The poll didn't have a Sitting on the Fence option, which is where I am re Facebook!
Like you I keep wondering whether I should be on it for work purposes, but I think it would actually be more useful for the Library itself to be on it (the British Library's got a Facebook page, after all! I am always amused to see it's described as female)
Snag is, lots of my family and some friends are on it obsessively, so I suspect they'd want to keep contacting me socially, which would either get undesirably mixed up with the work things (I like to keep work and social life in very separate boxes), or people would get irritated with me for ignoring them.
I also like to keep RL/non-pseudonymous uses of Teh Interweb very separate from fandom ones, so all the fun stuff would continue to be on LJ anyway ;-)
Sorry, that's no help, is it?
(I do know the Resident Geek eventually caved and got a Facebook page, mostly to see what other people were up to, but he keeps all the alerts turned off so AFAIK it doesn't impinge on his online existence too much. Also means even if I were to join I couldn't give him virtual pokes to get him to load the dishwasher, etc, so there's another use eliminated ;-) )
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Date: 2009-06-26 01:11 pm (UTC)Like you I keep wondering whether I should be on it for work purposes, but I think it would actually be more useful for the Library itself to be on it (the British Library's got a Facebook page, after all! I am always amused to see it's described as female)
Snag is, lots of my family and some friends are on it obsessively, so I suspect they'd want to keep contacting me socially, which would either get undesirably mixed up with the work things (I like to keep work and social life in very separate boxes), or people would get irritated with me for ignoring them.
I also like to keep RL/non-pseudonymous uses of Teh Interweb very separate from fandom ones, so all the fun stuff would continue to be on LJ anyway ;-)
Sorry, that's no help, is it?
(I do know the Resident Geek eventually caved and got a Facebook page, mostly to see what other people were up to, but he keeps all the alerts turned off so AFAIK it doesn't impinge on his online existence too much. Also means even if I were to join I couldn't give him virtual pokes to get him to load the dishwasher, etc, so there's another use eliminated ;-) )