MORE IMPORTANT THAN TEXTING?!?!?!?!??!
― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
That is pretty harsh.
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Au contraire. I think a lot of people use it for exactly that reason. That's the impression I've gotten, anyway.
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
hi, do you know the internet?
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
It's not that social networking replaces your social life, it just... mediates it. Instead of personally inviting people to parties via word of mouth/telephone/email or just throwing it up on a flyer, you're sending it to a reasonably targeted, much larger group than you'd be comfortable calling. The downside is that pretty soon you're doing the majority of communication through there, any "event" that can vary from a party or concert to two people sitting around drunk turns into some "scandalous" photo diary, and there's the online backchannel that sucks everyone in.
I've been around people where there's this obnoxious feedback loop where they're pretty much trying to come up with new people to befriend and more pictures/content to put up on things like myspace, and half of what they talk about is myspace. Urgh.
― business up front, party entrance at side door (mike h.), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Still, why is word of mouth/telephone/email an inherently better form of communication? I agree that it's a "larger group than you'd be comfortable calling" but I think that's very likely a good thing. For example, tonight I'm going to play soccer with a casual friend from a class. He invited me and the rest of the group with a facebook message. It would have been awkward for an acquaintance to call/email, and probably would have never happened.
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― starke (starke), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― business up front, party entrance at side door (mike h.), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I had a friend whose girlfriend changed her facebook relationship status to "single" in order to make him jealous, or something.
― 31g (31g), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
putting yr actual girlfriend/boyfriend as 'wife' or 'husband' on facebook is kind of crepey though, surely it should refer only to actual married spouses or to best friends.
― permanent revolution (cis), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
which reminds me ... enrique, are you still gonna be in glasgow this weekend?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
haha this is true.
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I know a fair amount of Johnston & Wales -- a local culinary school -- on there.
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't know anyone obsessed with it, though. thank heavens.
― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link
http://badge.facebook.com/badge/36910239.80.948704031.png
― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
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YesterdayBrian is single. 12:19pm
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Molly Daniel is hating facebook right about now. 9:59am
Molly Daniel joined the group I hate the new facebook. 9:39am
Molly Daniel joined the group Students against Facebook's "Mini-Feed". 4:52am
Danielle Cohen joined the group WE HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK FACELIFT. 3:39am
Ann Marie Coddington added new photos. 3:19am
Lauren "Philly" Grimsley wrote a new note. 2:59amTHIS IS WACK!!!THIS FACEBOOK SHIT IS WACK...CUZ ACCORDING TO FACEBOOK I KNOW WHAT U DID ONE MINUTE AGO, 3 HOURS AGO ANDDD THIS WEEKEND!!!Continue reading...
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
It spread this summer beyond Trinity in Ireland. And resulted in much "Oh no! PLebs!" type comments.Bebo is more popular here for the reason that you can find your old school friends and facebook wasn't available to anyone with anything less than an (a)tcd.ie address. Radio stations, music things etc have bebo pages rather than MySpace, which seemed a bit odd to me. I committed beboicide a while back. Considering commiting Facebookicide.
That said it's been handy for me, esp now that people I know are scattered to the winds, to toronto and cambridge and london and shit. There's no option for saying you're a drop out though..
The new changes are horrible. I mean it was a bit weird before that you could check who's profile had changed, go see and not notice or realise what had changed. But this is odd. It should be possible to disable it.
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link