Comments on: Facebook friend follies

By: Zellmer

Zellmer — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:38:18 +0000

I just like to change my status, and read others. Some of them can be poetic at times.

By: LionAndMagicBoy

LionAndMagicBoy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:09:39 +0000

Networking, mostly, and keeping in touch. My Facebook friends are mostly fellow writers and people I know from my metaphysical business.

I loathe Scrabulous because I play with a cheater, and I can’t cheat as well as he can.

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:13:16 +0000

I love Facebook! I resisted joining MySpace, but my husband got into Facebook and made me join, and
now I am addicted. But, yes I hate the applications too, so I ignore all requests to add one.
Facebook now has an “Ignore application” feature which is great. What I do use it for is to keep
track of what my friends are doing. On my home page, I get all the latest news via status updates.
John is in New York on vacation. Jane is going to DC for work. Ooh, Jack is coming to
the Bay area next week, I should call him to get together. My friends will post pictures of their kids
or vacations, and I can go check them out if I want to. (I ignore vacation pics, but I always look
at kid pics, and make comments.) I also post pics of my kids and love the comments my friends leave me.
From the groups my friends join, I know who they are going to vote for and we can discuss the election.
I can post the latest movie I saw or the latest book I read. Yesterday my friend Tina posted on my friend
Gina’s wall that she’s going to Atlanta for a visit, but hey, I happen to be going at the same time, so I
can write to Tina and Gina that we should all meet up.

Anyways, you get the drift. It all depends on whether your friends are also into Facebook and
use it the same way. Oh, another great feature is that it tells me when a friend’s birthday is coming up.

By: Ligaya Blough

Ligaya Blough — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:53:51 +0000

You definitely have a point there! I must say, though, I only got a facebook profile because I have a sister on it who does not want to go on myspace (whereas my other sister has a myspace profile). Anyway, I agree that sometimes, on these social networking sites, people can go overboard with adding friends. Who really keeps in touch with 2000 plus friends anyway?

By: selfmademom

selfmademom — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:41:17 +0000

I’ve heard scrabulous is way addictive. It’s right up my alley, though.

By: J. Fergie

J. Fergie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:54:46 +0000

i use it to keep up with the socnet world for my job. it also turned out to be a fun way to
catch up with friends from elementary all the way to law school.

all of the 3rd party applications annoy me though.

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:31:27 +0000

Scrabulous is fun — but Scramble is funner. It’s a fun way to pass three minutes while you’re waitin for everyone else to join a conference call.

By: Florinda

Florinda — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:35:00 +0000

I’m not using it for much, to be honest (especially since they blocked it at work). And I won’t let myself get involved with Twitter. I would get NOTHING done…

I like the way you expressed your reserve/ambivalence about online “connecting” – I feel similar sometimes. However, since I met my husband online, I may be more comfortable with it than I think I am.

By: Marketing Mommy

Marketing Mommy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:31:30 +0000

Scrabulous (I’m seriously addicted) and Bookshelf (to keep track of books I’ve read or want to read). I’ve quit friending people and only rarely click over to anyone’s profile.

I did, however, get found by a 7th grade boyfriend who now lives in London. Which is kinda cool. Except the whole “I’m married now” thing.

By: April

April — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:21:54 +0000

I use it so people can find me… should anyone want to find me.

I can’t get into the whole writing on someone’s Wall, I use Goodreads.com for my book lists and to see what my friends are reading and to post my library, and I don’t get the whole poking people thing.

I think I am just too old.