As my regular readers can tell you, I have no use for the social networking site, Facebook. Three years ago the Globe and Mail newspaper had a good overview of the burgeoning site, which discussed the pros and cons of signing up (your life away) for the sake of establishing and maintaining communication with old friends ("staying connected"), dumb lists, and more. Be Internet sexy.Facebook regularly adds ingredients to make the soup as tasty and delectable as ever -- translation: To keep it fresh as competing social networking sites claim their stake in the Web's electronic soil.
Privacy issues... yes. Two friends of mine, who happen to be young women in this case, have both thrown their hands up at the mere mention of Facebook and explain away with, "no... not any more".
And, while on Facebook, us old farts can explain away why our lives are boring.
Story in today's National Post newspaper on Facebook privacy...
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1796706
1 comment:
I don't use the applications, games or quizzes.
They are usually stuff like "How Jewish are you?" or "How gay are you?" and then you'll inevitably see a lesbian friend LOL about being found straight or an atheist 94 percent Jewish.
I like the idea of connecting to the past, though I initially dismissed Facebook and it took me more than a year before accepting an invitation. I now find it useful and as routine as another e-mail account.
It is handy for the arts community to send out e-invitations or create an event there rather than the usual snail mail campaign, and it seems to get results as well as quick feedback.
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