Facebook

[Matthew_S]

A couple of my wife's friends are pushing her to sign up with Facebook in order to keep in touch more easily -- we left Canada and they stayed.

Worthwhile?  Glorified/lesser myspace/friendster?  Is anyone (over 22 or so) really using these?

[John Junk]

someone seven years my junior asked me to join, and I did as a lark, but it's not really floatin' my boat.  It's faster and easier to use than friendter, significantly less sleezy than myspace, but I'm goddamn 29 years old and I have found about 4 people I know on it --but I think that's because I graduated college in 2000, long before the friendspace/mybook/facester social networking revolution.

[Susannah]

John, I'll be your friend on Facebook!

I think it's better-designed, more practical and easier to use than MySpace; I also like the RSS feed function and a few other things. But for the most part, I'd say that it's not really that different from MySpace if you're not a college student.  It started out in early 2003, during my sophomore year of college, and it was useful for doing stuff like looking up people in classes and getting homework assignments. (I'm a dork.)  It's also automatically more private than MySpace, as you can only see the full profiles of people who are in your "network," academic, geographic or otherwise.

[Dan B]

I like it.

[Laurie]

I'm barely active on Facebook. I joined because a friend started a dead baby jokes group. I needed new material.

[Chris L]

Can someone invite me?  I want to check it out and those college jerks would never let a slob like me on there otherwise. 

[Dan B]

Can someone invite me?  I want to check it out and those college jerks would never let a slob like me on there otherwise. 

done.

[Josh]

Can someone invite me?  I want to check it out and those college jerks would never let a slob like me on there otherwise. 

The doors are open:

Anyone can join Facebook
All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To connect with coworkers or classmates, use your school or work email address to register. Once you register, join a regional network to connect with the people in your area.

[Chris L]

Can someone invite me?  I want to check it out and those college jerks would never let a slob like me on there otherwise. 

done.

Thanks!  But they dropped their invitation policy?  I hate that they're just letting any slob join Facebook now! 

[Gregory]

I'm on it.
I like it, it's a nice time waster
if you're lookin for friends on it, I'd be happy to be one


I like it more than myspace because the ads are less in-your-face.

a big thumbs down for me about facebook is how it tracks all your actions on the site, and all the new applications are kind of dumb.

There's a best show group on there too, but I left it after Tom officially denounced facebook one night.

[Tyrannosaurus Rocks]

I use it to make sure girls I'm hitting on don't have boyfriends. It's useful for that. Now I'm going to log in and find every single one of you.

[Sarah]

Not me, you won't.

[Emily]

i think im too old for it.

[Matthew_S]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/fashion/07Cyber.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

[Sarah]

I wonder how the writer of that article had been pronouncing Cartier-Bresson?

I sympathize with her, though.  I have no children to make me feel unwelcome on the Internet, but I do sometimes wonder how some of the people with whom I interact would respond if they knew how ancient I am.  Not here, and not on my Buffy board, but in my slow-moving zombie game, where many of the players are true babies, I think I might be dismissed as some kind of creep if they knew anything about me.  Oh, they can guess from the way I write that I'm not a child, but if they knew the truth, I think many would shun me.  Actually, I think if they knew my sex, they'd do the same or at least start treating me very differently.  So I will remain sexless and anonymous to all but a few, just so my peculiar enjoyment of this dull pursuit will not be tainted.