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[fffffffff]

if your real name is jasper, lets be friends.

[Chronodiggity]

That's my real name. Hey,

[jasperjones]

hmmmm

[Mitchell]

Fromm iLike Top Artists by Fan Count Last update: Jan 20, 2008 Red Hot Chili Peppers 2,360,630 fans Justin Timberlake 2,164,417 fans Linkin Park 2,133,273 fans Green Day 2,021,474 fans 50 Cent 1,744,961 fans U2 1,715,254 fans Eminem 1,551,018 fans Avril Lavigne 1,526,788 fans Evanescence 1,507,919 fans Kelly Clarkson 1,491,550 fans Beyoncé 1,446,964 fans Jay-Z 1,264,668 fans Radiohead 1,260,036 fans The Beatles 1,161,161 fans John Mayer 1,155,794 fans

[Chronodiggity]

Really, Evanescence? At least you know the douchebags that are listening to all theat Linkin Park. Who is still listening to Evanescence?

[Paul]

I'll bet it is the emos.

[Ennui]

I'll bet it is the emos.

It's always the emos.

[Mitchell]

http://www.new.facebook.com/

[pong]

I like facebook. I have been able to network a bunch of old friends.

[britkid]

while this is up here, i'm finding it really strange that facebook apparently will not allow me to delete my home town from my profile. they will allow me to change it to another town, but if i try to leave it blank or put in spaces, it reverts to what i had in there before. honestly, i don't really care whether or not people know where i spent my formative years, but shouldn't a person have full control over what they do and don't share on the internet at any given time?

[boobs]

nu facebook looks like shit

[Efrim]

while this is up here, i'm finding it really strange that facebook apparently will not allow me to delete my home town from my profile. they will allow me to change it to another town, but if i try to leave it blank or put in spaces, it reverts to what i had in there before. honestly, i don't really care whether or not people know where i spent my formative years, but shouldn't a person have full control over what they do and don't share on the internet at any given time?

Not really, because Facebook isn't really "sharing". It's an exchange. It's not presented as such. They provide you the social networking tool in exchange for personal data they use for marketing research and ad placement on pages you view. Privacy is really an afterthought by design.

[Rob Gordon]

Well, my theory that oldsters would stick to Myspace was wrong. Oldsters are flocking to Facebook and reconnecting with loads of old friends from college, etc. Unlike Myspace, I think one should add friends sparingly. Meaning, add only real friends or people you'd like to be friends with. Otherwise, it kind of dilutes the usefulness of it. I have added a few musicians who are friends and acquaintances but otherwise I don't think it makes sense to add them. I know there's move a foot at Facebook to try and incorporate the Twitter model which I think is a bad idea. Thoughts?

[b*derty]

my facebook page is basically an extention of me, meaning: if i dont know you, you aren't my facebook friend. myspace i dont even care about anymore haven't added a friend to my personal site there in ages. still add friends to my music site but thats just because i dont care about that site too. i'll stick with facebook. still dont really understand twitter yet. thats just because i've been off line while twitter became huge

[Johnny Feathers]

Well, my theory that oldsters would stick to Myspace was wrong.
Oldsters are flocking to Facebook and reconnecting with loads of old friends from college, etc.
Unlike Myspace, I think one should add friends sparingly. Meaning, add only real friends or people you'd like to be friends with. Otherwise, it kind of dilutes the usefulness of it. I have added a few musicians who are friends and acquaintances but otherwise I don't think it makes sense to add them.
I know there's move a foot at Facebook to try and incorporate the Twitter model which I think is a bad idea.

Thoughts?

I'm definitely not someone with a ludicrous number of friends on Facebook. A mere 41. And this is after I just went through a slightly bizarre reconnection with high school classmates. (Probably fairly reflective of my real life, i suppose--I don't have a lot of close friends in real life, either.) I guess, since I have yet to attend a high school reunion, and may never do that, this was a decent alternative to having to interact face to face with these people. You give a shout out, exchange brief updates, then you can control just how much/how often you interact with them. They're there if I need them. Most likely I won't.

[AFTERSHOCK]

I barely use my MySpace page. I'm on FaceBook every day. I dunno - I just like it more.

[Kate]

I'm on Facebook as of about 2 months ago. Most of my family is on it, old and young, and it has been a great tool for us to get updates on my sick uncle. It has also been fun finding old friends. That being said, yesterday I got a friend request from a guy I barely knew in high school. He was a year ahead of me and I guess we had some friends in common, but really, like I give a shit what you and your family are doing? I denied him. I also have denied most of the people from work who have tried to friend me. I just don't want my two worlds merging, you know? I like Facebook, but I think all the shit you can send each other is really really stupid. Someone sent me an internet plant for my "garden" the other day. WTF? I went to see if there was some reason people would have a virtual garden on their Facebook page, but the whole thing was so bizarre. All these weirdos obsessing about how their internet garden looks, and whether the fake squirrels were eating their fake plants. People are strange.

[Bob Loblaw]

Anyone who gives Facebook gifts like that needs a fucking job.

[MattW]

Seconded. I joined Facebook a year ago. I've never had a myspace other than for bands I've been in. My wife is very resistant to these type of things. But when I found out one of her good friends got a divorce via her the change in her relationship status, she joined at once. If grandkids ever ask me what the 00's were like, I will begin by telling them that story.

[Campaigner]

Seconded.

I joined Facebook a year ago. I've never had a myspace other than for bands I've been in. My wife is very resistant to these type of things. But when I found out one of her good friends got a divorce via her the change in her relationship status, she joined at once.

If grandkids ever ask me what the 00's were like, I will begin by telling them that story.

Hell yeah.

I found out via Facebook last week that my cousin's dad had died.

I only really use to catch up with old friends (and by catch up I don't mean talk, I mean look at photos of how much weight they've gained/how hot they've turned out/how much hair they've lost/how many kids they have). Anything else I try to keep to myself or my close group of non-virtual friends.

Relationship status? Fuck that. I've been dating my GF for nearly a year and will hopefully get engaged soon, but that won't be posted for all to see. No sir, not at all.