I’m still not sure exactly what you’re supposed to do on Facebook and other such sites, but I made an IMAO Facebook group for IMAO readers to join so then we will be recognize each other on the street and be able to say, “Hey. You’re that guy who said, ‘LOL!’ on that one post. I know you.”
Does anything useful ever come out of these sites?
It depends. Do you consider middle-aged stalkers posing as college girls useful? (I only do it as a hobby, mind you.)
Ron Paul probably has a facebook account.
If any of the resident libs join up it will be easier to identify them when looking for dumb monkey faces to punch.
This is off topic, but did have you seen the Simpsons movie yet? The opening scene was a blatant rip off of your ‘Nuke the Moon’. I smell a law suit.
Facebooks only real use is keeping in contact with your friends, kind of like a fancy address book. Most groups don’t really do anything, they just serve as a kind of mark so your friends know what your into.. or something. I haven’t completely figured it out yet, I mostly just use as a pseudo-email-client thingy.
I’m a member of about 20 groups, 10 of which are Gun Rights groups…. but I’ll join the IMAO group anyway, because why not?
Facebook and MySpace are concurrent and, well, juvenile.
My daughter has both of these accounts, as does all the teenagers. I think the cutoff age for MySpace/Facebook is 29.
Or so I’ve been told…
Of course, with a face like this one, a book might help…
Moonbunny’s got a good pic showing off a Frankj shirt, but we’re all very wary of face fotos because our crappy blue state is full of pot smoking lunatics who have nothing better to do with their time than stalk people.
I don’t know if they are useful or not, but I’ve seen this American Ronin guy on StumbleUpon…
Isn’t this stuff just a tool for stalkers and perves? I know not everyone who uses it has bad intentions, but still….
Facebook really was a more mature version of myspace (and it was until recently just for university/college students). The whole letting high school students on and those new applications has brought it closer to myspace in terms of awfulness, but it’s still much better than it.
The thing which most people here won’t know is that the true popularity it has is in Canada http://www.thestar.com/article/231008 (yes I know I’m linking a liberal trash Canadian paper, but for the record that # is currently up to 714,758). I think where it’s been the main and somewhat dignified web 2.0 social networking site in Canada it’s probably not quite the same across the border (the one the Mexicans don’t cross). Just for reference my old university has about 16-17k undergrad students and the network on Facebook has 21,255 profiles attached to it (graduates staff and faculty can be attached to it as well).
I can’t claim to really know how Facebook comes across in the US. If it really just is another myspace clone of women half stripping to tease people then it pretty much is garbage, but up here it’s better than that as it literally is used for what it’s intended to be used for (social networking). Some people use both personally I used to block myspace from being accessed on my PC via my hosts file.
In any case the trend these days for websites is web 2.0 (yeah it’s a buzzword but it has some meaning). Adding a component to Facebook isn’t always a bad idea in achieve this goal. Personally though if a lot of people from the site do use Facebook (We don’t know the #s and I guess this group is a good way to test the waters) I think you should write a Facebook app. Something simple like display a daily or random Fred Thompson fact on your profile with a link to IMAO which might generate some traffic.
Facebook groups can be useful. If you enable discussion topics and the group wall, members can carry out debates and discussions on topics of their own instead of waiting for you to write about said topic. Such as, which point on the moon should we aim for when we nuke it?
Actually, I have teachers who are over 40 that are on Facebook. Granted, they are among the ‘cooler’ teachers in the school, but still.
Meh, I hate myspace, never had an account; I like facebook for it’s more uniform setup and it’s great for staying in touch with friends from various parts of life (graduated with, former coworkers/drinking buddies, friends from other colleges, etc).