Teh Book of Faces?
So, the last week or two, I've been around a lot of people who've touted the benefits of FB for keeping in touch with people.
As you probably know, I left FB because I was wasting too much time blocking applications and refusing requests from myriad groups.
I would be happy if they'd give users an option to block all applications once for all, so a person could see only the status updates their friends actually type in. An exception for applications that are just repeaters for your friends' Twitter, et al, accounts would be great, too, because those are usually things that the friends actually typed in, just somewhere else.
But I'm not going to hold my breath for that.
And it occurred to me that maybe the problem wasn't the platform but the people I allowed on my friends list. Maybe I was allowing too many people with whom I had little in common, who spent too much time on too many applications.
And then if I'm on FB, will people then expect me to know everything they've posted about in the past week?
So, I'm wondering if it would be worth my while to go back, if I culled my list of contacts to those who post things that are going on in their lives instead of just playing applications all day.
Or would that be just setting myself up for disappointment again?
As you probably know, I left FB because I was wasting too much time blocking applications and refusing requests from myriad groups.
I would be happy if they'd give users an option to block all applications once for all, so a person could see only the status updates their friends actually type in. An exception for applications that are just repeaters for your friends' Twitter, et al, accounts would be great, too, because those are usually things that the friends actually typed in, just somewhere else.
But I'm not going to hold my breath for that.
And it occurred to me that maybe the problem wasn't the platform but the people I allowed on my friends list. Maybe I was allowing too many people with whom I had little in common, who spent too much time on too many applications.
And then if I'm on FB, will people then expect me to know everything they've posted about in the past week?
So, I'm wondering if it would be worth my while to go back, if I culled my list of contacts to those who post things that are going on in their lives instead of just playing applications all day.
Or would that be just setting myself up for disappointment again?