I also don't get why people keep 500 contacts in their phones. They have 10 different Johns in their phonebook and when I asked them if they have so and so's number. "Oh, I have 5 of them in my list, I don't know who is who." 
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who´s got the longest one - friends lists & other things i hate about social networks
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I also don't get why people keep 500 contacts in their phones. They have 10 different Johns in their phonebook and when I asked them if they have so and so's number. "Oh, I have 5 of them in my list, I don't know who is who."
You know a lot of hookers?
Oh how I loathe Facebook.
Sometime this month I'm going to find the time to trawl through and copy the emails and photos I want, then leave it for ever.
Urgh facebook. It's like letting all the annoying people I've ever met live inside my computer. And it never works to let me communicate with the people I do care about.
Sometime this month I'm going to find the time to trawl through and copy the emails and photos I want, then leave it for ever.
Urgh facebook. It's like letting all the annoying people I've ever met live inside my computer. And it never works to let me communicate with the people I do care about.
Why don't you just not have the annoying people as friends? And what exactly doesn't work, I've never had any problems?
What is a friends list?
Facebook has been exceptionally useful for me. It helped me get back in touch with a couple of high school friends that no way in hell would I have found them otherwise. Also, me and my friends use it weekly to organize stuff like parties, events, or just going out somewhere for a drink. Aside of course, from sharing links and what not.
It is also a lot different form Twitter (which I also use heavily). Out of the 90 people I follow, I know personally 5. Twitter is mostly about following sources which I am interested in. A source can be another iPhone developer, a graphics designer, a news outlet, or just an app I use. There are even some Apple employees that tweet some exceptionally helpful tips or tweet immediately when there is an update of some sort released.
People running around saying Facebook and Twitter are useless or WHY WOULD I WANT TO KNOW WHAT SANDWICH YOU ARE EATING simply got no clue how to use such tools properly.
Facebook has been exceptionally useful for me. It helped me get back in touch with a couple of high school friends that no way in hell would I have found them otherwise. Also, me and my friends use it weekly to organize stuff like parties, events, or just going out somewhere for a drink. Aside of course, from sharing links and what not.
It is also a lot different form Twitter (which I also use heavily). Out of the 90 people I follow, I know personally 5. Twitter is mostly about following sources which I am interested in. A source can be another iPhone developer, a graphics designer, a news outlet, or just an app I use. There are even some Apple employees that tweet some exceptionally helpful tips or tweet immediately when there is an update of some sort released.
People running around saying Facebook and Twitter are useless or WHY WOULD I WANT TO KNOW WHAT SANDWICH YOU ARE EATING simply got no clue how to use such tools properly.
Facebook pages may contain information that users wouldn't want anyone but their friends to see. If your 14-year-old daughter had a facebook profile with lots of pictures, you wouldn't want a random 50-year-old stranger looking at it, either.
A noble undertaking, but bear in mind that unless your social network is incredibly innovative and different (don't try to replace FB/twitter/etc), your efforts are probably futile.
Not necessarily. Google Buzz is the latest child of a company pouring millions into another free service the world doesn't need, and they require you to have a GMail account to even use it.
Twitter and Facebook, Facebook especially, have a bigger lead in development and users for Google to pose any kind of immediate threat, outside of a die-hard core group of GMail users. Granted, a lot of people have GMail but that won't account for millions upon millions of people. Facebook doesn't require you have email from a specific provider - they just provide the end service.
Did you want to talk about Google Buzz or were you just making chit chat?
I know. All my friends store names by first name and wind up sending a msg or placing a call to the wrong someone. I'm like the last person my age that I know of who stores it the traditional way, surname first.I also don't get why people keep 500 contacts in their phones. They have 10 different Johns in their phonebook and when I asked them if they have so and so's number. "Oh, I have 5 of them in my list, I don't know who is who."
i'd love to agree, but i can't, really. i know a couple of photographers and musicians that live real lifes and are very cordial interesting people and yet they are trying to widen their professional reach using FB-accounts ...
i like the graphics. however, i think ours will not be an SN then ;-)
i think it will be both innovative and different although i am not so sure about the "incredibly"-part.
of course we observe other SNs and lately i have been quite dismayed by the fact that friends-whoring (i love that word...) seems to be of major importance to SN-users. i must say that your comments support my thinking that there`s still a lot of people using SNs in a, well, conservative kind of way. maybe even the term "social network" is kind of burned and we should come up with a different label ...
my kind of girl ;-)
if you will hate our application as well we will be dead before we started - and for a good reason.
good point. i think we will stick with our current concept that you won´t even have to register to run a search for people that match your interest profile. i don´t see the point in bothering people with registering for running only the most simple feature. kind of reminds me of these signs in some shops that read "free entry" or "we don´t charge for looking" or something along that line. well, why should they?
once you will want to save any of the contacts you may have found, there will still be time to register and / or log in.
i would like to add a new aspect to this discussion:
let´s say this new SN will allow you to find people you find interesting although you do NOT share a common language. would any of you that speak 2 or more languages be willing to translate brief messages from one user to another if other users would do the same for you in case you would like to communicate with someone that does not share a common language with you?
Some people have some compulsive desire to collect numbers/"friends". As someone who prefers quality over quantity, I can only speculate superficial egocentricity as the reason. To each their own, different strokes for different folks, and all that.
I gave Facebook a try and deleted my account because it wasn't for me. I had a difficult time compartmentalizing my friends and family with internet acquaintances. I felt a sense of perpetual obligation/guilt or worry for accepting or not accepting some people into certain aspects of my life. There are things I wouldn't say to my family that I do say on the internet, and vice versa. I found it too daunting and that was that. It not being the thing for me certainly doesn't mean it isn't for, what, hundreds of millions of people? Who knows, maybe I'll give it another try sometime.
I gave Facebook a try and deleted my account because it wasn't for me. I had a difficult time compartmentalizing my friends and family with internet acquaintances. I felt a sense of perpetual obligation/guilt or worry for accepting or not accepting some people into certain aspects of my life. There are things I wouldn't say to my family that I do say on the internet, and vice versa. I found it too daunting and that was that. It not being the thing for me certainly doesn't mean it isn't for, what, hundreds of millions of people? Who knows, maybe I'll give it another try sometime.
For some people it's just a popularity contest. Personally I just want the people on there who I actually want to *talk* to.
I'd assume that most of the people on there who have 700, 1000, 2000 or whatever friends are probably pretty fake and egotistical.
I'd assume that most of the people on there who have 700, 1000, 2000 or whatever friends are probably pretty fake and egotistical.
Epic postwhoring or you seriously need to use this.
For goodness sake, use mulitquote.
I so nearly wrote a snarky reply about who's got the longest string of consecutive posts and other things I hate about forumers.
(For those unsure) Regarding how to use Multi-Quote:
Click the
It keeps things tidier not having consecutive posts and it saves the moderators having merge posts.
Even though Im on FB, I think its the gayest thing ever, and for the life of me I dont understand where people get all this free time to update their FB page every hour all day long and play all those stupid games....
The thing that I hate the most about it? Even though people I know on FB have my personal email addy, they insist on contacting me ONLY through facebook and not directly. A royal pain.
Another pain is that people I know that wouldnt socialize or hang with me (nor I with them) in real life try to become my FB friend.
The thing that I hate the most about it? Even though people I know on FB have my personal email addy, they insist on contacting me ONLY through facebook and not directly. A royal pain.
Another pain is that people I know that wouldnt socialize or hang with me (nor I with them) in real life try to become my FB friend.
(For those unsure) Regarding how to use Multi-Quote:
Click thebutton on each post you want to quote and respond to. Doing so will turn the button orange, like so:and when you go to Post Reply all the quotes will appear in your text box for you to reply to accordingly.
It keeps things tidier not having consecutive posts and it saves the moderators having merge posts.
I'll be saving this gem. I'm 100% sure somebody else will need it in the near future.
i have made the same experience. however, i think that more than any other critic aired here this one is more due to a flaw in people´s characters than in the application itself: it is one thing to show off with a giant friends list (that others can chose to look at or not) WITHIN someone´s FB account, but it reveals a kind of tyrannic attititude if someone thinks he or she has to oblige friends to follow their lead even OUTSIDE the FB-world.
thanks. didn´t know this feature.I so nearly wrote a snarky reply about who's got the longest string of consecutive posts and other things I hate about forumers.
(For those unsure) Regarding how to use Multi-Quote:
by the way: does anyone know how to get rid of the annoying buzz-bubble/option in my gmail-account?
Suppose I was a HATEFUL person, could I mention something here that I LOVE about twitter? It´s the fact that it reveals the silliness of those who feel they need to bother telling us when they just left home. I suppose you know this fun place by now, if not, you might find it worth a visit:
www.pleaserobme.com
Unless you also post on Twitter your home address I don't see how that's a problem.
Are you saying your "list" isn't long.
I hide my friends on FB once I get one who looks like they're collecting friends. I find it a good way to keep in touch, but I figure those who have 2,000 friends aren't going to keep up with me or know anything I post.
Smart thieves use multiple online tools to figure out who you are, as well as any hobbies you may have that would involve popular or high-dollar equipment. Some cursory cross-references (online and otherwise) can confirm your address and/or link your real-world self to your various Twitter/FB accounts. Then they simply use Twitter as a timing cue.
With all the information out there, though, there are easier ways to go about it; Footprinting is a basic first step no matter what method or means you use - and the primary weakness isn't technology or security itself it's the people who handle it) If someone really wants to con you, they'll do it just about no matter what.
Even if someone connected my real-world self to my Twitter/FB account I simply NEVER EVER post my home address online or even the area where I live. And even if, and that's a big if, I posted any of that stuff online what's to say that if I'm not home that someone else isn't there, or that I don't have a fancy security system or a vicious dog?
Wouldn't it be easier to just stalk a rich people's house for a few days and then rob them when they knew they weren't home?