BigMoneyJim
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I'm more or less into Twitter but find myself not logging into FB to avoid people. I turned chat so I'm always "offline", so I guess that's not a valid excuse anymore, but it's the habit I'm in.
I first signed up for a cute girl I met while traveling, and then a bunch of people I used to sort of know found me. At first it seemed cool, but I don't really have anything to say to any of them, and I feel restricted in what I might post because they are politically and religiously nothing like me. I haven't defriended a bunch of people so far because it feels somehow rude.
Perhaps I can dig into the permissions and post only for certain groups, but that seems tedious, and twice since I've been on Facebook they've made changes compelling me to go update my security settings to my liking...er, less to my disliking, perhaps.
On the other hand FB indirectly improved relations between our somewhat recently divided extended family. Adding each other as friends was analogous to running into them in a public place and cordially saying "hi". I was scanning some family photos one weekend and put them up on FB, and somehow that sparked some renewed family ties.
One of FB's founder's goals was to map real life relationships, so I don't trust them at all. On the other hand, that ship may have sailed already with web ads that track you and shopping cards and credit and debit cards.
I have made a couple of FB groups for reading purposes. I don't care about most of the drivel my "friends" post, so I put family in one group, but I named it something arbitrary so it wasn't obvious it was a group of family.
And now a somewhat radical change of subject: My cousin has a coworker that has multiple fake FB profiles, and apparently this is a big thing, almost like a role-playing game only it's more escapist/voyeuristic fantasy than structured adventure and character-as-in-avatar building. These people get photos off the internet, talk about their (false) homes, (false) real social and daily life. They purport to date, marry and divorce others. It's as if your Sim has a FB page, only more involved. Weird.
I first signed up for a cute girl I met while traveling, and then a bunch of people I used to sort of know found me. At first it seemed cool, but I don't really have anything to say to any of them, and I feel restricted in what I might post because they are politically and religiously nothing like me. I haven't defriended a bunch of people so far because it feels somehow rude.
Perhaps I can dig into the permissions and post only for certain groups, but that seems tedious, and twice since I've been on Facebook they've made changes compelling me to go update my security settings to my liking...er, less to my disliking, perhaps.
On the other hand FB indirectly improved relations between our somewhat recently divided extended family. Adding each other as friends was analogous to running into them in a public place and cordially saying "hi". I was scanning some family photos one weekend and put them up on FB, and somehow that sparked some renewed family ties.
One of FB's founder's goals was to map real life relationships, so I don't trust them at all. On the other hand, that ship may have sailed already with web ads that track you and shopping cards and credit and debit cards.
I have made a couple of FB groups for reading purposes. I don't care about most of the drivel my "friends" post, so I put family in one group, but I named it something arbitrary so it wasn't obvious it was a group of family.
And now a somewhat radical change of subject: My cousin has a coworker that has multiple fake FB profiles, and apparently this is a big thing, almost like a role-playing game only it's more escapist/voyeuristic fantasy than structured adventure and character-as-in-avatar building. These people get photos off the internet, talk about their (false) homes, (false) real social and daily life. They purport to date, marry and divorce others. It's as if your Sim has a FB page, only more involved. Weird.