NVM

Might not want to put that out there. Not that i wouldn't mind adding you or anything, just spamers might take it find personal info etc. That is why I haven't made an msn thread.

oh ok

I wouldn't be to worried about that. You can't really use a Facebook account to spam.

I'm Devon Huxtable, if ya wanna add me Orzandoti

its just some ppl have msn and other info in their facebooks.

Yeah I got one. http://www.facebook.com/john.a.nelson1 Add me if you want.

mine http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/acdc51502112

I think Facebook, Twitter, MSN etc. do not really favour sociability. I prefeer meeting my friends face to face.

I can write some lines in my keyboard without great effort (unless it's in English). So if someone wants to get out of their house and meet me, I really appreciate that.

I think Facebook, Twitt etc. will come to nothing in a few years. People also tell lots of lies there.They promote FAKE social contact, so I never use any.

Just a quirk...

I'm quite enthusiastic about facebook. It makes it easier to ask your friend a question or tell them something without having to dig through your phone looking for their number. Some of my friends I don't even have their numbers because I never asked.

I'm not into social medias like Facebook, although I used to have an active account in a similar Finnish channel some year(s) ago. However, I've used MSN actively for many, many years.

I honestly think these social medias are amazing. The problem is in the user community: people have a hard time trying to keep a cool head when doing stuff online. You know, these aren't just some fads passing by. Many of these types of medias are here to stay.

Prior to email's rise to prominence, people foretold it a brief phase. That's not the case, is it? Despite its down voters, social media's come to a point where the need for it simply cannot be undone. This is already true for individual people, and it's becoming more and more prevalent for the business class.

I agree business must use internet and all new tools to be competitive, but when meeting your friends this is not necessary, so I think it will dissapear.

My sister was in MSN all day. But she talked to friends who live in the same city or just very near. They prefeered to chat than to meet and see their friend's faces, so MSN was a substitute for real meetings... and if someone didn't have a computer, then that person is OUT.

I no longer use it, but when I did, I often received greetings for friends. "How do you do?" and similars. But when I tried to met them for a drink, everything was different: Oh man I really have no time, we can meet at MSN if you want. (Or Facebook, or twitter, or whatever). Instead of doing a little effort and have a date one concrete day, the answer were that if you're at MSN-Faceb-Twitt we will talk.

Then I ended up meeeting only my best friends, as usual.

That's why I don't like. It may not disappear, but it have to be strongly criticised, they substitute "live" contact. I tried to see some member pics which are posted in Facebook. But I can't : I haven't an account. That's a tiranic idea: "If you are not in, you're out"... Ok, then I AM OUT. :)

You can't see people's accounts unless you have a befriended account for personal security issues. It's not really about isolating non-members.

Using MSN a lot (all the time that I spend on the computer), I still see my pals around: we hang out, go to bars every now and then; actually just got back home from playing basketball and baseball with a big group of old friends. I guess web contacts just don't really work as complete substitutes for human contacts for me, nor should they do so for anyone.

That's right. I also met some friend in MSN but I see them every week, so there was no real need; also did't want to check MSN everyday as a routine.

Only web contacts I have is japanese people and an english speaker who likes heavy metal (met in YT), foreigner people surely I'll never meet. In my exemple I meant people who you see only from time to time and give mail adresses to try to keep in touch. Certainly internet doesn't help too much.

About meeting web contacts... Surely you heard about the typical joke: someone says it's a girl and arrange a meeting with a guy (real). But the girl is really a guy who, in the place of the suppossed meeting, he will appear with some friends to laugh anonymously at the person who came to meet the "girl"...

This happened to one of my brothers (He was warned previously, but...) LOL!

It's better meeting people you know, but if you have long time contact and good feel with some web contact, you can possibly think about it (I met a japanese contact in my city and everything was OK).

Surely you saw it on TV. Facebook is receiving some formal complains. It seems they want to make money with your private data. It seems they also make illegal use of personal information about users.

You can't say "Facebook s_cks" without being considered a freak or at least an angry person. But there is some serious reasons to refuse it. Same with other so called "Social webs". Things you don't really need which suddenly become neccesary.

"Social media" is just another tool for communication. How you use it (or don't use it) is up to you. We don't need it anymore than we need email and cell-phones, but it can be practical for certain types of communication.

For me, Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with friends and family back home and in other parts of the globe. And even for local friends and acquaintances, there are things that are easier to say and share through facebook or other means than waiting until we see each other in person.

The privacy issues are definitely something to be aware of, but I don't see it as that big a deal since every move Facebook makes on the subject is being watched by everybody, as can be seen by the backlash they got. Just be sure to check your privacy settings... :ph43r:

Agreed. Though it's not nice hanging out. It's easier finding things that would be fun. I'm introverted and it is weird for me to hang out. Period.

[URL=http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1125603459[/URL] it's mine profile :D

I basically agree.

For exemple, Facebook can be an easy way to promote your music. But the idea "if you are not in, you're out", I mean, "if you don't have your Facebook account, you won't have access to it", is rather rude and no elegant. That is strongly conditioning the reader: in this case, "potencial" reader, because they can choose to fly away. They say it's for protecting privacy, but Facebook has been accused of selling private info of their users, so... it has no sense.
(I use Bandcamp for music thanks to your advice one year ago)


You can also use a web cam if you have MSN. I am not against technology, but sometimes I don't like how people answer to me when I say: No, I do not have a facebook account.

Cellphones... I stopped using it in 2005 and I've never needed it, so I don't have cellphone. I am considered a freak by some friends for that, but that's totally unfair: since nobody really needs a cellphone to live, I shouldn't be considered a freak.
But that's the true/surprising reality.

Big companies won the match: now, you must buy or use to avoid being considered a strange unsociable person. "You can choose how to use OR NOT TO USE": I am glad to hear it, finally.