JD - Facebook

[ZEZOZE]

well i'll have to add you as a friend then.

[Dingfod]

That's okay with me.

[One for Sorrow]

I have both, although I really have no idea how to use Facebook. Right now, the only friend I have on there is my Auntie.

wah!

* One for Sorrow is a friendless freak.

I signed up for it because literally everyone at UNC-CH seems to have one, and a few people told me that they tried to look me up. When I told them I didn't have one, they looked at me as though I had three heads.

Yet, I'm still a friendless freak.

I'm here on MySpace, though: myspace.com/oneforsorrow84

And I'm Jessica Fadness on Facebook, if you can find me.

[Dingfod]

You have a friend now.

[ZEZOZE]

i added you Jessica Fadness...that's a cool name.

[wildernesse]

Duh, I forgot I could link to my profile at myspace easily until I read One for Sorrow's post.

[curses]

Added warren p dingfod III

Added wildernesse to myspace

[biochemgirl]

This thread is entirely responsible for me registering on Facebook and wasting a good hour.

I am on Myspace already.

[inland wave]

cute dog.

[biochemgirl]

And she knows it to. She gets away with everything.

[JoeP]

Jesus, this was a long time ago. Another era.

Originally Posted by Farren

JD - you said you had a facebook profile. Wanna be my friend? My profile is here:

My profile

Originally Posted by curses

Ooh, just saw this and it got me wondering..how many other people use facebook here?
* curses raises hand

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

I have one, but I don't really know how to use it. I tried to add Farren, but it didn't work, unless I'm just waiting for him to approve the add or something. Anywho, I'm ensignsteve on there, if anyone wants to add me.

Originally Posted by viscousmemories

I've been meaning to look at Facebook since reading an article about it in Wired. I think I'll do that now.

This thread is more than 4764 days old. The topic, Facebook, has most likely meandered from its original newness and unfamiliarity and morphed into an information-harvesting vampire. Some of the thread participants may no longer be active on FF having been seduced by the dark side.

[Ensign Steve]

Oh! I'm so excited people are still interested in this.

Update: I don't use Facebook anymore.

Which is a lie, but I use it in such a way that I can almost plausibly deny using it anymore.

I look at it and scroll through what my friends and loved ones are posting, but I don't "like" or otherwise react to anything.

I ask my friends and family (mostly bey) to tag me in posts, so that me-related stuff shows up in my timeline without my having to do it.

I very occasionally react or comment on posts in private groups that nobody I know belongs to.

Since March of last year, the only visible things I have done were to change my profile photo to a pic of Ripley when she died, change it back to me in my Dodgers cap when they made the playoffs, and one time I commented "omg means!" on some innocuous post somebody made about video game graphics. I thought dropping the comment would be more earth-shattering than it was, considering it was my only activity in forever, but it turns out people don't pay that much attention after all.

[Ari]

One of the many problems with the opaque trough that is the facebook feed, whenever I see someone in my feed I haven’t seen in awhile, my first thought isn’t “oh they finally posted to facebook again” but “oh facebook has started showing me their posts again.”

Except for the people it overloads my feed with, I have really little clue how much or little others use it, and I’m pretty sure that’s by design. It irritatingly connects me to a few people that I like and are out of state, otherwise I would drop it.

[curses]

Holy zombie thrad, JoeP! Also Dingfod

I spend entirely too much time on Facebook, until I get irritated with it and spend a week not looking at it at all. Stupid soul sucking social media.

[ChuckF]

Cool thread OP, what is the facebook like? It sounds like a cool website and not democracy destroying, is it still in business?

[vremya]

Wow, Dingfod, Wildy, One for Sorrow, Ninja mom biochemgirl....

I stop by Facebook a couple times a day, looking at chonky cats mostly

[ShottleBop]

I use FB to keep in touch with family and friends, and also to hold up the liberal-as-fuck end of the political conversation.

[Stormlight]

I barely look at it anymore and thought about deleting my account.

[Miisa]

I mostly lurk these days. Skip lots of stuff. Laugh at others. Even post when the existentialism gets too acute or I have too many feels to contain.

My main gripe is that I don't know who most of you are as you don't use your real names over there.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Miisa

My main gripe is that I don't know who most of you are as you don't use your real names over there.

Hey, are you on Facebook?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I never signed up. Should I?

[slimshady2357]

Unlike most here I actually use facebook more now than ever before. I used to avoid it like the plague, but all my various family in Canada use it. I eventually found that it's an easy way to let them know what is happening in our lives as well as find out what is happening there. I do feel shame though.

A couple other ways I use it:

i) play scrabble and yahtzee with ma and pa
ii) post articles/links/tweets (usually fighting against something like COVID denial or racism or fascism)

I don't know, I scroll past a LOT of shite, but there is an occasional nugget of quality.

[specious_reasons]

Facebook keeps me coming back because a couple of podcasts have active and friendly fan groups. Also, this is how I keep in contact with some JREFugees.

[Ymir's blood]

Originally Posted by specious_reasons

Facebook keeps me coming back because a couple of podcasts have active and friendly fan groups. Also, this is how I keep in contact with some JREFugees.

That is an interesting term... care to share the story?

[Ymir's blood]

This makes me think of the first years of this forum and how we went from being IIDB users looking for a more social setting to forming our own identity (and having to deal with constant posts by disgruntled IIDBrs long after we ceased to care)