MetaChat - facebook anyone?

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02 January 2007

facebook anyone? I hear it's where all the cool kids are currently "hanging out". So I made a metachat group. lol, n00b, etc.

post by: seanyboy at: 07:57 | 26 comments

what is it? ( these days I cant be arsed logging in to find such things out)

posted by dabitch 02 January | 08:09

It's like a myspace thing. Social networking, etc. I'm not entirely sure why I signed up to it either. I got an invitation and then realised I had only 1 friend so here I am. If you're not already a member, I can't really see a point in joining. As always, YMMV.

posted by seanyboy 02 January | 08:11

In which TPS admits to a facebook addiction.

posted by seanyboy 02 January | 08:13

I think I have an account at each and every one of those social networking places (sans facebook) and I hate all of them. ;) Seems it aint my thang.

posted by dabitch 02 January | 08:29

Oh, the shame. I do have a Facebook account. It's all chrismear's fault! I've actually been playing with it (Facebook, that is) at work this morning (in revenge for being phoned at 5:40am) - my part of the UK is woefully under-represented at the moment. But, strangely, I vaguely care about that.

If someone finds my life, please can I have it back?

posted by TheDonF 02 January | 08:44

Yes, and I'm still addicted, too.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 08:56

Now if only I can find a way to verify my account without a US cell phone, I'll be OK. As it is, it's asking me to enter captcha codes all the time.

posted by seanyboy 02 January | 08:59

meh, yeah, I had that as well. Particularly nasty captcha codes, at that. Next up: twitter?!

posted by TheDonF 02 January | 09:04

My daughter's on fb 24 hours a day. She's met long-lost cousins and old friends via fb.

My son and his bff met each other while playing Halo on Xbox Live. So weird. They teamed up for a couple of weeks blasting all living things to kindgom come in some video game and then find out that they live less than half a mile from each other. The day they decided to meet in real life was funny...my son was really nervous like he was going on a blind date. So cute.

posted by iconomy 02 January | 09:29

I've been on it a little while. The college kids go nuts with it--my brother's friends sometimes have 300+ pictures on their profile. At least it's not as visually noisy as myspace.

LinkedIn.com is the facebook for adults, I guess.

posted by mullacc 02 January | 09:55

I love you all, but too many of my "real life" friends are on Facebook, so I will not be joining the Mecha Facebook group. Sorry.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 10:21

Just out of curiosity, because I don't think I'm a facebook type of person, but why would having rl friends on fb preclude you from joining the MeCha group, tps? i don't understand how that works?

posted by gaspode 02 January | 10:28

I don't need all my "real life" friends getting all up in my "online life". I like to keep them separate.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 10:32

I am too old for Facebook & MySpace. Thank God.

posted by mygothlaundry 02 January | 10:54

AND, the thing about Facebook is, whenever you make a change to your profile, or join a group or something, it shows up in all of your friend's "news feeds", which is a list of all the updates all of their friends have made recently. And sometimes it's TMI- I just found out that a friend believes in "National Family Planning", since she joined a group on such a topic. EEE, TMI, TMI.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 11:20

National = Natural, of course.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 11:21

IN. : )

posted by sisterhavana 02 January | 11:26

Blimey! I was hitting random users for London and up popped Tim Berners-Lee! Surely not?

posted by TheDonF 02 January | 11:33

The thing that annoys me about the whole social networking thing is that they seem to delight in tying you in to one network. I'd love it if I could just settle on one site, and add friends from myspace and facebook and beBo.

Someone needs to hack RSS so that social networking features can be added to any site... (Hmm - That sounds like an interesting project)

There's also the minor issue that I've not quite managed to convince any of my RL friends to use it. For some reason they seem to prefer methods like "phoning up" and "writing letters" and "sending emails". I really do seem to be the wrong generation for this kind of thing.

posted by seanyboy 02 January | 11:38

Yes, actually NOT TB-L:

*Note: This Facebook page was created as a research project on Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee is in no way involved with the creation of this page.*

posted by TheDonF 02 January | 11:39

The thing that annoys me about the whole social networking thing is that they seem to delight in tying you in to one network.

Well, profilelinker tries to solve that a little bit, not sure if it sucks or not.

posted by justgary 02 January | 11:51

I'm such a joiner.

posted by deborah 02 January | 14:16

Now if only I can find a way to verify my account without a US cell phone, I'll be OK.

Weird, I don't seem to get any captchas, and I definitely don't have a US cell phone. 'Fraid I can't remember how I verified my account, though.

posted by chrismear 02 January | 21:13

If you don't want to network your face, consider the alternative.

posted by George_Spiggott 02 January | 22:05

I keep denying it, but I'm probably just as much a Facebook junkie as the vast majority of my friends who are still in college...

posted by casarkos 02 January | 22:39

I just clicked past the "verify account with US cell phone bit". It doesn't seem to have mattered.

posted by deborah 03 January | 05:10

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