Drawing a line in the Facebook sand
2007-09-18 by Yohay
I’m using Facebook in the past few months. At first I only accepted friend invitations. Then, I’ve also participated in the different games that I was invited to. I got more serious when I looked for people and invited them to be my friends, and then invited them to play Facebook games with me.
The next (and somewhat risky phase) was installing the Firefox extension for Facebook. Getting short notifications of my Facebook friends’ activities was amusing. These notifications, plus quick links on the toolbar are problematic, since they consume time. Yet these intrusions are still controllable.
My current problem is with the Facebook applications that send emails. It’s enough having notifications when I log on to Facebook. I don’t need an email notification for every semi-automatic invite. It becomes spammy. When I invite people to some application / game in Facebook and final step looks like an email address that is about to be sent, I immediately click on “Forget it”. I send only invitations with inner notifications
There are lots of social networks out there. Some say that there are more communities than people. Facebook is a good social network, since it’s quite user friendly, has a clean style and gets new applications all the time. Another reason for its success is that it has lots of users. Well, the big mass made it successful. The chicken and and the egg I guess…
4 Responses to “Drawing a line in the Facebook sand”
Yohay, a new email notification will soon let you know about another Facebook friend request. Welcome to the club!
Great, I’ve just approved you…
With the little time I have I’m surprised I even got into it. I guess it was Mash from DrStrangelove.com who invited me. And lo and behold, you and another blogger I know are in it as well. Still, I do not have enough time to play around with it. Writing for my own and keeping up with the bloggers I know keeps me busy enough.
Yohay, you probably need to be single (or so, ahem) to be spending so much time online with those games. I guess if it weren’t for the fact that you go on trips often, I’d say, get a life!! But then too, you’re a computer geek (good term, my husband is one, ‘geek’ is in!!) so that must explain it as well, haha!
Ingrid
Most of the games on Facebook don’t consume too much time. It’s just that there are so many of them…
I’m online so many hours (due to my work mostly), so a substantial part of my leisure time is in front of my computer screen. Yup, I’m a computer geek, and I wear glasses to show off my geekness…