I swear I’m trying. I log in every day and go to “home”, and I see stuff happening. But, honestly, I don’t know “what I’m supposed to do?”
Am I supposed to just add new friends and send stupid gifts and leave messages? What exactly am I supposed to do? Is it supposed to replace my email? Because for me that’s ridiculous.
When you log in, what do you do? What is the purpose beyond having another network of friends and sending messages to one another?
Am I missing something? Then again, I didn’t “get” Twitter for months. Perhaps I’m just a slow adopter?
It allows you to get in touch with long lost friends, etc.
It’s also really good and best for college life. Instead of asking for everyone’s email, they are pretty much all on facebook and you can easily message them through there. (like I know what college was like, haha!)
Facebook is my online address book. My friends are pretty good about keeping their statuses updated so I can keep tabs on what they’re up to. It’s nice since I’ve moved away. Just the other day, a friend from college wrote that she was in NC vacationing, so FB let me get in touch with her and we got to hang out! It’s been like 3 years. I would’ve never known she was around and been able to catch up if there were no FB.
A lot of the stuff is pointless, yes. But it’s fun. I mean, common, where else can you attack your friends and turn them into zombies?
I AM, I am a “slow adopter”… Man, I like that phrase.
I don’t get a lot of it either. It’s sinking in bit by bit. Just sent some gifts etc. (yeah -kinda cool) It’s just so much clicking around and testing to really see what’s available and it’s time consuming. Considering their beginnings it’s easy to see how the college market along with alumni would be their next most likely to adopt FB. I just wonder how anyone who has been making several profiles even in just the more popular social sites throughout the past 5 years will be able to maintain them all. As time goes on how many will remain out-dated, unactivated ,archived histories of our past? Who’s working on helping us manage that? Are we all going to have a day when we want to clean up and maybe didn’t have a forethought to keep track of them all? I can envision a small discreet service biz potential of internet archive clean-up services. Wait? Do we have those already?
Yet, when I attended Brian of Shareasale’s early summit talk he showed some methods that seemed fairly significant. I have to go back and look at those again.
Nice one Jim.
I don’t think you are missing anything. It is a way for you to keep up with networks of people about all sorts of details you couldn’t care enough about for an email, phone call or IM message. Potentially it can expose you to friends of friends, others interested in the same things you are… but I think that is rare rather than common. The biggest thing to learn from facebook is a huge number of people (a really huge number) want that kind of service. I find that amazing but there you go. I still have to guess use will degrade but since I never would predict use would reach anything like these levels what my prediction is worth is questionable.
I dont get it either lots of fluff stupid gifts that you have to pay fo what the heck and it justseems to me to be a jumbled mess no real structure to it. I dont get it at all I go there and get confused poke around get lost I only know 3 people on there. Seems a waste of time.
If you’re a slow adapter then I’m on full stop.
I know a a little about IT. I’ve been working in it for a long time – maybe that’s the problem. I don’t know anyone who uses facebook daily, if at all. I’ve been there and there doesn’t seem to be much to it. I double checked and I don’t think I missed anything. I’m still here and existing nicely without it.
Do you have msn? I hear that a lot. I use it myself because it’s a tool that people have become reliant on and it works well. I don’t want to log in to see how my friends are doing – I have enough to do. I want to be able to say hello and know with some certainty that they’ll be able to say hello at that moment.
Otherwise I’ll stay with email, unless someone convinces me.
Hey Jim,
I’ve been on Facebook for a year and I still don’t get it. Ok, so you might be able to find people on there you haven’t been in touch with for years, but if you really wanted to, there are a dozen other ways of finding long lost friends.
As for Twitter. Who cares that I’m having coffee, shopping or driving my car? Really, who gives a damn and why should they?
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hi yall im freddric and i am trying to get a facebook and it always says that i cant do u have to have a hotmail account? pleace help me! and comment
please reply i really want one! :) if you help me you will be my best friend
i agree with amanda i want one
I am a recent joiner. I dont 'get it either
I don’t have one, I don’t want one and if anyone puts my face on their facebook page I have a fit. I am supposed to find old friends? If I wanted to stay in touch with them I would have given them my phone number when I moved. Give me a break.