Comments on: Facebook Thoughts http://blog.johnlacey.net/facebook-thoughts/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:15:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Laurel Papworth http://blog.johnlacey.net/facebook-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-6676 Laurel Papworth Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:06:53 +0000 http://blog.johnlacey.net/?p=974#comment-6676 Don't blame me you horror! Actually we move through a lifecycle online. Initially lurkers, then tentative (aware of privacy, maybe not revealing our real name, or being careful of photographs, showing our address etc) then we give up - reveal everything. Sort of like, "cat's out of the bag, too hard to control everything". I kept my real name hidden for around 10 years on the 'net. I'm a slow learner. :P Don’t blame me you horror!
Actually we move through a lifecycle online. Initially lurkers, then tentative (aware of privacy, maybe not revealing our real name, or being careful of photographs, showing our address etc) then we give up – reveal everything. Sort of like, “cat’s out of the bag, too hard to control everything”.
I kept my real name hidden for around 10 years on the ‘net. I’m a slow learner. :P

]]> By: Daniel http://blog.johnlacey.net/facebook-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-6105 Daniel Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:55:50 +0000 http://blog.johnlacey.net/?p=974#comment-6105 I quite liked the platform when it was fundamentally based around real life events and photos, along with the tagging system which was probably what allowed facebook to push ahead of myspace, and small stories that my friends had actually written themselves (I suppose twitter has risen up to take the place of what facebook used to be before the applications). But now that users' attention (and therefore my newsfeed) has been hijacked by narcissistic quizzes and other shitty meaningless applications, there's no practical way of keeping track of those parts of the platform that actually interest me. I've done my best, including tweaking the newsfeed settings and implementing greasemonkey scripts, but it's just not the same and doesn't hold nearly the same interest for me any more, despite the fact that many more people I know are using it now. I quite liked the platform when it was fundamentally based around real life events and photos, along with the tagging system which was probably what allowed facebook to push ahead of myspace, and small stories that my friends had actually written themselves (I suppose twitter has risen up to take the place of what facebook used to be before the applications). But now that users’ attention (and therefore my newsfeed) has been hijacked by narcissistic quizzes and other shitty meaningless applications, there’s no practical way of keeping track of those parts of the platform that actually interest me. I’ve done my best, including tweaking the newsfeed settings and implementing greasemonkey scripts, but it’s just not the same and doesn’t hold nearly the same interest for me any more, despite the fact that many more people I know are using it now.

]]> By: Steve http://blog.johnlacey.net/facebook-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-6099 Steve Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:05:32 +0000 http://blog.johnlacey.net/?p=974#comment-6099 John, I completely agree with you on this one. I am not a fan of Facebook and really don't see the point. The only reason I have an account is because I want to keep in touch with my family, who don't seem to be able to visit YouTube or my blog site on their own to see what I'm doing. By posting links on Facebook, they read and respond. They also tend to comment on "wall posts" but are unwilling to sign up for Twitter. I find it very interesting... John, I completely agree with you on this one. I am not a fan of Facebook and really don’t see the point. The only reason I have an account is because I want to keep in touch with my family, who don’t seem to be able to visit YouTube or my blog site on their own to see what I’m doing. By posting links on Facebook, they read and respond. They also tend to comment on “wall posts” but are unwilling to sign up for Twitter.

I find it very interesting…

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