I signed up for Facebook a couple months ago, only after I made a trip back home to see the A-list and everyone nagged me incessantly about my lack of presence there. They also got on my case about not being on MySpace, but I hate MySpace. I just won't do it.
I've long been avoiding getting involved with all these various online networking things and am just now I'm starting to see their value. I'm on LinkedIn and I can see how it would be a sweet job search tool, you know, if I were actually looking for a job. MySpace has become the hub for musicians to advertise events and showcase their music, which I think is odd for creative types because MySpace is mostly an ugly piece of crap. Facebook seems to be the tool that I can use to keep in touch with people from past lives, apparently complete with random people from high school that I don't even know. I never know what to do with these types of friend requests. So far I've just ignored them.
Facebook is especially fun for the "creeping"; this is what one of my friends calls it when she browses Facebook profiles to find interesting gossip or to casually stalk other people. I'm pretty sure that everyone on Facebook does this. You can tell a lot by creeping around in others' photos, walls, and friend lists. You can make stunning realizations like how attractive/unattractive people you used to know have become, who is dating whom, and what people are doing with their hair these days. It's all very addictive and all very useful, actually.
My Facebook friend list is rather modest by some I've seen. I only have 36 friends so far, but somehow that seems like enough (right, Jill? 
). I haven't done that auto-import from your address book thing though. Maybe that would pick up a few stragglers.
2 Comments
1 Jill
Posted July 3, 2007 at 10:41 pmPermalink
they just find you... and eventually you have to make a decision with the 'i kind knew you when we were in high school' friend requests. or - at least eventually i felt pressured to decide.
hope you are getting excited to move! tty soon
j
2 kasia
Posted July 5, 2007 at 4:29 amPermalink
actually, I have heard people say that facebook is very bad for creeping, and that myspace is much better for this. With myspace, you can creep on people how are not your friends. So, you can look at ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend (in the case of my friend). Definitely not something you can do on facebook.
I have close to 300 "friends" on facebook, including people I neither know, nor care about from high school. oh well. it is neat to see what they are up to. I just add them from other people's lists. For the most part, if I ever knew them, or had a conversation with them in high school, I added them.
it will be useful for you in school next year. at least I am hoping that it will be a good way to keep in contact with new people I meet. I hope!
did you hear I am taking french for 6 weeks this term? I am nervous. You should come here and take it with me!
Are you getting nervous about the move? I sure am. I have lived here for 6 years, if you can believe it.
Are you still planning the cross country trip?