I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself...

[gnomi]

Should I join the 21st century?

[Poll #1251752]

Comments

[prettypammie.livejournal.com]

Some people (like my spouse...) can't seem to see a social networking site or technology without being compelled to play with it. This eventually lands them in trouble. I figure these obsessive technology toy players are the willing sacrificial guinea pigs for those of us with sense. We can watch and say "Oh, that might actually be useful for me, how do I sign up?" or "Oh, Honey, I'm so sorry that turned out to be a scam to spam all your friends for money!"
Well, Facebook isn't a scam, but I just can't see what it would do for me. I already have an LJ account and a blogspot account for farm stuff. The only thing I find annoying with all these sites is I can only restrict things to people with accounts on the sites - some sort of universal cert-based auth would be really cool.
*g*

-P

[mbarr.livejournal.com]

A) you can use OpenID on LJ. It's not just locked to LJ users.

B) with 100 Million folks on Facebook, there's.. a bit of content there.

C) Tagged pictures are the facebook killer app to me.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

why do you want/need a facebook account? i can't say whether you should sign up or not.

[dpolicar]

Mint is yummy with chocolate, but I'll probably turn down the brownie -- at least while I'm still in the stunned-submission phase.

[moonpuppy61.livejournal.com]

Social Networking sites are all, "as you need it/have time". They each work and have the pro/con to use. But if you will set it up and not look at it or use its strengths then don't bother.

I had friendster and myspace but I never worked them and all I got from it was getting put on junk mail lists because I didn't know how to hide my e-mail in the profile.

Mint with chocolate is ok, but there is always situations where it is problematic...

[norda.livejournal.com]

I can't speak to your needs, I can only tell you about my own experience.

Every single "social networking" site I've ended up on.... LJ, Ning, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter... ends up as a business networking site for me, just because that's how I am.

That has its pluses and has its drawbacks.

Facebook in particular has, on the surface, a lot of seemingly frivolous applications... you can play games, send people virtual gifts, etc. However, it also has room to make your own discussion groups and bulletin boards.

I started on Facebook because I needed frivolity in my life. [Still do.] But because of the way my business life bleeds into everything I do, it too has become a valuable resource for me, like LinkedIn. For example, I've been able to set up a Blake's 7: The Audio Adventures site there that has done more to get the word out than anything I've done on LJ or MySpace.

But at its heart, Facebook is : [a] just fun and [b] a potentially devastating timesink.

Your call.

[seborn.livejournal.com]

I am considering getting a facebook account for the same reason I got a myspace account a couple of months ago: viewing locked content. I would say get an account just for that.

Why haven't I yet? Because if I had one, I would be playing NotActuallyScrabble online all the time.

[gingicat]

If there are people you keep up with there, and you can't do so via RSS, why not?

If I get a Facebook account, it will be to keep up with my friend George who's not on LJ.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Refraining from quoting from the brownies-with-mint recipe... ;-)

[prettypammie.livejournal.com]

A) Most casual bloggers don't even know what OpenID is.
B) I don't care about content. A blog for me (and most of the people I know) is a place to communicate with friends and family. So far my friends use LJ or blogspot, so I haven't had any reason to go to Facebook. I do know that some people keep professional blogs, if I kept one I would have to look a little deeper at the available technology. Most of those I've seen are included on a website for the business.
C) How do Facebook tagged pics differ from LJ's? I admit, I find LJ's interface for managing pictures not very intuitive. I might have created a FlickR account at one point, I forget. Can you tell I don't spend a lot of time online? :)

-P