Facebook. How many friends? How did you choose them?

[carelesschucca]

Originally Posted by Sally

Facebooks different for my generation!

He's calling you OLD Colin!!!

If you have 850 'friends' and 'friends of friends' is also allowed in your settings, then your FB page is as good as public. You probably have a wider audience on FB than there are active members of this forum.

Yep, I'm OLD!

Originally Posted by specialone

Oh I thought I was one of the special 10

Would you rather be considered a friend or just some bloke I know off a forum? LOL

Originally Posted by carelesschucca

He's calling you OLD Colin!!!

oldER

[dizzyblonde]

@yc, if you have 1500 friends on FB, and add someone abroad, you met briefly when attending a gig with another friend.....and you walk down a street .. would you know them from Adam?

I wouldn't.


Now I do have friends who gig with bands and they have loads of friends as per this scenario, as they use it as a media for promotion, but if you are Joe Bloggs, and add some random you spoke to for five minutes with a mate, personally I find it pointless, especiallyvif there's another 1500 friends in the same way on you list. But that's just me. I prefer to have real friends, not billy no friends, if that makes sense?

I do have one person from here I haven't met, but she's speshul. I have someone from abroad I hsvent met, via someone else, but they have been helping me with something abroad, and when I go over, I will be actively seeking to meet her.

Fight ! Fight! Fight! Get im Col, defend us oldies

[MisterTommyH]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Interesting approach actually, I like it.
I don't have anyone from work. Because I work from home I don't tend to make Friends at work, and to have a work person on Facebook, they really would have to be a friend who I trust 100% not to repeat things at work. Facebook and work, IMO, don't mix.

Bloody hell - I have my direct boss on there as a point of principle.

It comes in useful for little comments like - "Can someone point me in the direction of a big wall because I need something new to start banging my head against" - I know that this very much depends on the atmosphere you work in, but I find this works very well for getting across my frustration etc. without having to moan directly. But then it's nothing that I wouldn't say to other people in the office within ear shot of all the bosses.

[Paul the 6th]

Just avoid posting things like "GTA 5 released today - pulled a sicky especially!"

[carelesschucca]

Originally Posted by MisterTommyH

Bloody hell - I have my direct boss on there as a point of principle.

I've only once ranted about work on facebook. The issue wasn't sorted never will be but it was nice to let off steam... STILL BL00DY ANNOYS ME TOO!!!

RAGE BUILDING AGAIN RIGHT NOW TO BE HONEST!!!


IDIOTS!!!

I once added someone from work to Facebook when they left the company, because I got on with them well, had travelled a lot with her which meant many evenings spent over dinner and in hotel bars, I wanted to stay in touch.

Perhaps a year later, I went for a job interview (for my current job) and of course all my family and friends wanted to know how I got on at each interview and when I got the job offer (it was life changing event for me and for them requiring a move from Scotland where most of my family live, to the Midlands), so my Facebook being private as mine is, was perfect for sharing that info.

What I didn't realise was the ex-colleague was still friends with a current colleague and was feeding that information back to her over coffee gossip under a promise (she assured me when she apologised) not to repeat it. The ex-colleague should have kept her gob shut, the current colleague wasn't honouring that promise, and unbeknownst to me the whole office knew how I was getting on with my interviews. My boss told me this when I handed in my notice letter.

Needless to say she has since been culled from Facebook.

There is a lot of wisdom behind the old saying 'Business and pleasure don't mix'