I explored MySpace a couple years ago when it first became big. Last year I joined Facebook. My primary motivation for joining facebook was to track down the whereabouts of I few friends I had lost touch with in the last 5 years. I must say, it was GREAT for this. I found 4 out of 5 good friends on there and found out 2 had now finished their studies and were working as doctors, a third had got married to her long-time boyfriend and was living in the UK and the 4th had befriended my sister on Facebook. I also linked up with my US "big brothers" from when I was a teenager.
I don't use Facebook too much, but jump on occasionally to see if any of my friends have been doing anything interesting - like getting engaged. I mainly use it to keep track of friends I don't physically see much. My group of friends is quite small and I like it that way. Security on Facebook is a big issue and I'm careful not to put too much on there and to change the Facebook security settings so only my friends can see what I put up (although it's arguable how secure Facebook's security settings are - best not to just rely on them).
I guess I don't particularly see my day-to-day happenings as very interesting and therefore I'm not sure why anyone else would find them interesting - so why put them on Facebook. I also think people need to be aware that once they put something on Facebook it's out there - even if they later delete it, it's still out there.
Hi Wendy,
ReplyDeleteAs a fellow "23 Things" participant I have been following your Blog.. good to compare your experiences with my own. Also up to Task 7 - to comment on someone else's Blog.. so here we go: Interested in your Facebook comments. I too using it mainly to keep track of friends, and what they are up to particularly those who live in England. And this aspect of it is great. I seem to be so busy, and I am not sure where people find the time to go on there regularly. Maybe they are great at multitasking and use Facebook while doing other things!
I too am also uneasy about the "security" issue, particularly in relation to who people we have accepted as a "friend" which are people we don't really know. It is easy to get carried away and put all sorts of information on there without thinking. Anyway .. onto the next task. Juliette