Posted on 10/14/2009 11:42:32 AM PDT by freed0misntfree
But I have 875 “followers” on Twitter.;)
“You call up every one of your friends to tell them about an interesting article you read?!”
Hell no, if they haven’t read it it’s their problem!
They better not call me for that reason either!
A telephone is a tool not a toy!
Not necessarily in the direction it's gone, though. If it was originally set up for high end college students, and had gradually modified itself in ways designed to KEEP those original members and acquire new members from the friends and business colleagues those members made as they grew up and move into the work world, it would have a demographic that's mainly above college age, well-educated, and affluent. Instead it moved downstream, both in age and in socioeconomic class. It may still be more upscale than MySpace, but not by much.
The African American facebook is called “black planet.”
Seriously, it’s a real “social network.”
Interesting comments. I am on MySpace because I have two 13 year olds on the site and they are not allowed to have a page unless I am their “friend”. I am also on Facebook and I love it. I have found old school mates and have met some really nice people. Some from FR (who would have thought), some from the Palin page, and some who are connected with the USAF, in particular the F-105. It has been my experience that you meet better educated and more “socially acceptable” people on FB than you do MySpace. I expect my kids will dump MySpace one day and move over to FB.
I graduated from high school 28 years ago. I recently reconnected with an old high school friend and she told me that she remembered that I always made her feel like she belonged...that she was accepted...when we were in high school! I literally had no idea I had that effect on her!
28 years or more later and she still thought kindly of me!
Made my whole day.
Re: “How are they going to see anything unless I add them as a friend?”
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Unless you fix it so outsiders see nothing but your name, they can see all your friends, and possibly your info page with DOB if you post it, and whatever else you put on there.
Best thing is to make it as private as possible unless you just don’t care.
FB has all sorts of groups discussing things like popular TV shows, political stuff, etc. My high school has a big group now yapping about what happened in the sixties!!! It’s fun, seems harmless, but definitely takes up way too much time.
As one anti-social site friend said, “...How is this better than e-mail?” I agree............ but FB does get a bit addictive if one is not careful ;)
The article laid out the demos for each. You apparently disagree. Seemed to obvious to me.
The best “friend” I have though is a guy whose uncle went down in Vietnam while flying the F-105 about the same time my dad was over there. We have “connected” so deeply because we both have been researching what the Thud pilots did during the war. I am hoping we will get to meet for real next year during a reunion of fighter pilots. If not, I will forever be grateful for having “met” him. Find me on FB and stop by and say hello, if you are so inclined.
I resisted Facebook for a long time but... most of my family is in PA; I’m in FL. I have a lot of recent friends from IA, and some from before that in CO. There’s my brother in Iraq, other relatives everywhere from Africa to DC, and of course my Hobbit Hole friends from all over...
But then, as someone who made a lot of real friends on sites like FR, not to mention meeting my hubby here, I don’t draw weird distinctions between real friends and online friends. Heck, I talk to the mostly-online ones more than the “real life” ones I think.
Ditto!
I can beat that!
I talk to my eldest son on facebook and he’s just down the hall of our 900 square foot house! LOL!!
Beats hollerin’.
LOL, you win 2Jedismom.
LOL!
Zounds. I thought she was going to eat the other woman!
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