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| shadexiii wrote: | | You'd be surprised. If anything the site can connect like-minded people. The profile picture isn't required, nor does it have to be accurate. The profile can be as complete or incommplete as you want. I'm willing to bet that even if you go to one of the tiniest of schools, there will be at least one other person with similar interests, if not many more. |
You're probably right, it just feels awkward. I really suck at making new friends, and I have trouble starting up a conversation with someone at school. I'm also scared that if I let people know the real me, they won't want to be around me anymore. I've met maybe one or two people outside of my university who share similar interests (because we do some of the same athletic activities), but we never see eachother outside of those activities. This is magnified with women. I think they are more perceptive to non-verbal communication, and I've had some say that I always seem serious, or that I'm not having fun, so most people don't seem to want to initiate a conversation with me. This is probably more info than you need... but back to face-book. Do you actually meet anyone from there in real life? I could try and make up a profile of myself and see if it gets me anywhere. |
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shadexiii
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Space wrote: |
You're probably right, it just feels awkward. I really suck at making new friends, and I have trouble starting up a conversation with someone at school. |
That's never changed for me. More often than not, the other person starts the conversation for me.
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I'm also scared that if I let people know the real me, they won't want to be around me anymore.
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I was the "weird" kid in my high school class. I was the outcast. By that point, the few friends from middle school that I had had all turned against me, save one, for reasons they refused to give me. I asked, begged, to be told how I had slighted them. Their response? I should know. Needless to say that f**** me up just a wee bit.
In college, its been another story entirely. Sure, I'm still labeled as weird, and I have been told by one of my male friends (long story as to how this came about) that I'm not the most attractive fella, but I've definitely got people that like my company. Many of them attempted to befriend me, rather than the other way around. Not everyone in college has stuck with the high school mentality of "there's the popular jocks and the popular girls, and there's lesser forms of life." Not everyone is of the belief that there's one definition of what "cool" is, or what "acceptable" is. Now I still don't really tell anyone, even here, my entire life history. Some of my past is best left as that. Everyone's got a skeleton or two in their closet, so don't feel guilty if you aren't putting it all out there, especially on somewhere like facebook.
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I've met maybe one or two people outside of my university who share similar interests (because we do some of the same athletic activities), but we never see eachother outside of those activities. This is magnified with women. I think they are more perceptive to non-verbal communication, and I've had some say that I always seem serious, or that I'm not having fun, so most people don't seem to want to initiate a conversation with me. This is probably more info than you need... but back to face-book. Do you actually meet anyone from there in real life? I could try and make up a profile of myself and see if it gets me anywhere. |
The beauty of facebook is that it can work either direction. You can "friend" someone on it and then meet up later, or you can tell someone to add you or try to add them once you already know them from somewhere, to make keeping up to date with them and the like easier. Don't view it like a "dating style site that's for making friends." View it as a different way of communicating with people outside of the face to face conversation. A lot like here, but without the forums. It can be a foot in the door of sorts with people that you are around some, but may want to hang out more with. Once they have you as a friend on facebook, they have more ways of getting ahold of you to hang out, and they have a more constant reminder that you exist for that matter.
Bottom line, you can put as little or as much as you want on there. Regardless of how much you put on, having a profile won't have a negative impact on you. |
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dexkaden
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:16 am Post subject: |
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I am on facebook.
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ahayes
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| I have a facebook. The people I have on there aren't so much friends as people I recognize. There are one or two old friends I don't see anymore though. |
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John724
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| I like facebook better than myspace. I had both at one time but got rid of my myspace because I just wasn't for me and in facebook it's easier to find people. The vast majority of my friends on facebook(I have 50 at the moment) are people I've known from elementary, middle, or high shcool with some people I've met online and then in real life, and a couple I've met on groups. |
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| myspace.com has got to be the worst website in the world. It's a perfect example of bad web page design. |
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dexkaden
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| ahayes wrote: | | myspace.com has got to be the worst website in the world. It's a perfect example of bad web page design. |
I completely agree. If I accidently click on a myspace page after doing a google search for a subject, I immediately click the back button because the design is horrible---or people who use it don't know how to use clean layouts. Plus the music that sometimes plays...irritating.
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riley_joe
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Amanda Termeer on facebook
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JerryHatake
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I have facebook for almost a year and I have 255 friends. Majority of those friends(140) are from my school, George Mason University.
http://gmu.facebook.com/profile.php?id=15619256 - Jerry Holy
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JerryHatake
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[quote="NavySEAL83"]Here's mine, currently at 247 friends
http://hs.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1600860154[/quote
Still 255 friends.
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JerryHatake
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Facebook has me a little more social like now then I was before without Facebook.
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JerryHatake
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Anymore WP members with Facebook out there? 
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