>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:38:54 -0500, Vince M Hudd wrote
(in article ):

> Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, I'm pretty sure that similar circumstances well eventually FORCE me
>> to use Facebook.  But I won't like it and I insist on my right to be
>> dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
> 
> I felt that way about social networking sites in general at one point, but
> then I caved and joined Facebook. It's not so bad as long as you can
> mentally filter out the sheer idiocy you'll see from day to day in some
> friends' status updates, not to mention being bombarded with
"invitations"
> to use this, that or the other lamoid app on the site from the same friends. 
<<

Ditto this.  I've taken to hiding any game that appears on my wall, because I 
don't care if you beat everyone's high score in Word Scramble, if you need a 
flock of mutant albino swimming sheep in Itinerant Farmerville, what serial 
killer you got in the "Which Serial Killer Are You Most
Like"" quiz, or what 
your daily horoscope is.

>> And the latest example of totally brain dead 'innovation' on the site is the
> new format 'groups' - whereby friends can 'add' you to a group. Yes, *add*
> you. Not *invite* you, which you could decline (or just ignore), but
> actually *add* you, so that if you don't want to be a member of their latest
> daft group, having been added you have to go to the effort of removing
> yourself. (Once removed, you can't then be added - but that does miss the
> point somewhat!) <<

This?  Is evil.  I had someone add me to a group as soon as this became a 
possibility, and I can't remove myself because it's a friend *and* client, 
and it's the person's pet cause.  But thankfully no one else on my friend 
list has figured out that you can do this.  I really resent it, because I 
already get enough stuff on my wall that I can't keep up.  What kind of nerve 
do you have to have to add to the already quite-noisy traffic on someone's 
wall?

But other than that, yeah, Facebook's great.  :-p     (Actually, I kid: it 
really is great for what it is.  I've especially liked getting connected with 
my cousins again, who have been long absent from my life.)

Amy
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