"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

i would never stand on a ferret, ed

id kick a horse in the face though, if you paid me £20

Is that John Willie's 'os? The one what won the the Grand National?

c'mon gareth, say "glastuhr"

that is written glastuhr' you middle class oik.

should i tell everyone which STDs i have in my profile?

Why, are you looking to collect a full set?

let them be pleasantly surprised

I really don't see how Facebook is drastically better than Friendster, except in terms of being able to anticipate users' needs and integrate new features (once MySpace came along, Friendster was always trying to play catch-up when it came to things like blogs and "top friends"). But as far as its ability to preserve contact with friends, what's the difference? I still don't have as many friends on Facebook (or even MySpace) as I did on Friendster at its peak. Whereas Friendster was so novel at the time, I get the feeling that a lot of people are cautious about joining yet another social-networking site at this point.

Dude, the number of people (in the UK, at least), who have ever heard of Friendster, let alone been registered with it, is minuscule next to newly expolded Facebook. I don't think there's any "not another one" issue with take-up among the general population.

zoe otm re: guilt upthread.

I was thinking about this while bored the other day - if ILX was deleted tomorrow, how many people I really like here would I stick in touch with?

::cries::

Yeah I'm not 100% comfortable with the full name stuff yet. And I love champagne for the record. Drunk with a straw. Ferrets do smell

WITH A STRAW!!! Get thee hence woman.

Also you are all wrong about champagne, it can be the most perfect drink in the world. Cider just kills brain cells and makes a piece of string an acceptable belt.

Those !!! were meant to be ??? by the way.

The full name stuff is a bit weird for people like me who are used to pseudonyms, yeah. I still don't really like the idea of people being able to find me online for some reason. Also it means apart from a couple of people on ILX who I've met IRL no-one will have any idea who I am in the ILE group :)

u_u would you believe that I don't know your full name. Feel free to webmail it to me and I will friend you. If you don't do this the feeling of rejection will drive me to drink*

*Not really. That would be the alcoholism...

Also it means apart from a couple of people on ILX who I've met IRL no-one will have any idea who I am in the ILE group :)

Exactly. I was looking at the group members yesterday and aside from a few that were obvious, I had no idea who half the people in there were!

haha enbb when you facebooked me it took me a week before i realized who you were! (of course i automatically agreed to the friendship b/c "mutual friends: ned raggett)

Yeah, ok - this is funny. So one day I was looking at my fb friends and was like wait, when did I friend up these three random people (one of whom was you) from ILX? So I went to look at my history and realized that I'd done it when drunk and didn't remember doing so. Whoops!

I am the Pokemon kitties.

hahaha well im nonetheless honored to be yr friend

In that case, I've just added you MM. Although, I would never had thought that was you because I had no idea that was your real name!

Max, likewise. :-)

I put my internet name up there at first but then my college friends were "wtf?"

kv_nol I just poked you :)

saucy

Oooo sir!

Perverts, all of you.

You just jealous! I'll poke you now!

LOL "you have poked Ned Raggett"

i'm such an ILX Star Chaser!

Ah, you rapscallion, you wastrel!

I ignored a friend's 'zombie bite'. I mean come on

haha enbb when you facebooked me it took me a week before i realized who you were!

^^ same!

I think it was the WDYLL thread that tipped me off actually!

Yeah, CS - you were also friended the same drunken evening. Really, I should just stay away from the internets after imbibing.

ps - I was browsing the ILM group when said friending occurred.

Dude, the number of people (in the UK, at least), who have ever heard of Friendster, let alone been registered with it, is minuscule next to newly expolded Facebook. I don't think there's any "not another one" issue with take-up among the general population.

Is it just a matter of Facebook being bigger then? I don't doubt that it is, and probably has been for some time given that it's practically compulsory among students (pretty much every single person I know under the age of 24 is on it), but I guess I don't see people my age (28) jumping on-board with the same fervor as they did with the other major social-networking sites. Perhaps this will change. I just haven't noticed it yet.

Ah, you rapscallion, you wastrel!

-- Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:53 (Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:53)

Chillax, I left the money on the nightstand under the alarm clock!

Blueski, wise choice!

Yeah, CS - you were also friended the same drunken evening

I like how these sites have turned "friend" into a verb, completely separate from "befriend."

Erica did not friend me, though. :(

Facebook's just come along at the right time. Friendster and MySpace are pre-Web Too Pointy buzz.

re 'friended' see also 'texted'

I just accepted random request from some girl who likes to sew (what made me befriend her). On facebook, she can't post "thx for the add" .gifs with sparkly my little ponies, can she?

i should say, "one can't post..."

Jaymc, your friends just don't want to add you. It's cool.

"Oh shit! Here comes Jaymc."
"Oh wow, stop talking about your Facebooks. He'll only want in like FRiendster and Myspace. Remember how cool they were before he went in? Exactly!"
"HAI GUYS"
"Hey Jaymc."
"DO YOU LIKE FACEBOOK?"
"No I am too cynical and not ready to jump in again."
"OH."

(This is all meant in jest. Not very funny jest, I'll admit. Sorry Jaymc)

one cannot.

xpost

re 'friended' see also 'texted'

http://www.cartoonbank.com/assets/1/124082_m.gif

Jaymc, consider yourself "be"friended.

Also, I was talking to a friend about FB recently and she was surprised I'd joined. She said she couldn't handle another networking site so I guess that is the attitude here, at least for some people. Whomever was talking about the UK thing was right though. Only one of my UK friends has a myspace whereas I've found loads of them on FB.

To be honest, I think it just boils down to Facebook being along at the right time and looking quite sober and having real names and real friends on it. For most people I know my age (28), Myspace etc still had that last vestige of "weird geeky internet stuff", while Facebook is just what people do, like texting or something.

Myspace etc still had that last vestige of "weird geeky internet stuff"

Are you serious? For me the perception seems to be more "lame, kid stuff".

Yeah. I remember mentioning Friendster to a group of teenage relatives who had just become enamored of MySpace and they looked at me like, "OK, whatever, old man."

AMATEUR SOCIOLOGY TIME:
Brother 1 is at university. He and all of his friends are on Facebook. Brother 2 is at vocational sixth form college and will not be going to university. He and all of his friends are on Myspace.

myspace = lame kid stuff, as well as creepy old pervert stuff

all bases covered