Facebook?

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Originally Posted by oily oaf

I've got 28 "Friends" you know one of whom is a West Highland Terrier :eek:
I occasionally use the London discussion board but it's unmoderated and usually descends into foul mouthed personal abuse and blatant attempts to procure sexual favours from people of the opposite species.
Suffice to say that Mrs Oaf has had her account frozen for the foreseeable future and is due to appear at Bow Street Magistrates Court this Wednesday charged with pimping, verbal affray and attempting to have unlawful intercourse with an ordained minister of The Roman Catholic Church. :mad:
Still mustn't grumble.

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Westies are great!

I think I should check my computer and find out if it is my Scout the one you are talking about. :eek:



I am with tinchote here, now that I have read your post I still don't get the point of facebook. :dozey:

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Originally Posted by tinchote

Still no one explains me what is this all about :mark:

if "social networking" is supposed to be an explanation, it wasn't a very good one. So, why would anyone want a Facebook account, and what do you do with it?

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Facebook is a pretty powerful piece of kit.

Lets say you register. It gives you an option to go through all the contacts on your email list and see if they are registered already. If so, their pages will turn up on your contacts list.

Then if you say you graduated from School X in 1980 and then click on '1980' it will then bring up everyone who graduated from School X in 1980. If you worked at Company Y then the same happens again. You can add these people to your contacts. You can flick through your friends' lists of contacts and add them too.

You can then send messages to your contacts. Its great to get in contact with people you haven't seen for ages for free and more importantly stay in contact, but it can also lead to trouble as you can have people becoming your contacts that you don't want as contacts like your ex's.

I think its great but there are some big negatives involved and I'd be wary of putting too much information on the site.

basically i see the difference between facebook and myspace is this

myspace is more like "hey everyone i have a webpage... look at it, its more prettiful and have music i like on it"

while facebook allows to interact with your friends pages by things such as 'tagging yourself' in your friends photos and seeing what your friends do all the time

im still weary of facebook, i dont like the idea of my 'friends' to see what im doing... but if there wasa facebook group for this place i'd be in it

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Originally Posted by Dylan H

Then if you say you graduated from School X in 1980 and then click on '1980' it will then bring up everyone who graduated from School X in 1980.

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If your school's on there, that is. My old school had over 1500 pupils and yet isn't listed.

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

If your school's on there, that is. My old school had over 1500 pupils and yet isn't listed.

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Plus most of the time if someone's worth chatting to you'll have their phone number or email address :p There were about 300 people in my year at high school and I haven't talked to any of them for a while and don't feel I'm missing out :p

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Originally Posted by millencolin

im still weary of facebook, i dont like the idea of my 'friends' to see what im doing... but if there wasa facebook group for this place i'd be in it

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You can set a list of peope to only see certain things.

Facebook is strange, it is fairly bland and dull but yet strangely addictive. I think its just easier to use than MySpace for example, and people who don't know you can't see your profile which is better. Its easy to go from pic to profile and so on etc. I had my initial addiction when I first joined, been on it for a while now and so manage to limit my usage!

I have a couple of forum friends on there though ;) You know who you are.

Well, anyways... :)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5230723306&ref=mf

Feel free to join! :D

I found a use for it!!! I sent a workmate a message about New Zealand choking on the weekend :D

I've joined the motorsport forums group.

I'm a newbie to facebook, so still learning the ropes.

Ray