Advice. Suggestions. Support. Guidance?

[Trekker4747]

Yes, I do.

As for Facebook? Perhaps I'm not exactly an expert at getting around its user restrictions. Fine, I admit that. But isn't that just more evidence that I shouldn't be using Facebook in the first place?

Besides, as long as we're talking about using the Internet to connect with other people...and finding interests I might have in common with them...this board is an excellent substitute. I have a lot of very good friends I've found right here, and talking with them - and discovering what we have in common - is more than enough to occupy my free time.

And like I said, I simply don't know what I would use Facebook for. Twitter is very useful to me (particularly for getting in touch with a company's customer service department), but I honestly don't know what I would ever do with a Facebook account.

Facebook is good for communicating with other people and organizations in a more coherent manner allowing for communication in more than 140 characters sometimes meaning a message has to be parsed into incoherent net-speak and hashtags.

Seriously, it's pretty much the same damn thing except you can kind of make more meaningful messages and, I would argue, the layout and format is a bit more coherent than on Twitter.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

It's certainly the "same damn thing" as far as privacy goes.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I just don't get it. MLB you list your twitter on trekbbs. You use your real name on twitter. And yet you seem to derive some perverse pleasure in declaring how you will NEVER use facebook because, privacy. This is just.. nonsense.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I think MLB has a need to feel "different" and grinds this particular ax to validate his "differentness."

But then... he's on Twitter.

Hell, if he just hates Mark Zuckerberg, at least that'd be a principled stand I could agree with!

 

[Trekker4747]

Remember when he hated CFL's because of the insignificant levels of Mercury in them?

 

[sojourner]

Remember when he hated CFL's because of the insignificant levels of Mercury in them?

Did they make you mad as a hatter?

 

[Spot's Meow]

Don't drag out the online thing forever. Few messages back and forth, establish enough in common to be worth meeting, and suggest dinner/coffee/an activity to meet in person.

This is more good advice. My husband and I messaged through the dating website for a couple days, then emailed each other for a couple of days, then we talked on the phone for a few days...we met each other in person a week after the initial interaction. Even though I'm a hermit with social anxiety (and threw up in a nearby trash can right before meeting him), I went through with it anyway and within two years we were married. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you!

Good luck Trekker, don't let one failure get you down. My husband sent out a LOT of messages before meeting me. A small number of people responded, he ended up eventually meeting 6 people in person, he went out with 3 of those people more than once, but only one of them did he actually get into a relationship with. It just takes one!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Remember when he hated CFL's because of the insignificant levels of Mercury in them?

I got over that.