I Love Facebook!


I finally gave in over the weekend and joined Facebook. I know that my regular readers may find this amazing, but the only network I’d joined before Facebook was LinkedIn.  Normally when I get invites to join social networks I just delete them because I don’t want to get sucked in. But, this particular invite was from an old girlfriend and I didn’t want her to think that I was blanking her.

What I’m really loving about the Facebook service is one of my goals this year has been to reconnect with old friends, and I’ve already managed to locate 3 very good friends I’d totally lost touch with. Even better, I’ve managed to reconnect with a woman I met very briefly about 8 years ago….keeping that old email address might finally pay off!

I can see how Facebook can get really addictive, because of the constant updates as your friends add new photos and friends. I don’t think Facebook is very big in the UK yet, as the ‘usual suspects’ out of my friends who thrive on these kind of services aren’t members yet.

I’m starting to understand the story that broke a few weeks ago about the guy who quit his job so that he could stay on Facebook 24/7. Luckily I’m too busy at work these days to do more than check my email, so I’ll never hit these levels!

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Warning: It’s horrendously addictive, Everton! I recently lost best part of a day catching up with old friends, searching and chatting. By the end of it my eyes were pretty much bleeding and I fell asleep dreaming of the Facebook interface!

  2. #2

    I don’t think I want to try it out. I would never be able to get any work done heh.

  3. #3

    I wil second the addictive nature of Facebook, the first two days after I joined were pretty much written off catching up with people I had lost touch of a long time ago.

    LinkedIn is great for business connections and keeping in contact with people you work with or have worked with. But I don’t think you can beat Facebook for finding old friends and even staying in touch with existing ones. Plus it is much cleaner than MySpace which can only be a plus!

  4. #4

    What I like about facebook is it doesn’t seem to be geared at teenagers like MySpace, and seems to have a lot of users who were born in the 70s like me.

  5. #5

    I just think Facebook has many more features and looks incredibly more professional. Myspace just grew to big to fast and now it’s loaded with so much junk.

  6. #6

    It’s especially addictive during exam season :D

    Although in a way, I wish that it was still student/ex-students only.

  7. #7

    Although in a way, I wish that it was still student/ex-students only.

    In a way it still is though, or it’s still skewed to this userbase. Virtually all of my facebook friends are people I went to Uni with, or people I used to work with, who tend to be graduates of other unis

  8. #8

    I’ve just discovered this after people from work starting sending me invites, since then I’ve found quite a few old friends I’ve not heard from for years!

    I never did like myspace and the typical pages you got on there, would put me right off to the extent I would avoid it at all costs, but this website’s interface is much cleaner and appears more grown up like you say Everton.

  9. #9

    [...] don’t want to get hooked as I don’t have a lot of spare time to play with. For instance, I only joined Facebook this week.  In some ways I wish I’d avoided starting a blog, as I’m now well and truly [...]

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