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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Matthew_S on May 31, 2007, 01:42:00 PM
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I like it.
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I'm barely active on Facebook. I joined because a friend started a dead baby jokes group. I needed new material.
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Can someone invite me? I want to check it out and those college jerks would never let a slob like me on there otherwise.
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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.
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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.
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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! >:(
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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.
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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.
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Not me, you won't.
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i think im too old for it.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/fashion/07Cyber.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
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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.
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that story reminds me of when I first went away to college. I didn't have a cell phone at the time, and my mom jokingly suggested getting an instant messenger account. I told he she better not, I would not respond there would be a phone in the room, she would be able to contact me.
My second day of school,
*be-loop*
hotrodsmom has sent you a message
would you like to accept?
I told her that if she wanted to talk to me she could call, but I was not going to communicate with my mother via IM. It just wasn't right, and even though only I knew about it, it was incredibly embarassing
She didn't talk to me after that, and did mostly as I joke, but she didn't sign off so my mom was signed in for a week before I talked to her and told she had to sign out, not just hit the x.
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Unfortunately, That reminds me of wanting to show my dad the safe porno sites that wouldn't wreck your computer to look at, and how to tell what's a good link and a bad spiral-of-porno-doom link so that he'd stop ruining the family computer. I should've just told him about fleshbot, basically. But there's some places you just can't go with your Pops. Especially if you're Irish Catholic.
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ouch
I cringed reading that
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sawry. I'll probably take it down tomorrow.
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I wonder how the writer of that article had been pronouncing Cartier-Bresson?
It can be mangled so terribly.
Maybe she said Car-Tee-Urr Bresson(rhymes with Wesson).
I think the following is correct, if a highly ridiculous explanation.
Bresson is like Robert Bresson but if you know him, you probably know how to pronounce this one too.
Mix the beginning of Breast (no t sound) and the beginning of song (no g sound, basically silent final n), slurring the s in the middle. Accent on first syllable.
Cartier is like the French jeweller but if ....
The hard part is the first syllable (Kar ---) The end is Tee-A (letter A / canadian "eh")).
Try the beginning of caramel, slurring the r into Tee-A. Slight accent on the Tee.
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holy bejesus im on face book!
i have to upload a profile but i got an invite and i freakin' accepted that sh*t.
i am SO FRIENDING YOU ALL
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OMFG! :o
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slightly embarrassing story.
when i was in college i wrote for the school paper. during the week that facebook was made available to my school, the rampant usage on campus caused the entire network to explode (or something highly technical that is the equivalent of an explosion). this frustration lead to a decision to pen an article about the ills of facebook. i think i renamed it "rapebook" and labeled it a perfect tool for stalkers and jocks trying to scout their next date-rape victim. it was rather scathing. in any event, i figured i'd sign up so i could see what kind of response the study body had for me.
not a damn thing. not one measly message in my facebook inbox. just like in conversation, nobody cared what i had to say in print.
my profile still sits relatively barren, profile picture of the randy burns album "i'm a lover not a fool" and all. so sad.
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not that i care, but apparently->
slobs:snobs::myspace:facebook
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/24/myspace_facebook_mir.html
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"As with all danah's work, this is provocative, insightful stuff that exposes the deeper lessons lurking beneath the tens of millions of profile pages on social networking sites.
'The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we'd call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.
MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, "burnouts," "alternative kids," "art fags," punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids whose parents didn't go to college, who are expected to get a job when they finish high school. Teens who are really into music or in a band are on MySpace. MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracized at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers.'"
Hey Danah, can you stick some more slang words in there? I don't think it's "provocative" enough yet. I'd like your piece to sound basically like the red-haired secretary in Ferris Bueller's Day Off explaining the appeal of Ferris to the principal.
Also, since when is it that all Latinos, immigrants, "burnouts", "alternative kids", "art fags", punks, emos, goths, gangstas, and queer kids are the children of non-college-attending parents? As a one-time card-carrying art fag/alternative kid whose parents went to college (hell one of them went to law schooL!) I resent that. Also, why does "burnouts" require quotation marks, but goths does not? "Burnouts" was in the popular lexicon while "goths" was still in diapers!
P.S. -- I read more of that woman's article and realized it's just some dumb thing someone threw into the ether without trying very hard. Resentment has been quelled.
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i went to college!
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I've joined the fray.
I noticed that there is a BestShow group. Not that I've exactly figured out the point of groups (or facebook) but is anyone a member?
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Yo!
I just got on this thing and sent out some make-a-friends.
So if any of yous get one from David Burns (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=673733443), that's me.
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I knew it!
Welcome aboard, Dorvid.
(So yeah, I'm also on that thing, as some you already know...) 8) ???
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I'm on the Facebook too. It's funny I was looking for this thread last night because I knew there was one but I couldn't find it with the search. I'm going to try to add some of you but I think I only recognize a few people from that group. If you get a friend request from a guy showing off an 04 Red Sox World Series ring with a pink tie, that's me.
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I joined for the Scrabulous, I stayed for that World Geography quiz thingy.
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I'm not sure I could juggle a myspace and a facebook at the same time. Or maybe I'm too ashamed to admit that I actually could.
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I'm on MySpace and Facebook, and I like Facebook a little better. I am trying not to get sucked into Scrabulous. Friend me.
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I'm on MySpace and Facebook, and I like Facebook a little better. I am trying not to get sucked into Scrabulous. Friend me.
Done-zo!
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Samir, I can't find you.
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I'm on MySpace and Facebook, and I like Facebook a little better. I am trying not to get sucked into Scrabulous. Friend me.
just give up and let it take you
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Any social networking site that has a Greasy Funk (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5795386387) group is ok by me.
One question, though: how do I join my alumni network if I no longer have a college email account?
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Samir, I can't find you.
http://ufl.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5201706 (http://ufl.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5201706)
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Any social networking site that has a Greasy Funk (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5795386387) group is ok by me.
One question, though: how do I join my alumni network if I no longer have a college email account?
Just make up an email address or use your old defunct one. Worked for me. As long as the end is right (for example umn.edu) it doesn't matter what is before it because it will email your confirmation to whatever other accounts you have set up as well.
Samir, I can't find you.
http://ufl.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5201706 (http://ufl.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5201706)
That link is just leading me to my home page....
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Just make up an email address or use your old defunct one. Worked for me. As long as the end is right (for example umn.edu) it doesn't matter what is before it because it will email your confirmation to whatever other accounts you have set up as well.
That didn't work for me, and I actually tried to contact the school to find my old email account.(I don't know why I'm bothering, either.)
This is re-opening old rifts between my album otter and me. They screwed me over from the first day (not accepting 9 transfer credits they later admitted they should have) to the last day (not having my name in the graduation program, not knowing I was supposed to graduate until I showed up in my gown).
Fuck George Mason. I got your Virginia Declaration of Rights right here.
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Just make up an email address or use your old defunct one. Worked for me. As long as the end is right (for example umn.edu) it doesn't matter what is before it because it will email your confirmation to whatever other accounts you have set up as well.
That didn't work for me, and I actually tried to contact the school to find my old email account.(I don't know why I'm bothering, either.)
This is re-opening old rifts between my album otter and me. They screwed me over from the first day (not accepting 9 transfer credits they later admitted they should have) to the last day (not having my name in the graduation program, not knowing I was supposed to graduate until I showed up in my gown).
Fuck George Mason. I got your Virginia Declaration of Rights right here.
Really? That worked for me on two seperate occasions. They must have cracked down. At least you guys had a nice run in the NCAA tourney awhile back. You have that going for you.
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I caved. I'm on facebook as Erika Suzanne.
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Anybody join this Facebook Group?
Friends of Tom - The Best Show on WFMU Global (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204904301)
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I think we all have.
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I just made a facebook account. It's weird. I feel like the new kid in school or something.
http://bennington.facebook.com/profile.php?id=673029854 (http://bennington.facebook.com/profile.php?id=673029854)
I'm on there as Beth Barrett
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Hi. Add me.
http://shu.facebook.com/profile.php?id=26808708
My name (on facebook) is A.M. Thomas.
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I've always been a little hesitant to post this but what the heck...
http://minnesota.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532551792 (http://minnesota.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532551792)
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As I rarely post here, I don't imagine many (anyone?) cares to "friend" me, but as I started this thread ... anyone interested, message me here and I'll pass along the info.
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my mom friended me the other day. that was weird.
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What's the funniest thing you've read in your Facebook feed?
Mine is "David wrote on the wall for the group 'Pee Outside' (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5694249711&ref=mf)".
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I had to quit facebook so as to eradicate a creep element in my life without openly banning them.