>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:38:54 -0500, Vince M Hudd wrote   
   (in article ):   
      
   > Joseph DeMartino  wrote:   
   >    
   >> Yeah, I'm pretty sure that similar circumstances well eventually FORCE me   
   >> to use Facebook.  But I won't like it and I insist on my right to be   
   >> dragged kicking and screaming into the future.   
   >    
   > I felt that way about social networking sites in general at one point, but   
   > then I caved and joined Facebook. It's not so bad as long as you can   
   > mentally filter out the sheer idiocy you'll see from day to day in some   
   > friends' status updates, not to mention being bombarded with "invitations"   
   > to use this, that or the other lamoid app on the site from the same friends.    
   <<   
      
   Ditto this.  I've taken to hiding any game that appears on my wall, because I    
   don't care if you beat everyone's high score in Word Scramble, if you need a    
   flock of mutant albino swimming sheep in Itinerant Farmerville, what serial    
   killer you got in the "Which Serial Killer Are You Most Like"" quiz, or what    
   your daily horoscope is.   
      
   >> And the latest example of totally brain dead 'innovation' on the site is the   
   > new format 'groups' - whereby friends can 'add' you to a group. Yes, *add*   
   > you. Not *invite* you, which you could decline (or just ignore), but   
   > actually *add* you, so that if you don't want to be a member of their latest   
   > daft group, having been added you have to go to the effort of removing   
   > yourself. (Once removed, you can't then be added - but that does miss the   
   > point somewhat!) <<   
      
   This?  Is evil.  I had someone add me to a group as soon as this became a    
   possibility, and I can't remove myself because it's a friend *and* client,    
   and it's the person's pet cause.  But thankfully no one else on my friend    
   list has figured out that you can do this.  I really resent it, because I    
   already get enough stuff on my wall that I can't keep up.  What kind of nerve    
   do you have to have to add to the already quite-noisy traffic on someone's    
   wall?   
      
   But other than that, yeah, Facebook's great.  :-p     (Actually, I kid: it    
   really is great for what it is.  I've especially liked getting connected with    
   my cousins again, who have been long absent from my life.)   
      
   Amy   
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