Facebook

[cjsmith]

I joined the dark side.

That thing could eat up the entire rest of my life. Fortunately, I tend to lose interest in between clicking on something and seeing the results.* This allows me to continue to do homework.

Now I think I need the basic two-minute tutorial. Rob's been over the initial setup with me, which is good, or my e-mail inbox would be dead. But I don't really know how to use anything yet.

- When somebody does a "wall-to-wall" at you, how do you reply to their comment?
- What in blazes do you do with "gifts" (not!) of "things" (virtual) that want you to enable some app and donate even more of your time? Is ignoring these considered rude?
- When someone you do not recognize at all asks to friend you, what is the socially acceptable way to say "I haven't the foggiest who you are"?

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*If you ever want to know what a web site is made of, use it with a two-year-old browser. Whoo-eee. It's like a cardiac stress test for web code. The patient might look and feel just fine most of the time, but this will highlight every clogged artery.

Comments

[janetl.livejournal.com]

The most unsettling thing about Facebook is that Everyone Is There. It's disconcerting -- teh internets used to be kind of exclusive. I just joined in December, and I'm still trying to figure out this mix-up of nephews, sisters, co-workers and friends. I'm more in touch with my out of town relatives than I've been in years, which (for me) is a positive.

The stream-of-consciousness status updates can be amusing, and brief comments threads on them are genuine, linked threads.

Using the "wall-to-wall" link does make those a bit more intelligible, but I don't think whole wall post thing makes much sense.

Step through that "10 privacy settings every Facebook user should know" pointed out above -- it's very helpful. If you don't want your grandma to see what you're doing, use the friend list feature to make some posts only visible to people on a particular list.

When friend A sends you an app, one of the options is to block that app. I always block, which turns down that request from A, and also means I'll never see another request for that app from friends B through Z. I think that when you ignore a request, or block an app, nothing actually goes back to the person who sent it. They dropped a pebble into a well, and just never hear a splash.

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

They dropped a pebble into a well, and just never hear a splash.


I love this metaphor!

Yeah, the GOOD thing about Facebook is that you don't have to even have that "sorry, I don't know you!" explanatory conversation, at all. You can just "ignore" the friend request, and they won't even be notified of it.