vainandy said:

I only joined a few weeks ago. One good thing I can say about it, is I found two of my good friends from my old whorin' days that I haven't seen in about 15 years. However, from what I've seen, a lot of people use their full names which means they have family and coworkers on their page so they really don't let their hair down and be themselves. I've seen folks that are the biggest whores out there with religious scriptures all over their page. I don't know who they think they're fooling. I find myself "watching my mouth" when I'm on other people's pages unless I see that it's the type of page where other people are letting their hair down. One of my old friends is now a minister's wife....boy, is that a change! I usually talk with her in private and talk the same stuff I always have, just not explicit. Another old friend of mine has a lot of those survey type things and games so I usually just talk to her in private too.

When I started my page though, I didn't dare use my full name. I simply used "Vain Andy". Number one, for fear of identity theft and number two, I didn't want family and coworkers finding it because I like to talk shit and if I feel like talking the explicit shit on my page that y'all know I love to talk sometimes, I don't have to worry about them seeing it. Although, I talk plenty of shit in front of them already, just R Rated.

The org is still much funner though because there's a lot more people and we're all up in the same room together instead of spread out all over the place. The org is like the big whorehouse that all the whores come back to and gather once they leave their own street corner.

I use my real name because I want old friends and family to find me.I behave myself so I have nothing to worry about

I'm annoyed FB won't let you hotlink photos out of there anymore

bboy87 said:

Alej said:

Oh well, on Twitter you don't have to follow them even if they start following you.

Thank god people don't understand twitter nor tumblr where I live, that's why I'm still on there If people start looking me up, I'ma have to cut some bitches.

I've seen people on Twitter who if you unfollow them, they'll find who exactly unfollowed them and will put them on blast. "Hey everyone, this person *name* unfollowed me"

like it's the ultimate insult

people are so absurd sometimes.

SoulAlive said:

vainandy said:

I only joined a few weeks ago. One good thing I can say about it, is I found two of my good friends from my old whorin' days that I haven't seen in about 15 years. However, from what I've seen, a lot of people use their full names which means they have family and coworkers on their page so they really don't let their hair down and be themselves. I've seen folks that are the biggest whores out there with religious scriptures all over their page. I don't know who they think they're fooling. I find myself "watching my mouth" when I'm on other people's pages unless I see that it's the type of page where other people are letting their hair down. One of my old friends is now a minister's wife....boy, is that a change! I usually talk with her in private and talk the same stuff I always have, just not explicit. Another old friend of mine has a lot of those survey type things and games so I usually just talk to her in private too.

When I started my page though, I didn't dare use my full name. I simply used "Vain Andy". Number one, for fear of identity theft and number two, I didn't want family and coworkers finding it because I like to talk shit and if I feel like talking the explicit shit on my page that y'all know I love to talk sometimes, I don't have to worry about them seeing it. Although, I talk plenty of shit in front of them already, just R Rated.

The org is still much funner though because there's a lot more people and we're all up in the same room together instead of spread out all over the place. The org is like the big whorehouse that all the whores come back to and gather once they leave their own street corner.

I use my real name because I want old friends and family to find me.I behave myself so I have nothing to worry about

You've always behaved yourself for as long as I've known you. It's not that easy for me though because I'm a whore to the bone and good just ain't in me.

ZombieKitten said:

I'm annoyed FB won't let you hotlink photos out of there anymore

They need a NSFW section so people can send in their nude pictures to me if they want to.

bboy87 said:

Alej said:

Oh well, on Twitter you don't have to follow them even if they start following you.

Thank god people don't understand twitter nor tumblr where I live, that's why I'm still on there If people start looking me up, I'ma have to cut some bitches.

I've seen people on Twitter who if you unfollow them, they'll find who exactly unfollowed them and will put them on blast. "Hey everyone, this person *name* unfollowed me"

like it's the ultimate insult

I don't get that part. Or they'll unfollow you if you say something they didn't like and talk shit about you. Had that happen to me early last year. If I return to Twitter, I'm only gonna follow whoever I know on here lol fuck with everybody else.

Report: Facebook users more trusting, engaged

Is Facebook good for us? Pew study finds users more trusting, engaged, have more close friends

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook, it turns out, isn't just a waste of time. People who use it have more close friends, get more social support and report being more politically engaged than those who don't, according to a new national study on Americans and social networks.

The report comes as Facebook, Twitter and even the buttoned-up, career-oriented LinkedIn continue to engrain themselves in our daily lives and change the way we interact with friends, co-workers and long-lost high school buddies.

Released Thursday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the report also found that Facebook users are more trusting than their non-networked counterparts.

When accounting for all other factors -- such as age, education level or race -- Facebook users were 43 percent more likely than other Internet users to say that "most people can be trusted." Compared with people who don't use the Internet at all, Facebook users were three times more trusting.

The reason for this is not entirely clear. One possible explanation: People on social networks are more willing to trust others because they interact with a larger number of people in a more diverse setting, said Keith Hampton, the main author of the study and a communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

When all else is equal, people who use Facebook also have 9 percent more close ties in their overall social network than other Internet users. This backs an earlier report from Pew that, contrary to studies done earlier in the decade, the Internet is not linked to social isolation. Rather, it can lead to larger, more diverse social networks.

Social-networking users also scored high in political engagement. Because LinkedIn users (older, male and more educated) fall into a demographic category that's more politically active than the general population, they were most likely to vote or attend political rallies. But after adjusting for those characteristics, Facebook users, especially those who use the site multiple times a day, turned out to be more politically involved than those who don't use it.

Overall, the average American has a little more than two close confidants, 2.16 to be exact, according to the report. This is up from an average of 1.93 close ties that Americans reported having in 2008. There are also fewer lonely people: 9 percent of respondents said they had no one with whom they could discuss important matters. That's down from 12 percent in 2008.

The report didn't try to dig into cause and effect, so it's not clear whether the widening use of social networks is causing less loneliness. But it did find that people who use the Internet are less socially isolated than those who don't. Those on social networks, even less so -- just 5 percent said they had no one to talk to about important stuff.

The researchers also got numbers to back up what's in the mind of many Facebook users past a certain age: Yes, all your old high school classmates really are coming out of the woodwork and "friending" you. The average Facebook user has 56 friends on the site from high school. That's far more than any other social group, including extended family, co-workers or college classmates.

Facebook's settings let users add the high school they attended to their profile, along with the year they graduated. Other users can then search for their classmates and add them as friends for a virtual reunion.

"It's really reshaping how people maintain their networks," Hampton said.

In the past, when people went to college or got jobs and moved away from their home towns, they left those relationships behind, too. This was especially true in the 1960s, when women not in the work force would move to the suburbs with their husbands and face a great deal of isolation, Hampton said.

Now, with social networks, these ties are persistent.

"Persistent and pervasive," Hampton said. "They stay with you forever."

The survey was conducted among 2,255 adults from Oct. 20 to Nov. 28, 2010. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points for the full sample.

Online: http://www.pewinternet.or...works.aspx

SoulAlive said:

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook, it turns out, isn't just a waste of time. People who use it have more close friends, get more social support and report being more politically engaged than those who don't, according to a new national study on Americans and social networks.

The report comes as Facebook, Twitter and even the buttoned-up, career-oriented LinkedIn continue to engrain themselves in our daily lives and change the way we interact with friends, co-workers and long-lost high school buddies.

Released Thursday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the report also found that Facebook users are more trusting than their non-networked counterparts.

When accounting for all other factors -- such as age, education level or race -- Facebook users were 43 percent more likely than other Internet users to say that "most people can be trusted." Compared with people who don't use the Internet at all, Facebook users were three times more trusting.

The reason for this is not entirely clear. One possible explanation: People on social networks are more willing to trust others because they interact with a larger number of people in a more diverse setting, said Keith Hampton, the main author of the study and a communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

When all else is equal, people who use Facebook also have 9 percent more close ties in their overall social network than other Internet users. This backs an earlier report from Pew that, contrary to studies done earlier in the decade, the Internet is not linked to social isolation. Rather, it can lead to larger, more diverse social networks.

Social-networking users also scored high in political engagement. Because LinkedIn users (older, male and more educated) fall into a demographic category that's more politically active than the general population, they were most likely to vote or attend political rallies. But after adjusting for those characteristics, Facebook users, especially those who use the site multiple times a day, turned out to be more politically involved than those who don't use it.

Overall, the average American has a little more than two close confidants, 2.16 to be exact, according to the report. This is up from an average of 1.93 close ties that Americans reported having in 2008. There are also fewer lonely people: 9 percent of respondents said they had no one with whom they could discuss important matters. That's down from 12 percent in 2008.

The report didn't try to dig into cause and effect, so it's not clear whether the widening use of social networks is causing less loneliness. But it did find that people who use the Internet are less socially isolated than those who don't. Those on social networks, even less so -- just 5 percent said they had no one to talk to about important stuff.

The researchers also got numbers to back up what's in the mind of many Facebook users past a certain age: Yes, all your old high school classmates really are coming out of the woodwork and "friending" you. The average Facebook user has 56 friends on the site from high school. That's far more than any other social group, including extended family, co-workers or college classmates.

Facebook's settings let users add the high school they attended to their profile, along with the year they graduated. Other users can then search for their classmates and add them as friends for a virtual reunion.

"It's really reshaping how people maintain their networks," Hampton said.

In the past, when people went to college or got jobs and moved away from their home towns, they left those relationships behind, too. This was especially true in the 1960s, when women not in the work force would move to the suburbs with their husbands and face a great deal of isolation, Hampton said.

Now, with social networks, these ties are persistent.

"Persistent and pervasive," Hampton said. "They stay with you forever."

The survey was conducted among 2,255 adults from Oct. 20 to Nov. 28, 2010. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points for the full sample.

Online: http://www.pewinternet.or...works.aspx

I think it's great that it's facilitated more political interest and social consciousness. But I'm not so sure I feel that being more trusting is necessarily a good thing, (particularly on the Internet, lol).

SoulAlive said:

I love Facebook I spend alot of time there.I don't understand why some people feel that they have no privacy on Facebook.I don't post alot of "private" details about my life anyway.If you don't want people knowing about everything that you do,don't post it! I'm just there to have fun,chat with friends and relatives,discuss music,post Youtube videos on the music pages and stay in touch with friends.Facebook is what you make it.

I agree, no one is forcing you to give your address or your number.

ZombieKitten said:

I'm annoyed FB won't let you hotlink photos out of there anymore

You can still do it. When you view a photo, just refresh your internet browser. It will revert to the old style of viewing pictures and you can link it.

Alej said:

Timmy84 said:

I never knew Facebook had an appeal. The only good thing about it was you could get in touch with friends and family. Other than that I wouldn't have messed with it.

That's why I find it so annoying

This is part of my issue with FB too although I'm ashamed to admit it, but to be perfectly blunt - I was getting a lot of relatives adding me that I felt obligated to accept, and I ended up having way more contact/interaction with them than I ever wanted.

armpit said:

Alej said:

That's why I find it so annoying

This is part of my issue with FB too although I'm ashamed to admit it, but to be perfectly blunt - I was getting a lot of relatives adding me that I felt obligated to accept, and I ended up having way more contact/interaction with them than I ever wanted.

That's been my experience too. I had a much better time on MySpace, when it was the IN-thing, because I didn't personally know many of the "Friends" I had there. So for me, MySpace was much more interactive and fun because everyone had common interests. But with Facebook, I've learned: I don't have that much in common with many of my family members. Unfortunately, I've also learned that I don't even LIKE (pun not intended) many of them that much, lol. And that's a sad revelation.

Still, anytime I've searched the Internet for any long lost friends from back in the day, I usually find them on Facebook (that is; those that I don't find in the Obituaries first).

Shawnt27 said:

ZombieKitten said:

I'm annoyed FB won't let you hotlink photos out of there anymore

You can still do it. When you view a photo, just refresh your internet browser. It will revert to the old style of viewing pictures and you can link it.

you're very tricky!

I'm on a mac using safari, lets go see what we can see, eh

Alej said:

I'm as free as my hair.

Your hair just friended me so I don't know why you're being so nonchalant. Do you know where your hair is when you're sleeping?

ZombieKitten said:

Shawnt27 said:

You can still do it. When you view a photo, just refresh your internet browser. It will revert to the old style of viewing pictures and you can link it.

you're very tricky!

I'm on a mac using safari, lets go see what we can see, eh

F5 on a PC does the trick.

FauxReal said:

I don't understand why people with Facebook accounts look at me like I have three heads when I tell them I don't have an account.

And of course I get asked "Why not?" Not a casual, genuinely curious "why not". More of a "What the fuck is wrong with you?" sort of why not. As if a reason for not having one is needed.

i get that too lol and my response is "i barely had a myspace, why would i do facebook or twitter? i have yahoo IM, skype and a cell phone. if i'm not on second life and u don't reach out 2 me in other formats then it just not that important now is it?"

It took me a long time until I started to like FB. I still prefer myspce the way it was back then though.

L4OATheOriginal said:

FauxReal said:

I don't understand why people with Facebook accounts look at me like I have three heads when I tell them I don't have an account.

And of course I get asked "Why not?" Not a casual, genuinely curious "why not". More of a "What the fuck is wrong with you?" sort of why not. As if a reason for not having one is needed.

i get that too lol and my response is "i barely had a myspace, why would i do facebook or twitter? i have yahoo IM, skype and a cell phone. if i'm not on second life and u don't reach out 2 me in other formats then it just not that important now is it?"

Same here, people find it strange that I don't have a FB account. I have seen a few profiles on others and find it funny - some become or take on a different personality. Pretty lame! The fake likes and the over pose photos. I keep a close group of friends that I could call at 3:00 AM with an emergency and know they will be there to help. Also, I cannot believe the amount of time people spend on FB. There is far more interesting things to do in the real world.