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.

Comments

[frustratedpilot]

I have my FB account set up so it (usually) imports my LJ entries as Notes. If anything I use LJ MORE than before I joined FB. If only because I know my FB friends are actually reading my LJ too.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

You can get around the character limit by posting "notes", but yeah, it's not really for blogging the same way LJ is. "So who's doing ---?" and sharing links are pretty much what it's for.

[leticia.livejournal.com]

My facebook profile is under a false name and I forgot what it was a long time ago.

I have no interest in Facebook.