Friday Questions
...so continuing the theme of Facebook Obsession (currently all over the internet)
I have a very quick Friday Question:
If someone happens to be the only person from her year at school with a Facebook OR Myspace page, does this make her or them the sadder...?
Because, um, my friend wants to know... the one I didn't go to school with...
I have a very quick Friday Question:
If someone happens to be the only person from her year at school with a Facebook OR Myspace page, does this make her or them the sadder...?
Because, um, my friend wants to know... the one I didn't go to school with...
posted by actonb at 3:41 pm
19 Comments:
Depends how old they are, AB: Younger, and they are sad.
Older, and she is sad. You shouldn't need facebook or myspace after 30-ish, unless you are a 50 year old bald man who surfs the net in just his underpants, while pretending to be a 22 year old boy.
That is perfectly okay, because you will end up meeting your perfect match in a 17 year old girl who turns out to be 36, and 110Kg.
Just how 30-ish is the cut-off?
Purely for research purposes you understand...
Also: have you been perving on Fingers again?
OMG - Mountjoy almost made me cough up a lung.
I joined to share pics with my hip-young niece. Then when I looked for people from my school year - nothing. Very sad indeed.
I just think it's cuz I'm more hip and happening than others from my youth!!!!
OOPS - I nearly lost my other lung....
I'll go now.
Poss. xx
actonb, I joined facebook after your recommendation and there was not one person from my actual school there. Then I caught acne and started dressing like a hooker.
And I have to agree with mountjoy, over 30 on myspace is a definite no-no...
Does it make one sadder if one's friend list on Facebook is mostly made up of high school friends wh live half a world away?
Just consider yourself ahead of the trend curve actonb.
Mr Fix is over thirty and on myspace.
I think it's a music thing.
GW - MrB is over thirty and refuses to join Myspace.
I think it's a teacher thing.
And also - he's being implored by his Year 10s to join so they can 'chat' with him... he's a little perturbed by this. Since when was it cool to chat with your teacher?????
Young People Today &etc &etc
W - No! That means you come from a school that is with it (and maybe North American - I suspect that helps! And besides... I'm your friend - surely that counts!?
Possum - I've just added a friend who is the daughter of our pastor in the UK. She's 18, just started uni, and has 299 friends! I don't think I'll ever be hip and happening to her...
Leilani - I think we'll have to go with the 'If we're the only ones on FB then we're the cool ones' theme, otherwise we'll end up crying into our cocoa and that will never do.
Although - The Good Weekend's FYI section was on Facebook yesterday, so I expect there to be a rush of 30-somethings joining up.
hee hee.
Mr Fix relies to a greater or lesser extent on the coolsie trade, so I think he considers it "business" to be fart-arsing about on Myspace.
Hmmm. I don't think it is necessarily cool to chat to your teacher. But then I'm not in Year 10, so what would I know?*
GW
* apparently very little.
I don't get MySpazz, but yes, I think it is a music thing. And as for FaceSpazz, I don't even know what it is. Audrey included me as a friend the other day, but I'm so old that I can't even work out how to sign in ~totters away on walking stick to fetch a small sherry and water~
i think the whole point with facebook is to actually be a real person on there and link up with 'real' friends and not hide behind some random weird blog identity. it kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a blog in the first place.
Mex is right: I'm not a real person, and have no real friends: I just am a random weird blog identity, and still haven't worked out the whole purpose in the first place.
Max Headroom for the naughties.
(Damn shame a lot of you won't get that joke, hey?).
I have been finding the Non-Anonymous aspect of Facebook quite refreshing actually.
Putting Real Names to Real Faces is quietly comforting. Dunno why.
Donnie, Mex's point isn't to put you down - you choose to remain anonymous for your own reasons. But you have stated that you keep your work and home lives completely serparate. Some of us don't mind having crossover!
I guess we all have different ways of communicating and 'networking' if you will...
Although I still don't know why you said that people over 30 don't 'need' facebook... Doesn't everyone want to make new friends? Or catch up with old ones?
Don't worry, AB; Mex couldn't put me down if she had a vets needle full of green dreams in her hand. It's like trying to kill Diana. You can kill the body, but she'll haunt us through womens magazines till we are all dead an buried.
It is just my option but I just think Facebook is a place for spotty teenagers and hormone filled kids to get together and pull - and places like that are generally full of people who are being what people want them to be, not who they are. The water is a touch shallow, and so I just wonder why anyone more mature would want to fish there. Hence my over 30's comment...
I remember using IRC about a decade ago, and it was not far removed from Lambe's wine bar - it was just conversation, but was in real time, and you got a good sense of people's personality there - as you do in blogland. You can't be full of BS here, you have to have something to say, or be entertaining.
I have some not-so-middle-of-the-road thoughts on friends and friendship. But I'll save them for a post.
Donnie, the point about facebook is that youre connecting with people you actually 'know'. usually you have met them in real life, went to school/uni/camp/lived next door to them when you were 5.
Facebook, unlike myspace, blogging or messaging, is for the purpose if widening your own social network.
once you create a profile people can 'friend request' you. and obviously youre not going to be friends with someone you dont know are you? whereas in myspace its all about friending cool bands and hooking up with cool people who are also friends of the cool bands.
facebook is completely different.
sorry if im speaking to you like youre a moron... but you are.
How the hell are you "widening your own social network" if you are going on Faecesbook and "connecting with people you actually 'know'", genius?
As for harrassing all those people who tried to get the hell away from you when you were a snotty, obnoxious 5-year old, why not do them a favour and leave them be. If they wanted to be your friend now, they wouldn't need the internet to find you. You're just haunting them.
Children, children.... no more of this or you'll both be sent to your rooms with no supper!
Wild Things!
Facebook is my new religion.
Yes audrey... I know!
I'm quite fond of it as well - and I get to play Scrabble!
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