Facebook

[poliphilo]

I understand Facebook is losing adherents in the USA and the UK. I'm not particularly surprised. It was a fad- like Hula Hoops. 

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[chiller.livejournal.com]

I suspect the facial recognition thing has pushed some people over the edge.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I like it because all of my friends are in one place (which is why I won't delete mine, I feel the same about lj to be honest) but I have issues with a lot of things about it. If another site arose which respected security more arose I would certainly use that.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Still hate facebook and I say that as someone with two accounts: one for my 'real' life and one for my shadowy past.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Well-timed post.
:)
I just activated my FB account not because I like it but because there are people there who used to be here and I'd like news of them and they of me (or so they say).

But here on LJ is where all my thoughts will stay and I won't be here less. I think I'm just too wordy for my own good.

[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

It's all a fad. Myspace is a joke now when four years ago it was the hottest thing. I use to complain about needing to re-buy my favorite album as a CD, then a mp3. Now I'm complaining about moving from one social networking site to another: "Wah, I have to set up another profile page."

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Hula hoops are hot again. Facebook is handy, just annoying with its default setting of utter transparency.

Remember MySpace?

[veronikos.livejournal.com]

+1 to evilspock.

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.

The insipid are everywhere insipid.

Excuse my loose and bitter translation. :D

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

I am not sure that I agree... that is what I thought at first, but now it has turned out to be a major component in my professional communications. Yes, my FB Friends are a list of friends, exes, high school buddies and game cohorts, but, also on that list there are a bunch of other students from this college, teachers from my last college, teachers from THIS college, ministers, and deans... yes, deans. The stuff I share on LJ I do not share on FB. FB is much more "professional" for me.

[airstrip.livejournal.com]

Facebook will probably be killed, like the other social networking sites, by its attempts to make money. I'm seriously starting to think that the only viable solution for social networking will be some sort of non-profit co-op model.