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8024. iiibbb - 2/10/2014 6:39:53 PM Google+ is useful because a lot of Google services are tied to it, but just because that's how they've organized it doesn't make it useful for social networking. It's no Facebook replacement.
There has been some buzz about how Facebook is going to go extinct within the next 3 years... comparing it's user graph to Myspace. However, I'm not sure if it's believed. Myspace went away because Facebook was better. Facebook isn't going to go away until something better comes along. Google+ wasn't it. Snapchat isn't it. I'm not even sure if the downward element of this graph isn't Facebook actually starting to purge fake accounts... which they've gotten more serious about since it went public - seeing as unique and real members determines Facebook's value.
I'll happily jump ship when something else pops up, but Facebook remains the best way for me to keep in touch with my largest circle of friends/acquaintances. 8025. Wombat - 2/10/2014 7:38:57 PM "Like."
8026. iiibbb - 2/10/2014 9:03:30 PM I should note that I have a large number of friends with ham licenses... so even if facebook goes extinct, we'll be there a while. 8027. judithathome - 2/10/2014 10:39:30 PM Well, I never thought hand held devices would take the place of humans but they seem to have done...we go out to eat and see nearly every table full of people "talking to" other people via their hand-helds and ignoring those sitting right across the table from them. 8028. iiibbb - 2/10/2014 10:46:14 PM 
8029. arkymalarky - 2/10/2014 11:51:00 PM I don't know. I'm just so glad I downloaded flappy bird before its creator pulled it. 8030. judithathome - 2/11/2014 8:55:46 AM Heh....get back to me when people start sleeping with their newspapers next to their pillows. A surprising number of persons, when asked, admitted they sleep with their cell phones right by their pillows...don't wanna miss a thing. 8031. alistairconnor - 2/11/2014 12:28:57 PM I went on facecrack reluctantly, basically for clues on what my daughters were thinking... but I confess I'm an intermittent but happy user (I am thinking of a sex change to get rid of the big-boobed lonely Ukranians etc, the advertising is heavy-handed and intrusive.) 8032. iiibbb - 2/11/2014 1:47:01 PM There are ways to block facebook advertising. Firefox with the adblock plus addon is one of them. 8033. arkymalarky - 2/11/2014 3:20:45 PM Facebook has some great qualities. Evidently I just have too many crappy annoying friends. I'm going to set up a fb for my job, tho. Don't know if I'll ever get back on personally. One former student got really offended that fb is how she found out her grandfather was dying. They were posting all about an ambulance and where and who. Typical rural stuff and not normally offensive, but one example of how the rural social dynamic doesn't translate well to fb in some ways.
But I did interact more personally with more people I care about on fb than any other way, ever. My 85 yo aunt loves it and Mose would not have known her without it. It was also very nice when Delight closed, which is a big reason I used it. 8034. iiibbb - 2/11/2014 4:25:39 PM My first response to finding out via facebook that my grandparent was dying would not be offense.... just sayin'.
But I am wired different than a lot of people and I have a very "it is what it is" mentality about things that happen. 8035. judithathome - 2/11/2014 8:45:32 PM Put yourself in the mind of a teenager...who may have been very close to her grandparent. Now imagine that GP is dying in a hospital somewhere nearby and no one thought you were important enough to come and tell you in person.
It is an example of why I am not a fan...no personal interaction is held too dear for it to be relegated to an impersonal "tweet".
It's too much "living your life" on a huge stage for others to see and judge...and "friends" are just words on a screen. I think I can live the rest of my life seeing my friends, talking to them face to face, and not rating my "popularity" in the numbers of "followers" or "retweets" I garner. 8036. iiibbb - 2/11/2014 9:15:41 PM I don't have a lot of friends, and the ones I do have put as probably put as much stock in Facebook as I do.
Basically, I've never seen a ton of drama, and my friends almost universally don't post drama.
But also, I just don't react that much... in part thanks to the Mote, where I can come and vent if I've got something awful or political or politically awful to say and it disappears. 8037. iiibbb - 2/11/2014 9:18:04 PM I just read the average number of facebook friends for 18-20-something is over 500.
I'm well under 200.
I don't post much personal stuff unless it's supremely good news or terribly ironic. 8038. iiibbb - 2/11/2014 9:18:57 PM I love seeing what's up with people. Just found out about a friends engagement that I hear about until April because I don't live there anymore. 8039. judithathome - 2/11/2014 9:29:42 PM Yes, yes...everyone who is a fan talks about how wonderful it is for keeping up with friends...I think I am at a place in my life where I just don't give a shit.
I've turned into something of a recluse. 8040. arkymalarky - 2/11/2014 11:36:14 PM "Ilove seeing what's up with people. Just found out about a friends engagement that I hear about until April because I don't live there anymore."
that's what I miss most about it. With regard to the former student, what upset her was that they were gossiping. No one told her. They were talking about among themselves. And she read it. 8041. wabbit - 2/12/2014 1:52:01 AM I have a FB page, which is rarely updated, but I have it to keep in touch with a few long distance friends, a few cousins and a friend from college. I'm up to 30 friends (and that includes two who have put their accounts on hold and one known alias). I keep my politics off FB for the most part and filter most political stuff.
I don't know how people with 500+ friends keep up, but I'm sure they aren't reading anything I have to say. 8042. arkymalarky - 2/12/2014 2:44:45 AM a lot of them I think don't. It's like collecting pogs. I was appalled to find some kids talking about having Facebook friends they didn't even know. Last year a rumor went around that our principal was posing as a teenager just to spy on the kids on Facebook and they were telling each other don't friend so and so and she wasn't even on Facebook. That rumor floated around and whoever the poor kid was trying to find friend everybody was getting declined. I guess that's what he gets for trying to friend people he doesn't know. Of course kids are on to the next thing now and adults are hooked. I'll probably go back to it in a limited way in a year or so. I want to be on this job a while without that added dimension first. I wouldn't have wanted to be on it during the job change. Still too many hard feelings between districts. 8043. alistairconnor - 2/14/2014 1:28:10 PM About half my FB traffic is political... Green stuff, and I don't care who knows it. In fact, I can't think of anyone, among my FB friends, who would have a problem with it. I'm lucky, I suppose (especially with my family! the rest not being entirely luck)
I used to have entirely separate France and New Zealand fb universes, but now there's a surprising amount of crossover. Part of it is having bicultural children, but part of it, I think, is FB itself, and associated media. Being in touch with old friends and their children, who end up in Lyon as a travel or study destination. That sort of thing. International networking is a huge plus.
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