On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 01:38 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
I must say that I was quite anti-facebook given how many other now defunct social networks I've been a member of in the past but this one at least lets me keep in passing contact with a few freinds who live in different bits of the UK who I wouldn't /normally/ phone/contact and see what they are up to.
I somehow joined Facebook ages ago without actually remembering I had done so or why. It is only today that I have actually logged in to do anything with my profile.
I must say at this point I am wondering what all the fuss is about and already some brokenness has bugged me.
The most annoying thing is that I get those horrible "type the letters you see in the image" things every time I try and add a friend. There is a link that offers to verify my account by me typing in my phone number, but this fails when I do so saying it can't verify my provider.
Worse than that the whole add friends dialogue actually excludes those with poor vision who are unable to read the security check image (hey I have 20-20 vision and I struggle enough), where is the button to read out the characters ? (plenty of other sites manage it)
I have found a couple of people at previous places of employment, and their profiles say they worked there, but when I try and search for that company to find more friends it returns no results.
It isn't obvious how you add a company or a regional network. My Home town does not have a regional network and only one of the companies I have worked at seem to have one.
Maybe once I have built up my networks a bit I will start to see the point but at the moment....feh
Perhaps it helps relieve the guilt complex of not keeping in touch with friends? although I must say it has been slightly useful so far for me just not so useful for people who I am in contact with every few days or so but the people who you only think of rarely.
Adam