What are your thoughts on Facebook?

I don't use facebook to stay in touch with family. I need to get in touch with a family member? I call them. For me, facebook is good for staying in touch with all my friends from middle school, college, acting classes, etc. It's just a nice way to stay connected.

As for twitter, I do have one. However, whereas on facebook I'll do dull statuses like "I'm reading so-and-so book", I usually go to Twitter when I have more interesting/humorous things to say.

I love my family, but have recently found it necessary to limit their access to my Facebook feed. It's not that I'm posting wild content. I'm fairly conservative compared to many of my friends. It's just the older my family members get the more they turn into Quakers. It's best to keep their access to a minimum so I don't have to hear from the peanut gallery. And de-friending family members entirely is out of the question. I mean, it's family!

i think i may need to look into that. hahaha. i have had a few problems with my family and facebook....

Ah, someone who shares the same opinion as me. Probably the first person I know to say it, mind you- with the exception of my parents. x3 I'm not gonna criticise people with a facebook, because I can understand why people use it (and secondly, that's /alot/ of people I'd be criticising, cripes), but it's really not my cup of tea. For the record, I'm a member of a good number of sites, but the closest I've ever gotten to the whole social-networking thing is tumblr (I did/do have a myspace, which I made about 5 years ago, and I honestly didn't log into it once), and I can't lie... I really like the site- it's lyk a virtual scrapb00k guizzz! But seriously, I can't lie, I am a wee bit addicted. xP that an dA, and even though I do share personal info I /guess/ with my dA i.d. and occasionally in my journal I don't consider it a social-networking website.

I don't have a facebook or a mobile phone, and as a teen my peers obviously find this really weird. I like it, but whatever. xD I don't want a mobile phone, and I don't intend on getting one until I /really/, desperately need one. In the meantime, I don't want people texting me and being able to contact me where ever I go (I must sound really anti-social, but that's not the case, I assure you). Secondly, my parents would have to end up paying for it, and I wouldn't want them to, but I wouldn't pay for it either. x33 It's hard to explain. ;p

I had my first /real/ exposure to facebook (if that makes sense) not too long ago at a friends place. It was... I don't know. Weird. She had people in her contacts that she never talked to, including people who she -to be honest- didn't really like. Everyone adds eachother to facebook, and yet many of these people wouldn't be caught dead talking to you in 'real life'. This could be just a teen thing, keep in mind. Not to blame facebook as such, but some of the stuff that people put up there is... far out. *__* The pictures! I know it's up to the individual but those people are gonna have a rough time finding a job, some of the stuff on it is just wow. But yeah, I don't intend on making one. ;P I /do/ have a twitter, but I barely go on it. I made one because an old friend had one and it did look kind of fun but I haven't got anything to say. xD Cookies to those people who have really witty or just generally awesome posts (all my friend did was just complain about being tired ), but I am bad with it. Maybe if I'm a famous person one day in another life peeps will follow me. I just suck at it, and again, tumblr is brill.

Did you guys hear the disturbing story on the news last night about this lady who accepted a friend invite from a guy she didn't really know that well from high school? She accepted his invite, assuming he was reaching out to her and was wanting to reconnect, and suddenly he started sending her disturbing messages all the time about how back in high school, he wanted to have kids with her, and telling her things like he could've chopped her up and no one would know it, he could've slit her throat and drank her blood, etc. Her mother, who happened to be a cop, found out about it, and told her to contact the police, and he's been arrested and faces I forget how many years in prison, without bail, for planning her death.

This is exactly why I only add people that I know/trust.

See it's that kind of thing that some people are annoyed about regarding Facebook. It takes far too many liberties with people's information. Someone in one of my classes talked about how Facebook announced what movies she had just bought tickets for because she used an online service. What's next, Facebook telling everyone what bank you used?

Funny thing about our liberties, they're often taken away from us gradually so we think it's no big deal, before we even know what's going on.

I don't fault facebook for any of that. It is up to each individual to monitor their own privacy settings. It's not so difficult and if an individual still can't figure it out they can google how (like anything else). Facebook, like any other social media, is as private or as open as the user allows. However, to the uninformed it can be like giving a monkey a gun. I'd rather not dumb things down for people who don't think before they act.

I agree. However I also think it's in Facebook's interest to break our privacy rather than keep it.

agree as well...its up to the user what he or she wishes to share....no matter what website its asks you first if you want to post this information on Facebook...it never forces you to post it


freddyfrills as for you...even with fake info you must've done something , searched for a friend or maybe the email you used...it doesn't just automatically assume who you are

Personally I have better things to do with my life than learn Facebook's little rules just so my own privacy is kept. They're making all the rules and I don't like it. That's why I won't sign up.

l like facebook a lot but its to distracting when you are trying to do things like essays but still like it

thats fine,every one is entitled to feel the way they do...and im not picking on you personally...its just most of the time i see people complain about facebook sharing all thier info and privacy and where they are is because they put it their themselves

Oh yeah totally, and it's OK I don't feel picked on, hehe. I agree that people are the ones who need to be careful with their own information. I just question Facebook's tactics, that's all.

It's just minimal common sense, but like any other space - - you must feel comfortable in order to utilize it. Going with it if you don't feel right is just as destructive as demonizing what you don't quite understand. There's nothing wrong with Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, email, the internet, iphones, videogames or any other type of media. It's just how each individual decides to use it. To claim otherwise is mere ignorance that i don't think anyone here is trying to state.

Facebook is not only good for keeping up with old friends, but it's also good for networking with other animal rights activists.

After giving the matter a lot of thought and pondering, I've decided that after six years, I will be in the process of closing my MySpace account.

Over the years, I have not really been able to build up a steady friends list, mainly because half of them would either unfriend me because they want only "certain" friends to be seen on their friends list, or they had left MySpace altogether.

On top of that, ever since that "necessary evil" that is Facebook came along, MS has really suffered, because it stopped caring about the people who use it, and cared only about looking for ways to beat off competition from FB, even though MS was ALREADY SUPERIOR BECAUSE IT WAS USER-FRIENDLY, EASY TO NAVIGATE, YOU COULD CUSTOMIZE YOUR PROFILE, AND WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS LIKE PROFILES THAT WAS TOO OVERLY CUSTOMIZED WITH LARGE FILES AND GRAPHICS IT WAS MUCH MUCH FASTER THAN FB WAS/IS. Now that MS has Facebookified itself, it's become cluttered, confusing, non-user-friendly, very difficult to navigate, and slow as mollases... sometimes it takes me five minutes just to post a simple status update; not to mention how MS always suddenly went all YouTube on us and FORCED us all to switch to new profile designs that nobody liked to begin with... why? Because they wanted our profiles to look more like FB profiles.

I really only used MS for blogging anymore, and as an excuse to have a website for my "work", but a few months ago, I simply went and got myself a Blogger account and opened up a new site where I can still blog my work updates as necessary, so there's really no need for me to keep my MS account open any longer, because nobody really reads my status updates anyway.

So, yeah... after six years, my MS will be closed soon.

as well as meeting other puppeteers....once i joined facebook, my popularity and puppeteer entourage has definitely grown as ive been able to network and find.work with other local puppeteers..some even in my own backward....aswell as find extras and friends willing to work with me on video stuff


and of course other muppet fans

just a heads up MS is a little tricky when closing your profile....i actually closed it twice...because the first time i apparently didnt do it the right way

I'd also like to add that when I deleted my account, it took about 5 days for it to actually delete from their system

As much as I get a kick out of Facebook I for the most part agree with that.