The more Facebook ‘friends’ you have, the more you’ll be offered. This morning, with 3400 friends, I have 23 requests from those waiting for me to friend them and thus draw ever closer to the magic cut-off number, 5000. Lessee, that’s only 1600 more slots to fill unless I start deleting previous ‘friends’ in earnest.
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The more friends you have, the more facebook will suggest you acquire on your home page every morning. ‘You have __ friend requests.” Click on this on the right hand side of the page and bingo! they turn up on the left. However, SOME of them will be repeats and some of those repeats will [...]

If you go every single day and hang out with a group doing something like walking or birdwatching or repairing walkers and absolutely certainly, walking dogs (this is a great one), don’t miss days, always go – then eventually and before you know it, you’ll be solving your own problems.
There’s nothing [...]

Facebook is just words on a screen. If you hit the right button, it will go black. But your life will remain full of colour, sound, scent, sight in many dimensions. Many of the people on Facebook don’t even exist, though they say they do.
Words on a screen cannot meet your [...]

Right now someone’s thinking about going to visit as many of their facebook friends as they can and writing a book about the experience. I know because it’s occurred to me.
A precedent is the grad student several summers ago, who broke up with his girlfriend and decided to sell every [...]

Friends tell me they signed up for Facebook so they can see what is going on in the lives of their grandchildren. (Be warned, grandchildren!) Definitely many parents are doing the same. On my nephew’s site the other day I saw the message: ‘CALL YOUR MOTHER!” all in capital letters with her profile picture. He [...]

*Why blog about Facebook when the world is awash in troubles? Isn’t the online world extraneous to the important issues? – Because this particular online world has claimed a huge share of the population on all continents and become a significant factor in our culture, it deserves some of our attention. Why [...]

Today I friended, yet again, Iva Bigen,sigh. Totally Monty Python sniggering adolescent humour. I can practically hear the page tittering away behind the scenes. Tittering. (They’d be laughing at that too.) This is probably the lowest point to which Facebook sinks. Made-up smutty profiles for idiots to click blindly while amassing reams of ‘friends.’
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Just in on a facebook conversation with someone who had attained his full 5000 friends. What do you do after? You get a new e-mail address, a new profile and then you begin on your next 5000, he says as though everyone does it this way. I couldn’t tell if this is [...]

Promised yesterday at work that I would friend Andrew Thomson. (Odd to me that ‘friend’ has become a verb). Always half-exhausted when I get home but I dutifully went to Facebook and typed Andrew’s name into the search engine, only to find that there were 500 of the same name, mostly residing in Edinborough.
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