I was a late adopter to Facebook and I’m still trying to work out if it’s a ‘good thing’. It’s great to see friends photos and updates to their lives particularly if you live far away or don’t have much traditional contact.
Practically and technically its much easier to use Facebook to drop in snippets of information than to keep a website or blog up to date, so it gets a plus for usability factor. The downside is the plethora of quizzes and ‘fun’ things to post on your little piece of faceweb. Stay out of facebook for a week or two and prepare to be inundated with requests and quizzes on your return.
Don’t get me wrong, a lot of these features are fun.. but who’s got time for all this stuff? Then there are the chain letters and hoaxes. I thought we got rid of chain letters in the 70’s, then there was a brief resurgence via email and now there are the Facechains, ie pass this on to 10 of your friends become beautiful/rich/admired and if you don’t pass it on veiled threats of death and destruction. Ugh. The hoaxes are even worse imo, you know the sort of thing?
‘This message has been passed on by the Chief Constable of Outer Bridfordshire. Beware!!!!!! New way thieves have of stealing your handbag’
Hint: Chief constables rarely use multiple exclamation marks and please before you pass it on to every single person in your address book just drop the first sentence into Google. Chances are you’ll be passed to a website that exposes hoaxes and myths and we can all breathe easy.
No really…I DO like facebook, in theory. I’m just not sure I can squeeze another time sucking web application into my life for more than a few days at a time.
can i mess with the blog theme before I actually post? Hi, it’s been a couple of years since my last blog post. Eeek! Okay I got bored, got busy, got obsessed and my webhosting company went out of business overnight and I lost five years worth of blog posts, plus all my other sites (including Girls Blog UK). That last one stopped me dead for a while. What’s the point? I did find most of my old posts carefully saved in pdf format on an old computer and for a nanosecond it did occur to me that I could spend a couple (?) of days copying and pasting to restore order and to record for posterity all the minutia from a handful of years of my life. God, lifes too short!! So that’s the confession…now I’m going to cook lunch (gentle reader it really doesn’t get much exciting than this!)
Well it is possible just a little slow.