"The 'what-ifs?' increase exponentially when your heart is walking around outside of your body wearing Buzz Lightyear light up shoes."
- BlestWithSons
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
1. Do You Have A Facebook Page?
2. How Often Do You Check it? (or do you just leave it on all the time?)
3. Do you accept friend requests from anyone who asks?
4. What are your criteria for accepting friend requests?
5. What is your facebook philosophy?
6. Why are you on facebook?
7. Do you post tons of pictures, and status updates and other stuff about yourself or do you just kind of lurk and watch what everyone else does?
8. Do you have facebook friends that you don't actually know in real life?
9. Has facebook helped you find old friends?
10. Have people found you through facebook that you wish hadn't?
11. Do you understand this article? Can you explain it to me?
the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends.
12. Does the above article concern you?
13. What else can you tell me about your facebook experience, habits and philosophy?
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Comments on "Facebook Survey":
2. Lauren
- 06/30/2009 12:23 pm CDT
1. I have fb
2. at least once a day I check it. I've set it up to send me emails so that I don't have to actually go to the page.
3. I only accepts friends that I know very well. and I only keep friends that I have vested interest in.
4. The person must be in continual friendship. not just some person I met at the Church bbq who I never saw again and doesn't keep up. Keeping up is a definite requirement.
5. I use fb for photos and contacts.
6. I mostly like fb for the photos.
7. I post pics because that's my main reason. status updates are at a normal level. Other than that I don't do much on fb.
8. I have had friends on fb that I didn't know in real life. But recently (maybe 6months ago) I deleted everyone I wasn't keeping up with.
9. Yes, fb has helped me find old friends from kindergarten. and now we keep up.
10. yes. and now it would be rude to not be friends with them. sigh.
11. "by default" is the key phrase here. The article talks about the previous staple of fb being that everything was super private - only those people you wanted to know would know. You would have to check a special box to let others (possibly complete strangers) view any of your information. Now, fb is having people check a special box to keep things private. Both have been possible and are still possible, the only difference is which is the default setting.
12. Does not concern me at all. I only need to check a box.
13. fb can be used to make even mature Christian adults act like high school idiots again by playing the "insider/outsider cliques" game. *rolls eyes* Once my 'friends' start in on that, they are no longer my 'friends'. Even if I'm not the target of their immaturity.
It's been great fun keeping up with my cousins (a lot of whom live overseas) as well as friends who are all over the country and planet.
I formerly had my settings on very open and not private so that anyone who searched my name would find me. Now I'm on super secret private and people who want to friend me can't even find me.
3. Scott
- 06/30/2009 1:12 pm CDT
1. yup
2. I'm on it most of the time.
3. Not just anyone, but almost anyone. Since I use it both as a tool for connecting/reconnecting with friends and with my podcasting audience I'm fairly open.
4. I must either know them irl or through the podcasting community.
5. Hmmm. FB is a good tool for social networking. I don't know that I have a philosophy per se.
6. Initially to get in touch with old friends and promote my projects. Now I use it to keep in touch with current friends/family/hs friends/ and audience members/fans.
7. I post pretty regularly.
8. Yup.
9. Yup.
10. Not so far.
11. I think the above two explanations are pretty good.
12.Not really.
13. I really like the games. I keep kids pictures on the DL. Otherewise everything's open to friends.
4. gretchen from lifenut
- 06/30/2009 1:56 pm CDT
1. Yes
2. 2-3 times a day, i'll pop on.
3. No
4. I have to know the person and have positive feelings about them.
5. I'm a minimalist. I do not do any of those dumb quizzes, send hearts, eggs, pokes, etc.
6. My mother nagged me into joining. Really.
7. I may do a status update once every other day, and it has to be more than "I'm having salsa on my eggs this morning." I've never posted pictures other than my profile picture. I mostly lurk. I rarely comment. I hit the "like" button a lot, though.
8. Yes, I have friends from the blogging world and one parenting forum. Never met most of them IRL.
9. Yes, and that is my favorite part. I found friends who moved away when I was in school, kids I graduated high school with, old college buddies. It has been fun to catch up with them.
10. Yes. But only one or two.
11. Good explanations already given...
12. It doesn't concern me as long as I remember to click the privacy button.
13. I've only been active there for about a month, and it has been a positive experience over all. My husband joined at the same time. We friended each other. How cute. Anyway, he has enjoyed catching up with old friends and former co-workers, too. I'm glad I joined. For a long time, I sneered at it as being something for high school kids, a popularity contest, a waste of time.
5. Shrode
- 06/30/2009 2:52 pm CDT
Also from the article I link to:
By default, all your messages on Facebook will soon be naked visible to the world. The company is starting by rolling out the feature to people who had already set their profiles as public, but it will come to everyone soon. You'll be able each time you publish a message to change that message's privacy setting and from that drop down there's a link to change your default setting.
6. jen
- 06/30/2009 3:02 pm CDT
1. yes
2. often during the week. not as often on the weekend
3. no
4. I have to know the person
5. there's a philosophy?
6. I guess to connect and reconnect with family and friends and to goof off
7. I post a lot
8. a few who are blog-friends - people I've only "met" online through my blog
9. definitely
10. definitely
11. already answered
12. not really. I make sure to keep things marked private
13. n/a
7. Jamie
- 06/30/2009 3:15 pm CDT
1. Yes. I have for a while
2. Once or twice a day
3. No
4. I usually only accept people who have some type of connection to me or my life. My church, my job, mutual friends, etc.
5. A great way to connect and share with people. I use it to share news, links, and articles with my friends. I also use it to communicate with my extended family that live overseas.
6. Initially I got on to connect with my relatives and college friends who were overseas. Now it's just a good way to share and discover new info.
7. I post a lot, pretty much all through the day. But since I only check it once or twice, I guess I'm kind of the opposite of a lurker.
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. yes, but this isn't that big an issue. I can always ignore them or block their status updates.
11. Yes. Facebook status updates are going to become almost exactly like twitter updates. That is they will be public to the entire world unless you specify otherwise.
12. Not really. Most of my facebook updates are already cross posted to twitter. My twitter account is public. So it won't be all that much of a change for me.
13. Don't ever, no matter how private the controls are, post anything anywhere online that you care about becoming public. Data leaks, policy changes, and partnerships will ALWAYS leak that info in some way or another. If you post it online, assume it could go public someday in the future.
That said, you shouldn't be afraid to post things. You should just take into account whether the image you are projecting is one you want people to see or not.
8. Matt
- 06/30/2009 3:36 pm CDT
1. Yes
2. Few times a day, maybe none if I am busy
3. Nope
4. I have to know them. People are now getting on FB with false names to steal info. Think about it - they may gain access to your mother's maiden name, the city you were born in, your favorite color, etc - all security question answers.
5. Great tool to get to know more about people. But it has to be about getting to know others better, not narciscism.
6. I have to explore emerging technology for my job.
7. I post stuff that people might find interesting, but not a whole lot.
8. Nope. See # 4
9. Yep - a lot of them.
10. Yep - but I don't accept their friend requests.
11. Yep - they are giving users more control over who sees what. Some people use FB for their job or celebrity status. This way, you can let anyone see stuff about your work, instead of just friends. The weird thing is that everything is now public by default. I restrict all of my stuff to friends.
12. Just the part about everything being public by default. Most other sites are that way already - this is just a reversal of the way FB was in the past.
13. It's not a replacement for face-to-face interaction. Just a way to enhance relationships when you are not doing it face to face. Just like online learning is "anytime, anywhere learning", I see FB and other social networking as "anytime, anywhere relationship building."
9. Pigwotflies
- 06/30/2009 4:14 pm CDT
1. Yes
2. It's one of my home pages in Firefox so I check it whenever I open my laptop.
3. No.
4. People I know IRL (mostly) and would know well enough to have a conversation with, rather than just make small talk with. The exceptions are a couple of people I know through blogging (Like Blest, Lauren, some of the people from One Weigh or Another).
5 and 6. It's fun, it's a good way to keep in touch with my family and friends. FB is probably my main means of contact with my mum and sisters. We follow each other's statuses and see what we've been up to.
7. I update my status a few times a day, post photos after events, use it to see what my friends are doing.
8. Yes, blogging friends.
9. Yes, I've got back in touch with people I went to school and university with. That's one of the things I really like about FB.
10. No. If they did, I'd block them.
11. Sort of. It's making the default settings public.
12. Not especially. There's nothing on my FB page that I'd object to anyone seeing - and I deliberately don't post things like my phone number or address. It will probably make me check my privacy settings more carefully though.
13. I find FB fun. I'm possibly on it more than is necessarily productive. It's a handy way of telling lots of people the same thing all at once by putting it in your status. The event invitation thingy is also useful for social stuff, concerts etc.
10. Whitney
- 06/30/2009 5:02 pm CDT
I just do it for the Bejeweled Blitz.
Just (partially) kidding.
You know my philosophy... I don't have problems not accepting friend requests. Especially from people I barely knew in high school or college. I actually changed my privacy options so that people can't friend me, they can only message me, and then if I want to, I can friend them.
I'm not a weird lurker/stalker... but it has helped me keep up with people that I don't get a chance to talk to much. It has sadly also let me see how some people have changed A LOT, and not in a good way, since I last knew them.
I generally post pictures only of my kids so that everyone can see how stinkin' cute they are.
I'm on FB because "everyone else was doing it". Hopefully there are no cliffs nearby...
Hopefully you enjoy my non-conformist format of answers... 'cause I'm just cool like that.
11. Justin
- 06/30/2009 8:37 pm CDT
1. Yes
2. A few times a day.
3. No.
4. I actually have to know/meet them IRL, although I have a few extenuating circumstances. They can be counted on two fingers.
5. Keep up with friends I don't see as often, plan with friends I see more often, and avoid annoying people with useless trivia and quizzes.
6. There were a few people I knew who talked it up. Unlike some of their suggestions (Myspace, StumbleUpon) this was a good one.
7. I have limited pics of myself and a few vacation/travel pictures. I updates statuses once a week or so.
8. Just one or two, but we had emailed and discussed a few things over email about our mutal careers.
9. Yes! In addition, it's helped me stay in contact with old friends.
10. The only major one is an old girlfriend with stalker tendencies who was summarily ignored.
11. If you post a picture, post a video, or simply write "Phillp is preparing ostrich burgers - how do you butcher these things?!?" everyone can see it. If you set things to private, only your "friend" list can see it -- and you can set it even more limited if wanted.
12. Sort of, as Facebook still doesn't have the best reputation for privacy and attempts to worm their way around any new changes that loosen standards. I check privacy settings now and then to make sure no one can see what I don't want them to see. Then again, I assume that anything on there has the potential to be seen by anyone.
13. Experience is that most people are civil, honest, mature, and like using it as a tool to communicate. It's the people who must live there (and inundate you with quizzes like "What kind of exotic animal burger are you") that can drive you crazy. Thankfully that's only 1-2% of people I'm friends with -- but they know no demographic. They're 22, they're 60, and a few inbetween.
12. salguod
- 06/30/2009 10:27 pm CDT
1. Do You Have A Facebook Page?
Yep
2. How Often Do You Check it? (or do you just leave it on all the time?)
Not often, maybe once per week although I do use two tools that let me participate in FB without going. Seesmic desktop shows my friend's activity and Pidgin IM allows me to use FB chat even though I'm not actually on FB. It also makes it look like I'm loggin on all the time.
3. Do you accept friend requests from anyone who asks?
No. If I don't know them at least casually at one time, I refuse. I take the word 'friend' to mean more than I've heard of you.
4. What are your criteria for accepting friend requests?
See above
5. What is your facebook philosophy?
Not sure what you mean.
6. Why are you on facebook?
To connect with folks.
7. Do you post tons of pictures, and status updates and other stuff about yourself or do you just kind of lurk and watch what everyone else does?
I used to post a lot, since my FB status was linked to my Twitter account, but since I de-coupled them I don't post much. I haven't put hardly any pics up nor notes, etc. I guess that makes me more of a lurker.
8. Do you have facebook friends that you don't actually know in real life?
Yeah, but none that I only know from FB. Al my 'virtual' friends on FB I know from their blogs or other communities.
9. Has facebook helped you find old friends?
Yes. I've had longer conversations with some than I did when we were in HS together for 4 years. Others I've looked for but haven't found.
10. Have people found you through facebook that you wish hadn't?
Not that I can think of. Well, some folks I know online from my professional life have found me there and I'm not as comfortable with that. Still actually not sure what to do with that.
11. Do you understand this article? Can you explain it to me?
As I understand it, the stuff you put on FB used to be private to your circle of friends. Now, anyone on the web or maybe anyone with a FB account will be able to see it unless you deliberately make it private. I haven't looked into it, but hopefully you won't have to click the box every time, you'll be able to make private your personally default, even though the system wide default is public. Does that make sense?
12. Does the above article concern you?
It does a bit more so since my 14YO daughter is on FB. One of the things I liked about it was the privacy control. I don't mind that things are public by default as long as I can make mine private by default.
13. What else can you tell me about your facebook experience, habits and philosophy?
Nuthin. :-P
14. brandontmilan
- 07/01/2009 4:55 pm CDT
1. Do You Have A Facebook Page?
Yes
2. How Often Do You Check it? (or do you just leave it on all the time?)
I check it pretty regularly, a few times a day...
3. Do you accept friend requests from anyone who asks?
No, I have to recognize the person either from real life or from associations on the internet (blogs, etc.).
4. What are your criteria for accepting friend requests?
I already answered this.
5. What is your facebook philosophy?
Facebook is a useful tool for staying connected with friends/family/classmates/colleagues/etc.
6. Why are you on facebook?
Two reasons:
First, it is a great way to stay in contact with and to stay in the know about the teenagers that I minister to (I'm a youth pastor).
Second, it is a great way to stay in touch with friends and family who are 2000 miles away (My wife and I live in Northern Canada, yet we are from the Carolinas.) We talk to them, see pictures of our family/nephews/nieces/etc./etc., for a lot of my friends, facebook has completely replaced email as the primary means of communication.
7. Do you post tons of pictures, and status updates and other stuff about yourself or do you just kind of lurk and watch what everyone else does?
I post pictures and updates and such, but not "tons". I try to comment anytime that I check out others' pictures and updates so that I don't become a facebook stalker.
8. Do you have facebook friends that you don't actually know in real life?
I wrote a song a while back about my wife being a calvinist and put it on youtube. Quite a few people found me on facebook and requested my friendship... mose of them I didn't previously know, a few of them I had to remove as friends, because, quite frankly, I'm not interested in your opinions about whether or not Christians should have voted for Obama. Especially when you have a new one every few hours.
9. Has facebook helped you find old friends?
Yes, I have actually connected with a few people from high school that I haven't talked to in ages.
10. Have people found you through facebook that you wish hadn't?
Yes. I'll just leave it at that.
11. Do you understand this article? Can you explain it to me?
What everyone else said is pretty clear.
12. Does the above article concern you?
Not really.
13. What else can you tell me about your facebook experience, habits and philosophy?
I don't care which character from "generic 90's TV show" you are most like. Or what South Carolina county you belong in. Or what dead theologian you are, for that matter. And I'm not interested in your score in Bejeweled or about joining your mafia or pirate ship or anything like that...
15. Tom
- 07/02/2009 1:51 pm CDT
1. Yes
2. Once or twice a day.
3. No
4. They have to been someone I know, with the exception of people I have read but not met, such as Ravi Zacharias. Of course, I had to send the friend request to him.
And I accepted one person I didn't know but they knew my cousin.
5. Not sure what you mean by that.I use it for recreation, not business. I use it basically for fun and humor, though at our ministry we are talking about making our facebook pages open to the world at large. I work for a Christian TV station.
6.I resisted for a long time but I thought it would be a ggod way to connect with friends and to keep up with my kids (one at home, one in college, one out of the house)
7.Mostly lurk, though I have fun with status updates once in a while. and I like to humorously respond to other people's posts.
8.three out of 159 friends.
9.very much so. I was in YWAM 20 years ago and have connected with a bunch of old friends from there. Not so much with friends from college or high school.
10. No.
11. eeek! I better think about what i am posting because the whole world is going to see it. That's kind of what we are facing here, but we're just talking at this point.
12. Yeah. As i said above i use FB mostly for fun. Now work and ministry is trying to interfere with my fun! Sheesh!
13. FB is nice for contacts and shallow for real communication. It makes you a little lazy. I find friends that I haven't seen for twenty years but all i can do is say hi and look at their pictures. I keep meaning to write a full email to them giving my life since then and hope that they will do the same but nobody ever does.
Also I hate the quizzes. They are beyond stupid. But my wrist bones are cracking from playing Bejeweled.
16. Wickle
- 07/02/2009 9:29 pm CDT
1. Yes.
2. At least daily. (Read: More often than I should.)
3. No.
4. Generally, I want to know the person. I have a few fellow bloggers as "friends," and some NH political figures. Generally, though, I regard the word "friend" as somewhat sacrosanct and treat it as such.
5. Huh?
6. Two main reasons ... (1) a number of people from my church got on at once and I got swept up in the peer pressure; (2) I have found a number of once-good friends and it's nice to be able to contact them again.
7. I do post several pictures. To an extent, it's replaced the photo album that I used to carry with me at all times. I goof around with the status update ... for a couple weeks I posted truisms about myself ("... likes waffles," for example).
8. Yes. A couple bloggers and some political figures.
9. Yes.
10. No, though it is possible that one person I found wishes I hadn't.
11. Yes, and yes. What it says is that the default setting is no longer going to be "private." You can still set it so, but it will now take effort rather than the other way around.
12. No, though it is frustrating. I'm not concerned because I know how to check and change those settings.
13. I don't view it as a place to do serious work, though I promote my blog there. It's generally lightweight stuff. It has generally replaced the mass e-mails I would send out telling friends about some thing or another. (I announced my wife's pregnancy there, for example, rather than e-mailing most people ... though there are still some stragglers.)
17. Milly
- 07/05/2009 11:30 pm CDT
1. Do You Have A Facebook Page?
Yes Two
2. How Often Do You Check it? (or do you just leave it on all the time?)
Depends on the time I have to waste
3. Do you accept friend requests from anyone who asks?
No way
4. What are your criteria for accepting friend requests?
I have to know them and want them to know more about me and my friends
5. What is your facebook philosophy?
I need on of those????????????
6. Why are you on facebook?
Friends
7. Do you post tons of pictures, and status updates and other stuff about yourself or do you just kind of lurk and watch what everyone else does?
Yes
8. Do you have facebook friends that you don't actually know in real life?
Yes
9. Has facebook helped you find old friends?
Yes an old boy friend. Try'n to forgive. An old friend of an old boy friend that I still love a lot and wish well. A lady that was a little girl that I spent a lot of time taking care of when I was in college. She's a mom now.
10. Have people found you through facebook that you wish hadn't?
Nope
11. Do you understand this article? Can you explain it to me?
Just got back from Alaska and I'm not reading it tonight
13. What else can you tell me about your facebook experience, habits and philosophy?
Some people have way too much time to waste. I am glad to hear from old friends
18. Shrode
- 07/06/2009 11:01 am CDT
Milly,
Why do you have 2 facebook pages?
I've been considering that for a while now, and I wasn't sure if anyone did that?
Does anyone else do that?
19. Milly
- 07/06/2009 12:22 pm CDT
Shrode,
Because you know me as Milly and others know me as . . . . .
I can post pictures of my kids to friends and family and not worry about crazy folks that I don't really know.
Not you *-*
20. G. Frederick
- 07/13/2009 3:55 pm CDT
1. YES
2. usually check it once a day every day
3. Not just anyone. I have to know them and I have to trust them.
4. philosophy? that word is too big for me
5. Initially it was to get updates on stuff my son was doing.
6.I have a ton of pictures posted buy I don't do much anymore. I rarely update status, I don't have a link to my cell phone because I don't have unlimited data or messagin on my cell phone deal
8. no I don't
9. I have renewed friendships especially those from when I was in high school.
10. no I am very pleased with everyone who has friendend me.
12. I understnd it but I am not sure why they would do it.It opens the network up to more unsavory issues, heck already thee have been issues with viruses and a certain amount of spamming and stalking.
13. I don't like to spend a lot of time on it...for instance I don't like chatting on fb, I prefer to chat on other IM sites.
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1. No, but I did.
2. I used to check it periodically throughout the day.
3. No.
4. If I thought there would be repurcussions for refusing the person, I tried to accept them.
5. I don't know what you mean by Facebook philosophy. I saw Facebook as something to do. I don't have any problem with the emptiness involved in social networking sites. To me, it was simply something to do.
6. I was on Facebook for fun.
7. I wasn't a big picture poster, but I updated my status every week or so. I wasn't a big lurker, either.
8. I don't think so.
9. Facebook helped me keep in touch with old friends, especially after moving away.
10. Yes, but they were usually just the people who invited me to a thousand groups every day. I deleted most of them.
11. I don't quite understand that article. If I understand it correctly, you still have to be someone's friend before viewing their full page, but I may be wrong.
12. No. Maybe it should, but I never posted anything that would get me in trouble with anyone. I did it for fun, and I never tried to block certain people from seeing my profile, because I didn't care to.
13. Facebook made making friends easier for me, especially when I went to college. I'm shy, and for whatever reason, it's just easier for me to open a door through facebook. I never had "facebook only" friends, but I used it as a way of opening avenues of conversation. Maybe that's just another sign of a vapid and shallow culture, but I never saw it that way.