Facebook - what is it all about?

[Norm]

Does anyone else use LinkedIn? It's like Facebook in a suit, damned handy for working out who knows who.

 

[summerdays]

Does anyone else use LinkedIn? It's like Facebook in a suit, damned handy for working out who knows who.

Mr Summerday's does and it's amazed me to follow links of who knows who on it. But as far as I can see it is also a bit self promotional and about keeping in with work colleagues as they might help you get a job in the future.

 

[Norm]

Yeah, that's why I use it.

I had emails last week about three different jobs, because of my LinkedIn profile.

 

[4F]

You on the Great Dunmow?

The what ?

 

[summerdays]

Yeah, that's why I use it.

I had emails last week about three different jobs, because of my LinkedIn profile.

I think I probably only get to see the side where various people in India keep trying to buddy up with Mr Summerdays trying to get their foot in the door after sending him job applications when their skills aren't relevant to the post being offered, or old work colleagues. He probably has given some interviews via linkedIn contacts too but he probably doesn't mention those ones.

 

[4F]

Great Dunmow...

...Dunwich Dynamo.

Bit of cockney rhyming slang there you see.

Oh I see, you cockerknees Yes mate that is the plan and you ?

 

[zimzum42]

It's great if you live overseas, really helps you keep in touch...

 

[redddraggon]

Facebook went downhill when non-students were allowed to join. You used to require an academic email address to register, now anybody can join, and it's so bloated with rubbish it's unreal.

 

[zimzum42]

Facebook went downhill when non-students were allowed to join.

true, and even better when they limited the universities to the better ones!

 

[Bromptonaut]

Like other 'older' chatters (I'm fifty) I use it very differently from my kids fro whom friend count is some kind of trophy. Have about twenty friends who are either family, real friends from work, neighbours etc and two or three childhood friends.

Friend suggestions now are mostly friends of friends but on first encounter it suggested several people I know. Suspect it starts with people who have searched your name - amongst the other suggestions were several Scots. Although I love the place I've no family or personal contacts but I share a name with a scottish landscape phtographer.

 

[Fnaar]

Having blathered on in my earlier post about having only friends as friends, I then realised I have 'friends' on here who I've never met

I don't know what the friends thing on here is really for, but mine (all 9 of them) are either...

1. local
2. like-minded
3. have done me a favour
4. I have offered to do them a favour

I have met one of them

 

[hackbike 666]

Am I the only one on the planet who is in dispute with facebook after my name was used on it against my will?

I won't use that pile of 5h1t.

 

[trustysteed]

true, and even better when they limited the universities to the better ones!

and even better than that was when only oxford students could join.

 

[Dan B]

Oh, the number 1 facebook "accessory" is the so-called "fluff-busting purity" which hides most of the annoying Holiday Mafia Desert Island Farm announcements. Requires firefox

http://www.fbpurity.com/

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I get requests from my daughters friends that I ignore as well as a request from my brother in law who I blocked as I cannot stand the tosspot.It is full of stupid postings by people who clearly need to get a life with posts such as "What shall I have for tea ? "

I started to do that, before realising that it was time to either delete my Arsebook account or kill myself.

Has anyone else posted this, by the way?