Facebook is Incredible

[KWarp]

I'm not saying this to promote the site or be anti-myspace or anything. Facebook is a genuinely excellent service and frankly I'm astonished.

A few things I like:
Unlimited photos. Incredible uploading and organizing software.
Same for event management.
Clean, solid interface with non-intrusive ads.
It's fast.

[Arek the Absolute]

Facebook helped me avoid my ex while visiting Berkeley. No joke. I.Medley used it to see what dorm she lived in, and we avoided it as much as possible.
Thanks to facebook, I avoided emotional stress! *thumbs up*

[Zaid]

^ you panzy.

But ya Facebook is definitly a great service. Clean interface unlike myspace. It also actually does have alot of features that are disguised in a very simple interface without the annoying in your face look of alot of other community sites like that.

[Arek the Absolute]

Calling someone something when you have no idea about the backstory is really ridiculous.
Anyhow, as soon as I transfer to Berkeley, I will have a point in making one. Considering that right now I am at a JC, it wouldn't serve much of a purpose.

[Fenrir]

Facebook is helping me keep in touch with my friends from Japan now.

[blueblazer1224]

I always thought of Facebook as an electronic "Address Book" on steroids. :lol:

[Bahamut]

All these social networking sites are meh. People spend too much of their time on them.

[Murmeli Walan]

I do hate the people who feel the need to check facebook/myspace 37 times a day, but for me, I like facebook because I can check it once every other day or so and keep in touch with friends from work or high school or my college classes.

[Native Jovian]

All these social networking sites are meh. People spend too much of their time on them.
I do hate the people who feel the need to check facebook/myspace 37 times a day
Yes.

[Katsurugi]

I have mixed feelings towards Facebook. Though yes, it gives me another medium to contact other people that I may not know so well as to call them, it's kind of flakey. There are people who really attempt to get as many 'friends' as possible and in a way show off how many other people they know.

A lot of these communication tools already exist. When someone writes on your wall or something, you essentially get an e-mail from Facebook notifying that something has been written there. Then you have to go to the site and log in and then read it. It really is no trouble, however, it could have been easier if the original person just sent you an e-mail in the first place. As for groups, there are other sites that provide this as well such as Yahoo or Google even. But I feel that when you do register for something like Facebook, it's more of an agreement that "yes, I am willing to be contacted in this fashion." Therefore, it's a bit less awkward for me to send another person an e-mail and have him or her wonder where I got the e-mail address and why I'm sending anything to him or her.

OCRemix Facebook group:
http://cooper.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210239078

Just to note, I probably am one of those people that checks e-mail, Facebook, online forums multiple times a day. It's not that I'm obsessed with prying into people's lives. But it gives me something to do and in truth, I've been going to a new school where I haven't really made any friends and talking to someone familiar is far easier than making introductions and going through all the formal pleasantries. So in essence, I'm just socially starved. :roll:

[FuriousFure]

well, i sorta figured it all out. facebook/myspace is not an adress book on steriods, its a online penpal organization. you can write notes to people or comment on them and not see them for how ever long of a time. it all works out.
yeah, its good cause it helps me stay in touch with all my disspersed highschool friends.

[megadave]

I spend about 4 or 5 minutes on myspace every two or three days, so I don't have a problem with it. I hate using it, but it's completely retarded to not use it when you're in a band.

I must say that facebook looks a lot better. I start going blind if I stare at a myspace page for too long.

[DarkCecil13]

I have mixed feelings towards Facebook. Though yes, it gives me another medium to contact other people that I may not know so well as to call them, it's kind of flakey. There are people who really attempt to get as many 'friends' as possible and in a way show off how many other people they know.

A lot of these communication tools already exist. When someone writes on your wall or something, you essentially get an e-mail from Facebook notifying that something has been written there. Then you have to go to the site and log in and then read it. It really is no trouble, however, it could have been easier if the original person just sent you an e-mail in the first place. As for groups, there are other sites that provide this as well such as Yahoo or Google even. But I feel that when you do register for something like Facebook, it's more of an agreement that "yes, I am willing to be contacted in this fashion." Therefore, it's a bit less awkward for me to send another person an e-mail and have him or her wonder where I got the e-mail address and why I'm sending anything to him or her.

OCRemix Facebook group:
http://cooper.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210239078

Just to note, I probably am one of those people that checks e-mail, Facebook, online forums multiple times a day. It's not that I'm obsessed with prying into people's lives. But it gives me something to do and in truth, I've been going to a new school where I haven't really made any friends and talking to someone familiar is far easier than making introductions and going through all the formal pleasantries. So in essence, I'm just socially starved. :roll:

I have to say that Facebook totally pwns. I've found so many childhood friends and have developed some great relationships with people cause of Facebook. =) And BTW, join the OCR Facebook group. Thx.

[weggy]

All these social networking sites are meh. People spend too much of their time on them.
I do hate the people who feel the need to check facebook/myspace 37 times a day
Yes.

Also agreed. I have a sparse bare facebook page I maybe check once every 3 months, and I dont even have a myspace account.

I dont feel I need some massive social network to keep in touch with my "friends". No person has 500+ friends they keep in touch with on a regular basis. If those people really were my friends, I would hang out with them, or call them, or IM them or something. I dont need a website to do that.

And yes, people who check their facebook/myspace more than a couple times a day need help.

[UnforgivingEdges]

I only use it to see if hot chicks in my classes have boyfriends :3

[Gollgagh]

I do hate the people who feel the need to check facebook/myspace 37 times a day

That would be my roommate.

[The Mutericator]

All these social networking sites are meh. People spend too much of their time on them.

That's hardly the site's fault.

[!Nekko!]

All these social networking sites are meh. People spend too much of their time on them.
Forum sites are so me. People waste so much time making over 10k posts on them.

<3

We all have our vices.

[The Mutericator]

All these social networking sites are meh. People spend too much of their time on them.
Forum sites are so me. People waste so much time making over 10k posts on them.

<3

We all have our vices.

Irony +1.

[I-n-j-i-n]

It's basically MySpace but with annoying, totally random pictures.

[Steben]

It's basically MySpace but with annoying, totally random pictures.
What.

I'm very confused as to how you could find Facebook more annoying than MySpace. The entire interface is so much cleaner, and I don't have to listen to your crappy music when I visit your profile.

[The Mutericator]

It's basically MySpace but with annoying, totally random pictures.
What.

I'm very confused as to how you could find Facebook more annoying than MySpace. The entire interface is so much cleaner, and I don't have to listen to your crappy music when I visit your profile.

Injin, flamebaiting? Never.

[sgx]

All these social networking sites are meh. People spend too much of their time on them.
I do hate the people who feel the need to check facebook/myspace 37 times a day
Yes.

Also agreed. I have a sparse bare facebook page I maybe check once every 3 months, and I dont even have a myspace account.

I dont feel I need some massive social network to keep in touch with my "friends". No person has 500+ friends they keep in touch with on a regular basis. If those people really were my friends, I would hang out with them, or call them, or IM them or something. I dont need a website to do that.

And yes, people who check their facebook/myspace more than a couple times a day need help.

I hate it when people invite me to parties on facebook, but don't actually tell me about it. That's a good way to NOT have me come to your party. I check facebook maybe 4 times a year and ignore the emails most of the time.

[I-n-j-i-n]

It's basically MySpace but with annoying, totally random pictures.
What.

I'm very confused as to how you could find Facebook more annoying than MySpace. The entire interface is so much cleaner, and I don't have to listen to your crappy music when I visit your profile.

Injin, flamebaiting? Never.

I'm more like... candlebaiting.. or something.

But it's just that my old pals-turned-total-strangers just lost themselves to Facebook and MySpace. And you go into libraries, and like EVERYONE is logged into a social site. Socially networking online in a social environment. lol

[Old Man Time]

facebook > myspace

but the emails from facebook are sorta annoying. can you turn those off?

[NuGeo]

I had a MySpace account once. I deleted it in a fit of rage and now I have a Facebook account. I miss the profile customizability of MySpace, but that's all, really. Facebook is currently the best online tool for finding and keeping in touch with old friends, hands down. I have a few gripes about the interface, though, but nothing's perfect.

facebook > myspace

but the emails from facebook are sorta annoying. can you turn those off?

Log in and go to My Account -> Notifications.

[atmuh]

All these social networking sites are meh. People spend too much of their time on them.
I do hate the people who feel the need to check facebook/myspace 37 times a day
Yes.

Also agreed. I have a sparse bare facebook page I maybe check once every 3 months, and I dont even have a myspace account.

I dont feel I need some massive social network to keep in touch with my "friends". No person has 500+ friends they keep in touch with on a regular basis. If those people really were my friends, I would hang out with them, or call them, or IM them or something. I dont need a website to do that.

And yes, people who check their facebook/myspace more than a couple times a day need help.

I hate it when people invite me to parties on facebook, but don't actually tell me about it. That's a good way to NOT have me come to your party. I check facebook maybe 4 times a year and ignore the emails most of the time.
Yes 100%. When people actually open their mouths and talk to you that's a good thing.

[Steben]

I had a MySpace account once. I deleted it in a fit of rage and now I have a Facebook account. I miss the profile customizability of MySpace, but that's all, really. Facebook is currently the best online tool for finding and keeping in touch with old friends, hands down. I have a few gripes about the interface, though, but nothing's perfect.

facebook > myspace

but the emails from facebook are sorta annoying. can you turn those off?

Log in and go to My Account -> Notifications.
I always used a junk mail address that I never checked, but this sounds like a better plan.

[Ramaniscence]

I had a MySpace account once. I deleted it in a fit of rage and now I have a Facebook account. I miss the profile customizability of MySpace, but that's all, really. Facebook is currently the best online tool for finding and keeping in touch with old friends, hands down. I have a few gripes about the interface, though, but nothing's perfect.

facebook > myspace

but the emails from facebook are sorta annoying. can you turn those off?

Log in and go to My Account -> Notifications.
I always used a junk mail address that I never checked, but this sounds like a better plan.

What I did with my GMail is:

*Made my MySpace/Facebook e-mails go to EMAIL+MySpace@Gmail.com
*Made a label called MySpace/Facebook
*Made a Filter that filters ALL email SENT TO "EMAIL+MySpace@gmail.com" gets LABELLED MySpace/Facebook and SKIPS INBOX

That way nothing shows up in my inbox, but when I have new MySpace/Facebook crap, I have alittle Label with "MySpace/Facebook (2)" in the corner.

I do the same thing with forums and topic replies.

[Liontamer]

^ you panzy.
Calling someone something when you have no idea about the backstory is really ridiculous.
Hey, she put a hole in his heart. LITERALLY. :lol:

[Paladin-01]

These places always seemed not the place to meet people, but to drag your circle of friends to.

Unless you just go around advertising your Myspace.

Of course, I just use my Myspace as a space to go bitch, so maybe I'm not the person to talk to.

[Airwalker]

I love Facebook! I moved around a few times, so I have friends all over the country. It's really exciting when you find an old friend by searching through names and schools you know. Then finally saying something to them.

It's what this technology thing is all about.

[G_D]

Myspace < Facebook < Poop

Sorry, I can't get into the Facebook praise here. I use it, quite a bit, but am genuinely surprised at the express lack of functionality. I can't believe that there are no embedded urls, no text formatting whatsoever, etc. The one thing that I hate most about Facebook, though, is how difficult it is to avoid.

[Ab56 v2 aka Ash]

You hate everything that's good about it? Jesus.

[Steben]

Myspace < Facebook < Poop

Sorry, I can't get into the Facebook praise here. I use it, quite a bit, but am genuinely surprised at the express lack of functionality. I can't believe that there are no embedded urls, no text formatting whatsoever, etc. The one thing that I hate most about Facebook, though, is how difficult it is to avoid.
The lack of bold and italics does bother me. I hate having to use capital letters for emphasis, since it's usually interpreted as yelling, which isn't usually the point I'm trying to get across.

but sense most of them talk liek this i guess it doesnt matter lol

[Ramaniscence]

I don't really mind the lack of formatting TOO much because I've seen how badly it can be abused on MySpace.

I think Facebook does a lot of things right, though:
-The Ads
-The Feeds that you can choose to IGNORE certain people on -or- NOT send out certain information YOURSELF. Which leads into...
-Shares+ are like what MySpace "bulletins" should be. Plus then you could COMPLETELY ignore the people who're posting random SHIT, and actually see what people who AREN'T fucktards are trying to share.

etc etc

Factor in the customizable Firefox toolbar and the Google Search, and Facebook is the only site of it's kind you'll ever need :o.

[Petara]

I don't really mind the lack of formatting TOO much because I've seen how badly it can be abused on MySpace.

I think Facebook does a lot of things right, though:
-The Ads
-The Feeds that you can choose to IGNORE certain people on -or- NOT send out certain information YOURSELF. Which leads into...
-Shares+ are like what MySpace "bulletins" should be. Plus then you could COMPLETELY ignore the people who're posting random SHIT, and actually see what people who AREN'T fucktards are trying to share.

etc etc

Factor in the customizable Firefox toolbar and the Google Search, and Facebook is the only site of it's kind you'll ever need :o.

Myspace bulletins are a freakin joke. Your homepage shows the 5 most recent bulletins and more often than not, all 5 are stupidass surveys by the same girl. If it's not a survey, then it's usually something lame about how much they miss/love their boyfriend. I don't have a facebook account. Maybe I should look into that.

[Antipode]

Unless I'm mistaken Facebook was intended solely for college kids to hang out and keep track of each other in - until recently anyway when they opened it to everyone. I guess that was a couple of months ago.
Myspace is below facebook because it lets people have crappy embedded videos, animated text, auto-playing music, and in general about everything annoying you can possibly have. Honestly I wouldn't care too much if people didn't overdo it.

[Ramaniscence]

I don't really mind the lack of formatting TOO much because I've seen how badly it can be abused on MySpace.

I think Facebook does a lot of things right, though:
-The Ads
-The Feeds that you can choose to IGNORE certain people on -or- NOT send out certain information YOURSELF. Which leads into...
-Shares+ are like what MySpace "bulletins" should be. Plus then you could COMPLETELY ignore the people who're posting random SHIT, and actually see what people who AREN'T fucktards are trying to share.

etc etc

Factor in the customizable Firefox toolbar and the Google Search, and Facebook is the only site of it's kind you'll ever need :o.

Myspace bulletins are a freakin joke. Your homepage shows the 5 most recent bulletins and more often than not, all 5 are stupidass surveys by the same girl. If it's not a survey, then it's usually something lame about how much they miss/love their boyfriend. I don't have a facebook account. Maybe I should look into that.

The concept is nice, a "Share this with all your friends" thing, but the execution is HORRID. And you forgot the new spambot bulletins from people with hacked accounts saying "HEY CHECK OUT THESE CHEAP NEW WATCHES".

...people who suck at the internet make me cry.

But yea, if people weren't so retarded with their MySpace's, MySpace wouldn't be so bad, but since they ARE Facebook is <3

[Thylacine]

As-is, MySpace is more customizable, but nobody who uses it understands basic crap about website design. Even without customization, MySpace pages don't look so hot.

Facebook is far sleeker, and the associations you can make with people just make it that much better. (EDIT: By that, I mean how you can say you met people this way and keep a nifty timeline of friendships.)

[LongeBane]

after using facebook, i saved 20% on car insurance.

[EdgeCrusher]

If you think myspace is bad, you should seriously check out cherrytap.com. They have way more embedded files and shitty glitter images than myspace could ever imagine.

[kidThunder]

All these social networking sites are meh. People spend too much of their time on them.agreed...but i spend more time on myspace, though...but, indeed i like facebook...also, I'm on this other site called Xanga. anyone heard of that?

[Petara]

cherrytap? ....sounds kinda naughty to me. Oh, what's this? No teenie boppers allowed? NOT my type of site. Ya gotta have 15 year-olds showin some skin.

[kidThunder]

Unless I'm mistaken Facebook was intended solely for college kids to hang out and keep track of each other in - until recently anyway when they opened it to everyone. I guess that was a couple of months ago.
Myspace is below facebook because it lets people have crappy embedded videos, animated text, auto-playing music, and in general about everything annoying you can possibly have. Honestly I wouldn't care too much if people didn't overdo it.sort of...true, myspace is sorta below facebook, because you have some folks' pages who literally drop the "F" bomb like it's so cool!! saying F--- this, F--- that, F--- you!! but if you were to view my page, none of that will show up!!

www.myspace.com/kid_thunder

Notice...people been saying that they like what I'm doing with my page and everything and they like the song on here!! So check it out!!

[bustatunez]

Facebook is awesome, but, it really did start off with just a small handful of ivy league colleges (back when it was THEfacebook.com). It seemed like it'd get lame when they opened it up publicly, but then again people whined just the same when they opened it up to state schools so it's not that big a deal.

Plus, open-facebook makes it that much easier to stalk people from your high school / hometown. And stalking is a huge part of my life.*




* don't judge me until you've tried it

[OutLander]

www.myspace.com/kid_thunder
And that's the problem with A LOT of MySpace pages.

There are alot of people that I know that I couldn't stay in touch with without Facebook, and there are the odd few that have MySpace. So, that being said, I have both. But I prefer Facebook.

[Julio Jose]

Unless I'm mistaken Facebook was intended solely for college kids to hang out and keep track of each other in - until recently anyway when they opened it to everyone. I guess that was a couple of months ago.
Myspace is below facebook because it lets people have crappy embedded videos, animated text, auto-playing music, and in general about everything annoying you can possibly have. Honestly I wouldn't care too much if people didn't overdo it.sort of...true, myspace is sorta below facebook, because you have some folks' pages who literally drop the "F" bomb like it's so cool!! saying F--- this, F--- that, F--- you!! but if you were to view my page, none of that will show up!!

www.myspace.com/kid_thunder

Notice...people been saying that they like what I'm doing with my page and everything and they like the song on here!! So check it out!!
Your page is an abomination.

[Ramaniscence]

MySpace can be done right (http://www.myspace.com/sgtrama), and it can be done very wrong, but every once and awhile it is done AMAZINGLY (http://www.myspace.com/jenjenjen). :(

My MySpace used to be like that, but everyone would bitch because "it never changed." AKA they couldn't see what comments other people left me AS IF it was any of their business anyway.

Regardless...I'm working on a new, cleaner, profile now.

[kidThunder]

Unless I'm mistaken Facebook was intended solely for college kids to hang out and keep track of each other in - until recently anyway when they opened it to everyone. I guess that was a couple of months ago.
Myspace is below facebook because it lets people have crappy embedded videos, animated text, auto-playing music, and in general about everything annoying you can possibly have. Honestly I wouldn't care too much if people didn't overdo it.sort of...true, myspace is sorta below facebook, because you have some folks' pages who literally drop the "F" bomb like it's so cool!! saying F--- this, F--- that, F--- you!! but if you were to view my page, none of that will show up!!

www.myspace.com/kid_thunder

Notice...people been saying that they like what I'm doing with my page and everything and they like the song on here!! So check it out!!
Your page is an abomination.well, i don't see how it is so...since i don't think there would be nothing wrong with it...heck, i don't even have any "F" words on there...so what could possibly be wrong with it?

[Trenthian]

so what could possibly be wrong with it? Besides how it seems that an annoying 5 year old put it together? or how about how you cant even read any of the text in the body of your page.

I thought grown men would have grown out of Dragon Ball. I guess I was wrong.

[kidThunder]

so what could possibly be wrong with it? Besides how it seems that an annoying 5 year old put it together? or how about how you cant even read any of the text in the body of your page.

I thought grown men would have grown out of Dragon Ball. I guess I was wrong.good point...gotta fix that and re-edit it...thank you for your suggestion...but as an anime fan, DBZ is AWESOME...if anything I should be grown out of is Pokemon.

[LongeBane]

If anything, you should have grown out of using anime characters as your portrait. Especially flamboyant ones.

[G_D]

Unless I'm mistaken Facebook was intended solely for college kids to hang out and keep track of each other in - until recently anyway when they opened it to everyone. I guess that was a couple of months ago.
Myspace is below facebook because it lets people have crappy embedded videos, animated text, auto-playing music, and in general about everything annoying you can possibly have. Honestly I wouldn't care too much if people didn't overdo it.sort of...true, myspace is sorta below facebook, because you have some folks' pages who literally drop the "F" bomb like it's so cool!! saying F--- this, F--- that, F--- you!! but if you were to view my page, none of that will show up!!

www.myspace.com/kid_thunder

Notice...people been saying that they like what I'm doing with my page and everything and they like the song on here!! So check it out!!
Your page is an abomination.well, i don't see how it is so...since i don't think there would be nothing wrong with it...heck, i don't even have any "F" words on there...so what could possibly be wrong with it?

I sincerely hope you're kidding. Really. For your own sake.

[The Xyco]

Here's the deal with Facebook. I always found it somewhat frightening that you could pretty much search people by name, and have no trouble at all finding out information about them that they would probably never give to you in person.

At my school (which is more like an institution of drinking parties and parents who have too much money to throw away at their kids thinking they're getting an education), I would be incredibly surprised if Facebook wasn't the #1 site visited on campus. Hell, my roommates don't know how to chck the weather on the internet, but they know everything about Facebook.

Now, it used to be that there was usually some sort of buffer zone as to how much you wanted someone to know about you or not. Is that guy a little too wild? Don't give him you number. Is he kinda ugly? Don't give him and inch. Is he getting a little creepy? Just walk away. But with Facebook, if he knows your name, then you've already stepped on the slippery slope towards him calling you every ten seconds wanting to go to lunch, or wondering why you aren't at his party, or so forth.

Now you might say that there are still buffers, such as whether or not they will put you on their friends' list or not, or how much information they actually do put on Facebook, and I've seen both work with varying degrees of success. However, opening up my Facebook account right now, I can find out the residence of about 50% of the people on my list, 70% of the phone numbers, and about 95% of the AIM addresses -- all of which you would probably consider something that in normal conversation would be something you wouldn't just pass out to ANYBODY (Well, maybe not AIM address), and yet I can catalogue them freely right here before me.

And I'll tell you this, about half of the people on this list I have seen ONCE before, if that. Maybe at a party or some other social gethering, or they ended up in one of my classes and added everyone first day, hell some of which I cannot remember at all who they are, others just popped up from my residence hall. Now if I were to go up to these people and tell them straightforward "I have your phone number, and I know where you live", I think they'd be pretty freaked out about it, even though I was completely invited in to all their information.

So while the news always has this wild and crazy stories about how some girl got kidnapped because of information on her Myspace/Facebook, or how someone was stalked and threatened because they had his Facebook info, I think the thing people fail to realize is that they are passing out information they would probably never hand out if they met half these people in person.


All that aside, I'm not trying to discredit Facebook or anything. I've used it myself with quite a bit of success, and it makes keeping up with old high school friends that were never really close but nonetheless fun people very easy. But after seeing just how much impact Facebook has had on college life, especially with freshmen, it made me wonder just where we'd would be without it, especially when the servers are constantly congested with thousands of people checking their facebook accounts twenty-something times a day, or how there was some sort of happening with my friends that they failed to mention to my face but remembered to tell me a million times on Facebook :roll:.

[LongeBane]

Well this is what also lets you separate dumb people and smart. The smart ones are the ones who leave out information such as phone number and residence, and to get that information from them would require messaging them or other means. It's common sense, if you want to be easily reachable or not.

[Arek the Absolute]

If anything, you should have grown out of using anime characters as your portrait. Especially flamboyant ones.
Hey man, I had terry up as mine when I had my myspace up *which was like for a week before i deleted it*
>:(

[Maco70]

Facebook is pretty cool. I only got one because some friends of mine made one for me. But I don't see much of a point unless you are afraid to get out of the room and meet new people.

[Drack]

Facebook is retarded. You have to register to VIEW a page and they regularly delete the BugMeNot accounts.

I refuse to register for a site without even anonymous read-only access.

[LongeBane]

Facebook is retarded. You have to register to VIEW a page and they regularly delete the BugMeNot accounts.

I refuse to register for a site without even anonymous read-only access.

I think you're seeing facebook the wrong way. It's for college students to stay in touch with each other, not some random stalker like you to find out information about people. Nice try

[Murmeli Walan]

Facebook is retarded. You have to register to VIEW a page and they regularly delete the BugMeNot accounts.

I refuse to register for a site without even anonymous read-only access.

I think you're seeing facebook the wrong way. It's for college students to stay in touch with each other, not some random stalker like you to find out information about people. Nice try

Not anymore. Facebook was just recently opened to everybody. You don't have to be in college or even high school anymore to have an account.

[Subz1987]

Not anymore. Facebook was just recently opened to everybody. You don't have to be in college or even high school anymore to have an account.


That can go both ways. The good thing is that people that go to colleges that don't have e-mail services can now get a facebook, but the bad thing is that now everyone can get a facebook.

However, Facebook does have a feature in which only people who are in high school and college networks can see you. If you're not in a college/high school network, they can't find you. I think the feature is still there. They implemented it when facebook opened to everyone.

And you can also control what information they see when they search for you. Everything is under the privacy tab.

Facebook really goes a long way to making sure you can control what people see when they search, and what info they see in your privacy. They are also good at listening to suggestions from the users who use facebook.

[your the man now dog]

Facebook is a terrible site. It's a good social networking site, but that's like saying stalin was a great guy when compared to hitl3r. I quit the site when everyone started complaining about the news feed like it was a new age gestapo. Usually the same people who complained also posted their cell phone, room number, and mailing address on their user page. There is nothing more annoying than hypocritical, bored, activist college students.

And I hate already knowing about a person before I meet them. The whole point of socializing is to learn more about other people face to face. Social networking sites make simple conversation...obsolete...

[Bahamut]

I view facebook more of a "it's there" type of thing if you're interested - I don't log on often, and just message a few select friends sometimes (people who tend to not pick up/use their cellphone much). It's only as good as how you use it.

[suzumebachi]

I'm an idiot. I can't spell my own alias correctly. Also Hitler.

I'm afraid you lose (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_Law). Nice try, better luck next time.

1/10.

[KWarp]

the hell this thread's still here?

Oddly I was really enjoying facebook recently. Their photo uploading UI is very very nice. <(^_^)>

[linkspast]

Way to revive a dead thread/.

[Ramaniscence]

Facebook is a terrible site. It's a good social networking site, but that's like saying stalin was a great guy when compared to hitl3r. I quit the site when everyone started complaining about the news feed like it was a new age gestapo. Usually the same people who complained also posted their cell phone, room number, and mailing address on their user page. There is nothing more annoying than hypocritical, bored, activist college students.

And I hate already knowing about a person before I meet them. The whole point of socializing is to learn more about other people face to face. Social networking sites make simple conversation...obsolete...

Social networks are there to, ya'know, keep in touch with people you ALREADY KNOW in person. It's pretty inevidable that people are goin to add people they DON'T KNOW. If you don't want to knowing everything about someone, or don't want them knowing everything about you, GASSSSSPPPPPPPPP, don't add them. people are GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY because PEOPLE ARE HUMAN. But that's not the site's fault.

[Airwalker]

Facebook is a terrible site. It's a good social networking site, but that's like saying stalin was a great guy when compared to hitl3r. I quit the site when everyone started complaining about the news feed like it was a new age gestapo. Usually the same people who complained also posted their cell phone, room number, and mailing address on their user page. There is nothing more annoying than hypocritical, bored, activist college students.

And I hate already knowing about a person before I meet them. The whole point of socializing is to learn more about other people face to face. Social networking sites make simple conversation...obsolete...

I remember everybody talking about that for a few weeks.

Then it simply died down. People got used to the features.

[KWarp]

My teacher once ranted about a time when it was almost impossible to keep in touch with friends he didn't see regularly. There were no online networks or even cell phone networks for that matter. People had to write letters to each other, and be consistent about it too. For the entire first semester of college, my teacher had no friends at all.

Facebook > null

[Bahamut]

Yeah, we really have it nice today, with stuff like Facebook, AIM, cellphones...the works.

[VerSus22]

Facebook is a terrible site.

The founder of Facebook likes to send us garbage by changing the whole system of the site, and they made the 'new' wall ugly! :-x

[Dhsu]

Okay I know we tell people to search for existing threads but in the case of ones that have been dead for over a year and a half just make a new one.

[Nohbody]

haha myspace

[Liontamer]

Okay I know we tell people to search for existing threads but in the case of ones that have been dead for over a year and a half just make a new one.

And who are you? The thread police? :tomatoface:

[Ramaniscence]

The founder of Facebook likes to send us garbage by changing the whole system of the site, and they made the 'new' wall ugly! :-x

I love how much people cry about the new Facebook because they've taken absolutely no time to learn how to use it and completely ignore that fact that MAYBE, with a little...oh I don't know...TRYING? It's a better system.

That, and no one's forcing you to use it.

AND there was like a 4-5 month period where they were constantly posting screenshots, and asking for feedback. Not their fault you didn't give it.

[DarkeSword]

Only reason I didn't like new-facebook before was that "What I'm Listening To" didn't render properly. As soon as they fixed that shit I switched right away.

[Zombie]

I don't like the new facebook at all... but i suppose i will have to get use to it. :tomatoface:

[Drack]

The founder of Facebook likes to send us garbage by changing the whole system of the site, and they made the 'new' wall ugly! :-x

Why, oh why, did you revive this thread after a year and a half?

Regardless, I will take this chance to respond to a post in this thread from 2006 that doesn't even apply anymore.

Facebook is retarded. You have to register to VIEW a page and they regularly delete the BugMeNot accounts.

I refuse to register for a site without even anonymous read-only access.I think you're seeing facebook the wrong way. It's for college students to stay in touch with each other, not some random stalker like you to find out information about people. Nice try

I resent that insult. I am (and was in 2006) a college student. My friends use facebook and often linked me to their stuff. Stuff I may have wanted to see, but couldn't without registering due to the then-elitism of the website. It is for that reason that I didn't WANT to register. Nice try at flaming.

[Imagist]

I personally love the new profile pages. I've always been a big fan of the tabs on Google's personalized homepages. I just wish other people would quit whining and learn to use them so we get more interesting pages than "Info," "Wall" and "Photo."

I have some complaints about the new home page, but they're relatively minor, so I won't go on about them here.

[prophetik music]

i posted in this thread, but i can't find my original post.

i liked facebook before, but now that they're screwing around with the setup i'm just not even on there anymore. i really don't like the new system.

[Dhsu]

And who are you? The thread police? :tomatoface:
"We" meaning all the old-timers on the board.

Or are you seriously advocating reviving 1.5-year-old threads?

[Steben]

It's basically MySpace but with annoying, totally random pictures.
What.

I'm very confused as to how you could find Facebook more annoying than MySpace. The entire interface is so much cleaner, and I don't have to listen to your crappy music when I visit your profile.

This post creeped me the heck out, because I was just about to post something along those lines when I realized I already had. Two years ago.

[Shadow Wolf]

I love the new Facebook, because someone finally realized it was OK to have a CSS stylesheet more than 5 pixels wide, so you can actually do shit without scrolling down for a year. Once they remedy the box situation, I'll call it perfect.

[Dhsu]

Also I don't see the big deal about registering to see profiles. Would *you* want some random stranger checking out your address and phone number?

[VerSus22]

Also I don't see the big deal about registering to see profiles. Would *you* want some random stranger checking out your address and phone number?

NO (or not really)

[Gollgagh]

Also I don't see the big deal about registering to see profiles. Would *you* want some random stranger checking out your address and phone number?

It's already in the phonebook, what the hell do I care?

[Dhsu]

I don't think your average college student's apartment and cellphone number is going to be in the phonebook.

[Ramaniscence]

I don't think your average college student's apartment and cellphone number is going to be in the phonebook.

Mine wasn't...not as mine anyway. it was in there was Sunset Printing, a printing service that went under before I got their number. So I had to get my number listed so it wouldn't be listed as theirs...

...I still get phone calls from people looking to collect debt from their employees, but since I relisted my number I get a lot less.

[Gollgagh]

Oh, I guess that's true.

[Drack]

If you don't want people seeing your phone number and address you DON'T PUT IT ON THE INTERNET.

[VerSus22]

And who are you? The thread police? :tomatoface:
HAHA GOOD ONE OJI!! :<
"We" meaning all the old-timers on the board.

Or are you seriously advocating reviving 1.5-year-old threads?

It was my idea to revive it! :razz:

[Lunahorum]

I like how facebook can keep you connected with friends. It's like an address book on steroids. I DON'T like how the comments are publicly viewable to whoever. Bunch of narcissists running around commenting on each other.

[Dhsu]

If you don't want people seeing your phone number and address you DON'T PUT IT ON THE INTERNET.
Um, I *do* want people seeing my phone number and address, just not people I'm not friends with.

The fact that you're suggesting that everybody else delete their contact info just so *you* don't have to spend 30 seconds registering frankly boggles my mind.

[Kanthos]

I love the new Facebook, because someone finally realized it was OK to have a CSS stylesheet more than 5 pixels wide, so you can actually do shit without scrolling down for a year. Once they remedy the box situation, I'll call it perfect.

I love the new Facebook because I no longer have to see the 5 miles of screenspace of applications that some people have on their wall. I just never go to the applications tab and I'm happy.

[Ramaniscence]

I love the new Facebook because I no longer have to see the 5 miles of screenspace of applications that some people have on their wall. I just never go to the applications tab and I'm happy.

I love the new Facebook because it automatically imports all my information from Last.FM, GoogleReader, YouTube, AND MORE, makes it way easier for me to share links and crud, and makes it SO much easier to sort through all the crap that and get to what I want.

[XZero]

On the first day of law school they told everyone to delete their Facebooks, MySpaces, etc. as a precautionary measure. Even if you have a totally professional page, a link to your friend's page where there's a picture of you enjoying life in an intoxicated state or a mention of your promiscuity is not a legal bar to employment, but it can definitely be considered. I have personally never utilized any variation of a personal page, so the only things with my name on them in Google are college-related. It's just safer that way.

[Xenon Odyssey]

On the first day of law school they told everyone to delete their Facebooks, MySpaces, etc. as a precautionary measure. Even if you have a totally professional page, a link to your friend's page where there's a picture of you enjoying life in an intoxicated state or a mention of your promiscuity is not a legal bar to employment, but it can definitely be considered.

This is why I go to arts school and/or may never have a 'real' job.

[rem]

On the first day of law school they told everyone to delete their Facebooks, MySpaces, etc. as a precautionary measure. Even if you have a totally professional page, a link to your friend's page where there's a picture of you enjoying life in an intoxicated state or a mention of your promiscuity is not a legal bar to employment, but it can definitely be considered. I have personally never utilized any variation of a personal page, so the only things with my name on them in Google are college-related. It's just safer that way.

funny story. I applied for a job as a political intern for a local Republican governor. I'm a democrat but this was the only political job that actually paid. I was hired but my guy asked me why I had a John Edwards pin as my Facebook pic (I keep all my stuff private, but the pic is publically viewable)

I denied it saying that it was another First Name, Last Name (my name is pretty common). Still he said he wouldn't let me go for being part of another political party but it wouldn't look to good in front of my very consevative co-workers.

Later I deleted everything controversial from my facebook. My facebook is pretty vanilla now.

[Avatar of Justice]

I use Facebook for complete bullshit. My status is either something I find funny or something fictional. My profile picture is often that of Lelouch from Code Geass.

The Visual Bookshelf app is pretty useful for keeping track of the 25 or so books on my "Want to Read" list and the 180 odd books I've read.

[atmuh]

well arent you original

[Bleck]

I love the new Facebook because I no longer have to see the 5 miles of screenspace of applications that some people have on their wall. I just never go to the applications tab and I'm happy.

this

and

I love the new Facebook because it automatically imports all my information from Last.FM, GoogleReader, YouTube, AND MORE, makes it way easier for me to share links and crud, and makes it SO much easier to sort through all the crap that and get to what I want.

this

[Drack]

Um, I *do* want people seeing my phone number and address, just not people I'm not friends with.

The fact that you're suggesting that everybody else delete their contact info just so *you* don't have to spend 30 seconds registering frankly boggles my mind.

A social website that selectively displays info only to registered users does not filter ANYTHING. If someone were a stalker or otherwise wanted to see the info without being part of the network, they can just, as you said, take 30 seconds to register. It's security theater.

If you only want to give info to friends .. only give it to them. Don't give it to a website with security theater and trust it to protect your privacy, because all that policy did was stomp on convenience. The philosophy is completely wrong. Either open the doors or have *real* security (which is just about mutually exclusive with being a social networking website).

[The Mutericator]

A social website that selectively displays info only to registered users does not filter ANYTHING. If someone were a stalker or otherwise wanted to see the info without being part of the network, they can just, as you said, take 30 seconds to register. It's security theater.

You have to have an email address from the place you're trying to register for in order to add it as a network - i.e. you have to use your college email account to activate your account as a student of that college, so that theory isn't quite accurate.

Pretty sure you can add a region as a network with no trouble, though, but there is an option for every piece of private information about "friends only," "friends and people in my network," et cetera.

[Dhsu]

A social website that selectively displays info only to registered users does not filter ANYTHING. If someone were a stalker or otherwise wanted to see the info without being part of the network, they can just, as you said, take 30 seconds to register. It's security theater.

If you only want to give info to friends .. only give it to them. Don't give it to a website with security theater and trust it to protect your privacy, because all that policy did was stomp on convenience. The philosophy is completely wrong. Either open the doors or have *real* security (which is just about mutually exclusive with being a social networking website).
Okay, it just occurred to me that you've never used Facebook, so here's a question: how do you even know? What are you basing these assumptions on?

On Facebook, someone has manually add you as a friend in order for you to see their private information. Otherwise, the most you can access is their name and profile picture (which can be set to Lelouch characters as previously mentioned). It's a neat system really, simple and effective. It's not stalker-PROOF, of course, but neither is real life, and your "either open the doors or have real security" dichotomy is just as absurd in that context as it is in the online world. It'd be like saying people need to either live completely off the grid, or else live in glass houses with no windows or doors.

[cobaltstarfire]

I'm not really sure how well I trust Facebook to be "private" even when you set the settings to only allow those you have as friends see it. I say this because despite having my privacy settings fairly hardcore, when I had my cell number up I kept getting spam text messages on it. They stopped as soon as I took the number down.

So just about every time I try to set up stuff with my friends we get to spend time confirming we all have the same phone numbers as last time since all of us don't have that info readily available on our profiles.

Overall though I feel relatively secure with facebook, but that may also be because there's no reason anyone would ever want to stalk someone like me. :P

[Imagist]

On Facebook, someone has manually add you as a friend in order for you to see their private information. Otherwise, the most you can access is their name and profile picture (which can be set to Lelouch characters as previously mentioned). It's a neat system really, simple and effective.

Depends on your settings. By default, actually, anyone in any of your networks can access just as much of your profile as your friends.

live in glass houses with no windows or doors.

How... how would you ever get in or out??

[Kulaman]

I don't know why some people get spam calls when they post their phone number on Facebook, I've had my cell number on since I've had a cell phone. I set it so only my friends could see it and I only friend people I actually know.

I just started using the new interface, and it's not as horrible as I thought it would be. Given time to get used to it, I may even prefer it over the old Facebook. Good thing too, the new Facebook will be the only Facebook pretty soon.

[cobaltstarfire]

I don't know why some people get spam calls when they post their phone number on Facebook, I've had my cell number on since I've had a cell phone. I set it so only my friends could see it and I only friend people I actually know.


I don't know why either, considering I know all my friends, and my settings are set to friends only. I don't really think it has anything to do with friends or facebook settings.

[Dhsu]

How... how would you ever get in or out??
Well I meant you'd just have openings where they'd be instead. But I guess you could knock down a wall or something.

[Drack]

Okay, it just occurred to me that you've never used Facebook, so here's a question: how do you even know? What are you basing these assumptions on?

On Facebook, someone has manually add you as a friend in order for you to see their private information. Otherwise, the most you can access is their name and profile picture (which can be set to Lelouch characters as previously mentioned). It's a neat system really, simple and effective. It's not stalker-PROOF, of course, but neither is real life, and your "either open the doors or have real security" dichotomy is just as absurd in that context as it is in the online world. It'd be like saying people need to either live completely off the grid, or else live in glass houses with no windows or doors.

Please stop making ridiculous hyperboles about my argument.

What's wrong here is that people expected privacy where there was little when they posted sensitive info on a service like this and only restricted viewing to registered users. Limiting it to the person's friends is a better solution - Not much worse than manually telling friends the info.

My argument in a nutshell: Why couldn't an unregistered user see the same information as a registered but not friended user? Because you had to prove you're in college? Not difficult to get around. There was no real security benefit.

[atmuh]

mister drack is angry
awesome

[Sinewav]

Wow. A facebook thread and an argument broke out? Who woulda guessed?

I hate to say it, but I'm a big fan of stalkerbook. This is partly because most of my college friends are on there and partly because in spite of the stalkerish features on there, the server doesn't get bogged down with weirdos tolling for pics of underage women. However, I still haven't seen a facebook feature that competes with Myspace Music very well. Maybe they're just trying to stay focused on social networking, but with all the apps, I kinda doubt that.

Personally, I think it was a lot nicer before they started doing apps and letting highschoolers on, but it still beats the snot out of myspace... I have a lot of friends that I would not be in contact with otherwise, and the chat feature (although buggy) helps me talk to a lot of people that I probably wouldn't talk to in person or on AIM for whatever reason.

http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=142700279

^ There's my page. If you add me, send a message with your OCR screenname so I don't reject you.

[Kenobio]

I mostly just like how Facebook displays upcoming birthdays so I don't end up forgetting.

[Hector]

Since when has the internet been secure?

[Nohbody]

all i have is a webcam that takes 4kb pictures, so i just have one pic of me staring at a computer, never actually smiling. Its funny how people have 500 pics of themselves, im pretty sure that in my 18 years of being alive I have had maybe 300 pictures taken of me

[Lord.Roderick.i]

I thank Facebook because I've met family I didnt even know I had :)
It also helps me keep in touch w/ fimily and friends that live in other countries, and does it better than MySpace. Although MySpace Music is a really nice feature that I miss not having in Facebook.

[CC Ricers]

If you don't want people seeing your phone number and address you DON'T PUT IT ON THE INTERNET.

Too late. I already sold a bunch of crap on eBay :(

Anyways, I'm still getting used to the new Facebook layout. It looks a bit more slick, and no longer have to scroll for 21 minutes to get to people's walls, but can't help that it's too wide.

[VerSus22]

I'm still getting used to the new Facebook layout. It looks a bit more slick, and no longer have to scroll for 21 minutes to get to people's walls, but can't help that it's too wide.

While the old page is starting to vanish at this moment...

[FlagshipAmadeus]

Personally I find the new layout clumsy and slow, me no likey

[Imagist]

Please stop making ridiculous hyperboles about my argument.

What's wrong here is that people expected privacy where there was little when they posted sensitive info on a service like this and only restricted viewing to registered users. Limiting it to the person's friends is a better solution - Not much worse than manually telling friends the info.

My argument in a nutshell: Why couldn't an unregistered user see the same information as a registered but not friended user? Because you had to prove you're in college? Not difficult to get around. There was no real security benefit.

Well, the thing isn't that you have to prove you're in college, but that you generally have to show you're in the same network as someone else to view most of their info (unless they change their privacy settings). The idea behind this is you're not likely to know someone you don't share at least one network with (school, business or region) and so it, by default, offers some protection against entirely random people trolling for victims of whatever (stalking, identity theft).

Now, if you were to have your way, sure, they would have an option to make things accessible to "everyone" (currently the furthest you can extend information is to all of your networks, aside from basic information such as name, networks, friends, and profile picture which can be made available to anyone), and allow unregistered users to access that. But then again, this networks concept is the most basic thing that separates Facebook from Myspace, security-wise, so that's unlikely.

[Sinewav]

I kinda like the new facebook now that I'm used to it. It basically means I don't have to look at peoples' stupid quizzes if I don't want to. Tabs and editing from your profile are nice features too.

And I've never understood the problem with posting your info online. If someone wanted to stalk me without using the internet, all they'd have to do is follow someone home or find out my name and look me up in a phonebook. If you're a hot chick or something, yeah that means more people are going to be fapping to you, but for average joe, what's the big deal?

[VerSus22]

I kinda like the new facebook now that I'm used to it. It basically means I don't have to look at peoples' stupid quizzes if I don't want to. Tabs and editing from your profile are nice features too.

I guess the fact that the staff @ Facebook are updating it often after they have read all those feedbacks...New Facebook doesn't look too bad after all. :-o

[samurai_of_plague]

I like the new facebook as well, and facebook IM totally pwns myspace IM, no more data to add to my hard drive

[Lord.Roderick.i]

I dont know about y'all, but I get this every time i try to access FaceBook:
http://www.geocities.com/lord_rodric_i/pics/facebook_trojan.jpg
Has facebook been hacked? or is it a bad script from the designers?

[Salluz]

I'm not saying this to promote the site or be anti-myspace or anything. Facebook is a genuinely excellent service and frankly I'm astonished.

A few things I like:
Unlimited photos. Incredible uploading and organizing software.
Same for event management.
Clean, solid interface with non-intrusive ads.
It's fast.
My younger high school brother said the exact same thing. If a handful of high-schoolers and college students can agree about a social network, it is that good.

[Zombie]

I am seriously on facebook like all day.

Also, I haven't seen kwarp post here in like forever. Whatever happened to that guy?

[linkspast]

I am seriously on facebook like all day.

Also, I haven't seen kwarp post here in like forever. Whatever happened to that guy?

oh he was just a hologram