LOL, that's the funniest thing I've seen on here in a LONG time. Yeah, that list pretty much nails it. I know people from almost each catagory and I have less that 100 friends. I see a lot of The Maddening Obscurists. I hate reading status updates that try to be mysterious. They just end up looking stupid. And a lot of the Self Promoters too. This weekend, a "friend" of mine was running a 10K....and updating his status from his iPhone at every K. Seriously?? I know some Paparazzos too, but they don't post pics of me from the past weekend. They post (and tag me in) pics from high school and college. Seriously, don't tag me in a picture of me from college doing a keg stand. If you must, at least run it by me first. I don't need my wife seeing pictures of me making out with some random chick 15 years ago at a college party...
PapaMcMartinez Smurfleberry! Awesome. I think its the same thing as twitter... its just a cool thing for technology nerds to prove they know how to do, but really nobody cares. "#uselessinfo Stuck in traffic... geez look at this guy's hood ornament... http://tinypic.url.whogivesaflying****872839292"
I have a girl on my facebook that lives her life through it. If she is going out, you hear about her "Looking forward to it" for a week. Then when she is out she posts from her mobile about getting drinks and enjoying herself.....I know the first think I do on a good night out is have a need to update my facebook. And she has 800 pictures on her facebook too. Its like she lives her life to pad out her facebook.
I know a girl just like this. I just recently learned about the "hide" feature and it is a lifesaver. When I first joined, I just started accepting and requesting friends from every person I'd ever known. After a few weeks, I stopped and just accepted from people I really want to know about. I cancelled about 30 people I didn't really care about but who updated their statuses every 10 minutes and took every single quiz. I get requests from some of the most random people. Some lady from work who I've never even worked with. Don't know if I've ever even spoken to her. She requests me and sends me a note saying "hey, don't know if you remember me. how are you?" Uh....not to be rude, but...I DON'T remember you. Stop trying to pad your friend count.
I don't do the "sign up to share my whole damn life on the internet" thing because I'm paranoid. And for good reason. Interesting article on facebook "quizzes" from the ACLU. And of course, a proof of concept is out there. I try to be nice about it, but I cannot fathom why anyone would want to share this type of info or risk anyone you don't know seeing it. Makes zero sense to me. Like it or not, stuff you post on the internet is rarely in your control, and it's VERY permanent. I really think these social sites are going to be regretted by a lot of folks as they get older.
DWangBoy is feeling the blues of Monday morning. Wake UP! I'm so good at what I do! Love me Want me.. add me as yo Bud--D.. How many rules can you break with one Facebook update?
I think the quizzes are silly, but why would anyone want to sell the fact that my favorite Star Wars character is Palpatine to anyone else? And who would pay for that kind of information? I don't put anything on FB I don't want the whole world to potentially know about me. All that article says is that people can google your name and see your profile pic. As long as your profile isn't viewable to everyone, that's all anyone can see. I mean, I totally get your point about not wanting anything to do with it, and frankly, I don't blame you. But I think as long as you use common sense about it all, it's no more harmful than having an email address.
My understanding (I'm not a FB user, remember) is that this is more than just "palpatine" type data being made available. As others have alluded to in past threads, these settings are sometimes "adjusted" without your consent. True. If I put my name out there and a pic, probably nothing would come of it that would be concerning. I'm referring more to those who post loads of personal stuff, pictures, etc.
I can honestly say I qualify for zero of those categories...then again, I only use Facebook maybe once a day on average.
What is the deal with the fan pages for inanimate objects or other things that don't really have fans? On the side, I'll see: "I hate slow computers" (Insert name here) is a fan. Others are "naps", "jews", "critics", etc.
I guess I'm just speaking for myself here, but I still don't understand what kind of data would be made available. Like I said, I don't put anything up that I don't want the whole world to potentially see, so personally I'm not worried about that. If other people want to put their whole lives on it and it comes back to bite them later on, that's really on them, not FB. My opinion, of course. The only time I can imagine it ever coming back to bite ME is what I mentioned earlier about people tagging me in old drunken college pics. I really hate it when people do that. But if I get tagged, it shows up on my wall and I can just untag myself in it. (I just realized you probably have no idea what I'm talking about because you don't use FB.. ) But you're right about people who put their whole lives on it. IMO, that's more on the person than does it than it is on FB itself.
What about the ones that say the most OBVIOUS CRAP...? Like: "Today is Monday. OMG is everyone ready?!?!?"
It's annoying when they post lots of game stuff - what they're looking for in Mafia Wars, various farm games, and every single egg they find whether you want to hear about it or not. A lot of these can be taken away by hiding the application, but if it's one you play and don't want to completely hide, or if it's those quizzes that are different every time, then you're stuck with it. I wish people would only hit the post button for the really good stuff, and skip the rest. Also, when their actual status refers to something happening in their mafia or farm. These games do take away from your actual life, you know. I still think these networking sites are a positive thing, though. I've reconnected with real life friends I haven't talked to in a while, due to not living in the same place. I have about 225 friends though I would still be under 200 if it were not for internet friends added just to play games. I try to keep that limited though. Some people have several hundred. People who are about 20 years old, though, might have 800 or so friends and come by it naturally. They knew a lot of people in high school and all of them actually had facebook accounts then. Then there's college. Sure, they're not all their best friends, but they probably do have real life acquaintance with most of them. It's not like they're having to find people again like some of us, and only picking the ones we had actual friendships with because we're not sure if the others would remember us or care.
Well, yes. If you are silly enough to post details of your midget sex obsession on facebook, it's your own darn fault in the end. But that's also part of the point. FB does not advertise that this data is potentially being shared with loads of people (intentionally or otherwise - I'd certainly fall into the camp of "information on the internet will ALWAYS end up public as it currently stands). There is a conflicting standard being applied here - as Bruce Schneier notes in this quick essay. People expect privacy on these sites (naively, IMO) but the sites are designed to facilitate data sharing. That results in problems, as the ACLU application problem demonstrates.
I've got a couple of those friends but I think they're legit. One of them is a guy who was in our dorm (yes, JV and I were in the same dorm). Very often on campus people would ask what dorm you were in and if we said "Blackstone" they would ask, "Oh, do you know Clive?" Once when I was living in Paris I met someone who said, "You go to the University of Chicago, do you know Clive?" Seriously, that guy gets around!
a bunch of my friends freakin lectured me last weekend because they found out I have a twitter account I am somewhat active on and no facebook account. just not that interested in it personally my roommate though is on facebook every night for at least an hour just looking at friends pictures and all.
