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And so last week, I leapt into the world of Facebook.
For the same reason that I started a myspace, I started a facebook page.
ie: impostors creep me out, and I’d rather it be me on there not replying to you than someone else doing it.
So yeah, I joined Facebook.
Myspace for accountants as my friend Digby calls it.
Within about a nanosecond of me signing on, all these friend requests came through.
People who I haven’t known for years started hitting me up, and people whom I’ve never me were all poking me or asking to let in.
Now.
From what I can gather, Facebook is a way for people to maintain contact with each other, is much more immediate than myspace and is more intertwined on many levels.
Also from what I can gather, my personal stuff/messages etc can be seen by people who I befriend.
Concerned about this, I noticed that I could also choose to have certain people only see a limited profile of me.
I then figured that if someone I worked with for a few months five years ago, only saw at work, and had a pleasant but professional relationship with found that they were only allowed at my limited profile, they might get shirty.
So I made a few decisions.
If I would have you in my house, then I will have you on my Facebook.
If I have held your hair while you vomit, or you have held mine, then I will have you on my facebook.
If I haven’t been in touch with you and you haven’t made any effort to contact me for a few years, then there’s probably a reason.
If we’re destined to meet, then we will bump into each other another way.
Otherwise, I apologise, but no thank you.
Know this means more about me than it does you.
So curse me all you like, I reserve the right to keep this one quiet..
Be my Myspace friend. I write back all the time and read every message that comes in.
Send me an email on the left there, I answer them all.
Does this make me a cyber snob?
xx aa
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No, it doesn’t make you a snob, it makes you smart.
I learn so much from reading this blog. I had never heard of Facebook. It sounds complicated and perhaps a little unsafe. Thanks for keeping my reputation up with the kids. When Dad looks confused they say ‘Mum will know what we’re on about’. I’ll leave Myspace and Facebook well alone though as it took so long to pluck up the nerve and know how to add some of my views to this blog!!!
No, I don’t think that it makes you a snob. Let’s face it, you are somewhat of a celebrity round these parts
So if you can have a place online that is just you and your actual friends, then great! I think it’s good that your friends can leave you messages etc… and not have every man and his dog see it.
The way I see it, Facebook is for real friends, this blog shows the rest of us your “off-air” personality. That’s my 2c.
So you’ve signed up on the website, facebook,
But your acquaintances… might seem you’ve forsook
“The response that I gave ya?
Is it snobbish behaviour”
It’s up to you who you let have a look.
Just because you’re well known “round these parts” (thanks Chris J) because of your media presence, it doesn’t mean that people have an automatic right to be included in every (or even any) aspect of your life. People should recognise that the provision of your blog available to us readers, and your responses to strangers’ e-mails is your choice and doesn’t confer any other rights on them.
Oh, and how about a facebook invite for your favourite limerick writer… just kidding.
Snob….
hahaha I decided to look at face book the other day, I did that thing you do how it scans your email address and saw you had one. That is as far as i got before getting annoyed at how i didn’t know how to work the site.
Happy 30th anniversary to INXS….
Snob! No love for you
I’m also a Facebook newbie. So far so good.
I broke facebook more i clicked something it went spacko so i kept clicking yes…. who knows what happened.
I facebooked two days ago, i didn’t get it, so i deleted it 5 minutes later.
myspace is so much easier to use.
It seems to me that you worry too much about what other people think about you Andrew. Is it because you are scared of losing your popularity?
This is not an insult but a genuine question Andrew.
nah nah. it doesnt. yeah, i’m at fault of doing that. blasted ‘retrive your friends from your address book’ and my laziness to just ‘send to all’ probably got to you. My apologies.
I’ve also recently given in to the craze of facebook. And it’s freaking me out, the amount of info that is available for people to see.
I don’t blame you.
Too many weirdo’s around to be friends with everyone, stick to who you know.
You’re not a snob. Don’t worry about what people think.
YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHAT I FOUND ON FACEBOOK! I promise i have nothing to do with it i may be mean but not that mean.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4297663188
I’m a bad bad person. I got an invitation to sign up on facebook, which I went and did. And I did the lazy ‘select all’ method on the address book.
And just days after agreeing how bad that was. My bad.
There IS a lot of privacy settings you can enable.
Just for the record.