The Facebooks

[forsyth]

So, I set up a facebook account a while ago, in part to keep in touch, so to speak, with people I know who'd graduated and such. My opinion so far? It's Twitter and Flickr combined, with a bunch of flash games. But I blocked all the games, especially the annoying ones that spam updates to all your friends, so I could actually see if anything important was going on. Usually there's not. And the "status updates" have a short character limit (thus the Twitter comparison) which makes it nearly useless for long-form blogging, or my didactic explanatory posts. So basically I've used it for things like "So who's doing $thing?" and posting links to neat stuff. For the forseeable future, I don't see it replacing LJ or much of anything, for me.