Oh, no reason. They had a feature that allowed you to add invites for events. I was on the marketing committee of a student group and it was my job to make dinner outing listings on Facebook.
Except when they removed that feature. Then I had to manually sent links on Facebook to members. I was banned. And now group membership is stagnant. Thanks, Facebook
Naw, not Scrabulous. Scramble and Text Twist.
Are all of your friends in the same country? International call rates and time zones can be a pain.
No, my friends aren’t all in the same country. Some I call, some I email and some I sent proper paper letters to. Radical, huh?
That’s like, so 2002, grandma. 
Get off my lawn! Honestly, the yoof of today. No respect…
I got a Facebook about a month ago. (Maybe 2 months now?) I’m a long-time LiveJournal user, and I really prefer LJ, which is more about communicating than Facebook. Thanks to LJ, I know actual details about what my friends in America (and around the world). Facebook really only shows the most general stuff, unless someone takes the time to post a note, which isn’t that common, AFAICT.
On the other hand, Facebook is a lot more widespread and everyone I know in Bulgaria has one, so it’s good for keeping (a faint) touch with people here. I check my Facebook for updates, but I don’t spend more than maybe 15 minutes there a day, whereas my LJ friends list can entertain me for hours. (Especially if I’m up late enough for my friends in the US to be at work and we can post back and forth.)
I used to be quite the letter writer–and no one writes back. They call or email or facebook. <sigh>
Write to me, that’ll show farcebook!
My daughter has begged me not to get on Facebook because she’s convinced herself that it’s just for college students. (she’s 21) She was utterly mortified that I actually have a Myspace page for my band.
So I’m holding off but not so much because she wants me to, more because I don’t want another site that I need to check all the time. It’s tedious. (and I’m old)
Huh? MySpace doesn’t have any of that crap, and that’s why I like it much better. Although MySpace has started to do some of that Facebooky junk (like telling your friends whenever you do something) you can turn that off. Really, all those Facebook applications, fun as some of them are, creep me out, and they did before I read that MSNBC article.
I’ve had a Facebook page for a few years now, but only have 13 Friends. The whole atmosphere is much colder to me. When I get a message on MySpace I know that it’s almost always a personal message. When I get a message on Facebook, it’s always some automated thing one of my Friends did that goes out to all their friends and not personal to me at all. I’ve only had a handful of actual personal messages on Facebook, so few that whenever I get an e-mail from Facebook saying that someone sent me something, I ignore it more often than not because I know that it wasn’t meant for me. I really only go to Facebook to get free movie passes from the group Chicago Free Movie Screenings. That group’s been very useful and worth keeping up the Facebook account.
Otherwise, I’ll stick with MySpace. I’ve created 13 different MySpace pages and feel quite at home there.
Are we talking about emails and private messages here, or messages/notifications sent by the websites? If you don’t like the notifications on Facebook then, errrrr, turn them off.
So true, and add to this the simple matter of different work and social patterns. What’s convenient for me is shite for some other people, and vice versa. Call me during the day and leave a message on my voicemail? I’ll have got home and checked Facebook before I listen to it, thanks to a combination of poor network coverage and being busy. There’s people who I used to regularly email, i.e. more than once a day, who now I communicate with solely via Facebook.
On Facebook, they’re all the same. “________ sent you a message on Facebook.” will, if I’m silly enough to check it, lead to a “______ has shared a Page with you. To view the Page or to reply to the message, follow this link:” or some such. It’s never a personal message because it’s going to everyone else on their friends list.
I do have most of the notifications turned off. I don’t want to know if anyone posted something on their “Fun Wall” or sent me (and everybody else) a Fun Wall whatever. I keep the personal messages turned on because, you never know, I could actually get an honest-to-god personal message one of these days. It would shock me, but it could happen. My Inbox there is filled with unread messages because they’re not to me personally. The last personal message I got on Facebook was (checking) Sept. 07. Wheras I get personal messages on MySpace all the time, and they’re really for me not some bogus sent-to-everybody spam (not that that doesn’t happen on MySpace, but it’s rare and it’s not a Friend-generated spam, and even that’s not an everyday occurrence like on Facebook).
Other people obviously love Facebook and don’t think it’s creepy, and that’s great. It’s just not for me. Besides the privacy factor, I like being able to personalize my MySpace pages to look the way I want it to look. Facebook looks boring to me, even though looks are deceptive and there are tons of fun apps that make it not boring to people who use them.
I just don’t understand how you’re getting all these ‘messages’ (are they emails or on facebook?!).
I do, sweetums, every week in the MMP. (see what I mean? Some people are like wallpaper in person. I’m that way in print.) <heavy sigh>
They’re from Facebook, but they go to my personal e-mail account. I just filter them into a folder which I only quickly check a few times a month and I rarely open any of the messages because I can tell that they’re not personally to me. I check my filtered MySpace folder several times a day though.
Cheers to those who love Facebook, like the OP. I shouldn’t have come off as if I were threadshitting or make this a Facebook vs. MySpace thing. Like ScareyFaerie, I don’t get Facebook, but for completely different reasons.