| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/9/2009 5:07:50 PM | My daughter set up a FB account for me. Initially, I hated it. Eventually, I became accustomed to it.
One work colleague uses Status Shuffle. Some of them are hilarious, others, simply inane.
I have 250+ friends. Some are fellow poffers, some 50+ are relatives from near and far, 50+ are work colleagues, some are family friends.
I collected the others, through playing a game called The Dot Game and more recently, through playing Scrabble. If you wish to play someone specific, you need to add them as a friend first, before you can challenge them.
If you no longer wish to have someone as a friend, delete them. If they are a nuisance, delete and block.
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/9/2009 5:09:24 PM | The games are ok but I'm not a huge fan of social networking sites, I don't have bebo, I'm not on tagged, I use facebook mainly for the petitions and for the odd game. I would say facebook is one of the better ones but there were issues lately about the way they were going to deal with users information?
If you delete your profile they still have the rights to all your pics etc? I'm not sure actually if that's standard across the board.
I don't have that many people on fb either, can't see the point of adding someone's cousins best friend's dogs hairdresser just for the sake of it. | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/9/2009 5:18:23 PM | | I haven't joined up to facebook yet, just back online after a very long time with no pc, only just set up a bebo account, but my mate is always pestering me to join and to become a member of farmville??? she is totaly addicted lol | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 2:01:10 AM |
If you delete your profile they still have the rights to all your pics etc? I'm not sure actually if that's standard across the board.
This was something they tried to implement, but due to the opposition of all the photography groups they had to negate..
Watermarking is a simple procedure that can safe guard and copyright your photos ..
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 2:32:59 AM | I love FB, use it every day. It's ideal for keeping in touch with people, easier to send a message which can be read at leisure than a text which can be intrusive.
I have found lots of school friends that I've not spoken to in over 20 years, living so far from where I grew up means that I lost touch with lots of people so it's fantastic for that.
My very first love is on my list now (and we are talking junior school here) and we spoke on the phone a few weeks ago and it was like rolling back the years.
Fantastic to have this facility to find lost friends; I've made new ones via some of the games too and have contacts all over the world. | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 2:42:47 AM | I did have a facebook profile but deleted it as I didnt use it. I seemed to accumulate so much rubbish. I might start another one, I'll think about it.
I was told by a friend that her daughter used to accept friends, people she didnt even know just so she could have a huge number on her friends list. Someone sent her a virus and brought her lappy to a standstill so I guess the trick is to be careful and not accept invitations of friendship from people you dont know. | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 1:37:29 PM | I am currrently using facebook to keep track of my nephew who is cycling (YES...CYCLING) from Alaska to the South most point of South America
MAd or what!!!!!! He has reached Ecuador so far......check him out on Scott's Cycle South if you have Facebook | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 3:22:30 PM | | i have just over a hundred facebook friends....about ten of which i speak to regularly, and about another ten who i speak to more occasionally, the rest i either speak to rarely or most likely never. someone who requested my friendship recently had almost 900 facebook friends! which i just find childish, because no one in my opinion has that many real friends, if you saw a friend every day for coffee you would only get to see your mates once every 3 years (ish) in that case, which clearly illustrates what a dullard this person must of been.....but having said that, i think people who get upset about how many friends other people have/don't have probably need to get out more themselves, or focus on their own social circle more, to assuage a little of that jealousy. | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 3:35:53 PM | Just because Facebook calls them 'friends' doesn't automatically make them so, you do realise?
They may just be people you got stuck in a lift with once.
The best thing about Facebook is that you can keep in touch with people you barely care about with minimal effort. | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 4:39:19 PM | Facebook is a place where someone posts pictures of themselves p*ssed as a fart trying to impress everyone with there social lives and the adding of every person under the sun on their friends list is just another way to make them look more popular than they really are. The sad thing is, the days where you go round friends house for a chat or whatever, is now old fashioned, we live and breath internet. If people want to visit friends, they log onto facebook and talk to them there instead. It's laziness and one of the reasons why we are becoming fat Britain. We are all at risk of becoming hermits, it will be like a afternoon siesta 24/7 if we are not careful, we will be having virtual sex and never stepping out our front door to buy anything. Oh hold on a minute, this is happening now! ha
I have 24 friends on facebook, they are all people I know personally, and have regular contact with. I have had the boss trying to add me lately but he can sod off lol. Every person I know on facebook has at least 200 friends, and seeing people with 1000+ is very common. Now if a person with a 1000 friends can drag themselves away from their computer long enough, they wouldn't get through all them friends if they visited 2 a day for a year! Think about it lol. Popularity is an indication of someone's social status, so what way to falsify it than use facebook for the world to see  | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 4:58:56 PM | i always thought facebook was a kids thing .. in fact the few 20 something people i knew that had it i thought were sad.....felt that way a few years.... but since being single last 14 months my opinions and views have changed alot ........didnt think i'd ever stick myself on a dating site for one :) ( not that i'm even remotely even enjoying my experience on here so far ) .
but facebook has given me a chat to ex workmates and others that i would'nt normally contact. glad ive done it now. ... if only my pof was as good :( | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 9:14:10 PM | I've been on facebook for a couple of months and got connected with people I knew many years, and a different life ago. Now I wonder why I would do this - it's bollox.
On the plus side I have made contact with a couple of very infamous and interesting people recently through my shady past connections! | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/10/2009 10:29:23 PM | I went on to FaceAche to stalk my kids, pure and simple. I immediately knew what they were doing, and all their friends, without having to ask and was able to see all my son's photos and videos when he was doing a football tour of the states. My daughter kept in touch when she went on her first holiday with her mates, so I knew she was safe without enormous phone bills.
It's brilliant for storing and showing friends photos, I don't play the games cos I spend far too much time in the virtual world as it is and I'd rather be out doing things worthy of photographing but it's down to pruning your list to who you really want to keep in touch with. And keeping it private so those you don't wish to be stalked by - can't! | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 3:17:47 AM | | I don't mind Facebook. I have all the people from my year at school on it plus friends and family, and the odd few that i have met from playing Scrabble (which i am sadly addicted to). That's pretty much it, the only status remarks that get on my nerves are the depressing ones and repetitive ones! | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 3:21:46 AM | | Don't ask me! I have no clue, i just do not get it either! Myspace too. | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 3:26:33 AM | I have a FaceSpace account , but hardly ever use it ... apparently there is another thing called Twa**er now, there are some sad people with not a lot to do ---
I'm having beakfast,
I'm picking my toe nails,
I'm in the bog !
And people actually follow all this ?! Get a life, people !!!
I find this on FaceHair too, the people that spend HOURS playing those mindless "apps" ( I think that they are called) ...
........... but I am inexplicably drawn back to it every now and then ... just to see how many babes fancy the pants off me ........  | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 3:31:39 AM |
OK, I'm sad...I must be to stick around on PoF.
But I'm never going to reduce myself to the level of being on Facebook...I have too much dignity, honour and self-respect!
Haha, the irony in this statement actually had me laughing out loud!
I recently deleted my Bebo account and I only use Facebook for keeping in touch with friends who are not local to me and I use Myspace for keeping up to date with my favourite bands and some other people who are not local to me.
There is nothing complicated about people you don't know adding you. You just don't accept. That's pretty much the whole point. You only accept people you know.
I had a bunch of people add me from school that either I never liked or they never liked me but they were clear being nosy c@nts and as a result, their request was denied. | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 4:11:30 AM |
Just because Facebook calls them 'friends' doesn't automatically make them so, you do realise?
Like everything else on facebook, who you choose to add or call friends is optional, if you dont want facebook, you dont sign up, simples.
I use it a lot, I have kids, ex's, in laws, outlaws and a few selected mates from school on there, and when nothing else is happening or the telly is crap, I can always find someone to have a bit of a chin-wag with, plus I play a couple of the online games, I can also post gibberish when I've had a gallon or two of beer without being moderated!
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 4:36:24 AM |
Just because Facebook calls them 'friends' doesn't automatically make them so, you do realise?
Er.....actually, these people are my friends regardless of what facebook calls them - it is I who informs facebook of that fact, not the other way round.
They may just be people you got stuck in a lift with once.
Who cares how one meets those who subsequently befriend us? The important thing is that they ARE our friend.
The best thing about Facebook is that you can keep in touch with people you barely care about with minimal effort.
Er.....if you ARE keeping in touch with people, it means that you do care about them!
If people want to visit friends, they log onto facebook and talk to them there instead. It's laziness and one of the reasons why we are becoming fat Britain.
I'm perfectly fit and healthy, thanks, yet I use facebook, too! Hmm....so in order to keep in touch with my friends around the country, you think I should go and visit them?
Don't be daft! | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 8:10:04 AM | got myspace and facebook, have moved around a fair bit and so have some old friends, managed to catch up with a lot of them, directory enquires is ok if you know their town, one of them was in japan on a course....
got a few overseas friends from mutual interest, most friends on fb are not in what could be called walking distance for sure :) | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 8:35:22 AM | If I don't actually know a person and they try to randomly add me, I will deny the request.
I don't accept requests from Bands on Myspace. I add all the bands I like myself.
I hide all notifications from any stupid apps like Farmville or Mafia Wars and I am not a fan of "Cups Of Tea", "Sleeping In Late On Sundays" , "Kissing In The Rain" or any other such inane things it's deemed supposedly worthy of becoming a fan of.
I sometimes do personality apps for a laugh like "What Star Wars Character are you?" but thats about it.
I generally can't stand it when people feel the need to update their status every 5 minutes to tell me they had a poop and what colour it was.
I also laugh when people relate sites like POF to Facebook. They both exist for fundamentally different reasons.... | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 8:36:13 AM | I love facebook! I find it much more entertaining than sites such as this. I love looking at my friends photos, catching up with old friends, even got chatting to my 1st love again and we haven't seen each other since I was 17!
If you don't want to be bothered by the applications just block them, it's easy. I'd say there's something for everyone on FB - and I even know a few couples who met there so it can double up as a dating site too! | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 8:42:24 AM | I joined facebook as my family were on it and it's excellent for keeping in touch. Like everything else, it's up to YOU how YOU use it, who YOU accept as a friend and if YOU decide to accept applications or play games.
I love it and my family, mates and I have a great time on it. | |
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| facebook whats the deal?
Posted: 9/19/2009 8:43:56 AM | No idea really, it is ok for pics of nights out with friends and can be quite good if you are part of a social group such as a drama group or a dance class group or something like that as you can have pics up of your events and advertise them... other than that facebook is home to stalkers, nosey people and those you were glad to have left behind when you finished school.
John | |
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