<p>I use Facebook mostly to crack jokes with friends in secret groups. It’s pretty fun(ny).</p>
<p>how is this even a question? it helps a lot, especially freshman year when you’re meeting 1000 people and trying to remember all of them. i’ve made a surprising amount of connections by them adding me/me adding them randomly on facebook, too. booty calls, connects to get things, and otherwise. networking will get you whatever you want. networking is key and that includes social networking, so why not use it</p>
<p>^^wth eww booty calls!! But I’m not sure if I’m going to a 4 yr college straight after hs…a community college is cheaper so I might do that for 2 yrs.I heard not all credits are transferrable so I could possibly waste time&money</p>
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<p>Facebook is incredibly helpful. When I meet someone, they introduce me with their name, and not their phone number or e-mail. So if I later realize I might want to contact them, it’s a lot easier to just search for their name on Facebook than to have to ask all my friends, or to awkwardly ask for the phone number or e-mail address of every person I meet.</p>
<p>Also, I find that the people with the most Facebook drama are those that cause the drama themselves. If it really bothers you that you’re Facebook friends with people that don’t say talk to you, you don’t have to add them.</p>
<p>I really hate all the “fake” people on Facebook who have upwards of 2,300 friends and had over 1,000 friends when they were high school freshmen. It’s just pointless and it’s the most fake sense of popularity out there. Whenever those people add me, I instantly delete their requests unless I actually talk to them or associate with them.</p>
<p>I actually spend too much time on the computer as it is, and Facebook is almost always open when I’m surfing the web. It really is a huge distraction, but if you exercise control and limit your actual personal usage of Facebook (meaning how many people you add, statuses you post, pictures you put up, etc.), then you should be fine. Since I didn’t do so well this semester, I’m considering deactivating Facebook when I have midterms or other big assignments, because I did it for my final exams and it worked pretty well.</p>
<p>My dorm actually has it’s own page. It’s very helpful. You are able to post certain things such as “Anyone interested in doing ‘such and such’ meet in the lobby at an appointed time.” I have done that myself! We post about meeting on certain floors for studying, or going to the lounge, or even doing laundry. It’s a great way for the floors to communicate.
I also use my Facebook to communicate while I’m in my room. My cell phone reception is horrible!!! I send pm’s easily though.
I also love it because of the pics!!! I get to see what my brothers are actually up to through Facebook. My friends from high school as well. I love it.</p>
<p>You can avoid having a single friend and facebook will still be pretty darn beneficial for a college student. If your college has a facebook page, which most of them do, it is pretty easy to exchange useful information, get help, or trade books (though there will indeed be pretty dumb stuff people say on facebook).</p>
<p>I still can’t decide but if I go to a different area I wouldn’t know anyone so I guess it would help.</p>
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<p>Facebook sort of loses the point when you have more than 700 friends! It’s human nature to be curious, to want to know what’s going on in other people’s lives. (Check out Jenna Marbles’ rant about Facebook on YouTube).</p>
<p>I was President of my school’s English Society last year, and a bunch of freshman added me, almost five friend requests per week - just from people in other grades. It got kind if ridiculous, so in my senior year (this year), I unfriended them. Number of friends - a more manageable 550ish.</p>
<p>Advice - just add people you care about/want to keep in touch with. “Stalking” may be fun for a while but it’s a waste of time, time you could use to hang out with your real friends. </p>
<p>Create a Facebook account, it’s a great way to keep in touch, keep track of photos… It’s a lot of fun looking back.</p>