Holden McGroin 6963 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Myspace is a complete dead duck nowadays. Being a student facebook is great for sorting stuff out, nearly all my mates have it so good for keeping in contact well thats just put me right off if it's full of students... There is a lot of younger people on there but facebook is quie private compared to myspace. You will only really become friends with people you have already met rather than meet new friends on it. in that case were'nt they already friends anyway ?? Correct..but now they are all in an address book style friends network. You wont gain NEW friends from facebook. Its just a away of keeping in touch...and wasting time away at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radgina 1 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Myspace is a complete dead duck nowadays. Being a student facebook is great for sorting stuff out, nearly all my mates have it so good for keeping in contact well thats just put me right off if it's full of students... There is a lot of younger people on there but facebook is quie private compared to myspace. You will only really become friends with people you have already met rather than meet new friends on it. in that case were'nt they already friends anyway ?? Correct..but now they are all in an address book style friends network. You wont gain NEW friends from facebook. Its just a away of keeping in touch...and wasting time away at work. aaahhh so it's a Gemmil thing then ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6963 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Myspace is a complete dead duck nowadays. Being a student facebook is great for sorting stuff out, nearly all my mates have it so good for keeping in contact well thats just put me right off if it's full of students... There is a lot of younger people on there but facebook is quie private compared to myspace. You will only really become friends with people you have already met rather than meet new friends on it. in that case were'nt they already friends anyway ?? Correct..but now they are all in an address book style friends network. You wont gain NEW friends from facebook. Its just a away of keeping in touch...and wasting time away at work. aaahhh so it's a Gemmil thing then ?? Not since he got a job where work is actually a requirement .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radgina 1 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Just signed up to it and lo and beholf..there is a young lass on there I sacked about 5 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RlCO 0 Posted September 7, 2007 Author Share Posted September 7, 2007 Just signed up to it and lo and beholf..there is a young lass on there I sacked about 5 years ago See, now you can build bridges. Poke her! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radgina 1 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Just signed up to it and lo and beholf..there is a young lass on there I sacked about 5 years ago See, now you can build bridges. Poke her! I beg your pardon !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RlCO 0 Posted September 7, 2007 Author Share Posted September 7, 2007 Just signed up to it and lo and beholf..there is a young lass on there I sacked about 5 years ago See, now you can build bridges. Poke her! I beg your pardon !! That's what you do on Facebook. Poke people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radgina 1 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Just signed up to it and lo and beholf..there is a young lass on there I sacked about 5 years ago See, now you can build bridges. Poke her! I beg your pardon !! That's what you do on Facebook. Poke people oh...ermmmm...I see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6702 Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Just signed up to it and lo and beholf..there is a young lass on there I sacked about 5 years ago You have a habit of bumping into people you've sacked, haven't you? Its got the reputation of being full of students because up until about a year ago you needed an academic email address to make a profile. It's much better than myspace IMO which I think is a pile of shite. I see it more as the next generation Friends Reunited. As for meeting new people, it is impossible, but then I don't think that's the intention of the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinofbeans 91 Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 (edited) i think whilst its useful, its also a bit fake. thus the fakebook acronym i use. i've met up with a few old friends whilst using it so it is useful. Edited September 8, 2007 by canofbeans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gejon 2 Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 It is quite useful actually, only use it to keep in contact with people though. Can't be arsed with Zombie points or poking people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 I think it was better when it was only for academic users, Because now it's overcrowded and all the Americans installed the 'Love Football' application and none of them know anything about football. Wankers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 This privacy thing is guff anyway. As if anyone on facebook is worth being monitored by anyone important. 'I see Steve has set his profile status to 'selling nukes to the Africans,' best do something about that.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 This privacy thing is guff anyway. As if anyone on facebook is worth being monitored by anyone important. 'I see Steve has set his profile status to 'selling nukes to the Africans,' best do something about that.' Information is power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6702 Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 The press are making more of this than they need to tbh. Until you accept someone as a 'friend' on there, all they can see of you is a thumnail image (doesn't show much) and the list of friends you having. It's not like they're allowing access to private information FFS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggiespaws 0 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 That's not the privacy issue. The issue is that facebook have now decided to open up their entire database to the search engines so that it is indexed. This allows people outside facebook to search for you. The way it used to work was that you could not search for someone unless you had registered first - even then you could control what they saw of you. It's all a ploy to get facebook more members and make it bigger. The problem is, it basically flaunts the data protection issue of opt-in not opt-out. You can opt-out of the public thing, but it's turned on by default. Anything and everything you put up on your facebook profile will now be publicly visible. Some people have pictures of their bairns or of their friends which they share with their online facebook friends. If it's public you have no control over that. It's fine as long as you opt-out, but that's the point you have to opt-out. There has been little notification by facebook of this happening until after the fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15871 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Hm... I was asked whether I wanted to make my profile available to search engines (i.e. to non-members) when I logged in recently. Wasn't everyone? Bit strange if not, I agree... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggiespaws 0 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I wasn't, my wife wasn't and neither were all the people in my office. Given that we are all involved in web related activities we all became aware of it pretty quickly. Still, it gave us something to blog about I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15871 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 OK, then I'd say they've got a case to answer. Maybe I'm just special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zico martin 95 Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 hmmm as far as i was aware, unless you have been accepted as a friend of the user you get to view very little of his/her facebook, certainly not family pics and blogs etc. Ive just try to google myself and nothing has come up tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggiespaws 0 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 but iOK, then I'd say they've got a case to answer. Maybe I'm just special. I'm sure thats what your mummy tells you ;P I'm curious though. When did you get your notification? This might have been because of the arguments raised when it first emerged this was happening. Maybe they added this to the system but we all missed it in the office because we'd already changed our settings. Mrs Paws didn't update her profile until the weekend though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggiespaws 0 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 hmmm as far as i was aware, unless you have been accepted as a friend of the user you get to view very little of his/her facebook, certainly not family pics and blogs etc. Ive just try to google myself and nothing has come up tbh In the beginning that was the way it worked. It still will work that way if you change your privacy settings. As for the Google results - it takes time. Search indexes aren't instant. It may take a few months for the facebook stuff to be properly indexed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBass 2824 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 so....facebook v myspace ...which one do I go for ?? Facebook imo. Register on MySpace and be prepared to be spammed to buggery... unless they've sorted that shite out now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15871 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 I'm curious though. When did you get your notification? Wish I could remember more specifically. Some time last week I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Ive turned it off like... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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