The year of Facebook
Last night we were both in Facebook for hours, and it was was suddenly after 1:00AM. This was a first.
Now, I’ve been put off by the “walled garden” aspect of Facebook for a long time. But you have much more control over those details than I thought. For example, just about anything you can or can’t find out about my Facebook profile as a non-user, user, or “friend” is that way because I decided to make it so.
Here’s a good overview of how that works. Check out the comments. Good grief. Bill Liffer’s response is pretty good.
Anyway, we’re on Facebook, and I’d recommend checking it out. It’s easier to use than you think, and I guarantee you’ll find at least one person you’ve not seen in a long time and be amused by something they’ve posted. More to the point, you’ll find lots of people you know right now who are active there. (Mom, don’t try to sign up by yourself — I’ll come over and get you going and set up a shortcut.)
Thought for the day, regarding Facebook’s growth: in the United States, Facebook now gets more uploaded photos each day than Flickr.
This entry was posted on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 7:28 pm. You can subscribe to comments on this post through its RSS feed.
on October 5, 2007 at 9:50 pm orcmid wrote:
Well gee, no wonder. You can bring your Flickr posts to Facebook, and the rest of them are all uploaded by this guy Doug Mahugh whose prolific photo-posting is filling my Facebook news river. I love it. Don’t stop!!
on October 6, 2007 at 2:31 am Doug wrote:
Thanks, Dennis.
I’ll post a bunch more soon.
And it’s good to see http://orcmid.spaces.live.com/ is online. I hadn’t seen that, so was catching up on some of your cool photos there. Princess has exotic supermodel eyes.
The Facebook phenom is interesting to see up close. I see Tom has signed up … Scott?
on October 6, 2007 at 8:18 am Tony D'aprile wrote:
Ohhhh Douglas, how the heck have you been. I haven’t signed in to Facebook yet because a lot my gen “Y” ers are on myspace which i have a profile there under Tondizzl. I’m living in Pennsylvania now selling cars at a Ford dealership. I thought about you.. one because i’ve been feeling a little homesick and two, while having a conversation with one of my co-salespersons who is also a bee keeper. He said he had found a bee keeping program for a pc but it lacks some crucial options that were either overlooked or not included for whatever reason you programmers would understand that we don’t. and he said “boy if only i knew somebody that new how to build systems to a: build one or b: know how to change one.” Which I replied “I just happen to know somebody who may know!” Besides that i just wanted to shoot something to you to say hey and catch up a little.
on October 7, 2007 at 5:38 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
Oh, Dougness…
I signed up, then invited Lindy. And then…seemed to fade out. I thought I could just—go there and then be there —without any work or effort…sigh.
Oh well, back to the farm.
on October 16, 2007 at 11:02 pm Doug wrote:
Marsha, it’s not for everyone. Keep coming back here, and I’ll try my best to keep everyone amused.
Tony! Good to hear from you. Man, the last few years have flown by. Hey, I had an uncle who was a beekeeper, and he had one of those special suits but it had a rip in it and a bunch of bees got in there and kept stinging him while he danced around in a circle yelling and ripping off his outfit. It’s my most vivid memory of him, uncle Don in Pensacola. Pensylvania, eh? Let me guess … as cold as Spokane in the winter and hotter than Spokane in the summer?