Facebook

[G'Kyl]

Honestly, I'm not all too fond of social networks myself - mostly because lots of people tend to abuse them as spam outlets or "friend collectors" and not much anything else. However, I started a Facebook account in order to stay in contact with people and it actually works that way! :)

Which is why after the Paris convention I figured this might be nice a nice means to stay in touch with at least some of you guys. Long story short: Anyone interested might just leave her or his name in this thread so we can add each other. If nobody cares then, well, I guess it was worth a try. ;)

Oh, and if there already is a thread like this please let me know! I tried the search several times but didn't find any thread dedicated to Facebook.

Here's mine: Benjamin Schmaedig (no surprise there, no *g*)

Ben

[stin]

Mine in Steven Hunter in Bonnybridge or Falkirk :)

stevie:)

[Mr Phlanj]

mine is Kieran Trevor Weatherill :D

[stin]

were you posing as a red footballer?

Kieran

stevie:)

[Mr Phlanj]

hahaha! I didnt even like football back then, i just won a popularity contest to be a mascot :D

[AG-wolf]

search my email address:
spilskinanke2097 [at] yahoo.com
with the proper @ symbol of course :P

I don't play games with all those damn facebook apps (farmville, mafiawars, circlejerkwhateverthehell)

[SaturnReturn]

I've put my MSN address and facebook address (under homepage) in my contact info. If anyone wants to add me then add me as a friend here first and then you can see them both. That should help reduce any spam potential from random folk or internet pixies. Just make sure you let me know who you are before hand as I seem to get a tonne of random adds on MSN.

[mdhay]

Mine's Martin Hay (Original, no? :P)
I'm not going to the conventions, but I just want to get it out there. :)

[Chill]

No search results came up for your name in that area Stevie...

Logan Erickson

Email: lerickson1987@hotmail.com

SaturnReturn, I DO have you added as a friend on wz but can't figure out your email, PM it to me?

mdhay, are you martin "merlin" hay?? There are multiple Martin Hays, an email address??

Nevermind I think I found you, with the wtf pic??

[Hellfire_WZ]

If you're on there, just search for the Wipeout HD group and you'll find me ;)

[mdhay]

Nevermind I think I found you, with the wtf pic??

That's me, I'm not exactly the most photogenic person ever. :P

[TorquedSoul]

mine is

http://www.facebook.com slash everyotherman

you should be able to friend me from there.

Just let me know your PS3 tag so I know who you are.

[TorquedSoul]

If you're on there, just search for the Wipeout HD group and you'll find me ;)

Which Wipeout HD Group ... there are 3?

Is there a WipeoutZone group? That would simplify things greatly.

[Hellfire_WZ]

The group, not the fanpages. Mine was first ;)

There is someone on there with the name "Entering the WipeoutZone". God knows who that is though...

[Chill]

Oh c'mon Hellfire!! There's like 923 people on the Wipeout HD I'm a part of!! Can't you just provide us with your email or something??? :P

[SaturnReturn]

Charles is the group admin.;)

[yeldar2097]

Saturn knows all.

There's a discussion in there where you can find people's PSN tags - one may be able to spot a few members from there ;)

[Chill]

Oh THAT group.... haha gotchya!! Thank you good sir!! ;)

[G'Kyl]

Hm, is it too early in the morning? I can't figure out where it gives away the admin's name. ;) Anyway, Kieran: great picture! :-))

[TarquinFarqhuar]

Just added you Ben :)

[Dark-Twisted]

Ugh... I got forced into facebook by someone I know online.
The only people I know who have it are people I haven't spoke to in three years (I moved), and I'm a lil' shy to shoot them an add. Anyone else got a facebook account with hardly any friends? I doubt it, it's just I don't know many people in NZ who seem to use it, and it's pretty alright. =S

[UB3R~JKP]

Well, Dark Twisted I have 7 friends haha, so I come into that category:). I got mines after I found out bebo is shutting down. Its also fun to spam PSN trophy updates ;).

[Medusa]

[QUOTE]Anyone else got a facebook account with hardly any friends?[QUOTE]
Yep, hardly use mine except for distant family. Pretty much another waste of my time, lol. If I really want to get in touch with someone I'll use old fashioned methods...you know, like email. :D

[yeldar2097]

Eee....mail?

[SaturnReturn]

It's like Royal Mail, but less regal and with more junk mail.

[mdhay]

www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/email.
Scary stuff.

[Medusa]

ROFL. That's funny.
"Electric" Hahaha...simple mind, yep.

[borell]

Did anyone watch South Park, Season 14, Episode 4? Fun stuff!
It's about Facebook. :p

[Kyonshi]

I'm Daniel Rondeau. My FB page is all in French, so you may have a hard time decoding stuff ^^

[Dark-Twisted]

I got mines after I found out bebo is shutting down. Its also fun to spam PSN trophy updates ;).

Bebo is shutting down? Seriously? Thank the person who made the judgement on that... hate that site so much.

Been adding old friends... going far better than I thought it would so I guess that's good... 24 is a good number right?

[Zoth-Ommog]

I have 38 ppl added, i don't see the point why i should add every single school/work/random friends which i haven't spoken in years.. like friend of mine has 200+ "friends", i asked if he really knew them all? "Dunno" he says. I just don't get it.

[Dark-Twisted]

neither!! I came across some people with 700+ friends.. is it some huge popularity contest or what? I don't understand some people...

[infoxicated]

I don't get the fascination with compiling giant friends lists either... somehow I'm "Facebook Friends" with the girl I went out with for six months, twenty years ago and we've barely seen each other in real life since then.

She sent the friends request and I had no objection to accepting, but c'mon... what's the point? :?

[SaturnReturn]

Ditto, over the last year or so I've actually made a net loss on facebook friends. At one point I deactivated my account, but then realised there was one girl in Australia that I used to work with who I actually couldn't keep in touch with any other way, so I reactivated it. It hasn't helped me keep in touch with people from uni really, because if I want to then I use the phone anyway. I mostly like it for finding out about interests of new people I meet and getting suggestions for new music and films. You can sometimes listen to music on the fan pages that isn't available to stream elsewhere, which is useful.

[AG-wolf]

I use facebook for keeping in touch with friends I haven't seen in ages, and it's easy to organize events with the people I do frequently spend time with. I occasionally add simple acquaintances or people I casually go to school with, but the list remains low. I don't understand why some people create a spider's-web network of people that they've just added for the hell of it. I also hide every Facebook App update that get posted automatically (Farmville, mafia wars, whatever the **** else), I can't stand that stuff.

[TorquedSoul]

With the new security features I dont mind having acquaintances on facebook. as time goes on I'm developing more and more internet relationships. Its nice to move those relationships beyond the faceless world of consoles and message boards. These social websites are a good first step in doing that. I dont go around adding everyone I encounter but if I know the person I wont deny a friend request.

Its also important to note that in crappy economic times having social connections is a good thing as well. It makes it easier to find employment and move around. Something I expect I will doing after I get done with graduate school. It would be nice to know if that I end up finding work in Europe that some zoner would help me coordinate the move. :P

All that said ... I still only have about 34 people on my friends list, mostly old friends and family and classmates. I've only just recently considered putting acquaintances from the internet on facebook.

[OneAVGNFan]

I have just joined Facebook 10 min ago. and want friends from this forum soon.

[Rapier Racer]

Look at all these details, now I can stalk you all FOOLS!

I think I have 18 friends on it, I also don't see the point in compiling massive friends lists full of people I don't really know. 2 of my 3 best mates don't even bother with social networking I don't really know why I do....oh yeah Farmville FTW!

[Medusa]

ROFL RR, I was thinking the same thing! Stalkers unite.
My two favourite Facebook-relevant words are: "Block Application"

[Lance]

According to a report a couple of days ago in Ars Technica, due to a policy change, Facebook has already made some personal details of all of its members public, even though they used to be private, and Facebook originally promised to its members that those details would never be made public. I've not, and probably never will join Facebook. I'm too privacy conscious.

[Chill]

I talk to a lot of people on facebook cause there's a lot of downtime at work and it looks better to be on a computer typing than on a PSP or something LOL... Plus I'm out in the desert, so no cell phones... On that or talkng with my family on Skype most of the time... I sometimes add people that are friends of people I do know ONLY if theres a good chance I could meet them in person further down the road, like from my hometown or something... that way being stuck out in the desert can't keep me from meeting and talking with new people every now and then... ;)

[TorquedSoul]

I've not, and probably never will join Facebook. I'm too privacy conscious.

That's cool ... just post your snail mail address instead.

[OneAVGNFan]

Did anyone watch South Park, Season 14, Episode 4? Fun stuff!
It's about Facebook. :p

That was why I joined facebook in the first place.

I am getting well with facebook too soon.

[mdhay]

Well, Dark Twisted I have 7 friends haha, so I come into that category:). I got mines after I found out bebo is shutting down. Its also fun to spam PSN trophy updates ;).

When's that happening, anyway?

Oh, Chill; I'll be planning to see some friends I've made from here in a few years time, so Yarr. :pirate :D

[Lance]

That's cool ... just post your snail mail address instead.

:g I'm thinkin' that wouldn't be very secure. :)

[DJ Techno]

TWO PAGES..

Michael Long
wipeout95mtl@msn.com

Michael Techno Long
spectra_racing@hotmail.com


im glad when facebook decided a choice to open up facebook to the more than just major and real universities and colleges in the usa and maybe the world.

because it wasn't until after 06....
I had been and still back to a technical college for a different degree. going to a not so expensive 2 year college, Midlands Technical College and my friend from high school were using the Facebook. most of the people who could have a membership and more on that network. Were students of the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, SC STate, College of Charleston and more.

almost none of the 2 year college student like myself was. couldn't get into and have a web page inside Facebook.

Myspace was also back then not turning into a kind of **** hole because of hackers, spammers, fake porn pages and the rest.

Facebook use to be the lol Private club to say for the internet. IF u weren't in a four year college or something else. Now its open to the public and its doing better than Myspace.

And as for the movie coming out Social Network...

Why the hell not should you see it!
I probably am right on the day it comes out or a midnight show the day before friday!

[SaturnReturn]

Does anyone else find it silly that facebook has a section for movies, another for music and one for books, but not one for video games? Considering how big the industry is now it seems ridiculous.

[BulletWraith]

so did I until they added a games section

[SaturnReturn]

As in - a section to list the games we like? Because I still can't see one. There's only an icon for those annoying facebook games as far as I can see. If I 'Like' a game then it just shows up under 'Other' on my profile.

[BulletWraith]

I just added eyetoy kinetic to my games section
not sure why you don't have it, I think its only recent
edit: its just like the movies and books section

edit 2: btw it doesn't have many games I like, just like the book and movie section, I had to manually add kinetic, it doesn't have wipEout 2097 but did already have wipEout XL

[yeldar2097]

Anyone not updated their profile yet?

Fight the system :rock

:g

[Hellfire_WZ]

Me neither, although it must be said the new profile does make for some good Lamebook entries ;)

[SaturnReturn]

edit: its just like the movies and books section

Did you update to the new profile style recently? Maybe that's why I don't have it. I'm still using the old(er) profile. I can add games, e.g. Bayonetta, WipEout HD, LBP etc. but they just go under other pages section. As much as I'd like a proper section for this, if it's at the expense of a comprehensible layout then I don't feel it's worth the sacrifice.

Anyone else not got a game section?

EDIT: OK, may have found it under discover more pages. This has a list of games. Might work.

EDIT2: Nope, I 'Liked' Assassin's Creed and it too is just listed under 'Other'. I give up.

[MetaKraken]

I have a Facebook account. Good luck finding me, tho. :P

[BulletWraith]

yeh I sold my soul to facebook and got the new layout,
I think their was something that facebook wouldn't let me do unless I updated to the new profile, it got really annoying so I did
I don't do anything to ridiculously stupid and am open about everything I do so I figured I have nothing to hide
I don't see any disadvantages to the new profile, facebook is still as messy as it was before and the ,essemger is just as bad too

edit: thats what it looks like on my profile

[mdhay]

Anyone not updated their profile yet?

Fight the system :rock

:g

I am never going near that accursed crapola.

[SaturnReturn]

I'm not sure we'll have a choice. Previously they've always forced the change eventually. This is at least the fifth different profile layout they've had. Previously it's just been a bit of a pain in the arse to get used to, but this latest layout is just really ugly and unintuitive. So many annoying images everywhere that one's eyes don't know where to look, and fingers only want to click on the 'close tab' button.

[mdhay]

I suggest you remove all tags, then.

[SaturnReturn]

Tags?

[mdhay]

Yeah, if you don't want the thumbnails to appear on your profile, then you can remove them by hiding them or by removing your tags in those pictures.

[SaturnReturn]

Ah, yeah, but even just for things that you like the new profiles show large image icons, not just tagged photos. If you can turn that off for everything then that would be cool. I'm still on the old profile though so currently makes no difference to me. But if the new one is ever forced on me then I'll know how to sort it. Cheers.

[mdhay]

You're welcome. :+

[BulletWraith]

I dunno why anyone would not update, its going to happen sooner or later
and it hasn't done anyone wrong that I know of
resistance is futile :cold

*cough (borg cube) cough*

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Strangely,I don't see an option on the settings page for me to get the new page.
Who plays the games on Facebook? I don't.:g

[BulletWraith]

this is how you get the new profile (http://romcartridge.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-get-new-facebook-profile.html), I was a late adopter and had to search for it too

[MegaGeeza22]

Arrgghh!! Facebook!!! "social" Networking....
lol, how can it be social?? Yes its good for distant relatives and keeping in touch with friends around the world...
But today 70% of the people i see rather sit at home alone on facebook! there idea of a good night is sitting at home with a bottle of wine going through facebook! whilst all there "real" friends are out socialising!
I wish i never taught my dad how to use the pc as he is always on facebook! When i go round hes on farmsville or millionaire's city!!! He used to do things, like go out... but now hes more interested in facebook!
Facebook, The Anti- social site to connect loners who are to scared to leave there house and meet real people!
I use email for friends and family! why look at your friends photos when you can be there in the photos with them!! or go over to see them!
but i get funny looks when i say im not on facebook!:bomb

[mikrucio]

Facebook is evil.... Its jus another one of satan's tricks...

[Oryx Crake]

if anyone wants to find me I've made a few posts on the wipeout hd group (website and challonge board stuff) they should still be there

[MegaGeeza22]

lol, soon nobody will 'socialize'
Like in edward scissor hands... everyone will leave for work at the same time and return home at the same time, and then sit 'socializing' on facebook and get your shopping delivered to your door! then sleep.
rant deleted lol

[Rennfisch]

I must agree with MegaGeeza22.

There is another point too. A colleage says to me: people will find you, which you haven't seen for ages. Sorry, but I don't want that people find me again. Especially those, I don't want to see again for the rest of my life. People with whom I want to have contact, I have that too. Of the others, I want to know nothing at all.

I will never sign up at facebook.

[MegaGeeza22]

lol, Rennfisch
i might start a business called facehouse... were you let strangers into your house to view your holiday photos lol.
My dad fell out with this man at work once and a month later this man tried to add my dad as a friend!! my dad declined his friend request 5 times over 1 week lol, until eventually he went upto him at work and told him to **** off!
nosey people....

[Oryx Crake]

@geeza and renn
I certainly think you have a point but I do think it becomes what you make it.
I mean I cant say I use it all that much, and when I'm not insanely active it doesn't bother me much, not in the way of strangers asking to be friends etc. also I do think one should be careful with what pictures get up there... and in that sense it can be a bit annoying when other people put pictures of you on there.

er... not sure where I was going with this except that I think it is what you want it to be essentially.

[BulletWraith]

Screw You guys!

You just don't know how to use it
I've been to countless events this year thanks mostly to facebook
Fire Drumming
Tantra
Warehouse parties
Flash Mobs
out door movie screenings
and other social events

+ it helps me keep in contact with me birth Mom, like I can see what shes up to via her up dates and get photos of silly shiz I've done easily from far away peoples friends and its easy to get into contact with friends of friends I don't worry about taking down their details/numbers I can just find them/they can find me on facebook

I used to waste allot of time on it though:redface:

but things change if you make them

[MegaGeeza22]

Like i said, its good for distant family and arranging meets for friends and stuff!
Im talking about the lone rangers... who prowl lol.
i dont mean to cause offense!

[Flint Fandango]

I've never been enthusiastic about social networks. It may sound a little conservative, but to organize meetings or to keep in touch with friends, all I need is my phone, mobile or Skype.
I am aware that the social structures and the ways in which we communicate have changed, but I like the intimate contact, and you don´t have that in Facebook. With Skype, I can easily communicate with friends abroad, in video or text chat. No problem at all, and third parties do not participate therein.
But I accept it completely if someone uses Facebook, to make that clear. :)
There are always people who use this service rational, and also people who lose themselves in self-representation. Each path can be correct, it depends on the perspective.
I´ve given it a chance once in a different network. But the disadvantages arising from this form of social existence, have predominated significantly, imo.

[Colonel]

Well I finally cracked. Having railed against Facebook for years now, and stubbornly refused to sign up, I created an account today.

I'll only be using it for Wipeout related stuff (friends and family? pfff!). So if any of you would like to add me my full name is Adam O'Keeffe. Cheers :)

[UB3R~JKP]

I've been using mine a lot now too so MEH, here's the account:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1614259061

[MyNameIsBom]

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[UB3R~JKP]

To be honest, I'm not that bothered. :lol

[MyNameIsBom]

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[Colonel]

Apparently there's a shed load of Adam O'Keeffes (how naive of me). So here's a link to my profile:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003396011410

[mdhay]

Yeah, was gonna say... :lol

[feisar rocket]

Man, I hate FB, so much spam status it's not even funny!

Oh well, Shamarski Simon is me... i do not use it just for Wipeout meets and stuff like that...

Look out for 'em spammers on FB, ok!

[MyNameIsBom]

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[fdmstryct]

facebook.com/fdmstryct ;)

[Autechom]

They got me too. If you wanna add me, search for Dennis Proxima Centauri. Still wanna keep it halfway anonymous. Facebook and Google scare me a bit :3

[zantetsuken]

facebook.com/digitalmetallicninjacore

xD

[DJ Techno]

Man, I hate FB, so much spam status it's not even funny!

Oh well, Shamarski Simon is me... i do not use it just for Wipeout meets and stuff like that...

Look out for 'em spammers on FB, ok!

facebook spammers, u should know how to deal with those and doing your setting like a boss.

shame on rookies.

[MegaGeeza22]

I still haven't signed up to facebook... to me it just seems like a way to shove advertisements down your throat and to sell all of your personal details on to other companys who will also spam you with advertisements.
Its like a police database but its public and people sign up to it willingly... imo
Example - I know your name, the area you live, what you look like, what you like/dont like, what you drive, eat, when your on holiday, where you work, what your girlfriend looks like...
I dont know any of these by the way lol, but i guess its not hard for people to find out (pervos, criminals, your boss, next door neighbor, the police and the government)

[MENGKESHI]

www.facebook.com/mengkeshi or search "Marcus Andreas Matusiak" :beer