Face Book

[eniarelocin]

So what's with this sudden FaceBook explosion anyway? What's so great about it? Why should I join?

I've gone to check it out but I must register in order to see anything and this generally puts me off.

So... those of you who are 'in' already: what's the scoop? Is this worth my time or would I be subjected to huge amounts of spam and pointless emails like I get from Myspace (which I utterly despise). Please educate me.

Comments

[taverus.livejournal.com]

myspace clone, with a few added features. joined myself because people were posting a bunch of thinsg exclusively there.

right now, facebook is very hip, but is probably functional equivalent to myspace

[andyravensable.livejournal.com]

I beg to differ. I sodding *loathe* myspack, due to the fact that it seems to be impossible to design a decent page on there, it's full of teenage tossers with appalling spelling and grammar, it's obtrusive, playing music at you as soon as you load a page, which causes said page to take several aeons to load, and it's quite blatant in it's marketing methods.

So far (and I'm willing to eat my whole collection of headgarments, should I be proved otherwise), I've found facebook to be well laid out, easy to load (with lovely Web 2.0 style layovers), full of people I'm interested in, and, possibly best of all, an excellent way of linking you in with all those people you knew from previous workplaces or schools, allowing you to look at their profile photo and chortle away at how chubby they've become over the years (or, at least, my old schoolfriends are, but that's because they all work for merchant banks now). I'm not terribly fond of anything which takes personal details, but I feel that they haven't used it (yet!) to spam me, I don't have adverts splashed in my face, and it's a pleasant thing to have a poke around in. Perhaps it's just a phase, and later on it will be knee deep in idiots spouting how "kewl th33r l33t haX0r skillz" are, or something, but, for now, it seems quite civilised. At least, at my end it is.

Chorttle.

[ebonyraine.livejournal.com]

First of all, LOVE the icon, darlink.

Perhaps I'll give it a go, then. I like the idea of more ways to network- I just don't want to be bombarded with spacktards sending my messages and friend requests telling how they've discovered happiness working from home through this pyramid scheme or that, or about getting loads of free ring tones. It's utter shite, the Myspace. And I hate it. I hate it forever. I'm half tempted to delete my profile there actually.

Thanks for the info :)

Re: Chorttle.

[andyravensable.livejournal.com]

I must admit, after I'd written that, I thought to myself - my god, I've just defended facebook! It does, however, seem to work quite well, so perhaps it deserves my rhetoric.

Re: Chorttle.

[ebonyraine.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm obviously giving it a go, so I guess we'll see how things pan out.

Hope all is well with you, or at least on the up swing.