Plus, why should I accept a stranger invitation to be my friend? What so good about having a friend of someone you don’t know? Why do people accept it? Is it that good? Is it to avoid being a lone wolf in highschool? Anyway, it’s a lazy word. The proper word should be “acquaintance.” These networking sites are redefining the word “friend” because they want to make more traffic, and make it easier on the people. The non-nerds(highschoolers included) have problems.

Don’t like social networking and facebook is the one I hate more. Going to disable my profile too. Another one I don’t like very much is orkut but at least it allows you to use a nick name.. the only one I like a bit is myspace cause there are many underground bands ..

But yes I facebook being sort of “evil”..

if people really wanna to talk to me the can just google for my name and surname and will find out a way to contact me.. and anyone who wants to be found could just open a free blog somewhere and sign it with name + surname.. but if people doesn’t do it and uses nicknames instead then it means that they don’t want to be found by anyone.

and moreover why should other people being able to see all my friends and contact them (inviting to being their friends too)? Cause it happens that they do it for no reason so what’s the point? is just a big brother like thing .. voyerism.

so.. for me too is more like a feeling.. but really can’t like it.

also.. for some years on Saturday evening I saw some friends of my friends and I just said a couple of words with them in all that time so I don’t even know their surnames.. but now I can have them thanks to facebook.. to me it sounds sick.

bye

I could not have put it better myself…If we met face to face with 90% of these so called facebook friends we’d hardly give them a nod.

Also, sending people little icons and writing on their walls is so first grade.

I tried Facebook and left it during the first two hours. Too slow, what’s the point of wasting time with people you call Friend but won’t “befriend” in real life, and what’s more, when there’s flickr, gmail, youtube and reddit, who needs Facebook?

True, the name does sound catchy. Facebook. Oh. yeah.

We’re human beings after all, communicating in person is what being social is about, not “online” correspondence.

I totally agree with you. After several months on facebook I found myself with a bunch of ‘Friends most of which I wasn’t particularly interested in and never wished to be. I don’t know how it could have happend!!!
Probably I am one of your 39 friends that invited you and never got in touch with you. I did the very same to most of my ‘Friends’!
There was this strange urge to get as many contacts as possible - it was like a drug! I had to fight with myself not to invite everyone I had ever written an email to. But as soon as I had invited somebody whom I didn’t care about much, I wished to remove him/her again. Of course, you can’t do that unless something happens and even then it is quite ridiculous to do that.
In the end, I was soooo glad to remove everybody when I deactivated my account. I am clean now!!! And I hope to stay clean. No more social networking for the sake of social networking!

(By the way, the two comments before mine really exemplifies the opposites sides of how we view the once-elusive Cyberspace.)