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I've been on it about a year...use it mainly to chat occasionally w/ friends from high school (after our 20th reunion last year, a lot joined Facebook), college, grad school, and past jobs in Colorado. It's been fun....nice to reconnect w/ some people I hadn't talked w/ in years. Only people I know IRL and since I've lived in so many places over the years, people are spread out all over..even stay in touch w/ a grad school buddy who is in Sweden.

I use Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, each has it's place and purpose.

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A long time ago a friend told me to get a facebook, so I did. I spent five minutes setting it up the night I got it and haven't looked at it since. Couldn't remember the password if you had a gun to my head and don't really care, either.

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Again we agree ... I avoid Facebook and Myspace, to me, you're lacking something in your life if you are on them ... Besides, there's a creepy child porn stigma if your over 30 and on there ... :P

. . . . . or you are an active parent keeping an eye on your teenage daughter's activity on the social networking site.

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A long time ago a friend told me to get a facebook, so I did. I spent five minutes setting it up the night I got it and haven't looked at it since. Couldn't remember the password if you had a gun to my head and don't really care, either.

I felt the same way about it as you and Balthazar, and PCS.

Until my friend badgered me into it.

Now it's kinda nice the way I have it setup, so that a bunch of old friends are now in touch with me again. We never e-mailed each other, and were slack about calling, and are spread all over the country, so being in touch isn't a bad thing.

That said, all of the extra BS on there still turns me off.

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im present. liked the layout of it 2 versions ago... this new one sucks. i talk to people i went to school with that i care about and whatnot but the only thing i really do is play around on an application called wrestler... beware the IRON CURTAIN!! :lol:

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I'm on it, but only to stay in touch with my friends from all over the country. Some of my family work in the U.S. and I keep in touch with many of my former co-workers, so it's easier to contact each other through Facebook. They get to see how my son is growing and how my wife's pregnancy is going. Other than that, I hate applications and rarely update my status. It's not a social-networking thing as much as just a better form of e-mail for me.

I started on Myspace, but I couldn't stand all the personal splash screens and glitter $h! that bogged everything down, so I switched to Facebook.

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Many find it pointless, but Facebook is a great way to keep in contact with old friends...especially for me since I'm now out of college and everybody is scattered across the country. I really like sending messages to keep in touch and checking out people's photos (especially if they do some traveling). I could care less about the status updates, the apps, and the chat in general. It's definitely a site skewered toward younger demographics; I've been on it since it launched in '04 for the college crowd and 90% of my friends / acquaintances are on it.

I have Myspace, but I don't really like it that much. I check it once every couple days. The ability to personalize your page is the drawback to that site...3/4 of the users there have to put up the most obnoxious graphics, fonts, and colors and it's just a PITA to navigate through all that crap.

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Well after my 25th reunion last year, the girl who organized the whole thing set up a page at Facebook for classmates to keep in touch and stay posted on upcoming reunions. So that's why I joined. This one girl I sort of had a thing with in high school found out I was on there and emailed me yesterday evening... she's a widow... and so she's all excited to "catch up". So I'm glad to hear from her and all, but I am not sure how I'll answer certain questions. The "search" function has turned up a few surprises, as well.

Since I just joined, I have no reference as far as earlier iterations of the site. It does seem to have a lot of rather useless features.

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Well after my 25th reunion last year, the girl who organized the whole thing set up a page at Facebook for classmates to keep in touch and stay posted on upcoming reunions. So that's why I joined. This one girl I sort of had a thing with in high school found out I was on there and emailed me yesterday evening... she's a widow... and so she's all excited to "catch up". So I'm glad to hear from her and all, but I am not sure how I'll answer certain questions. The "search" function has turned up a few surprises, as well.

Since I just joined, I have no reference as far as earlier iterations of the site. It does seem to have a lot of rather useless features.

take her up on her offer to 'catch up'. maybe she'll pay for a nice seafood dinner and cheesecake dessert. Then after she pays the tab, break it to her gently. :)

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I'm on it... Have been for 3-4 years now.

I always hated it and MySpace until I moved away from all of my friends when I transferred to another school. Facebook is the PERFECT way to keep in touch (I ab-so-lute-ly HATE talking on the phone to anyone, I mostly text)

That said, I deleted my MySpace when I found out they were selling info to potential employers (as a practice, not me specifically)

If anyone wants to look me up, feel free to send me a PM.

2 things:

1) Yes, the new version sucks ass, when compared to the previous version... And sucks even m ore ass when compared to the first version.

2) Facebook is VERY different in nature than MySpace. In fact, there isn't even much of a comparison since MySpace is considered to be a part of Web 1.0 and Facebook (and second life and twitter, ect.) are considered a part of web 2.0 (In the psychological sense)

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Now it's kinda nice the way I have it setup, so that a bunch of old friends are now in touch with me again. We never e-mailed each other, and were slack about calling, and are spread all over the country, so being in touch isn't a bad thing.

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Many find it pointless, but Facebook is a great way to keep in contact with old friends..

EXACTLY!

I mentioned that I'm on it in this thread:

http://www.cheersandgears.com/index.php?showtopic=28572

I've been AMAZED at how many people I've reconnected with ... that, for the most part, I had thought I had lost contact with for good.

If anyone wants to connect with me ... search me by my Email:

faithcubsmc2691

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aol.com

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"I could feel a sweet beginning" ... Vince Gill ... 'Cinderella'

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2) Facebook is VERY different in nature than MySpace. In fact, there isn't even much of a comparison since MySpace is considered to be a part of Web 1.0 and Facebook (and second life and twitter, ect.) are considered a part of web 2.0 (In the psychological sense)

Funny that you should say that, Facebook was around prior to MySpace. In fact, I've been on FB since 2004. It was around quite awhile before that as well. Facebook has more staying power in my mind becuase they cleaned it up with the last two updates. MySpace lost it when they allowed everybody to modify their pages.

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Guilty. It's useful for organizing events and keeping up with people who went across the country for school.

I do agree with the sentiment that the new homepage layout is pretty bad. I don't really want to see everything my friends do, especially those asinine "what ice cream flavor are you?"-type quizzes or their top 5 Skittles flavors.

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On it since '04. Probably the best way for me to keep up with my HS and college friends since I left VA.

I also have MySpace but don't use it as much. Facebook has always been much more streamlined... and secure too. I hope they don't lose sight (wow, I almost typed "site" :P ) of that.

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I've looked at it- my buddy is on it. I'm not.

IMO, it's a waste of time.

Sweet merciful crap- I started a profile tonight (keeping an eye on #1 son).

We're just gonna brush aside all the stated, implied & understood comments about 'those over 30', OK ? :rolleyes:

....Everything is hidden except to friends- it's even more pointless than I thought.

How are you supposed to laugh at the failures & deteriorations of others without them knowing about it ??

Still, I do have some folk to look up...

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Years ago before MySpace was the "it" thing a friend had me join it. It was a see of poor layouts and repeating, ugly backgrounds that made the text illegible. I eventually deleted the account since I will never go on there. As for Facebook and Twatter....not a snowball's chance in hell.

The closest thing to any of that I'm a member of is DeviantART, although I go through periods where I forgot about the site for months (once over a year).

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The closest thing to any of that I'm a member of is DeviantART, although I go through periods where I forgot about the site for months (once over a year).

I had a similar problem with a myspace clone where I made a profile, made a couple updates and forgot. Months later, I had someone make a call to my house asking if I was dead. It was pretty cool.

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I had a similar problem with a myspace clone where I made a profile, made a couple updates and forgot. Months later, I had someone make a call to my house asking if I was dead. It was pretty cool.

I used to play Final Fantasy XI regularly, but I get bored with MMO's quickly, so I've gone through periods where I stop playing for months...2 years is my current record. People who i played with thought I was dead or something. :lol:

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I'm on it, and I too used to be one of those who thought it was a waste of time.

However being that I'm 1500+ miles away from my family and old friends it's a great way to keep in touch.

Oh and I get a chance to post statuses on there that make me look like an asshole :alcoholic:

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I am not on Facebook. Due to the line of work I am in, I do not want students chasing me down and trying to friend me and I do not want people period in my personal affairs. I have nothing to hide, but I do not want students bothering me outside of the university. I also do not want or need people I used to know or know trying to find or look me up. I have nothing to hide.

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Nope, pretty much always been an asshole. She does the same thing to me, but isn't very creative, it usually ends up being something about blowing fat guys.

Today it was: Nickelback is awesome, I want to suck Chad Kroeger's dick!

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I'm still pretty active on it...been on a couple years now...been able to reconnect w/ former coworkers, friends from Colorado, from grad school, college, high school, even elementary school...my use of it really took off after my high school reunion a couple years ago...I play some of the games, esp. Farmville (so addictive). I've reconnected w/ ex-girlfriends and people I haven't seen in 20-30 years, which is fun.

For the most part, I haven't friended people that I don't know IRL. Not sure whether I should expand to include more people I know online only.

There is a lot of interesting content also on the FB, such as from sites like Motorsport Retro, various automotive blog pages, etc.

As far as social media, etc, I'm pretty active at using the FB, Linkedin, and the Twitter..each has its distinct place and purpose.

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