Finally signed up for Facebook.. - Page 2

Can't stand Facebook. Talk about a giant invasion of privacy waiting to happen. But the main reason it irritates me, is the same reason mass emailing by friends get ignored. If you don't have the time to write me personally, don't bother me. This whole self-absorbed LOOK-AT-WHAT-I'M-DOING attitude bugs the crap out of me. If you're my friend, take five minutes and write me a personal message. Don't ask me to tune in to your broadcast.

Amen.

I was a member for about a couple of months and closed my account. Too many interruptions of people I am not interested in hearing from, some whom I do not know.

Do be careful what you post, a few have lost their jobs as a result of the content of their page in facebook.

I have a Facebook account, and have had one for a while. I'm in college, so there's definitely some utility to it, but by-and-large, I agree with what people are saying here.

I've never really been able to understand the claims that Facebook helps you keep in touch with people. Perhaps my definition of "keeping in touch" differs from others, but when someone I haven't talked to in four months writes, "hey, I haven't talked to you in a while...what's up?" on my wall, I don't consider that keeping in touch. When it comes to really keeping in touch with someone, the only thing Facebook does that a simple email doesn't do is allow other people to see the correspondence. o_0

The type of correspondence that goes on over Facebook walls seems to appeal to more extroverted personalities, who actually are stimulated by content-less small talk that doesn't go anywhere. I'm certainly not anti-social, but if the only reason you're talking to me is so that something is coming out of your mouth, don't make me put up with it.

There are two general types of conversations I'm okay with. The first is a conversation that provides some utility, such as asking what movie we want to see. Facebook does this well, but not any better than an email, phone call, or text. The second type of conversation you'll find me engaging in is so called "deep" conversations. Not necessarily emotionally deep, but something with a point, something with meaning. Facebook fails here because I want those conversations to be private. Other people don't need to have free access to the things I'm discussing with friends.

And of course, let's not forget that the entire Facebook site is designed to give out private personal information...

Results may vary from person to person.

For example, some of us found that ugly people we went to school with got good looking.

I second that!

It's convenient for students. It's one place where everyone will be to talk, exchange meetup times and share pictures of the previous night.

It's a grand way to procrastinate when I should be writing papers...

Not on it, don't care. Given a hard time yesterday for not being on it by a friend. I told him that the only way he would see a profile for me on FB was if someone created a fake one! I'm pretty much in contact with everyone I want...Don't have time or desire to communicate with everyone I've ever known. Also not going to give an iota of personal data to that information scamming service.

lol @ mr. anti-social

Facebook is awesome. I can keep in touch with friends all over the world, enjoy seeing their families grow and in general interact (chat etc) on a level otherwise impossible. Facebook is to email what email is to snail mail - much more dynamic. Sociophobes need not apply

It depend on how you use facebook.
I don't do any games, poking and what not. Facebook is a tool for me to link up and communicate with friends that I can't get to see. Because of where I lived before, I have a lot of friends in different places- Hong Kong, London, Sydney.. I got in touch with a lot of high school friends that I haven't seen for 30 years. (I went to school in Hong Kong but left for England afterwards and now am in California). We shared photos and videos and ended up having some reunion events both in Hong Kong and San Francisco.
I got together with friends in the professional field as well. Over 20 years ago a lot of us worked on this little project "Who framed Roger Rabbit?" in London. Afterwards people went back to different countries. Some achieved great things (directing feature films etc...). There was a 20 years' anniversary of the film not so long ago. And on Facebook we shared some of the old photos that we took in 1986-88. It would not have been that easy doing this through emails.
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*Notice the guy in the middle of the group photo in the front with the hands in his pocket? That's Bob Zemeckis who directed Forrest Gump later.
I only use Facebook to hook up to people I don't see often and can't understand how people can have facebook friends that they don't know( it happens!). I am also very careful about how I use facebook and have a very high privacy and security setting.
Like I said before, if you use it the way you want to, facebook is okay.

-Paul

^pcf, I have similar stories as yours...I would never have found some people without FB!

Some of us didn't want to wait that long.