Comments | ccrazy: Adventures in Social Networking

ccrazy

Adventures in Social Networking

Mar 09, 2009 20:04

Back about mid-October, I set a Facebook account, primarily because of APO ( Read more... )

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maverick_weirdo March 10 2009, 02:18:00 UTC

I can tell you there are quite a few filkers on Facebook. I'm guessing you haven't hit any "nexus" people, such as Dave Weingart.

I use it as an additional info source for Chicago filk community (where I now know quite a few people).

ailsaek March 10 2009, 04:06:19 UTC

Yup. My "Filk" sublist has 24 people on it so far.

ccrazy March 10 2009, 04:40:06 UTC

It's not just the number of people, it's also how active they are in particular forums. Some people are equally active multiple on-line services, others have accounts in many but use one as their primary electronic neighborhood and occasionally check the others.

madfilkentist March 10 2009, 10:56:38 UTC

Rachel set up a ConCertino page on Facebook, or so I'm reliably told. Not being on Facebook, I can't look to see what kind of activity it's generated, and I'd just as soon not get sucked into Facebook at this point.

And, gee, you didn't make it easy to find you ... (*) paradoox March 10 2009, 05:45:46 UTC

I've found some things about Facebook maddening(**). But more and more people seem to be using it to the point of twittering on Facebook rather than saying anything about their life on LJ. So, I find myself checking it more and more often.

* = It appears you didn't join the MIT network nor the Boston network. I eventually found you through JSL's friends list.

** = Let see ... friending has to be symmetric on Facebook. I like the LJ model a lot better. There is no list of people you have sent friend requests to and not heard back. Even LinkedIn does that better. Somone can unfriend you on Facebook and it doesn't tell you. Don't get me started on the silly applications and groups.

Re: And, gee, you didn't make it easy to find you ... (*) ccrazy March 10 2009, 16:36:12 UTC

Searching on my name would have worked pretty well also.

mbumby March 10 2009, 16:12:50 UTC

I joined facebook when I had a week when I got explicit invitations from a fair number of people, and a large number of folks talking about it. I've mostly used it to connect with old friends, including one from my first HS. And I found my cousin who had dropped off the face of the earth a few years back.

smcmullan March 12 2009, 12:37:19 UTC

For me, FB has worked well for making connections with random people I've lost track of over the years, but I find LJ to be superior for keeping up with people's postings. It's infuriating that when you have a lot of FB friends, or they're very active, your home page seems to show a random sampling of updates. I've missed many important updates from people I'm close to, because that page was cluttered up with junk I really don't care about. At least on LJ, you can work through your friends page and know you've seen what's there to be seen from everyone you want to catch up on.