Ok, so I admit I’m on Facebook. 
But interestingly enough, I’m actually doing some useful work networking on the site as well as been approached by potential clients. Once the domain of college-types, Facebook is starting to catch the interest of the older crowd. Companies are using it to encourage team-building (cheaper and more fun than most so-called team-building corporate-sponsored workshops).
I’ve found quite a few writers’ message boards (though mainly geared toward newbies), and am finding Facebook useful in certain types of research, esp. when seeking interviewees.What about the rest of you? Ignoring Facebook as a potentially dangerous time sink? On Facebook and loving it? On Facebook and spending way too much time on it when you should be writing? Or just not interested?
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For the moment, I’m in the “Ignoring Facebook as a potentially dangerous time sink” camp.
(That, and I don’t have a good feel for the pitfalls yet. I heard somewhere that if someone posts a picture of me on their site, and labels it with my name, it will show up on my site without my permission! Don’t know if it’s true.)
I just love it. We’ve moved so much that it’s allowed us to catch up with people from each stage of our lives – but like your illustration shows it is a massive TIME SINK for me too… sigh.
Regarding the pictures – each image can be tagged with people’s names – you can remove the tag yourself, but you can’t get them to take the picture down – and it will only show up if they are your friend and have that link to you to add your “Facebook profile” to the tag. Does that make sense??
Heidi, thanks for the info! Definitely sounds less intimidating the way you explain it.
You’re welcome!
On Facebook and definitely loving it. Especially with all these new apps coming through. It’s fantastic for community building and networking.
If you’re doing surveys and research on or about facebook, try out our new questionnaires application. If lets you create surveys, share them with other facebook users (and not just your friends but everyone else if you want!), and you can see what answers other people give to your questions. You can also show your answers to surveys on your profile so people can get to know you better.
check it out by adding the application at:
http://apps.facebook.com/questionnaires
Chris
I have a facebook, but I haven’t used it in a while. Oh well! It is fun, and a lot safer than myspace, I think.
“On Facebook and spending way too much time on it when you should be writing?”
That would be me. Especially distracting when one is attempting to write a novella for their senior project. *sigh*