The most pressing issue of the day
Jun. 26th, 2009 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A friend recently suggested that I join Facebook. I was on Facebook at one point, in fact, but it bewildered and slightly irritated me, so I deleted my account. I didn't want to play Scrabble, and I kept on getting things thrown at me, and while I'm working I try not to be online, so I don't have windows open with Twitter, IM, LJ, etc. etc. (Because I find them addictive and I'd play with them rather than work.) So I'm not clear how I'd integrate it into my working day or indeed my life.
But then I know that's just me being crusty and bad-tempered and reclusive, all my least attractive qualities. Not to mention indecisive, so I'm putting it to you, friends list:
[Poll #1421396]
Please feel free to tell me why or why not.
Twitter is out, though.
Unless someone can give me a really good reason.
But then I know that's just me being crusty and bad-tempered and reclusive, all my least attractive qualities. Not to mention indecisive, so I'm putting it to you, friends list:
[Poll #1421396]
Please feel free to tell me why or why not.
Twitter is out, though.
Unless someone can give me a really good reason.
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Date: 2009-06-26 10:48 am (UTC)Now, I do little or nothing with all of the 'applications'; I rarely update my status; and I'm patchy at checking other people's updates. So my page isn't much more than a placeholder. But I keep it partly because people occasionally post photos there, and mostly because there are two or three people with whom I've made contact again through FB - people of whom I've thought over the years 'I wonder what happened to X; I suppose I've no way of ever finding out'. And I'm pleased that that's happened.
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Date: 2009-06-26 11:03 am (UTC)Eh? Since when did crusty, bad-tempered and reclusive become bad qualities?
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Date: 2009-06-26 11:45 am (UTC)I'm pondering twitter, too, if only because then I can stop spamming LJ and/or my friends via text with these random thoughts I keep having. :P
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Date: 2009-06-26 11:55 am (UTC)The only reason I haven't deleted mine is that they give me no confidence at all that they'll actually delete it - and when I tried to delete it they just made my profile visible to the whole world during the two weeks it sits in suspended status before it actually gets deleted. So now I just ignore it instead and anyone that uses it to contact me, ignoring the message that tells them not to, has clearly failed my intelligence test and therefore I don't need to speak to them :)
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Date: 2009-06-26 11:57 am (UTC)Anyway... I was about to give up on FB until I learned how to block stuff.
If someone throws something at you, or tries to engage you in anything like a pillow fight or mafia wars or silly quizzes, if you hover your mouse to the right of that line item on the page, you'll see a little pop-up that says, "Block [friend name]" and "Block [Name of Application]". This also works if you get an invitation to get involved with something that uses an application, and it shows up on your invitation/friend request screen. There is a button that says, "Block this application".
True, there are new ones always popping up, but it has SIGNIFICANTLY lowered the spam on my page and I can actually keep up with what my friends are saying.
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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 ;-) )
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