facebook

[same_sky]

I think I might be too much of a geek for facebook. I really don't get it. I just click stuff and it always wants to add some sort of app to my page and why can't I just look at the stupid thing before I choose to add it and then it wants me to invite all my friends to share this app and I haven't even seen what it is yet, and am I supposed to send you a ghost or a turtle or a green bean and why would I want to send out a group lick? I was invited to take a quiz to see how much like someone else I was and so I did but now I can't make it show me how much like them I am so what was the point? But I can make it tell me the countdown on when I can take another quiz! Great. I think I received two growing gifts and I clicked in the wrong place and now I only see one so now I think maybe my friend thinks I am weird and mean and rejected their gift. Also, what is the wall etiquette? If someone writes on your wall, what is the polite way to respond? It's not like writing on their wall will provide a continuous thread so no one will be able to figure out what the heck you're talking about. And also! I keep losing things. I can never figure out exactly where to look to find new stuff, and then three days later I will accidentally end up on a page and find that I was supposed to confirm friend details or accept something or whatever, but I didn't know!

This is not to say that I am not enjoying being all facebooky with you, but I want you to know that I am extraordinarily inept at this and (forgive my immodesty) I am really not used to being so clueless at teh internets so if I do something weird, then please don't laugh at me, I am trying. And if you need any more clueless friends, here I am.

Comments

[e11en.livejournal.com]

Hey, you and me both. I think I don't have enough free time to really get in there and figure it all out so it's smooth and easy. Right now I'm just clicking away and getting lost but as long as I can find my scrabble games, I'm ok.

[geeklibrarian.livejournal.com]

:-)

Facebook is not for geeks but for the non-geek masses :)

[reebert.livejournal.com]

I totally do not understand Facebook either. I started an account there only because my neighbor uses it and sent me an invite. Other than playing scrabble I have no clue really what to do with it. haha

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

I am laughing so hard at this because it is EXACTLY how I feel about it. I do not understand. I thought I was just stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here too! Scrabble is the only thing I play on it really. As a geek I wasn't particularly interested in facebook, but nearly everyone I know is on it so I got dragged in.

[ellyll.livejournal.com]

Oops, that was me sorry. LJ seems to have logged me out without me noticing :(

[ms-jacket.livejournal.com]

I was in FB a while and finally I decided to sit down and really try to figure it out. It isn't hard, but it's not immediately obvious . . . so it requires some initial effort and clicking around.

I mostly don't have time to keep up with the gifts, applications, quizzes, personality tests but they're fun when I have a second and I want to just be silly.

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

I only use FB to play scrabble. I have seven games going at the moment and I'm totally addicted to it. The applications I am ambivalent about - it seems a bit high school to me. Some are funny (like a great Aussie insult generator) which I can send to friends, but I never add a tenth of what I'm sent by others. I have one rather enthusiastic friend who has sent me 1,000 things a day and I wish to hell she wouldn't! But apart from that, it's managable. All I'm trying to do is beat Liz the freaking walking dictionary!

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

muahahahahaha!

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

Spare me from eavesdropping reptiles who know obscure words!

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

You're not supposed to UNDERSTAND Facebook. You're just supposed to HAVE one. That IS the whole point, really.