message on Facebook or sharing pictures of my latest antics.
Basically, the article goes on to say that there’s no current proof the application-makers are selling your information - but nothing to stop them from doing so, either.
I signed up to Facebook nearly a year ago. It was fun for a few weeks but now I barely use it, and neither do most of the rest of my friends that signed up. An ex girlfriend got in touch with me through it, but we exchanged a couple of messages and that dried up (she was recently divorced, I was recently engaged, enough said!). Occasionally a friend will send a message, but what’s really annoying is that every time anyone replies to a thread or comments on a picture, etc, I get an email telling me I should log in to Facebook to see it.
Yes, I’m sure I could turn off email notification, but frankly I never get round to it.
This is me, pretty much. I have (I think) 15 or so “friends”–every one of them I know in RL or have at least met in RL. I’d like to keep it that way. I also try to avoid the apps, mostly because they’re annoying and I don’t want the cyber equivalent to Beanie Babies etc. But Scrabulous–I always have at least 3 games going.
You can keep things like a virtual bookshelf and play a virtual stock market and run races.