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**helen**
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The good thing about the internet is that its easy to make friends with some very interesting people; the bad thing is that its easy to unmake friends when they get boring.
it's just a great way to keep in touch with friends that have moved away and family
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I thought that we were bestest mates an everyfing...
I mainly like facebook for the applications. I am currently addicted to the Travellers IQ application. It's far too addictive :grump:
I use facebook to keep in contact with my uni friends during the day because they are guarunteed to check it more frequently than their emails!
I am on it like fifty times a day!
I have over four hundred friends on Facebook so obviously they are not all my real friends. But, it's a great way to keep in contact with people I met on my year abroad, people from my home town and people from Uni wherever I may be in the world. I can say though, I don't add anyone that I don't know, so of the four hundred, I was either in school with them, dated them, lived with them, worked with them or took a class with them.
If you think about it, in a normal class in Uni there's about thirty people in a semester and I'd add about two or three from each class who i got to know and did a project with etc. I have four or five seminars a week with different people and then three years of study. These people don't half add up. Also I've had three jobs and there were hundred and fifty people in our sixth form.
I don't agree what she says about "what happened to good old phoning up on the birthday". If it's a very close friend, of course I'd do that too, or I'd be with them. But, when you're in a different country because you or they are travelling, Facebook can be very helpful indeed!
I do agree with the OP though, I've had many former schoolmates adding me to their frinds list which I was never EVER friends with while at school. Why they would add me I really don't understand. And yeah, it would feel rude to turn them down... what I do is I usually end up adding them to my limited profile list.
Not really, the original idea of facebook, before applications and opening up for everyone, was to strengthen the sense of community at unis. That's why you can only view the profiles of people in your networks contrary to MySpace.
And secondly, the groups on Facebook are far better than pretty much any message board. There's no way that I could've posted about an obscure Japanese TV drama series on this website, because no-one will've heard of it. But go onto Facebook, and of course there's a group dedicated to it. They might not have the community of a website like this, but you're more likely to get a more in depth discussion about obscure topics.
I like facebook, its a bit addictive. When you have quite a few social groups and ex-college friends and uni friends and friends you've met on a year abroad it is excellent for keeping in touch, seeing photos, having a nosey and being a bit cheeky/naughty.
Sometimes I get randomers attempting to add me as their friend but I've set my profile to limited now unless I know you so that should sort the losers from my actual mates.
Nope. I pretend not too!
Would you ignore me
I have big boobs and want to be your "friend".
By the way, I have just, out of curiousity, done a search on Facebook for TheSite.org. Much to my surprise, several members showed up in that, most of whom I have never actually heard of before.
i dont use facebook to get in touch with people from school though! i dont even know how to do that?
i like the music game on facebook where you listen to the song and say who it is
I'm not dead competitive about it though, would rather have 40-50 pals who I can keep in touch with rather than 9579536732676732 randoms who're just to boost the numbers up.
Don't really use it to organise my life, just to blether random stuff and put photos up really.
i don't use it to "organise my life" but it's quite useful for idle chatter with acquantances from the pub and shit like that.
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I go on them now and then but I'm not massively fussed about it. I reckon people should stop slagging it off so much though because it's actually a good way to keep in contact with people and its quite useful sometimes.
Urgh I've stopped going on FaceParty every time I go on there I get at least four emails from complete RANDOM WEIRDOS from my area as well sometimes they say nice stuff like and just normal stuff but most of the time its gross stuff. It's happened to a few of my mates too on there.
I signed up when I got to uni because I can add the people doing the same course / lectures as me, so got to know people that I knew of in real life but hadn't had the guts to start talking to yet.
But completely agree with the rant, some people let it take over. Same with LiveJournal too.