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Topic: Facebook Not for Gen-exers
| Author | Message |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 7/8/2008 4:33:38 PM | show profile I cannot figure out how to see other people's photo books who are not my friends. Apparently some people's names are blue when you do a search and you can click on them and see their status message and photos. How come that doesn't happen for me? My friend and I were looking at the same person's name (a bully from HS) and the bully's name was blue for her and not for me, and she is not friends with the bully. How do I fix that???? I feel like a stupid not-so-hip Exer. Ugh. |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 7/8/2008 4:39:35 PM | show profile I admit I'm sort of Facebook-stupid too. |
| df | Posted – 7/8/2008 4:48:09 PM | show profile we are now trying to figure out how to built a 'fan' - aka brand page - forever, and everyone in our office relies on our youngest team member, because we can't figure out how it really works. I keep thinking that' show my mom feels when I talk about just right clicking the picture to download it. or its just a crummy not user friendly site (my opinion). and of course, if you want to place ads, no way anybody ever will call you back or email back. so if you have an in, I'd be more then interested (or if you can explain how to build that site, please, please, please?) |
| Jill of all trades | Posted – 7/8/2008 4:50:39 PM | show profile It has something to do with networks. If you're part of a city or alumni or workplace network, you can see the profiles of people in that network who haven't opted out of being seen. Have your friend tell you how fat and/or ugly he's gotten. |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 7/8/2008 4:53:30 PM | show profile Actually....she turned into a stripper drag queen, but I can't see all the pictures...just her profile pic... Thanks, Jill...Oh, and nice name. |
| bella donna | Posted – 7/8/2008 4:56:26 PM | show profile It has to do with the bully's privacy settings. If he allows "friends of friends" or people in the same network to view his profile and photos then that may be why your friend can view his photos. |
| beachbum | Posted – 7/8/2008 5:06:16 PM | show profile seems like she's still being a bully for not letting you see her pics! lol |
| Jill of all trades | Posted – 7/8/2008 5:54:39 PM | show profile Wow, a stripper drag queen! Now there's a reason to go to your next reunion. Regarding your (and DF's) points about Facebook not being so user-friendly-- it's totally not, and they basically own all of your content. So no copying and pasting someone's email address from their profile, and occasional annoyances with downloading photos. Still, there's Scrabulous. And gawking at bullies turned stripper drag queens. |
| worldofnatasha | Posted – 7/8/2008 8:32:40 PM | show profile oh, i worship facebook -- updating my status and reading my friends' updates make me feel social and connected and like I'm not a complete hermit, even when I'm on such a deadline I don't have time for a two-line email or two minute phone call... I don't do anything else on facebook (I got tired of fighting zombies, and my fluff-friend was always in a surly mood from being ignored) but the status updates are a total lifeline for work-at-home writers... I update mine sometimes twice a day. so great! |
| WordyBird | Posted – 7/8/2008 9:41:23 PM | show profile The beauty of Facebook is that you can choose who can see your photos--in network, friends of friends, friends only, etc. Too bad the 4,672,966 applications suck louder than my Hoover. Really, Facebook is awful. Just awful. I get more nonsense crap on there than I *ever* got on MySpace. |
| WordyBird | Posted – 7/8/2008 9:46:53 PM | show profile Also, the constant updates are LUDICROUS. "Billy Joe and Franky Funk are now friends." Okay, I can see that. But then they start becoming ridiculous. "Mary Jane commented on Suzie Q's photo." "Kenny wrote on Cartman's wall." "Friend With No Life has added [another bleepin'] application [and will now spam you to add it, as well]. "Joe farted." Come on already. No one needs to know that kind of minutiae. |
| caitlinkelly | Posted – 7/9/2008 11:09:58 AM | show profile Not having used either of these -- plenty busy as it is, and only using LinkedIn right now -- if you had to choose between Facebook and its competitors, which would you choose and why? What exactly is the value of each, beyond being wildly social 24/7? (Which, clearly, is of great value to some people.) To me, it's less generational than the value I currently place on my time -- income-generating vs. dick-around. To relax, even to feel more connected to the world at large, I'd rather (yes, I'm a dinosaur) listen to NPR/BBC or read a book. Which is most useful professionally, to find "real people" as sources, for example? LinkedIn has proven useless for me on a recent request. |
| abqwriter | Posted – 7/9/2008 11:47:45 AM | show profile Facebook is supposed to be adding a new app to the iPhone app store. Just imagine - now you can find out all those updates while you're on the move! :) |
| chucho | Posted – 7/9/2008 12:33:21 PM | show profile I prefer MySpace and only for people whom I've met face to face. Facebook is filled with too many little pointless notifications (supposedly you can disable them all, but when I used it I was never able to do so -- it doesn't disable ALL superfluous notifications). MySpace is more populist, and allows you to more easily post music and videos and nearly everyone making music has a MySp profile. So basically I used MySp as a sort of multimedia email account for people I know who also use MySp. It's the best way to blog anonymously, since MySp blogs don't show up on general Google searches. In other words, you can keep the blog public, but unless you go to MySp and search specifically for my blog (under my pseudonym) you would never find it. I also like how you can customize MySp with CSS and I don't get nearly as much unsolicited messages. But yeah, for the most part unless you're in a band it's pretty much a times waster. I control this by basically sticking to using it for connections with people I know. It is better than email in a lot of ways, socially speaking. Another cool thing about MySp: you can use your real name, but it won't post it. So others can search for your real name and find your profile even if you choose not to make your name public. |
