I don't really see why you should. I use it because it's a useful way for me to very occasionally check in on (see: stalk) the people I went to school with and are interested in how their stories turn out. I also know a lot of people who use it as a social networking tool and invite me to stuff using it, so if I'm not on it, I miss out. I also like that if I go to a party and a friend takes pictures, I can see the pictures they took (assuming I have friends who take nice and not embarrassing pictures, which I do). If none of those things are relevant/interesting to you, then why bother? We keep up with your life on LJ, which is way better anyway.
[PS - you can set your settings so that your profile blocks all invitations to applications that people send you, and you don't actually have to install any if you don't want to. I have scrabble installed and that's it - my profile is very spartan.]
[PPS - the general feeling in my circle/people I know is that facebook is NOT a good place to professionally advertise yourself. If you make yourself available to search, it means that people searching you can then look at things you've written on other people's walls, photos of you from 30 years ago that people have put up and tagged as you, and so on and so forth. I don't know anyone who hasn't locked down their profile to their own private network.]
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Date: 2009-06-27 04:05 am (UTC)[PS - you can set your settings so that your profile blocks all invitations to applications that people send you, and you don't actually have to install any if you don't want to. I have scrabble installed and that's it - my profile is very spartan.]
[PPS - the general feeling in my circle/people I know is that facebook is NOT a good place to professionally advertise yourself. If you make yourself available to search, it means that people searching you can then look at things you've written on other people's walls, photos of you from 30 years ago that people have put up and tagged as you, and so on and so forth. I don't know anyone who hasn't locked down their profile to their own private network.]