facebook

[zazen999]

I'm on Facebook and have just joined the group.
I love FB as I have family all over the world and have reconnected with old friends through it too.
How else would my Grandad in the USA be able to watch his great grandson master riding a bike in the UK?

Exactly! That's excellent!

[FionaH]

Just a shame about the games!!!...anyone fancy a game of Scramble?

Been trying to beat your score for days!
My excuse is I work from home and its a great distraction

[di]

Please don't!!!

[Farmer_Gyles]

actually,does it really matter whether you meet a friend at a mums & tots group,down the pub or on the computer?

nope ... but to me, the meeting thing is an important part of friendship
simply adding someone as a facebook friend and never contacting them and stuff simply isn't friendship

most of my friends don't use facebook or msn etc so most communication (and there's a lot of it!) is by phone or meeting up in real life - we do keep in touch by email/msn or whatever sometimes too, but not very much

my relatives (i disowned them as family) think the internet is only for paedophiles ........... ho hum .......

[FionaH]

Please don't!!!

Dont worry not coming close!

[taskey]

i use facebook and i love the game farkle - very addictive.

i have got in touch with most of my relatives who i have not seen for years - i live in germany, they are all over the uk. i have also got in contact with old school buddies.

every now and then i do have a purge of my friends and whittle it down some. then if the people i removed still want to keep in touch, then they contact me.

Tracy

[dexterdoglancashire]

As some of you know, Ive joined this weekend, and am trying to get my head round it all. I'll let you know how I get on - on FB of course!

[citygirl]

I am............

[MrsC]

well i still have facebook, still don't understand it, still don't understand why i would want to see who scored what in some game they play or who has a headache or who thinks they're sexy

still don't get the point of people "adding" you as a "friend" on facebook but never contact you or anything

i always thought friendship involves communication, sending birthday and christmas cards, visiting each other and things like that?
well, that's what happens with the non-facebook friends i have ......

Not being funny or anything, but if you think it's that bad why are you still on there? Some people like it, some don't. If you think it's that bad then don't use it.

[Farmer_Gyles]

Not being funny or anything, but if you think it's that bad why are you still on there? Some people like it, some don't. If you think it's that bad then don't use it.

i didn't say it was bad - it's very popular and want to know why - i'm very serious - why????

i can see how it can be useful for keeping in touch with friends, family, getting in touch with people you lost touch with and so on - i don't have any family i want to keep in touch with and i keep in touch with real life friends by phone / email / in person etc etc etc - they are real life friends

i know there are games that people play on there - fair enough, if that's your thing, knock yourself out! there's nothing wrong or bad about that

i can't understand why people add me as a friend then never communicate - does something happen if you reach a magic number like 250 friends?
and when they've added me as a friend and not communicated for several months, i delete them - and then they complain - why?

if someone wants to be a friend then go for it - to me, having someone's name and picture on a facebook account doesn't make them a friend - but it seems that others think that is friendship - am i wrong??

and why do i need to see who spent countless hours getting a high score in this weeks favourite computer game? or who thinks they're sexiest? or who can write their name in pretty letters? or who sent a turd to who?

like many other things, it has its uses - but i genuinely want to know where i'm going wrong and what the "friends" thing is all about - nobody has been able to answer the "friends" thing ........

[HeyWayne]

I have to say that I agree largely with what you are saying - there is a lot of Facebook that I don't "get", but I simply ignore those aspects and use it for the things I find it useful for.

I think the "friends" thing as down to semantics - "contacts" would be another title, but if you look back at how Facebook started it was at some college, and used amongst "friends" at college. The fact that it's a social networking site also would indicate that it is by and large used by friends and groups of friends.

Facebook has grown far beyond it's initial purpose and as such it is therefore uentirely possible that a number of the initial features are now rendered abstract.

I don't get vast proportions of the internet, but then I don't use them all.

i didn't say it was bad - it's very popular and want to know why - i'm very serious - why????

i can see how it can be useful for keeping in touch with friends, family, getting in touch with people you lost touch with and so on - i don't have any family i want to keep in touch with and i keep in touch with real life friends by phone / email / in person etc etc etc - they are real life friends

i know there are games that people play on there - fair enough, if that's your thing, knock yourself out! there's nothing wrong or bad about that

i can't understand why people add me as a friend then never communicate - does something happen if you reach a magic number like 250 friends?
and when they've added me as a friend and not communicated for several months, i delete them - and then they complain - why?

if someone wants to be a friend then go for it - to me, having someone's name and picture on a facebook account doesn't make them a friend - but it seems that others think that is friendship - am i wrong??

and why do i need to see who spent countless hours getting a high score in this weeks favourite computer game? or who thinks they're sexiest? or who can write their name in pretty letters? or who sent a turd to who?

like many other things, it has its uses - but i genuinely want to know where i'm going wrong and what the "friends" thing is all about - nobody has been able to answer the "friends" thing ........

[di]

You never seem there to communicate with FG!
For me it's my little housework companion...yes I'd prefer to be out & about with all my "real" friends,but then my duties would never be done,it's good for me to be able to have an hour(or maybe only half a one!)tidying/cleaning or some other mundane housewifey chore & then sit down for a coffee & natter with some computer generated folk...maybe even send them a turd!
The word "friend" is up to your interpretation,like Wayne I think maybe contact would be more suited...but then honestly does it matter & who's to say friendships can't be made without ever coming face to face...I've made a few & doubt I'll ever meet some of them,but there's others living closer that I probably will.Had a great day out with Su & we natter both on FB & phone...she's been a star for me & just because I met her on some gardening forum I'd not count her any less of a friend than someone I met down at the school.
I guess it is what you make of it...now Farmer G...wanna game of Scramble???

[Amanda1]

I have just joined the group, hope we become 'friends'!

[zazen999]

i didn't say it was bad - it's very popular and want to know why - i'm very serious - why????

So are Girls Aloud - but I don't get why. And Corrie. What's that all about?

I think it's the same as most things, if you don't get then you don't get it.

I didn't get 'My Space', but alot of my chums did because they could easily put their music online for people to listen to [alot are musicians], so they got it.

[Alison]

You never seem there to communicate with FG!
For me it's my little housework companion...yes I'd prefer to be out & about with all my "real" friends,but then my duties would never be done,it's good for me to be able to have an hour(or maybe only half a one!)tidying/cleaning or some other mundane housewifey chore & then sit down for a coffee & natter with some computer generated folk...maybe even send them a turd!
The word "friend" is up to your interpretation,like Wayne I think maybe contact would be more suited...but then honestly does it matter & who's to say friendships can't be made without ever coming face to face...I've made a few & doubt I'll ever meet some of them,but there's others living closer that I probably will.Had a great day out with Su & we natter both on FB & phone...she's been a star for me & just because I met her on some gardening forum I'd not count her any less of a friend than someone I met down at the school.
I guess it is what you make of it...now Farmer G...wanna game of Scramble???

I don't think that Farmer Gyles was dismissing your friendships but was more confused by people that just collect friends. If you chat to people and interact as you are doing then you'd that's one thing but to just log somebody (especially if you don't know them previoulsy) as a friend and never communicate with them is a little odd. There's a guy in our office who was saying he has about 1000 friends on facebook, think he sees it as a modern day stamp collection.