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Author Topic: I see some of you on Facebook!!!! Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-01-2009 07:41 PM                     I really don't like either Facebook or MySpace. It's not so much the insane amounts of time people spend on there (and they do spend insane amounts of time on there!). What really annoys me in particular is that rather than facilitate real-life interactions, these sites tend to be a substitute for them. Some people say that they use it to keep in touch with their friends so they know what's being organized for next weekend or what have you. Email can do this too. Facebook can be useful for finding an old friend. I used it to track down an old high school buddy. Now we keep in touch via phone and email. I have to give credit where it's due. Whenever I meet someone new, if they are not willing to swap phone numbers, or at the very least email addresses and insist that we *must* contact each other on Facebook or MySpace, I am no longer interested in staying in touch with that person; quite simply, I cannot be bothered at that point. Am I sounding like an old curmudgeon yet? Finally, when I first started MySpace/Facebook accounts, people would send me messages that went something like, 'LOL your profile looks a bit neglected dude !!!11!' or maybe something like, 'Dude! You should totally pimp that thing out LOL!!1!!!'. Yeah, let me spend MORE TIME on MySpace...can't wait!  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-01-2009 08:15 PM                     I signed up for Classmates years ago but got annoyed when people tried contacting me and it asked me to pay a stupid fee just to find out who it was. I finally signed up for a trial membership a month ago and it just ran out. I had been trying to get back in contact with an old classmate who went into the Marines and I suspected that he was one of the people who contacted me so I signed up. In the end he was not one of the people who contacted me but I did get back in touch with a few others before my membership ran out. We all moved over to Facebook to plan our fifteen year reunion next year. Much less headache there than at Classmates.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-01-2009 09:43 PM                       quote: Bobby Henderson I think the recipient of your message also has to be a paying customer as well. No, they don't, actually. I am a paid member of Classmates (that's how I discovered all of this), and I have been able to break through to a couple of friends who aren't members - but just out of sheer luck. The trick is, they have to NOT have Classmates.com on their SPAM list, or they won't get your message (it'll go straight in the trash). Of course, once you do make contact, you can just exchange email addresses and cut Classmates out of the loop entirely. Joshua, you're probably thinking of the ploy where they email you that someone has viewed your profile... and they want you to pay to "find out who's interested in you". Back to Myspace... I had my profile set to private. Let's try this again.  |  IP: Logged Robert Crabtree Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Largo, FL Registered: May 2008 posted 01-03-2009 12:51 PM                     I've been on Facebook for some four years now with little problems, other than a couple of creepy guys messaging me. MySpace profiles I hate with a passion. Hate the layout and all the heinous crap people put on it that make the page load forever.  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 01-03-2009 09:26 PM                       [ 03-10-2009, 10:51 AM: Message edited by: Tyler Potts ]  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-03-2009 10:26 PM                       quote: Robert Crabtree Hate the layout and all the heinous crap people put on it that make the page load forever. I agree. I've been farting around with mine for a couple days, trying to get it to just MOVE faster/smoother. It's futile. I deleted all msgs that had videos attached, and the one video I had featured. Now, I only have four photos total on the profile page: my headshot in the title, a low-res background image, a miniscule contact block image, and a med. sized display picture on the right... and it's still taking forever to just scroll down the page!!! Maybe it's my computer.  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 01-04-2009 02:01 PM                     So, Betsie, when will we be able to see your photo next to your posts on Film-tech?  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 01-04-2009 02:42 PM                        I use MySpace for my music, but that's it, and that's going away in a month or so after I get my own site.  |  IP: Logged Julie Lucero Film Handler Posts: 37 From: Valencia, California, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 01-05-2009 01:51 AM                     quote: Mike Olpin ...for all intensive purposes... I believe the correct expression is: "for all intents and purposes."  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-05-2009 06:08 AM                        I had Myspace before, it's a whole bunch of garbage on many different levels. Junk and rude young people. Since I have joined Facebook - I have found many people I went to school with, a whole lot of relatives (even my Grandmother!) and renewed old friendships. So - I'm liking Facebook a lot better than Myspace. It's more classy - that's for sure.  |  IP: Logged Justin Gorka Expert Film Handler Posts: 174 From: High Wycombe, England Registered: Apr 2006 posted 01-05-2009 07:20 AM                     Facebook is fun for winding people up, nearly as good as cinemationlist@yahoogroups.com!  |  IP: Logged Benny Walters Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Columbus, OH USA Registered: Jul 2008 posted 02-16-2009 11:01 AM                     I definitely prefer facebook to myspace. I have just recently begun trying out twitter, mostly to get experience, for manageing my theaters facebook/twitter. I used to run the myspace and was sitting with about 1500 friends and 6k hits before I was asked to torpedo it out of existence last week.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-16-2009 01:51 PM                        I'm on both FB and MS now and have pretty much stopped looking at MS. Agreed with above posters that there's too much crap on MS, although FB is starting to up the crap-quotient rapidly. To please the kids, I guess.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 02-16-2009 02:55 PM                     Even though it's not a social networking site, I've been a member of DeviantArt since May of 2007 and one of my friends from grade school found me by looking up his home town. (I draw comics, he is a photographer.) A lot of kids try to use the site for social networking, calling it DeviantSpace. Some of my crew members have followed me onto the site, but few have posted any art or photos. (Likely as a result of my "mature contenting" some of my pages, which if one isn't a member mature contented pages ain't visible.)  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-16-2009 05:12 PM                     My daughter was on DevianArt while she was her last two years of high school when she was heavilly drawing MANGA and Animine, but the contention that arose on this page, esp in the chat section was really getting to her along with losing interest in the art form and got out of it completely.  |  IP: Logged

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