Nowadays I keep up with my friends mainly through facebook, I spend very little time on online forums anymore. fb is much more convenient for me.
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Nowadays I keep up with my friends mainly through facebook, I spend very little time on online forums anymore. fb is much more convenient for me.
I have a facebook page. I use it to catch up on old friends. I read more than I write though. I only accept people I know in real life (or knew at one point). I don't play any of the game on there and I the info I give when I update is mainly about training. I guess I'm a bit of a 'voyeur' because I love to read what other people are doing LOL
i have a fan page for my art work, and a page for me personally too. I have sold paintings already through that fan page. shooting star, if you get a "friend request" it's real. But if on the right hand corner, it suggests a friend, that was facebook's idea. I LOVE facebook. Today my best buddy from Highschool resurfaced. She has a really common (married) name and I lost track of her. but now she's on FACEBOOK. Yippee!!!
You don't have to accept every fb friend request you receive.
I once accepted a friend request from someone who I thought was on a TNT team I was associated with (come to find out, he wasn't).
He then sent out friend requests to all of the women (afaik, just the women) on my fb friend list -- I knew that because I suddenly received a bunch of fb private messages asking me "who is this So-and-So who just sent me a friend request?".
Turns out he was sending out friend requests to a whole slew of people (mostly women) he didn't know. He was basically a serial friender (I have other names to describe people like him but they'd probably get *'d out here ;) ), just beefing up his friend list, I guess to make himself feel important. :rolleyes:
Harmless I suppose, but pointless and creepy, IMHO - I promptly de-friended the turkey.
Anyhow, nowadays if I get a friend request from someone whose name I don't recognize, I'll write back & ask how I know him/her (could be someone on a forum who I know by their screenname, or someone I've actually ridden with whose last name I simply had forgotten), and if I'm not satisfied with the reply, I simply don't accept the friend request.
Or google them... I did that with one person, didn't want to embarrass myself or them by asking (and making them realize that I didn't recognize their name) if I didn't have to. ;) Might not work if it was a really common name, but this one wasn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
If I'm friending someone I know from TE or another forum where we don't use real names, I'll identify myself by my screen name in the friend request.
I love Facebook. I check it every day. The things I love most about it:
- Catching up with old friends that I'd lost touch with.
- Keeping up with my grandchildren (via their parents) because they live far away. They post pictures that I wouldn't see otherwise.
- Being able to send out casual invitations to local things at the last minute.
- Interesting links to information, youtubes or other funny things I might have missed otherwise, but am glad I didn't.
My favorite part is when my friends post what they cooked for dinner or are planning to cook. That alone has been worth the cost of admission for me, because I hate deciding what to cook for dinner!
You can set it up so it is not obtrusive to your life. I don't check it on my phone, unless I'm really bored and somewhere without my computer, but I can and I like that.
I like Twitter for up-to-the-minute stuff, like whether the college baseball game we're on the way to is about to be rained out. That is priceless.
Karen
There is a lot of junk on Facebook, but the fan pages that make it worthwhile provide useful information on a quasi-frequent basis. It's just like subscribing to a mailing list. Too much and I start to ignore.
I don't have a page, but my prof'l association announces events through their fan page. There is a drawing professor at my uni who has a fan page and he posts sketches and writes about the drawing process. And then I have a friend whose company uses it for PR, talking about things in the news that affect the industry or if they've won an award for a project. Another friend is also starting up their company and is using the fan page to help announce/roll out new products.