Social Networking

[Cupra]

im firced to have one by my wife, its not killing me having one but it can be a pain all the emails ect

 

[scoobyrichuk]

Myspace is great for bands, I've listened to loads of good music I'd have never heard without myspace existing. I've also organised gigs for my own band through messaging other bands/promoters which is very useful. Facebook can be good, a good friend of mine has just gone travelling for 12 months and he will post photos and write a blog at various times in the next year. Personally I'll be interested in seeing that and will be able to send messages to him whilst he's gone. Saying that there are a lot of people who obviously want to look like they have loads of mates when they probably don't and the majority of facebook apps are totally pointless. As long as you only add people you actually want to speak to (I've genuinely been interested in talking to some people I haven't seen since school) then I don't see any problem with any of the social networking websites.

 

[iv-tecman]

total waste of time

if someone needs to contact me - they have my phone number
if i need to contact some - i have their phone number

Couldn't agree with that more.... I have a mobile, email and land line. They can reach me on this. Txt, call or whatever I don't need a site to keep a list of friends etc.... I work in IT, and the number of hours lost by staff due to these sites is amazing....

Contracts I work on haven't put policy in place to block such sites, total waste of time and I agree - ego more then anything... Look at all the friends I've got. Half, if not most they will never meet up with or talk on the phone with.

Pah perhaps I'm just too old fashioned and not moving with the times..?? Social networking is the new craze - just as mobile txt'ing was I guess. Who knows all I know is that I don't currently use it, but I wasn't so against txt messaging... Just cos I don't use it doesn't mean no one should but I don't think its the be all and end all of communication that some publicise it to be...

I'm getting tied of hearing I'll add you to facebook at work though.... Seems everyone wants you on facebook nowadays... Man I do sound old...!!!

 

[Kell_ee001]

How can be friends of someone you've never met or haven't seen for years?

You're joking right? I'd say a lot of us were friends before we met IRL

And as for old friends, I'm pleased to say I've caught up with a lot of people I probably wouldn't have found / wouldn't have found me without FB. However I am terrible for keeping in contact IRL so FB is perfect for me. Means I'm kept up-to-date on important things in their lives and they can do the same for me, and a lot of them we've just picked up from where we left.

I admit I have refused some Friend Requests, mainly from people I went to school with but was never really friends with - don't see the point in that.

 

[Dist]

I dont see why people feel the need to post every little detail about themselves on the internet. Even after i finished a big assignment on social networking for my course a few months back, i just couldnt see the pros anywhere near outweighing the cons.

Then again, i am a bit paranoid, so mabye people just dont see the same cons as i do, but i think its just stupid to post so much information about yourself on the internet. The only real pro in most social networking sites is finding people with the same interests as yourself, but the problem with that is, you can simply find people with the same interests by simply doing it. If your in to football, go play football and meet new people, If your into competative gaming, go to a LAN party. All of which are better ways IMO then to meet peopl online.

 

[SideWinder]

I love Facebook.

I can keep in touch with people, view their friends list and see who they know that i know - mutual friends. Pictures can be tagged so people can have pictures added on to their profile or untagged if they don't like it. Etc etc.

I would be dead without it and i would happily drone on and on/argue but it's 5am and i'd probably get so heated up i'd get suspended.

 

["andy"]

i made a facebook account about 3 weeks ago

pros:

talked to a few people from school/old jobs that i lost contact with and never thought id ever see or talk to again, even arranged to meet up with some of them

can easily contact a mate to leave a message when im over my phones text/minutes limit.

cons:

people i havent seen that i dont want to talk too have added/tried to add me ! , worst of all is the rents read the page and seen the horrible photos from drunken uni nights out etc :eek

 

[Kell_ee001]

Limited profiles

 

[semi-pro waster]

Contradiction much?

Maybe he doesn't really want to keep in contact with people, a hermit perhaps?

So far I've resisted all the social networking sites, I've thought about it a few times but essentially anyone I care enough about to want to keep in touch with I will and hopefully they will do the same in return. I will already either have their phone number or email address so that should be enough contact details to be going on with. It does appear to be getting more difficult to avoid though in the sphere of everyday life, another minor point is that even (potential) employers are now checking them for indescretions carried out when outside work time.

 

[Angus-Higgins]

I dislike the idea of these "Social Networking" websites. It seems a compulsion for people to be contacting those whose acquaintance is established not through any "real life" interaction, but interaction on the Internet. (I do not feel the need, in general, I believe, to contact many people; if I require information then I will obtain it in some manner; I need not ask someone a question).

I dislike the fact that these websites merely promote "Social Networking" when they are so bad. (MySpace is very, very bad; I believe).

Angus Higgins

 

[geeza]

^ didnt you have any friends at school or any clubs that you wish to contact but dont know their number or where they live?

 

[Westyfield2]

I've got MySpace, Bebo, Tagged, Facebook & tbh I only login when I get an email from them (Blah has written on your wall etc.)

total waste of time

if someone needs to contact me - they have my phone number
if i need to contact some - i have their phone number

Quoted for Truth, though I'd like to add msn to that. If someone needs to contact me through a computer, use msn, or just phone/text.

 

[Trojan]

I'm quite a fan of facebook. It's a simple tool that lets me keep in contact with a variety of people around the world, and see what they're getting up to. Apart from the number of applications that are on there now, I can't really see much wrong with it, nor why quite so many people don't like it or have a problem with it.

 

[Angus-Higgins]

^ didnt you have any friends at school or any clubs that you wish to contact but dont know their number or where they live?

I still attend school (albeit 6th Form). I spend time working on my subject work, and doing my other hobbies (this does not, generally, although does not exclude, speaking to people for extended time).

Angus Higgins

 

[kitten_caboodle]

I'm quite a fan of facebook. It's a simple tool that lets me keep in contact with a variety of people around the world, and see what they're getting up to. Apart from the number of applications that are on there now, I can't really see much wrong with it, nor why quite so many people don't like it or have a problem with it.

And as for old friends, I'm pleased to say I've caught up with a lot of people I probably wouldn't have found / wouldn't have found me without FB. However I am terrible for keeping in contact IRL so FB is perfect for me. Means I'm kept up-to-date on important things in their lives and they can do the same for me, and a lot of them we've just picked up from where we left.

I'm agreeing with these two posts. I probably nip onto facebook and update it once a week or so - I am very rarely on MSN nowadays, because I'm too busy and I am rubbish at keeping in touch. Doesn't mean I don't want to though, and half an hour on facebook lets me say 'helloooo!' to people and remind them that i'm still alive

Most of my FB people live in different parts of the country though and I don't get to see them anything like as much as I'd like

 

[Hayley-K]

I have a facebook but never use it and used to have MySpace. In the end I got fed up with people looking at comments from other friends and interrogating me over it.

My friends now cant understand why I dont use these sites when they all do, I feel there is no privacy on these sites as you have no control what other people write to you.

As said before if they are good friends they shouldn't need to contact me through SN sites but over phone or email.

 

["andy"]

maybe tell them to message you and not to write on the wall ?

i know what you mean about myspace though , ppl read the comments then know your plans for the day/week :/

to me i sort of use it as i would use an email addy (my email addy is spammed to the max and pretty much unusable)

 

[Mattus]

if someone needs to contact me - they have my phone number
if i need to contact some - i have their phone number

I feel this is missing the point somewhat. If I wanted an in-depth conversation with a close friend, I would phone them or have them phone me. I don't see this as the point of Facebook; I have about 100 Facebook friends, and I'm not under the pretence that I know (or care) about them all enough to be able to conduct a phone conversation with them without awkward silences.

Facebook fills in the gap; it allows me to drop the odd message to people with whom I'd otherwise lose contact. I see Facebook as a less laborious alternative to texting; how many of you have dozens of people in your mobile to whom you only talk a couple of times a month? I tend to see Facebook as much the same.

 

[Margaret]

I use MySpace and Facebook, MySpace mostly though Facebook just annoys me with all the stupid applications it has now.

Mainly for keeping in touch with people within college, posting funny pictures and comments, y'know all that stuff.

Main problem with MySpace is kids like this monstrosity;

"Scene/Emo" kids, ugh god I owned her though hahahaha, she deleted that comment fast I tell you.

 

[Droolinggimp]

Not keen on Myspace or the like but Facebook is ok. I have had minor issue in the past with it but now things are looking up. I have been offered 3 photography jobs for, what are now friends. I have been asked to take portaits of the respective parents children for xmas presents and also a football coach is wanting me to take a squad photo for his team. Its a under 10's Sunday team.

I ahve met a few people off face book local to me and got on well with all of them. I cant see any problme with it. Yes thye do get abused and what with all these silly apps that keep cropping up, I just ignore them.