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Luvmom
Member
10-17-2000
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 6:01 pm
Is anyone else here on Facebook? I just joined.How do I find friends on there?
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 6:52 pm
I use it. Although I only use it for keeping in touch with local people and work groups and events. You need to join a network. If you aren't in a university, then you need to join a regional network. You can only be in ONE regional network at a time. Personally, I would use the "email lookup" feature, where you put in your email and password, and it uses that to remotely check your contacts, and sees which ones are on Facebook. This is the only way to quickly find people. Second thing I would do is add in stuff to my profile. Especially university and high school information. Once that is in, you can click on your high school name, and it will give you a list of all the Facebookers that have that high school in their profile as well. Then you can sort by class. Same for university. Add your schools in. From there, you basically need to look through the friends of your friends, to add people you know. It is very acceptable to add someone, even ifyou haven't talkedto them in years. Personally, I would add a little message like "Hey John! It's Donna from when we lived in McKenzie dorm in 88!" so in case people don't always recognize your name, or you aren't using your maiden name, you can still connect with them. My boyfriend will have people add him, and he'll be like, "I have no clue who they are" and then it will turn out they were on a rugby team together or something. I like Facebook because it is more private than MySpace. GO ADJUST YOUR ACCOUNT SETTINGS!!! Make most of your stuff private, and then only your friends can see your info. It's a great feature to control who looks at you. I also like the feature Facebook has, where if someone adds a bunch of friends, and too many people REJECT them, they are booted off of Facebook. That prevents the creepy guys out there that just add friends based on profile picture. There's more, but I have two papers to finish by midnight. Go read the HELP pages on Facebook, to see what everything is, and let me know if you have more questions.
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Luvmom
Member
10-17-2000
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 7:13 pm
Thanks so much Eeyoreslament.It sounds like a fun site.I'll go adjust my setting now.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Friday, April 06, 2007 - 7:40 pm
I'm on facebook...it's a great way to keep in touch with my former students AND to see "what's up" with my current ones. I actually use it more professionally than socially. It is a great way to keep in touch with alums. I don't have much up for the "about me" section, as I am WAY cooler than my student need to know. I've got work and school info up, and one picture of me teaching. I like the birthday feature (mine doesn't give the year), but I always with each of my friends Happy Birthday.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 9:33 am
I just signed up for Facebook a few days ago. I already found the one person I've been looking for for ten years!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 1:47 pm
You don't realize how quickly it snowballs Karen. It's crazy!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 2:02 pm
I just had a very old and dear friend find me on facebook. I really miss singing with him. Perhaps he's stalking me? Perhaps he's interested? Perhaps he's just bored with his life right now. Facebook is kind of addicting, but I love it. And I just realized that my proofreading the above post was horrible. I should go back to Freshman English!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 2:26 am
I just found my VERY BEST friend from Grade 11 and 12. I haven't talked to him since grad (I moved) 14 years ago. I was so happy to have reconnected.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 4:48 am
what IS facebook? is it a site like that Schoolmates one? I was so disappointed when I joined that one. But then again, I was super quiet and not exactly a social diva.
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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 8:16 am
I joined Facebook a couple of weeks ago and I am already referring to it as crack. LOL. I like it cause it's a good way to re-connect with friends from the past. Yesterday, someone who I haven't seen for about 10 years, found me! I was so excited. Sunshyne, you were super quiet and not exactly a social diva??!! No way, I don't believe it. Not with the way you post around here <smile> You need to give me some tips! www.facebook.com
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 9:56 am
I signed up for facebook just yesterday but am finding it tough to find people without knowing their email addy. I wish you could just look up names. And on facebook it seems most ppl use their RL names. Couldn't that be a privacy issue or open yourself up to bad stuff?
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 10:25 am
OK Facebook is really good about privacy. YOU the USER have complete control over who can or cannot find you. There is a setting in the "privacy" area where you can be found by "No one" in the search. Or you can limit it to only your networks, or just some of your networks, or just your friends. Second, the network thing is KEY. People in no network are harder to find, and people who don't put themselves in a network have trouble finding people too. The guy wanted Facebook to be about building a campus community, so you could only find people in your university network, originally. Finally, they opened it up to the public, BUT you can only join one regional network at a time, this is to keep people from joining a bazillion networks and just trolling for hot chicks. While I like the premise for limiting networks, it would be nice to have a "hometown" network, and a current town network. Especially for those who go away for school. There is one cool feature of Facebook, that keeps it free of pervs (like on MySpace), and that is if the perv adds too many people, and a person is rejected too many times, they are kicked off Facebook. I think that's good, because my MySpace profile is always sending me messages that some creep is trying to add me as a friend. All of these media stories on Facebook about employers finding info, or schools finding info are bullcrap. If a person limits their privacy settings to "Just their friends", then anyone who looks for you via name or through someone else's friends list, will only see that tiny thumbnail of you, but NONE of your profile. So no info is given whatsoever. That said, there are conspiracy theories, where major financial contributors to Facebook development are connected to the CIA, and who knows, maybe it's true. But personally, I am not doing anything wrong, so the CIA can seize and see all of my info all they want. Mind you, I'm a white Canadian. I can't imagine Arabic members would feel the same way about the CIA always trolling their info. One thing I wish they'd use is MAIDEN name, or at least have a box for it. Most people know their high school friends by their maiden name, but then so many girls I know join FB under their married name. It would be good to have a "NEE such-and-such" box, that would also be searchable.
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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 7:16 pm
Ontario Government employees banned from Facebook Updated Thu. May. 3 2007 1:03 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Government employees in Ontario can no longer access Facebook, the popular social networking website, on their computers. To the chagrin of some of the thousands of workers -- including Liberal aides, backbenchers and cabinet ministers -- the 21-million member site is now blocked by the provincial ban. As of Tuesday, when workers tried to access the site, they were greeted with the same "access denied" message that pops up if someone tries to access a pornography site, according to the Toronto Star. <snip>
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, May 04, 2007 - 11:15 am
Yeah that happens to a lot of work places. Good way to bring BACK employee activity. I go to this one Starbucks and steal wireless internet for my laptop there, but Perez Hilton and Facebook are blocked. LOL
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 7:03 pm
you
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 9:39 pm
???
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 9:41 pm
Ut roh. That is part of a message to Half. She has to work to find all of the message.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 10:54 pm
hahahaha nice!!!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 3:55 pm
Ooo, I just invited a bunch of TVCHers to be my Facebook friends. Well, those who I knew emails for, anyway. PM me if you are on facebook and want to be a friend. Yankee and I are having fun on it!
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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 9:01 pm
Schoolmarm, I've sent you a PM!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 9:07 pm
Marm, look in your folder.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 9:12 pm
Oh, and Marm, you are so right. You are way cooler than your students need to know!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 4:15 pm
If I join a group, will everyone in that group be able to see my profile/page? Or only people who I approve as "friends?" I've shied away from joining groups because I didn't want folks who I don't know personally to have my personal profile open to them.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:23 pm
No, it is just those who are your friends or who are in your network, if you have your privacy set to network.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 8:14 pm
Thank you very much, Marm! I've got my settings to "friends."
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