I’m on Facebook. Now What ?

I asked practically the same questions when I was new to FB, having avoided it as much as myspace.

Now I have managed to use it to link up with many old friends, (and other friends have found me too). I like to use it as a good way to see what my buddies are up to, share pictures and stories, keep in touch. I tend to abhor the ‘applications’ that everyone invites you to, and detest the way those apps make you invite others just to use them, but I can see why they do it.

Step 1: Upload a good profile picture of yourself so that your old friends searching for people with similar names to yours will be able to identify you.

Step 2: Search for old friends. Once you’ve found them, look at their friends list and see if you notice any more of your old friends.

Step 3; Add other pics that you have, and ‘tag’ the pics. Other FB members that you tag will get a notice and will go see the pic. Non members can be invited to go see their pic. (Or you can just send a link)

I ignore Poking, it’s a waste of time. I don’t use groups.. maybe someone else can comment there.

There are some fun apps, like quizzies, movie stuff, etc.

I think people get this all fecebook thing wrong. It doesn’t matter what you do, just add stuff, as much as possible, so that the big brother behind it can investigate you, your friends, your family, and get all that information that they wouldn’t be able to get otherwise.

How this works:

BIG companies and governments want to know more about you.

They know that if they ask, they want get a thing from you, and spying is baaaad, right? ;), so they use an old social engineering trick to make YOU TELL THEM.

You are happy, because you are ignorant of what you are really doing (ignorance is bliss, right?), and they are happy because they get what they want.

enjoy facebook, and don’t forget to tell all your secrets, and all the people you know. Somebody, somewhere might find that info useful.

It is nothing different from the other social networking sites like myspace, orkut….

In my opinion its nothing more than kiliing time. If you really are interested in finding old friends and they are worth your search then you could just call them. I dont think you need to open a facebook accunt for that.

But different people have diff opinions. If you like it just enjoy the ride otherwise ghacks is waiting for your glorious posts

why using group, try pages. http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

there is nothing to do. Its just a ritual you have to go through to realise how completely pointless these apps are .

Now that you have added your friends , they can see your mail id. Now everytime they signup for any stupid “new social networking ” site , they will give their old facebook user and pass, it will send a mail to ALL friends. So get ready to be bombarded.

Sites like facebook is a big waste of time and bandwidth. If you haven’t gotten in touch with your “friend” for a long time, there’s probably a reason why you want to continue not being in touch for a longer time. If it’s such a good friend, you wouldn’t not have lost touch to begin with and now need to post all your private stuff on a facebook public site to find them.

Facebooks are good for kiddies who are too stupid or inexperienced to understand privacy. And they love to create a virtual clique just so that they would be “the cool” clique as compared to all the other “cool” cliques on facebooks.

And facebooks are also great for the child molesters who “loves” these stupid kids. Because now they know exactly where these stupid kids will be hanging out next Saturday.

Bingo!
Welcome to the “social” side of the web.
The most useless son of internet.

I joined Facebook & Myspace early but I don’t like them. You almost nothing to do except killed time. Like kids who are in school, if someone asked you what your Facebook or Myspace is you can say such such… but for me, they are almost nothing, I only use them to contact my co-workers, know what is new with them. I am so surprise about many people post real name, address, family photos, friend’s name. It is not smart.
My question is why we need use Facebook or Myspace?

I have nothing against social-networking sites like Facebook. I’m just too anti social. hehehehe.

I also have facebook and pownce but I seldom use them. Hehe.

and I thought I was alone who joined facebook for no reason but because I fed up from neglectign all the email request

This exactly the same question that I am asking myself of what REAL benefit I can get? I have made the account but I will put more thought when I have some spare time.

Sometimes you lose touch with friends who aren’t so good so you didn’t bother keeping in touch. Or you lost their contact details, moved away, etc., but you still want to catch up.

Shoot me an e-mail and I’ll share an electronic version of my new book, I’m on Facebook — Now What??? for you to review as a blogger. No obligation to blog about it, but hopefully it helps answer your question

Dante: I think you’re being a bit extreme… For example, I moved to Australia several years ago on very short notice, so I didn’t have time to get all my friends’ postal addresses or emails.. By now most of them have moved anyway, so how on earth would I just ‘give them a call’???

About privacy issues, you guys do know that you can restrict who can see what, don’t you?!

I don’t like all the applications, vampire invites and all that junk either, but it is easy to block all that. The best part of social networking sites is that they enable you to find people you’ve lost touch with, or stay in touch with people when otherwise you wouldn’t (time, laziness to call etc)…

My workmates have a group on facebook and it’s great for organising get-togethers, farewell parties etc.. This is because not all of us are always at work at the same time, but on facebook we can just leave a message and eventually everybody can give their input. Of course we could all constantly leave messages at work for each other, but let’s face it: who does that?