I'm flooded by conflicting feelings (re: Facebook)

that's what "ignore application" is for.


otherwise I would drown in Farmville and Mafia Wars spam.

If I thought she were really on the other side of that Twitter account, I would DEFINITELY follow her. (Sorry, my Y-chromosomes are enlightened, I like to think, but let's not kis ourselves. They ARE Y-chromosomes.)

The WoW achievement thing on FB (brother and his friends use it) has options to list one of your crowning achievements your earned that week on random. I'm sure it wouldn't be that annoying if a similar system goes in for something like Recipes invented and badges received and Task Forces completed.

I'd moreso use it more as a ploy to convince other friends of mine on FB to at least try out CoX. Pimp out the game as much as I can.

I agree. We shouldn't be kissing ourselves, we should be kissing others.

I have 16 people on my friends list that I met in CoH.
Plus there's players who I knew previously, like my brother, his wife.....

Nononono! That's SOOOOOOON!<TM>

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

Good god, that's one of the worst "professionally" designed sites I've seen in weeks.

Dude, your name is Kristen?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Why would you have total strangers as your Facebook friends?*
I use Facebook, with bugger all personal information added (since anyone who's my Friend is actually a friend and knows all of that) to see what my mates are up to and see their photos.*
I do care about my family and friends lives and Facebook lets me see the little things they come across day-to-day which never get mentioned in any big gathering but might pop up as an odd aside on a Tuesday evening.

As would we all. *People might give out about Facebook but when you Hide/Ignore something on it it's done properly!

That's just it - I don't. In the slightest. I don't care what my mother had for breakfast, I don't care what problems my brother has with his wife (for entirely different reasons)... I just don't need to know. If friends and family want to share, then by all means, I'll listen, but I'm not going to ask, because I honestly don't care. This isn't the kind of thing that's interesting to me, and I'll never understand why it confounds people so much.

For instance, I can be friends with a person for a year without knowing his name, as it happens with some people I've met over City of Heroes. Then my friends will ask me "Well, what does work?" "Is he married?" "How old is he?" I don't know. I never asked. It never came up. And, frankly, that's rarely interesting even when it does come up. I know this probably makes me come off like a jerkass, but I see no reason why I can't be friends with someone without nosing into their personal lives and especially why I have to care about the daily lives of my family, most of whom I'm not even that close with.

Hence, to me, Facebook is an utter waste of space, and the more people bring it up, the more it irritates me to listen about it. Those who have some use of it have my blessing to use it to their heart's content, but if it suddenly ceased to exist, then trust me, I wouldn't give a rats ***, if you'll pardon my English. I won't exactly go out of my way to throw a party, but I WILL NOT CARE.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

This. Social networking can **** my *****.

"Update" your "friends"?

Says he who started his own social network of fellow gamers.



You people confuse me sometimes.

Depends on how you use the tool.


Personally I bond more with friends on Facebook than I do arguing random things with strangers on a forum. Your milage may vary with both of course but both are forms of social networking.


Coming from you this is hilarious Westley

Yeah, I'm not seeing a difference between that and your board. After all, you outed yourself there as an attention ***** and wanted to recruit more people. So, yeah.

Besides, the sterling quality of friends and family I have means there's almost none of the "look at me!" Jersey Shore/Real Housewives limelight addiction going on.

I have one person like that on my fb list. I hid her from my news feed, and only go to her page when I'm curious what drama's going on now. (Which isn't often.)

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

As the wise Karl Rove Man once said "you're like an idiot savant of posting".

I think he also compared me to Rain Man once...

What do you mean "You people"?

Have you even tried Facebook? That's one thing that strikes me about people who complain about it. A lot of them do not know of what they speak. Whenever I see references to stuff like people posting what they had for breakfast, I can't help but think that they don't know what they're talking about.

In all my time on Facebook, among all 118 of my friends, I genuinely cannot remember a single time that anyone has posted what they were eating. Granted, maybe I'm missing a time, but the vast majority of people who post something post what made their day unusual or exceptional, not the mundane activities that no one cares about. Even when someone does post something mundane, it really doesn't make it past my mental filter of importance.

What does make it past, though, is the fact that a lot of my "friends" are doing some pretty cool and interesting stuff. Friends is in quotes there because these are people that, because I'm generally busy, aren't the kind of people that I would bother taking time to write or call, but people who I know that are nonetheless still doing interesting things.

Just this morning, I found out that one of my friends is at Microsoft Convergence. I didn't know he was planning on going. Maybe I'll catch up with him later and see what all he did and saw, because that's genuinely interesting to me. Another friend who is, like me, a left-leaning political wonk, posted links to a couple of articles that I thought were very insightful and that I'm really glad I read. Another friend posted something about work that is actually useful, it's something that happened over the weekend that I know I need to follow up on today. Yet another friend tagged one of her friends in a photo, and it turns out that the friend of my friend is, to put it bluntly, really hot. Earth-shattering news it's not, but it certainly met the minimum threshold of interesting.

I see people post about how there's nothing interesting on Facebook. I really feel like that reflects more on your choice of friends--or more likely, your unwillingness to give it a try--than it does the actual content. I'm not saying Facebook is perfect, sometimes it's irritating as hell. Still, I get a lot more positive out of it than negative. Hopefully, I'm contributing moments of interestingness to my friends as well. I know some of them travel, so this morning I posted a link to the Where the Hell Is Matt? video from a couple of years back, a guy I think is extremely weird in an awesome kind of way.

Well, yeah, if you do nothing but leech, I guess it might seem that way. The idea, though, is that you actually post comments to--get this--other people's pages. Some of the stuff I post is stuff that I think people who know me might find interesting. A lot of it, though, is stuff designed to get conversations started. And as some of you on the forums here probably suspect, I'm more than willing to jump in when other people post stuff and toss in my two cent's worth, whether it's, "That is awesome!", "I think you should go with the blue one...", or even, "I totally disagree, and here's why."

Again, people who say or imply that Facebook and other social networking sites aren't interacting with people, I really have to doubt they've actually tried those sites, at least surely beyond a few days to get into the interesting parts of it. Or maybe they're just basing their impression of such sites on corporate presences at such sites, where the communication really is mostly one-way.

Heh, I just realized: "I'm not saying Facebook is perfect, sometimes it's irritating as hell. Still, I get a lot more positive out of it than negative." That pretty much describes City of Heroes for most people, doesn't it?