Those sites are frowned upon at my workplace too. But I just realized that I can update my status and send messages to other Facebook users by using text messaging on my cell phone. Facebook also texts me any messages left by my friends.
Everybody I know is on Myspace or Facebook. I just cannot bring myself to join those sites. I get more and more emails from friends and family asking me to join. I. Will. Not. Crack. lol
I got the new Facebook update yesterday. Seems like an improvement, or at least nothing was lost. Really, it's hard to tell the difference from how it was, though I've only been on for a week now
I had my first, "who are you?" friend. I had to ask in a private note to refresh me on how I knew her.
So what about the HTF facebook page? Is anything happening there?
I like the minor alterations to the look of it, but there are two problems so far. When "friend A" posts a comment to a wall post of "friend B", such as "Yes that's true!" you will see an update that says "Friend A > Friend B: Yes that's true!".
Which is weird because in the first place, they weren't talking to you, and also, there's no context, and also, it is creepy like eavesdropping.
Second problem is that the fan pages (for musicians and other artists) are now exceptionally bleak since all the relevant info (discography, discussion, etc) is now hidden away.
I recently set up a social networking site just for my extended family. We use it for event planning and general socializing. Has anyone else here had any experience with setting up something like that?
One nice thing about this arrangement is that it's a "walled community", and since I'm paying for the resources, there are no ads to deal with.
From what I see this only applies to "wall-to-wall" posts. Actual "comments" on status or whatever still show as threaded. I understand the awkwardness of it, but I think that's a reflection of the "wall-to-wall" process itself. Even before the change you'd go to a person's profile and see fragments of a wall-based conversation. I never quite understood going this route when making comments shows both context and sequence, or if you want "privacy" just messaging each other.
That's why I liked the old way of just telling you that X posted on Y's wall and that's it. If I'm not part of the conversation and can't even see the whole thing on my home page, what's the point of seeing one snippet of it?
In fact, if someone isn't making a comment to someones post, why do I even need to know what X posted on Y's wall in the first place? It makes me feel creepy to "listen in" on someone else's conversation.
But I guess if people didn't want their conversations listened in on, they would just PM.
I guess this is as good a place as any. On a facebook, if I am a member of group "X", is there a way to turn off any email from that group? I.e. could I be a member of the group but don't allow anybody, even with admin privaleges to email me (via facebook, not personal email)?
DaveF: Nope, this is NOT a notification, this is actual email that shows up in my Inbox on Facebook... Plus, those settings are global, for each group, I'd like to be able to not get email from a particular group. I found no such option so I had to just leave the group, there should be a way (like HTF) to be able to turn such option off...