The Face Book

[Boon 0]

facebook

 

Are you familiar with this nonsense?

 

It's absurd, the cult following that has emerged.

[bob_barron 0]

I can't join b/c my college isn't facebooked.

 

That's annoying

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

What's so annoying about it? I haven't heard about it before.

[Damaramu 0]

People put their addresses and phone numbers on there. Are they looking for trouble?

[Boon 0]

For those that don't know, essentially its a myspace type of deal for college kids, but it's not a blog.

[Jingus 0]

I agree with the others, putting your picture/address/phone number all online together is just BEGGING for trouble.

[The Czech Republic 0]

I keep getting harassed by my friend to join this. I won't, because I don't like to exist on the Internet. I'm not really on Myspace or LiveJournal or any of these.

[yankovic fan 0]

Myspace is better for stalkers.

[Art Sandusky 0]

I wonder if the people who post their addresses and phone numbers' rarely being on the internet (or at least in, well, these sorta parts) is related to their posting of information. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[tekcop 0]

I don't know what the fuck you jus' said.

[Mole 0]

I never got the e-mail from FB after I signed up so I could click on the activation link. And for some reason, I can't find the link to have them resend the e-mail, so I can't sign up.

 

Unless I get a new e-mail addy from my new school, I can't do it.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Funny you should mention this. My friend just went through this intense month-long thing with an incoming freshman who turned out to be quite the headcase. I'd say all the signs were there from the beginning, but he got himself in deeper. They finally met and she looked nothing like the pics she had sent him. He didn't wanna get into a relationship, anyway, so he sorta weasled his way out of the whole mess a week after meeting her. It was twisted, though. They had "known" each other a whole week and she was posting on her Xanga about how great he was and basically obsessed over him. Think Swimfan and that chick from Wedding Crashers. If you all want some light entertainment, I can give you her Xanga handle.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Gimme it, I'll have her proposing by Friday.

[Mole 0]

What's Xanga?

[LJSexay 0]

facebook is awesome. =)

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

None of my facebook friends have their phone numbers or adresses, some of them don't even have their dorm.

[Slickster 0]

People put their addresses and phone numbers on there. Are they looking for trouble?

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To be fair, Facebook is set up so that no one outside of your college can look at your page without consenting (by adding you to their friend list). This prevents a lot of the 'stalker' stuff, since aside from the people at your college, no one can access your page without your knowledge. People who attend your school can already look up your phone # and on-campus address anyway, so that's no big deal.

[yankovic fan 0]

People put their addresses and phone numbers on there. Are they looking for trouble?

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To be fair, Facebook is set up so that no one outside of your college can look at your page without consenting (by adding you to their friend list). This prevents a lot of the 'stalker' stuff, since aside from the people at your college, no one can access your page without your knowledge. People who attend your school can already look up your phone # and on-campus address anyway, so that's no big deal.

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I was chatting with a girl from Tulane University one day, and she told me her full name.

 

The next day she says "How come you never called me?" I told her "Well you never gave me your number."

 

She paused for a second and came back with "Well all you had to do was go to the Tulane online student phone directory and got my number."

 

 

Apparently some universities post the numbers online anyway

[Guest Vitamin X]

So, I got one of these.

 

I like it better than Myspace, as it limits you basically only to people you may know. My school's set up in a weird way though, because they just became part of the Art Institute system, but they were their own school for a good 35-40 years beforehand and have completely different courses and it's still basically its own thing.. but our email addresses have aii.edu in them, so I guess that's the way it goes. Odd though, because there are Art Institutes all over the country, but all of them are combined into just one thing, so many of the facebook options (like the parties and groups functions) are difficult or just strange to use.

[Mole 0]

It was weird for me because my school closed down.

[Gary Floyd 0]

I was thinking about getting a Facebook account, untul I started to hear stories about it. So fortunately, I never got one.

[2GOLD 0]

My fiancee had to remove her college room number since her college believes that guy was using Facebook to get the info/room number of the girls on campus and rape them. Since that is the one common thread all the girls had.

 

Now she locks her door and removed her room number/private info from the college directory as well. I told her that shit was messed up to begin with.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Late as usual, my school finally got added to the Facebook. Certainly a lot less clunky than MySpace, but the non-visible profiles are a mixed bag. On the one hand they prevent potential stalkers from collection personal information about you, but on the other, it's annoying that you can't check out someone's profile from say, your graduating class, just to see what they're up to, but don't necessarily want to add them as a friend.

 

It is addicting, though, I'll give it that much. It sure brings people out of the woodwork, too. Three days into it and I've already gotten friend requests from people I had completely forgotten about or barely interacted with in high school.

[yankovic fan 0]

I've lately been searching recent nfl draft picks on Facebook. So far the Saint's 2nd and 3rd round picks have added me.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

Yeah, it's been helpful for me in meeting people going to the school next year as well as finding people I haven't talked to since elementary school. Awesome.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Repeated, from the MySpace threads we've had:

 

"Friends! Collect 'em all!"

 

I kinda hope there's a Facebook backlash soon. Last time I logged in, I saw "Keep up on the latest headlines with our Fox News group!" or something like that on my home page. Either way, they had a direct tie-in with Fox News, and that was the last time I'll ever visit the place.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Facebook got big here before MySpace did, about 2 years ago or such. Facebook is kinda left in the dust now. I did wind up having sex on the floor of one of our residence halls with a girl who "Poked" me on facebook though, and after a thorough inspection from the health clinic I am STD free, so I have nothing bad to say about this online friend device.

[slimm44 0]

I'm on it. It's much secure than Myspace. People have to accept you as a friend for them to see your profile.