Facebook Experiments
I wrote earlier about my MySpace allergy. Facebook is not all that different, but it appeals much more to me.
I created a Facebook account about a month ago just to see what it was about. I only spent a couple of minutes trying out some of the features. Then on Monday, a music blog friend had signed up, he discovered my account and invited me to be his friend.
Inspired by his invitation I started to experiment a bit with the site, and I think it could be quite useful. It has a nice, clean interface. You can upload as many photos as you wish, write notes, tell your friends what you’re doing at the moment and not least you decide who has access to that information as opposed to MySpace.
It’s a great little page if you want to share a little of your life with distant friends or relatives. They can visit my page and learn about trivialities in my life - that I’m listening to Leonard Cohen or working out or something… that is, if I keep on updating the page…
I’m not sure I’ll keep it up, but at the moment it’s quite amusing. Now, if I could only get some of my friends or relatives to sign up to the damn thing.
The networking options are very U.S.-dominant at the moment, but I guess they’ll expand it as the service gains popularity in other countries.
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Yeah, I think it’s pretty cool, as well. I like the interface much better than Friendster, and so far, I’ve refused to do anything on MySpace. (Or, as my dad calls it, getting confused between the two sites, “MyFace.”)
The problem is that we’re about 3 years late to the party. It’s not our fault - up until recently, it’s only been available for students - but still, I’m becoming friends with all these people who are students and are pretty much over the whole Facebook thing!
By Jason on 04.13.07 6:01 pm
“MyFace” - an incisive misinterpretation! :))
How late is “fashionably late” in this context?
Compared to my fellow countrymen and -women, I actually think I’m in the “early adopter” segment. I can’t find a single acquaintance on Facebook. Or maybe it’s my age - I guess I’m really too old for stuff like this.
By Terje on 04.13.07 7:22 pm
I prefer MySpace to Facebook. There, I said it. Facebook just has way too many options and blinking lights. It makes me anxious. But I did read back in September that college students declared MySpace dead and Facebook on its way out the door. We’ll see. MySpace is overrun by spammers, but beyond that I still like it.
When I first got on MySpace in early ‘06, I noticed that no one I knew back in Georgia was on it. So you’re not alone, Terje, in being an early adopter among your countrymen. But we are probably too old for this sort of thing in general.
By Robert on 02.12.08 7:59 am
After I posted this entry last year, Facebook virtually exploded in Norway. So did all those annoying “Now You’re My Vampire Slave”-widgets - by now Facebook is way too spammy for my taste.
I think Facebook is a potentially great communication tool, though.
The only problem is that nobody uses that option much - all I get are those “Super-Fun” mass invitations and a hundred quiz invitations every week.
By schiing on 02.12.08 3:19 pm
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