I’ve been on Facebook for awhile now (here’s my profile (membership required) (first triple quadruple parentheses on mattstooks.com ever) (not sure I did that right)). I love it so much more for what it could be than what it actually is.
MySpace and Facebook didn’t get popular until I was well out of college. As a result, a lot of my close friends aren’t on either. More of my friends are on MySpace than Facebook, mostly due to MySpace letting the general public in before Facebook. I try to tell my friends how cool Facebook’s news feed is, but they won’t convert.
It’s so slick to get little one-sentence updates on what your friends are up to today. Then, Facebook decided to go and put “applications” in the news feed. So “Zombie Attacks” and “Movie Quizzes” dominate my news feed instead of worthy and depressing items like “Such and such isn’t having a baby anymore.”
Hey I finally got Facebook a while back because Andrea wanted to be able to post who she was engaged to.
I know what you mean about the uselessness that shows up on there. I think somebody failed a challenge based on the movie “The Sandlot”. Maybe I just don’t recognize the classics, but I hadn’t even thought about that movie for a good 10 years.
ANYHOW…
Its still fun sifting through the crap to get to some of the more meaty stuff like you’re talking about. Then give some much needed insight to people I haven’t talked to since high school. Creepiness at its pinnacle!
I’m TOTALLY adding you on my Facebook. Do they call it “adding” or is that MySpace Only jargon?
“Adding” is soooooo MySpace, I think. A have a lot of Facebook friends from high school, too. It’s weird knowing what they’re up to.
I like the news feed for everything except movie quizzes, zombie attacks, and baby losses. Just some things I don’t care to hear about really.