I’m getting sick of this.
I do not need to get a facebook profile. I don’t have to have one to stay in contact with you, or to see your pictures, or to find out what you’re doing at the weekend. The simple fact that someone’s told me I need a facebook profile proves this. Generally they’ve told me on MSN or by email. Therefore there’s absolutely no need for me to check their facebook to find anything out as they’re capable of telling me via other methods.
Likewise, I don’t need one so people can find out where I am, what I’m doing or what my plans are for March. Because I have three ******* blogs with all that on (two active, the 1000 Mile Walk one now mothballed).
Look to the right – see the little gadget that tells you where I am? As long as I remember to update that, it’s fairly accurate. If I ever get a GPS device it’ll be linked to it. My Google Calendar has all my travel details on it – past, present and future. It’s permanently linked from my Travel Blog (see “Travel Planner” on the left).
So it’s not me who needs facebook. It’s everyone else who needs to ditch the damn thing and start exploring the rest of the internet. You’d be amazed how many pages aren’t shades of blue, and based seemingly entirely on how many “friends” you can get.
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you could get it then not bother updating your status – that’s more fun
Been there, done that. The only way I could see some peoples’ pictures was to set up an account. Muppets.
aww, who’s the grumpy baby? 🙂
well, to me Facebook is good for: photos; saying the occasionally hi to long lost friends whom you wouldn’t spend time emailing or chatting to; updating what books you’re reading and checking out friends’ reads. That’s pretty much it. I know you can do all of that (virtual bookshelf, travel map, photo sharing, etc.) on other sites, but then your friends will have to join each of those site too. So facebook is convenient because it has lots of those things in the same place.
Other than those, I don’t bother with silly applications, and don’t feel the need to add random people to increase my friends list.
Oh, and yes, the privacy setting for photos on there is great because you can limit viewers, but don’t need to send group emails.
Anyhoo, get your butt on there already!
haha 😉
Strangely the person who prompted the post is also an Amy – I thought the reply was from her for a second! In the order you posted:
Photos – there are a gazillion places you can post photos out there including on your own blog. Software makes it easy, more customisable and yes – you can restrict viewing to only certain people very easily.
Saying hi – blog. Email. MSN. As for long-lost… if they were decent mates in the first place, they’d not have gone AWOL.
Updating books etc – blog. You don’t need an application for that, just put it in a sidebar. I have that on here and on my travel blog. All it takes is updating some text.
facebook is, simply, pointless. The only reason for it is that some people seem to refuse to acknowledge alternatives and therefore it’s impossible to get hold of them any other way. I found it bizarre when I was working last season that when the office needed to get hold of some details (phone numbers, uniform sizes, renew contracts from previous season etc) they resorted to facebook to get hold of people.
Hang on… to get on facebook you need an email account. So wouldn’t it be easier to just send a damn email? For a start, companies up and down the country don’t routinely block email, at least as much as they block facebook access. Much as it pains me, I actually fought against a head office ruling to block facebook on all resorts because so many people were reliant on it. The issue is there’s no need to be reliant on it as there are much better alternatives.
I also didn’t want it barred as I think their issue stemmed from one person posting one inappropriate comment on their facebook page. This, to me, is not grounds for blocking a website company wide. It’s bad management, frankly. Block something people are addicted to and they get grumpy and make more of those comments when they can get access.
But, hey, I’m just a geek with no friends. What do I know?
nope – not got one either (or a MySpace or a Twater (or whatever it’s called)) and yet still I manage to stay in touch with my chums via the hideously old fashioned media of email, telephone and (gasp) occassional face-to-face contact
I confess to having a Twitter account. Although I think that I’ve “Twitted” or whatever about 10 times in the 2 years or more that I’ve had said account. In fairness, I think it’s a decent idea and fantastic when I can’t get online as there are plugins I could add on which would post the Twits here.
However, let down by the major factor of ******* expensive roaming fees on my mobile. Otherwise, I’d use it. But note – I’d be using it to post entries onto my blog, which would still remain the focus of my wibblings. The fact that people could subscribe to a separate Twitter feed is just a “bonus”, though a pointless one when it’d make make more sense for them to subscribe simply to the blog feed and get *everything*.