I finally got around to joining Facebook. Rebekah joined a couple of months ago and I know she's reconnected with some old friends, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I've only been in touch with one of my college friends semi-frequently, so I'm looking forward to reconnecting with some others soon.
Since I signed up this morning, I've been poking around, looking for people I know. I sent out about a dozen or so friend invitations today and I'm happy to say that I have friends. Yay! It's always nice to have bits of technology to connect you to other people. Of course, being a geek, I'm a bit of a social inept, so I'm not sure what the etiquette is for Facebook, but I'll figure it out. Or I'll get over it. Probably the latter.
I've found that working in Quality Assurance tends to leak into the other parts of my life. I usually notice this most often when I'm interacting with web pages. There are so many little things about Facebook that annoy me. For one, I can't join my college's network since I don't have an college e-mail address any more. That's the only way to join a college network. That's just silly. Also, there's totally no way to say that I'm married to a person on my friends page. I can say that "We hooked up", "We dated", "We lived together", she's "In my family", etc. But I can't say that we're married. "Practically married", but not married. I guess that's a side effect of targeting the college croud, but I don't think it's too far fetched.
This is my first social network experience, so it'll be interesting. I'm looking forward to it. I'd rather use a web site to get to know someone (again) than go to a party and drink beer, so at least that's something in its favor.
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How is it that you were able
How is it that you were able to join facebook without a school e-mail address? Do you no longer need one?! I, personally, am a fan of MySpace. So if you find that you really like facebook and want to branch out, you should give MySpace a try. P.S. Ginger Vertican randomly added me with Yahoo Messenger the other night, we had a nice conversation :-) She's on Myspace, you should find her.
Anyone can get an account on
Anyone can get an account on Facebook now. However, you can't join your college's network without a school e-mail address. It's not a big problem, but it's still annoying.
I'm not a huge fan of MySpace. There just seems to be this negative air around it. Plus, there are really annoying banner ads. *shrug*