Think of the horses they get over excited, :yep:

The area around the garden is mined :03:
No horses or wildlife can get there

Mined :doh: ... comes to stand steady on their feet :cool:

My favourite Salami is the horse meat kind :Kaleun_Salivating:


So lets hope I awake to a KABOOOM one morning :O:

Got some nerve, waiting for breakfast, :D

So how many shares did you buy Steed?

I admit, I have been very interested in Facebook since I first saw it in UH around 2007. I always enjoy seeing groundbreaking ideas come to life and change the world. (Just finished reading The Social Network, halfway through The Facebook Effect). FB is indeed a game changer, even though it is essentially a function of the Internet--connecting everyone. What FB does better than Subsim, MySpace, Geocities, Friendster, LinkedIn, etc is harness an effective strategic vision and execute it. Who doesn't admire that? And think--when you were 20, did you have the kind of snap that Zuckerburg had? Haha, I would have jumped out of my combat boots to sell FB to Viacom when they offered $800 million CASH in 2005.

There is a lot of value in a utility in a company like FB that has cemented itself as a cornerstone of the web. Now, at some point in the future, it's likely FB will be considered "unhip" and be replaced by the next latest thing. Will be interesting to see how that evolves.

No chance I will ever join it. Call me a relic of the paper-notebook era, but I am far less dependent that way than if I always need to carry smartphone or laptop around with me. Facebook also does not offer me what real vis-a-vis meeting, or a paper letter that actually needs some time, heart and energy to be written down, are offering. It is an instant quicky disguising itself as a "social life". And in the end, it turns people into products to be sold.

When I hear from a close friend's husband (who is school teacher) that pupils refuse to join a school trip holiday if there is no guaranteed internet access (a spreading phenomenon that I recently also read about somewhere in the media), then I think something goes totally wrong.

Friends on facebook are no friends. Social networks are not really social. A circle of friends counting by the hundreds or even thousands, is an erosion of the term. - what remains of Facebook when you substract what I criticise, is nopthing that you also could not run and maintain in your real life, via phone, skype, or real meetings.

Plus you get not profiled inside out by people of whom you know nothing what they do with your data and profiles. If I should join Facebook and sell my data, then they have to pay me. With more real value than just this cheap strange "service". If I am seen as a product, than at least a more precious one.

And no, I am not headed back to the stoneage and am no principle enemy of technology, by far not. I just do not loose my head over running blindly after it.

Bull. While I agree completely with almost everything you've said, including the whole hundreds-of-friends crap, it depends on how you use it. My friends on FaceBook are exactly the same as my friends on Subsim: Friends. Either some one I know or have known personally, people I've worked with online or seen post enough online to consider them actual friends. FaceBook is my only regular contact with my kids, and with friends in other cities. If you can't tell the difference then you should stay away from it.

Unfortunately you're right for the most part. Most people don't seem to be able to tell the difference, so they do have hundreds of "friends" whom they don't know and don't really care to. All my friends are people I care about.

Perhaps a better way of wording it would be that facebook-only friends are not actual friends.

It is like that old joke: How can you tell how many friends a facebook user has?

Don't worry, they will tell you. :yep:

Facebook is a great way to maintain contact with your real friends and family. I get a bit leery when people claim to make "friends" with people they have never actually met or talked to.

It all boils down to what each person's definition of "friend" is.

To me, a friend is something really special. I only have about 2-3 friends and I consider myself very lucky. I have a buttload of acquaintances. But they are not the same as friends.

But, other people have a more liberal definition of friend. And that's ok. :up:

Thanks :DL

It helps if you run a bit of an alter-ego online. Don't tell people everything. Don't show people everything. While I am a product, I am a useless product. FB is for me a communication tool, not a broader ID card. I don't feel they taken advantage of me. More like vice-versa.

FB will certainly gain more ground after the stock market debut.

There aspects of FB that are just creepy. I deep-sixed my personal FB account and I finally remembered my PW for my backup account. In my backup account, there is no personal info about me, and it is still able to "recommend" people I actually know:o.

So I added one friend to that account, and look out, here come the ads!:doh::dead:

Going down...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/facebook-sh...--finance.html

I was quite shocked when FB recommended my doctor to become my new "friend". No common friends, no profile information with any clue that I even knew him. :shifty: