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FB thoughts & questions
May. 18th, 2010 10:57 pmI've finally gone back to the FaceBook account that I created eons ago.Yes, I know. I've got all of the privacy stuff battened down as best I can. But there are just so many people, especially relatives, who only post there, so I'm giving it a try.
Though I wish I could view a page of people's original posts only, without seeing the comments for each post, and who liked it, and notices about who is friends with whom, etc. (Um, yeah, I guess what I want is an LJ page -- and I'll bet I just need to get over it.) It's just that it seems hard to discern the signal amidst the noise, even though people cite "keeping up" with others as the main reason for using FB. Is is possible to turn off any of that extraneous stuff? At least I've figured out that I can block notices about games!
How often do you check your FB page? (Assuming you use it regularly, not once every 2 months.) It seems like new posts scroll away really fast. Again, hard to keep up with folks if their posts zip away before you've checked back.
I also can't figure out how FB is deciding which posts to display. I've set up lists Fandom and Family. If I explicitly go to each of those lists, I see more recent posts than FB shows me on my main page, even with 'most recent' selected.
Any hints & tips are welcome!
Though I wish I could view a page of people's original posts only, without seeing the comments for each post, and who liked it, and notices about who is friends with whom, etc. (Um, yeah, I guess what I want is an LJ page -- and I'll bet I just need to get over it.) It's just that it seems hard to discern the signal amidst the noise, even though people cite "keeping up" with others as the main reason for using FB. Is is possible to turn off any of that extraneous stuff? At least I've figured out that I can block notices about games!
How often do you check your FB page? (Assuming you use it regularly, not once every 2 months.) It seems like new posts scroll away really fast. Again, hard to keep up with folks if their posts zip away before you've checked back.
I also can't figure out how FB is deciding which posts to display. I've set up lists Fandom and Family. If I explicitly go to each of those lists, I see more recent posts than FB shows me on my main page, even with 'most recent' selected.
Any hints & tips are welcome!
