Comments on: Did Someone You Know Get Facebook for Christmas?

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:28:51 +0000

I was erring on the positive side, since laggards sounds iffy. But yes, I agree. It's funny how fast they've caught up this time; compare how long it took for those same people to get a) teh Intertoobs, b) broadband, c) IM. The curve is truncating.

The Live Feed is sweet; I also like it on FriendFeed. It's log+data visualization all rolled up in one. But I don't use it enough to notice that gap; note to self: go back to FB.

By: topperge

topperge — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:38:09 +0000

Facebook is way beyond the mainstream path. My inlaws are both on FB now and there was a conversation with one of the grandmas talking about making her an account.

One things I noticed is that the live feed doesn't capture all my friends anymore. It's filtering by the people I've sent messages back and forth with recently. Kinda disappointing when trying to keep up loose connections.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:46:54 +0000

Maybe, but why maintain dual networks (in the absence of data portability) when you can use FB groups?

IMO FB has more and better social features than LinkedIn. I use LinkedIn strictly to track business stuff, which means I'm not very social there. A minor difference to some, but it's important to me.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:35:07 +0000

LinkedIn is the business eqyiv of Facebook I'd say.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:32:24 +0000

I should revisit FB sometime. I don't spend much time there aside from accepting requests and ignoring apps. Paul uses it a lot and prefers it to Twitter. I'm the opposite. It's very noisy for me, so I get what you're saying.

I didn't notice the food talk either, although I did notice an influx of pictures. And not just holiday ones, but others, which leads me to think people either had time/were bored or had just joined.

One recent trend I enjoy is the old school pictures meme spreading through FB. I've seen several scanned pictures pop up in my news feed. That's always a blast.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:27:29 +0000

That is funny. I read another news report (from ABC) about kids not wanting their parents to join FB b/c they don't want them spying on their drunken antics. This is that same old story that's now hitting mainstream news, as FB becomes mainstream, but I found it interesting that no mention was made of how the parents (old folks like me) enjoyed reconnecting with friends. Just the whiny kids. Oh well.

Having multiple accounts violates the FB terms. Have you tried using friend groups? That might work.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:10:25 +0000

Luckily, all of those folks in my life who got FB for Christmas also made a NY resolution to use FB more — which sounded the death knell for their activity spurt. That saved me the trouble of dialing them down on my news feed.

Seriously, though, I did hear from a lot of old friends over the holidays. These were not so much new FB users, but maybe folks who used the free time to search for old friends.

My biggest holiday FB gripe (not being a big eater) is that not only were we all strapping the feed bag on ourselves every 2 hours or so, we were all describing what we were cooking, eating, serving, planning, etc. It was kinda gross — especially all at once, like mixing a bunch of stuff on a plate.

By: noelportugal

noelportugal — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:05:09 +0000

Funny you mention this, my grandma just joined FB! and she loves it. But I'm in bind here with FB. I joined back in the day when only edu users could sign up. Since then I made a rule of just adding ppl that I have meet IRL and really care to keep in touch. My friends list is about 200 and i like that…In the other hand I wish I could have a FB account for business/networking use. I actually haven't look into it but I bet is feasible now. Anyone has a suggestion?