Okay, I finally did it. Reluctantly, I joined Facebook. I joined mainly to connect with family. I probably also will accept friend requests from other people I already know but I’m not at all interested in the Who Has The Most Facebook Friends competition. I’m still figuring out how the thing works. I don’t expect that I will spend much time on it. We’ll see.
A while back (a month or more) I got a couple of invitations to join Google+ circles, whatever that is. I’m considering it only because the person who invited me is someone I like. Maybe I’ll join and then forget about it for months at a time like I do my Twitter account. Yeah… that’ll work.
It’s not really that I’m anti-social; it’s just that I have this blog and that seems like enough. It seems to me that the people who really like me and want to see what I’m doing and what I have to say will come here. But Facebook is supposed to be the big thing, the current great online gathering place so… well, as I said, we’ll see how it goes.
January 20th, 2012 - 2:13 pm
I initially joined FB to force my blog on friends and to have them vote for me in the Canadian Blog Awards (my ploy was only semi- successful). Now I’m addicted. It’s a lazy way to keep up with the activities of acquaintances I’d otherwise lose touch with. I don’t see the point of Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn so I don’t use them much although I have accounts.
January 24th, 2012 - 3:33 am
Twitter is actually really different from FaceBook. FaceBook works well if you have less than continuous access to the ‘net; Twitter works better if you have continuous access to the ‘net. This is why schoolkids like FaceBook (they can access it between classes) whereas white-collar workers preger Twitter (it can sit open on their desktop all day).
It is easier to have conversations with multiple friends simultaneously on Twitter. FaceBook doesn’t do that so well.
January 24th, 2012 - 8:01 am
That’s true. You have to be on Twitter just about constantly or you miss stuff. I’ve been on Facebook a lot since I joined but that’s just because it’s new to me. I can already see that I will be able to check it only two or three times a week and still keep up.