Hey,
anyone here have a myspace/facebook account? I just made one today. I see there a nice little Total War Fan Group on Facebook me and my brother joined.
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Hey,
anyone here have a myspace/facebook account? I just made one today. I see there a nice little Total War Fan Group on Facebook me and my brother joined.
Don't lump facebook in with myspace!
And I think some members might have started a .Org facebook group a while back. Which you might have been talking about.
CR
Gentlemen,
Any hint of a whiff of a sniff of a violation of anyone's privacy or anonymity at the Org. will result in horrid drasticalities.
Do not post another member's pic or name or link thereto.
Roger ThatQuote:
Originally Posted by Beirut
Agreed. Myspace is a horrible place to communicate with your friends. You can get viruses and other whatnot because of it. I use facebook, which is cleaner, safer, and easier to use to talk to friends and family.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
If only BKS (or whoever is the creator) would allow me to join the orgah group on Facebook. ~;)
Is there really an Orgah group on Facebook?
And yes, I do use Facebook.
Facebook was really cool back when it was just a school/career network site.... then it included applications that made no sense at all and went downhill by emulating MySpace. :annoyedg:
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Originally Posted by Beirut
Yes Boss. (Hint of a whiff of a sniff.... I like it!!!!)
Facebook seems a bit safer, but I would never post of a pic of myself, there or in myspace.
On a more controversial note, there was a program on TV a while ago about identity thieves using Facebook to, as you may expect, steal identities.
Quite simply, accepting somebody as your "friend" will automatically reveal your real name, your age, your date of birth if you have made it public. This would be fine if they didn't enter this sort of classified information, or didn't accept people they didn't know as their "friend", but, unfortunately they do.
Once that information is gathered, the thieves could shockingly gain access, through further illegal methods, to bank details etc.
That, along with a fear of excessive large public places, is my primary reason for not bothering with an account on any internet social networking site.
Very true. You can hardly find people's actual wall anymore these days. I think I haven't got any apps installed though out of principle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
Some of the apps are actually useful, if you manage to wade through the ones that suck. I particularly like the class schedule one, which helps friends and school network to know what classes you take and when.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Im a facebook user.. Getting slightly bored of it too. so need good application
Which application on facebook do you use/like?
Apps have ruined it... and they all require access to your info.. :dizzy2:
However, seeing my friends drunk off their asses is too much to resist, so I keep an account. :beam:
I don't like the people who add loads of pointless apps to their account either. But note that it's the people who do it that I dissaprove of, at the end of the day the apps are not compulory, you can only look to the people who use them to blame for their overuse.
Having said that, I have a slideshow on my account, and one of those "Where I've been" maps.
Could not agree more...this is what happens when you let the unwashed masses come to play :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
I have a Livejournal account....don´t see the point to Myspace/Facebook...I was actually bugged by my friends to open a Myspace account...it laid abandoned for months because I couldn´t see any point or anything interesting to do with it...I finally put the thing out of it´s misery and deleted it a few months back.
I have a facebook, i much prefer it to myspace. ( which i have always hated ) .
I really only use it to contact my friends about going to cinemas. ect. ( and of course to become the ultimate pacman champ. )
A mate of mine made a Facebook for me, but I don't see the point.
It can be a good tool to contact people who don't read their mail, are almost never in MSN/ICQ or don't have any of that. Something like that, but then some don't reply to other messages either, strange world. :sweatdrop:
I've found that facebook and myspace is the only way to contact some people. Also for my buddies in Afghanistan and Iraq it shows their last login date on myspace which must be pretty good for family that login, even without a message.Quote:
Originally Posted by Husar
Don't use either, msn is enough for me really.
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I have it, but I almost never use it. If I need to contact a friend, I give them a phone call. Anything that isn't urgent enough for a call can wait until the next time I see them.
Ditto :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
I was browsing G4's Around The Net, and I came across this gem: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1787501
Facebook would seem infinitively (not really) more interesting if they did that for real.
I sort of see Facebook as just the latest trend, which I think is why my friends joined. In a year, they'll forget about it.
I have a Facebook, had a myspace. I never really used Myspace, but Facebook I am using.
Facebook has some interesting applications, and I can talk to my friends not only by writing to them, but also with links, videos, pics, etc.
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Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
That was great.
I actually think it's not bad, before people would have adress books with all the stuff about their friends written into them (well, I attempted to make one as a kid :laugh4: ), now you just add them to your friends in facebook and have them update their info for you. The whole additional stuff like having huge photo albums and so on is nice but I don't really use it most of the time.
It's also good for the industry, makes another poor guy or two rich and as such we all contribute to the health of our country. :2thumbsup: :sweatdrop:
For those who don't like to socialise and rpefer to hate the world the guardians weekly technology column gave a rather odd link.
http://www.hatebook.org/
Thats right a social network for those who want to hate.
The internet ruely does have everything these days doesn't it?
I tend to agree. I remember when I was an undergrad, some people I knew used it, and when I went to register (around graduation) I couldn't, because I think at the time you needed a school email or something like that, and since I was graduated,...I couldn't sign up. Now that I'm in graduate school, I decided to revisit it and saw it had apparently changed a bit. I still think it's better than MySpace...at least on Facebook I don't get spams every other-day from Fifi and Gloria asking me to be their friends and check out their sexy pics on their other websites!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
P.S. - This is Post # 200!!!
Perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by tibilicus
Facebook is convenient... I've been on it for a few years now. Mind you, being someone who has a pretty international set of friends, it's useful to keep in touch this way - unfortunately time zones, international call rates &c. make correspondence less than simple by other means.
Also, I'm pretty sure facebook has been responsible for my getting into bed with a girl once...
Yes, I started a group on Facebook. BKS and I are the group admin there. So come join if you want to, or if you like to show your 'true' self.
The group is pretty small, only six or seven people at most.
I'm in there btw.
Good to know who started it. :2thumbsup:
I did. ~:wave:
I think. ~D
Not sure if others here started other groups. It'll be good if we can try and link up all the groups together on Facebook.