I have not yet succumbed to joining facebook either, but: Facebook gives you control over what is public, the stuff that you want everyone to see, and what is private - stuff you only want your friends to see.
Potential employers often check out facebook these days, so while you might let your 'friends' see the pictures of your drunken rivalry after the Superbowl/Stanley Cup/LISA bash/etc., it might not be in your best interest to make such pictures fully public... This also applies to other, er, revealing pictures that could bring unwanted attention to yourself. Or, maybe you like the attention, in which case, make them public - as long as your future bosses don't mind. Everything seems to live forever on the net! Hint: If you want a quick glimpse of facebook, use google to search for a name and put 'site:facebook.com' on the query. You do still need to join up to get more indepth results, but you might find a few friends or relatives of your own - I did. I might even have to break down an join someday. - Richard Yves Dorfsman wrote: > I've seen of couple of messages on the lopsa mailing lists saying "check my > facebook page" or something similar. I follow the link, and it page asks me > to "join" in order to be able to see the page... > > What is the point of faceboot over say a personal web page ? > What is the whole "friend" thing on facebook, is it a connection like > linkedin ? > > To me the point of a webpage is for visibility, why would you put your > webpage on a restricted system, where only the members can see it ? > > Sometimes I'm wondering if this is a generation gap, but when I look at the > other "new" "social" websites, say reddit, they let you read both stories > and comment, even people profiles without registering. As someone who has > found no value in linkedin, what is the point of facebook ? > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
