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I was an early adopter of Facebook back in the day it was only open to a handful of school (VERY early 2004). It was nice and exciting and whatnot. But I've l
by draz 16y ago
I was an early adopter of Facebook back in the day it was only open to a handful of school (VERY early 2004). It was nice and exciting and whatnot. But I've lost interest in it completely. I speculate that it's only newcomers that find it interesting. I now use FB only as a means of sending someone a quick note, getting invitations to events (a la evite -- remember that?), or maybe looking up a picture I was tagged in by a friend. If back in the day people put in their hobbies, activities, interests, and list of classes (yup, that was available. Great stalking tool...!), I find people's profiles completely empty.
Anybody with a different experience? Do you ACTUALLY use FB, or are you only drawn to it because of the reasons I outlined above?
Please note that I'm not hating on FB. They do what they do well. Just sharing my experience (and at this point, I will never ever be able to get a job at FB... ;-) ).
- abstractbill 16y agoDo you ACTUALLY use FB? Yes. It probably helps that my family, and my wife's family, are all several thousand miles away and we just had our first child. We spend a lot of time on both FB and Skype, keeping everyone up to date.
- draz 16y agoso why FB and not Twitter, for example? Is it the simplicity of having your photo album and messaging under the same platform?
- abstractbill 16y agoIntegration of photos, videos and messaging is definitely useful, as is the fact that all of our relatives have actually heard of facebook as opposed to twitter ;) I guess the other consideration is that facebook at least has some semblance of privacy, which is reassuring when posting photos and videos of someone too young to consent (or talk, for that matter).
- pilif 16y agoThank you for your remark in the second paragraph. I was beginning to think that I'm the only person on this planet concerned by all these "cute" baby pictures being posted publicly. Pictures which the person on it will likely be really ashamed of in a few years. Even though babies might look cute and you kinda might have "created" them, they are real people, not pets or lifeless objects. The same as you can't post pictures of a random person without their consent, you really shouldn't post pictures of your child. Leave the posting of their baby pictures to them, once they are old enough.
- whatusername 16y agoPhoto Tagging and the News Feed are possibly facebooks two greatest inventions. They also have: 2 way relationships, some measure of privacy, simplicity of use, Integrated Chat/Messaging, ubiquity, inertia