Facebook?

[Clackerooney]

I've avoided this facebook malarky until now but had to sign up recently for a stag do so might as well join up to some bookies and try and get on some of these promos.

I think Laddies died a death recently, so far I have Betfair and Neteller as my "likes".

Anyone else worth joining?

Cheers!

[Andy]

I've avoided this facebook malarky until now

Im still avoiding it.

I have enough friends already, I dont want to look at your 2004 holiday photos, I couldnt care less about the "large one" you had at the weekend, and I dont want to look at your fishtank, know what your StarTrek name is, or rate your tits.

So I will stay off it thanks.

There is actually a TGT group "Julie" set up about two years ago when she worked with us but it is dormant I think and im not sure what it ever really did I was not a member but at the time Facebook was "the next big thing" and it was felt obligatory to have a page. Nothing to do with me though. Rant over

[Clackerooney]

Im still avoiding it.

I have enough friends already, I dont want to look at your 2004 holiday photos, I couldnt care less about the "large one" you had at the weekend, and I dont want to look at your fishtank, know what your StarTrek name is, or rate your tits.

I couldn't agree more!

I've been forced to sign up as all the other guys on my brothers stag are putting pictures up and I can't see them, unfortunately the days of passing actual photos around or even emailing them seem to be in the past!

Needless to say my profile is as hidden as possible & there's no pictures of my gold fish in sight!

[passthedutchy]

Same here.

Try and avoid it as much as possible.

Although the free £50 from Betfair was nice........

[Spooky]

Im still avoiding it.

I have enough friends already, I dont want to look at your 2004 holiday photos, I couldnt care less about the "large one" you had at the weekend, and I dont want to look at your fishtank, know what your StarTrek name is, or rate your tits.

So I will stay off it thanks.

There is actually a TGT group "Julie" set up about two years ago when she worked with us but it is dormant I think and im not sure what it ever really did I was not a member but at the time Facebook was "the next big thing" and it was felt obligatory to have a page. Nothing to do with me though. Rant over

So how is it that you really feel about Facebook? LOL
Im there but very limited in my posts. Although I have hooked up with a few girlfriends that I have not seen in a long time.

[Hippyer]

Being passed photo's and being forced to look at them is a horrible chore. On facebook you can choose if you want to look at them or not.

I have in the past looked at the photo's of the friends I used to go out to night clubs with a few years back. Amazingly they're still living the exact same life from the looks of it.

Facebook is ok. It's not really a very social thing for me as people do use it for ridiculous things. I log in to read things like "David has just hunted a bunny and got 1,399,333 points in Jungle Invader" and think to myself oh my god GROW UP!!!!

Still if I need to contact people it's always there for those who's number I don't have.

[musicbox]

Spot on there Hippyer. One thing you have to be aware of is when someone asks for a pretend lettuce for a pretend farm. You think you're doing the right thing to help this strange person who needs a pretend lettuce for a pretend farm by clicking on something that gives them the pretend lettuce for their pretend farm but, before you know, you're embroiled in a pretend mafia war over pretend lettuces.

Then people you've known for years in 'real' life start acting like they'd never act in 'real' life. They send you an invitation to join a group called 'can this sausage roll get more fans than Cheryl Cole?' and the following hour they ask you to take a test called 'when will you die?' Your response isn't to delete your friend or your account, it's to invite them to make their first move in what will likely become the longest game of scrabble EVER. Maybe subconsiously you feel they are bound to bring an early death upon you due to all the shit they're bombarding you with and you decide you're not going without them.

Just as you're about to log out, up pops a post on your profile from your ex girlfriend that Facebook has a dodgy privacy setting which means your photos can be used to advertise pampers on all your friends pages - the only reason they found out was because my head was superimposed on a baby wearing pampers on an advert on her page. So you spend half an hour unticking boxes to protect yourself whilst others messages come in saying "you look good for your age" and other witty things and the only reply you have is "shut up mum."

If you can get beyond that and you like looking at photos of families you're not actually in, of children you haven't bore, and of wives you haven't... well, most of them you haven't... then it's really not at all bad.

As for the question, I would just search books on there and add them all and then you should be able to see anything useful coming up each time you log in I would imagine.

[pinkyexcel]

Paddy Power Games is a good one... they have weekly competitions to name a game or send in a joke to win a fiver, which you can get pretty frequently. The New Football pools are trying to get to 5000 fans too.

Facebook's dodgy privacy settings do mean that if anyone looks at your profile you can't hide your 'Pages' and so the first thing they will see is all of the gambling pages you're a fan of

I use facebook to keep in touch with various people that I wouldn't necesarily ring up or who are abroad, however I find that some of my closest friends become irritating on Facebook through constant status updates, especially children or baby-related... I do not need to know what someone has made for dinner or what amusing thing their child has just said or that they have the best husband/wife/boyfriend in the world. Some people seem to only communicate with their OH's through facebook.

So I'm guessing you guys all have a twitter account then

[musicbox]

Facebook's dodgy privacy settings do mean that if anyone looks at your profile you can't hide your 'Pages' and so the first thing they will see is all of the gambling pages you're a fan of

That's a good point... and when I saw there was a TGT group, I thought my family might wonder what kind of group I was part of! Maybe have a separate, faceless profile with all the gambling ones on!

[Fella]

Im still avoiding it.

I have enough friends already, I dont want to look at your 2004 holiday photos, I couldnt care less about the "large one" you had at the weekend, and I dont want to look at your fishtank, know what your StarTrek name is, or rate your tits.

Couldn't agree more.

Just so I can be sure to avoid them, could you post a quick link to everyone who wants me to rate their tits?