What are your 3 biggest pros and 3 biggest cons of facebook. I'm thinking of turning over to the darkside, and by that I mean getting a facebook account.
Pros: 1. Everyone is on it. A lot of people who never were on LJ are on facebook. 2. You can upload photos to it without the use of a third party (like photobucket or snapfish) 3. The apps. Odds are one of the millions of apps has to be useful or entertaining. Maybe they've brought back the emulation app so I can play all the old nintendo games. 4. You have the option of hiding shit (people, quizzes, other irritations) you don't like.
Cons: 1. Everyone is on it. 2. No anonymity. 3. Remember all the quizzes that everyone did when LJ was new? Yeah. They're on facebook, but there are more of them, each more annoying than the last. 4. No threads. Gets hard to see whom is responding to whom.
Pros: 1. You can find people you lost contact with and want to be in contact with again. 2. You can know what is going on in a lot of your friend's lives very easily. 3. There is a ton of content, so if you have a lax internet work policy, you will probably never be bored.
Cons: 1. People you don't want to find you may be able to find you (depending on how you have your privacy and search settings set up). (But you can always reject their friend request so they can't actually see your profile and updates!) 2. Most people only post one line status updates, so actual written content is not really the same as LJ. You might get snippets of what is going on with someone, but not a lot of detail. 3. Some of the apps and games and quizzes are really annoying on your news feed (it's like the LJ friends page), but you can hide things (or people) you don't like.
Expanding on Pro #1 - I have stayed in contact or gotten back in contact with friends who now live in Louisiana, Georgia, Seattle, and New Zealand, and I think without Facebook I would hear from them about once a year if I were lucky and they happened to be in Maryland.
People will update constantly which is the opposite of how LJ currently is. You will always have stuff to read. You will also find out just how boring most people are.
I can't break it down to 3 discrete things on either side.
I like Facebook as a microblog; the short updates are entertaining to me to write, and it's easier to slog through the boring people on my news feed when they're only posting brief stuff. I also like the ease of videos/ pictures and the ability to tag people; and the ability to control who can see what on your profile.
What I don't like is that eveyrone on the fucking planet is on there and can find you, and yes while you can ignore people you don't want, when those people do try to add you I know *I* sometimes feel exposed.
For the most part, I think of my LJ as my content/ writing and my FB as my social network. There are tons of people I don't mind being connected to in that way, but only some of them would I allow to read my LJ. Conversely, pretty much everyone I'm friends with on LJ is on my FB too.
facebook is good for getting pics/videos of renfest performances and nothing else. it is the most superficial and egocentric form of communication i have encountered and there are TONS of bugs in it.
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1. Everyone is on it. A lot of people who never were on LJ are on facebook.
2. You can upload photos to it without the use of a third party (like photobucket or snapfish)
3. The apps. Odds are one of the millions of apps has to be useful or entertaining. Maybe they've brought back the emulation app so I can play all the old nintendo games.
4. You have the option of hiding shit (people, quizzes, other irritations) you don't like.
Cons:
1. Everyone is on it.
2. No anonymity.
3. Remember all the quizzes that everyone did when LJ was new? Yeah. They're on facebook, but there are more of them, each more annoying than the last.
4. No threads. Gets hard to see whom is responding to whom.
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1. You can find people you lost contact with and want to be in contact with again.
2. You can know what is going on in a lot of your friend's lives very easily.
3. There is a ton of content, so if you have a lax internet work policy, you will probably never be bored.
Cons:
1. People you don't want to find you may be able to find you (depending on how you have your privacy and search settings set up). (But you can always reject their friend request so they can't actually see your profile and updates!)
2. Most people only post one line status updates, so actual written content is not really the same as LJ. You might get snippets of what is going on with someone, but not a lot of detail.
3. Some of the apps and games and quizzes are really annoying on your news feed (it's like the LJ friends page), but you can hide things (or people) you don't like.
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I like Facebook as a microblog; the short updates are entertaining to me to write, and it's easier to slog through the boring people on my news feed when they're only posting brief stuff. I also like the ease of videos/ pictures and the ability to tag people; and the ability to control who can see what on your profile.
What I don't like is that eveyrone on the fucking planet is on there and can find you, and yes while you can ignore people you don't want, when those people do try to add you I know *I* sometimes feel exposed.
For the most part, I think of my LJ as my content/ writing and my FB as my social network. There are tons of people I don't mind being connected to in that way, but only some of them would I allow to read my LJ. Conversely, pretty much everyone I'm friends with on LJ is on my FB too.
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