<p>I made one back in high school and I didn't really use it that much. The only time I went on really was when I checked my email, and that was because Facebook apparently sends you an email when people want to add you and stuff.</p>
<p>My friends are asking if I'm on Facebook, and I say, "No, not anymore, I didn't really use it." So what to do...</p>
<p>Why not? It’s just a website. It’s not like it’s a huge commitment or anything, it literally takes five minutes to set up.</p>
<p>I like it, works great for keeping in contact with old friends from HS.</p>
<p>I think facebook is easier and bette than myspace</p>
<p>plus it is not blocked from most servers unlike myspace which is constatntly blocked</p>
<p>facebook is turning into myspace with the chain images and stupid crap like that, but you might as well since it takes maybe a minute</p>
<p>Why don’t you just give them your email?</p>
<p>If they’re on Facebook, they’re online and can send you an email just as easily. The whole Facebook/MySpace thing is just to whore yourself out. Okay, that probably isn’t the best word, but you can live without those websites.</p>
<p>Facebook is much better than email and totally different! You can search for people you’ve met and add them as friends (you don’t normally ask people for their emails/screenname when you meet them, but you get their name). You can share photos with all your friends and look at their photos…email is great too, I use it for private things I wouldn’t write on a facebook wall, but facebook is fun too. </p>
<p>it’s annoying when someone’s page is so cluttered up with crap though. I keep mine clean and simple. Also annoying is when people constantly upload pics of every damn thing and the album title is always a song lyric, even if it makes no sense. I don’t understand why some people are against it or whatever. Most of my friends from HS went to college away from home, including other countries, and facebook is a great tool to keep up with them. I try to call/videochat with them when possible, but facebook is handy for keeping up with them as well.</p>
<p>I have one, although quite reluctantly. The benefits include getting info about events you might not otherwise have known about, and being to keep in touch better with people who are more ‘acquaintances’ and sorta friends.</p>
<p>It’s impossible to have even 100 “great friends” - you simply do not have enough time in life. The more time you spend with some people, the less you spend with others. This is a simple fact in life. Just like you can’t have five careers at the same time. You may not like to hear this, but yes you have to pick and choose things and this includes who your inner circle of friends are.</p>
<p>I just hear people say “I’m blessed with a hundred great friends” and I know it’s a crock of *****. Btw I’m not talking about simply having facebook friends, where everyone has 500, 1000, 2000, or however much time you spend on the thing. But pretending you’re mr./ ms. popular and look at only the best staged pictures I tagged of myself, and my terribly dull trying-to-be-witty status, and please please accept me I need social validation — well, I’ll just be glad when it dies after college, as most people’s who graduated have done. That or I’ll keep it to maybe 20 or 30 people.</p>
<p>The whole concept of facebook just seems very “high school” and immature in its values. It has allowed girls to contact me without asking me for my phone number, so that’s good - but sex never resulted off anything from facebook IME so f*** it.</p>
<p>Facebook is very useful if you want to keep in touch with people beyond your immediate social circle. It’s a great tool. That is all.</p>
<p>I wish facebook would go back to being for college students only. It was so much cooler back then. And, you know, MY MOM couldn’t friend me then. ugh.</p>
<p>I think you should do facebook though, because you can keep in touch with friends of friends who you meet briefly, friends who are studying abroad or in other states/cities, share your pictures with friends, etc. I don’t like most of these new applications and stuff, I have a couple of the interesting ones but I hate when people send me all these requests for dumb things.</p>
<p>^ hahaha yeah</p>
<p>my dad is my friend on facebook, although he’s never there.</p>
<p>yep. networking</p>
<p>my mom’s pretty cool so it’s not TOO bad, like she doesn’t think I’m an innocent little flower or anything, and I tell her MOST of the stuff I get up to… but just a little weird to have wall posts from your mom lol.</p>
<p>I remember the first time I used facebook a while ago, I said to myself that it wasn’t a big deal and that I wouldn’t use it that much. Few years later, I check probably 10-20 times a day. Hopefully you keep this in mind that it may become an obsession even though you don’t plan it to be. On a side note, the day that my mom or dad joins facebook is the day that I deactivate my account…it may have gotten a little out of control on that front. In my opinion too many people have joined and its only a matter of time before something more innovative is created. Facebook will be the new myspace eventually, and whoever one-ups facebook will be a very rich person.</p>
<p>Oh I remember another reason why I stopped using it. I had people adding me that I didn’t want to be friends with. I didn’t want to decline their offer because then you know, bad relationships. Then there were even peoples’ parents adding me.</p>
<p>my ex’s dad, mom, and aunt ALL befriended me on facebook (so did his brothers, but that’s not as weird)…then his aunt sent me a message telling me how cute they all thought we were together and how sweet i am. i just kind of replied like, “thanks so much! hope to see y’all soon!”</p>
<p>i put them on limited profile, but that’s still a really awkward situation…you can’t deny them because they’re your BOYFRIEND’S FAMILY…</p>
<p>also my aunt added me on facebook and now she’s like the ultimate facebook stalker–she even calls my mom when i update my status/change my profile picture (she can’t see any of the tagged ones)/click “attending” to an event…</p>
<p>lol leah, that sucks!
I am friends with three of my cousins, all my half-siblings, and (recently) my mom, but it’s not too bad. My mom is kind of computer illiterate so the most she has managed to do is look at all my pictures. Also, she knows I drink and stuff so there isn’t much on there she could find out about me that she doesn’t already know. The only thing she doesn’t know about is my love life, which I’m keeping on the DL (not just from her but alot of people).</p>
<p>I never quite jumped aboard the Facebook boat yet, which is remarkable considering everyone and their hamster has one now…</p>
<p>I am online enough as it is already and I’m a private person generally. Although, I have been debating over whether to get one as graduation approaches. I will hold out as long as I can :p.</p>
<p>Facebook is a great networking tool. It’s an easy way to keep in touch with friends from high school as well as talk to people you just met in college. For old high school friends I prefer facebook much more to email. I can send them a message and actually see what they’re up to. I can see pictures of Bob to see how he’s changed and also see that he has a new girlfriend, things that might not come up in an email. Also, facebook feels a lot more casual than email for talking to friends from high school. Since I graduated high school I’ve talked to friends and acquaintances from high school a lot on facebook. I don’t think I’ve been contacted by any or contacted any via email. For meeting new people in college, you get their name, not their email or screenname. It is very easy to find them on facebook and friend them. It’s also a million times more common to receive a message via facebook with someone asking you to hang out rather than an email. In addition, it is a great way to find out about stuff going on around campus. For example, my class had an event last week and most of the advertising for it was done through facebook. We got like 3 emails, but a million facebook messages. It’s just the way college students communicate with eachother. Having a facebook just makes it easier to stay in the loop.</p>
<p>as facebook has become more open, I use it less… I am friends with more people and stuff, but there is less information on it about me. Mostly I use it to talk to people who aren’t on AIM a lot.</p>
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