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Stafford Lumsden

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:28:57 +1200

Facebook is sooooooo last week. Now, who's on Pownce? (http://pownce.com) Which is apparently the brainchild of Kevin Rose (founder of Digg.com). It has all the same "social networking" features of Facebook – messages, profiles etc etc. But it's big big big BIG draw is the ability to use it to…

Muriel Lockheed

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:24:49 +1200

I am proud to say I will never join facebook....................it does nothing for me whatsoever.........................and I want it chiselled on my headstone that I never ever sent a txt in my life!!!

George Darroch

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:29:51 +1200

Once again Danah Boyd is on the ball Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

It's an idea that I've been aware of for a while – comments last year highlighted how it very quickly moved from being a site to network with friends, to being one where social…

kmont

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:28:22 +1200

I know what you are saying Sue. I only really go to myspace to check my bulletin board for band/event information cause everything else has gone quiet over there. No-one among my friends blogs there (ugly and kind of teenagerish) and after the inital flurry of video posting/commenting it is…

Sue

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:21:05 +1200

here is the thing tho- depite being butt ugly
people like me who hold events know that pimping yourself through myspace gets people through the doors.

I rely on Myspace and Now Facebook to get people along to craft2.0.
i go events purely from hearing about them on myspace and…

Rebecca Williams

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:06:11 +1200

agree with josh. facebook = myspace for grownups. but myspace does suck, and i think it's mainly because of all the graphics heavy backgrounds people use. the servers must be fairly groaning under the weight. all i know is, no other site makes my 'puter need a lie down.

Josh Addison

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:23:50 +1200

Quite by chance, I got into Facebook a few weeks before everyone started paying attention to it, so I can now feel all trendy and ahead of the curve. The initial attraction for me was that fact that some friends and family overseas had accounts, which gave me a handy…

Rebecca Williams

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:56:17 +1200

things i hate about myspace:

– that people are able to send me huge, cheesy postcards wishing me a happy day / nice weekend / good life that then sit in my comments box like a large, colourful, totally unwanted christmas present.

– persistent and attempting-to-be-flattering requests to be added…

Scott Common

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:18:00 +1200

I'm not interested in social networking sites – wouldn't touch a myspace page with someone elses 10 foot barge pole (won't even visit any of my bands myspace pages) – facebrook falls into much the same catagory.

If my friends want to know how I'm doing they know what my…

WH

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:19:05 +1200

When you do or say something stupid on your Facebook page, all of your friends see it pretty much simultaneously. Putting up a photo of a horse as my profile picture seemed like such a good idea at the time.

Vashti T

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:05:42 +1200

DAMIAN!!!! ALERT!!! ALERT!!!! IT WAS ALL A TERRIBLE MISTAKE!!!!!

In a spirit of compassion, I used my facebook to send Tze a lovely message of support- ALAS! SHE IS NOT SINGLE!!!!! An administrative error, just like the accidental status comment I made about my head getting stuck up my bottom…

Sue

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:36:43 +1200

It means he finally found a decent second hand bookshop instead of trawling through the dumpster for something to read.

i prefer all consuming feeds for what friends are reading rather than face book
http://allconsuming.net

Damian Christie

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:08:59 +1200

My friend David notes another odd aspect to the 'news' feed about your friends changes in status and so forth.

What does it mean when it says, for example, "Keith Ng has removed Virginia Andrews 'Flowers in the Attack' from his favourite books list"? Does it mean he re-read and…

InternationalObserver

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:21:00 +1200

Facebook. I joined up, but I have no friends. Then I realised that I had mistakenly checked the box marked Interested in Men. So I ammended that. And now I still have no friends.

Scott Hindmarsh

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:28:14 +1200

>for a 45c stamp and posting it?

50cent. Your losing touch man...

Sam F

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:38:32 +1200

Just in case people didn't spot it before: here's an essay by danah boyd which looks mainly at the Facebook Feed, but also lots of other interesting little issues around social networking sites. Worth a (re)read.

Wilco

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:30:48 +1200

I'm in ur fazebuk lookin at ur hot frendz...

Vashti T

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:39:59 +1200

Poor Tze Ming Mok... I didn't have facebook when my relationship dissolved in a nuclear like meltdown, thank goodness. I think, by the way, Facebook has chatting applications so you can chat instantly (with all your friends' hot friends!!) Why don't you just install chat? Or do you not have…

Jimmy Hayes

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:33:26 +1200

You can call it stalking (admittedly that seems like the dominant term) but my posse of seedy, covert shiftyeyes call it 'trawling'.

Justifies it. Kinda.

Joanna

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:07:32 +1200

I can totally see the theoretical benefit of using Facebook to notify people that you've ended a relationship/quit a job/lost your puppy. Who wants to go over horrible news again and again and again? Why not put the message out to all your friends at once?

I've always found that…

Sue

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:09:15 +1200

as a personal user I like facebook more than myspace
and i like how neatly it integrates my twitter and flickr and well a lot of other things, that said the whole going through adding friend all over again :/

why can't everyone use OpenID

but the site i like…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:52:04 +1200

Oh, two more things to add. This might be extreme peer pressure, but I recently advised an online friend with this: "Seriously, if you do not sign up to Facebook, you will be like some crazy old man who refuses to get a tele-phone machine."

And over at Slate, 50-something…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:34:26 +1200

That's another side effect of Facebook – when trying to display less personal information ends up making all your friends and family think you've broken up with your honey.

Journalist Thomas Crampton and his fiancee were recently troubled by this: "How Facebook Ended My Marriage"

Stephen Judd

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:52:15 +1200

I can't decide whether I'm too old school or new school but either way, I don't have the time or the energy. I am deeply suspicious of things that nag me, allegedly on behalf of people I don't know that well, and may spam me later.

Tze Ming Mok

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:24:54 +1200

Oh hell dude, I just had no idea how to use or alter the personal profile page to display less information rather than more! Jetlagged in London.

Ben Austin

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:49:08 +1200

Social networking invites pretty much go straight in the bin, I spend too much time on the internet as it is without adding another thing. Besides, I don't like living in other people's pockets.

The Encyclopedia of Stupid speaks for me on this issue. Its thoughts on…

Andrew Dubber

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:18:23 +1200

I resisted Facebook for three years. Finally it reached the point where people whose opinion I respect were inviting me daily, so I succumbed. It has one major drawback for me, and one distinct advantage.

The Drawback:
It turns out that everyone I know is an idiot. Like 8 year-olds…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:02:40 +1200

And look – Joanna "Blonde at the Bar" Hunkin's blog for today is on this newfangled Facebook thing.

Keith Ng

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:59:06 +1200

Damian, I believe it's called stalking. Or, if you want to get technical, Facebook stalking.

You got any hot friends?

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:53:46 +1200

From the lnked article:
MySpace is the primary way that young (US) soldiers communicate with their peers

which implies that young Russian kids, who joined the FSB (successor to the KGB) hoping for a life of James Bond style intrigue are stuck in a windowless office somewhere trawling through MySpace…

Damian Christie

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:39:27 +1200

Thank NI, I was pretty happy with it, particularly the editing work.

To be fair, they answered that question but in trying to fit the rise/fall/rise into a 5 minute story, there was only so much I could say about the fall...

But from what they said to me (on…

Nobody Important

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:31:50 +1200

Nice piece on Dawn Raid last nite Damian. Although they fudged on how you run a "multi-million dollar" enterprise but forget to pay the IRD.
Was this of any help, or were you already on it?

George Darroch

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:25:39 +1200

In the last month, and particularly the last week or two things have gone mad...

It seeped into New Zealand through the international students, and for a while all I could find on there were fellow procrastinators.

I'm actually finding it pretty useful for keeping up with the folk back…

Damian Christie

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:22:50 +1200

And as I'm all for neologisms, can anyone tell me whether the process of going through your friend's friends to see if they know anyone hot is called?

My, er, friend wants to know.

Keith Ng

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:02:00 +1200

But then how will I know the instant someone sends me a message?

Put it on your phone. Then you'll never be away from your friends. Ever.

I don’t know exactly what’s happened, but a number of people I’ve spoken to have noticed it as well – Facebook has gone…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:43:23 +1200

But should I actually, finally respond to one of those emails and sign up? I guess I should, if only for research purposes, but I'm still unclear as to how it's going to enhance my life ...

Yes, you should sign up.
You will find out a way to make…

Sam F

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:38:59 +1200

Facebook's transformation has really kicked off because all of those third-party applications are being tossed around.

I signed up last year and became quite fond of its relative simplicity, but now I'm having to refuse endless requests from friends to sign up to new applications which will just clutter up…

Roho

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:37:36 +1200

I was assured FB was 'addictive' although I'm still not convinced that's a good thing. There were many 'you've been added as a Friend' emails before I finally buckled – under intense pressure I might add.

Knowing I signed up to FB before techie luminaries like Damian and Russell though?…

Heather Gaye

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:25:18 +1200

must....take....control.....

must...spurn...(nggg!)..facebook!!! arrgh!

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:17:30 +1200

But should I actually, finally respond to one of those emails and sign up? I guess I should, if only for research purposes, but I'm still unclear as to how it's going to enhance my life ...

Damian Christie

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:53:03 +1200

Dude, turn off the notification emails! I was driven crazy by those within a day and turned them all off.

But then how will I know the instant someone sends me a message?

MySpace is like going to a crowded party and being stuck in a corner. You know some…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:36:56 +1200

I still don’t really see the point of it though. You message someone, then a message goes to your email saying you have a message so you log in and check the message and then respond to it, in turn sending a message to that person’s email to check their…

kmont

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:18:21 +1200

I saw the title and immediately got the reference. Not sure how I feel about that. I have been on the facebook crack for a bit now after being pestered by mates in the UK. That newsfeed is the point of difference I guess. I am quite keen to use…

Public Address

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:18:20 +1200

Discussion from blog post.