Facebook For Dummies???
Posted on: 18 February 2008 - 3:25pm
Facebook For Dummies???
So, who’s going to be running out to Barnes & Noble ASAP?
No?
What about your own Top Ten lists? Let’s hear it…
I pretty much hate all applications, but I’ll admit that I love SuperPoke, mostly because I have the option of tackling and karate chopping my brother without causing any actual physical harm.
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I like books, big, smart and hard to read books. Especially ones with tiny letters on big pages and an author with TWO initials.
But for now
“Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs” is about the funniest book I’ve read.
Facebook is for dummies, and I like being a dummy (Don’t believe the first line)
im still chipping away at the harry potter series…WHICH by the way, makes me feel guilty that i could finish a book that is as long as the bible, yet i cant finish the bible. phooey.
as for teh facebook…book, i imagine the people that will buy it are older folks who cant navigate through webpages too well. wait a minute. older folks on facebook? creeeeeepyyyy
i’m facebook friends with my mom, and i’m still not sure that i’m comfortable with it. but whatever. she could probably use the book though.
I don’t care what anyone says. Facebook is not meant for 40-60 year old men and women. Facebook should be restricted to college students and alumni who are 25-years-old and younger. It would creep me out if my parents got Facebook. First of all, they barely know how to use a computer, let alone be part of a social networking site. My mom still types with one finger as her glasses fall half way down her nose. Facebook is just not for the older crowd. When you can say that you are married to so and so, then you know it’s time to give up Facebook for good. My sister and her husband are both on Facebook, which I find to be weird. There has to be a point when you give up the whole social networking gig and just live your life. When your Facebook picture is your kid then you know it’s time to give up your relationship with this social networking site, It seems as if people are more reliant upon Facebook to keep them up to speed on what their friends and family member are doing. Whatever happened to the old call them on the phone technique? It just doesn’t happen anymore. In short, the older crowd needs to find something more age appropriate for their demographic. Facebook just isn’t cutting it.
First off, are you going to just up and quit facebook because you got married or you have a kid? Probably not, Facebook is a huge part of socializing for our generation that it would be like 30-somethings giving up cell phones, its ingrained now and will not leave without a fight.
Second, yes facebook started for college students, but opened its doors to non-college students for tons of reasons. And Facebook was smart for it.
Third, just because its weird for you does not mean someone shouldn’t use it. Facebook is such a general social networking site, its no longer for a certain age demographic anymore. So the older crowd uses it in a different way, good for them, they are adapting to technology, we should be giddy, not of resentful of them for embrassing a technology and the cultural phenomenon. This often does not happen.
Fourth, social networking sites are not for just socializing with the people we already know, it opens doors to communicate with people all over the world and from all different backgrounds, if we (the younger generation) closes this, what does it say about our generation?
I agree with Amanda. If facebook were restricted to people 25 and younger, then that would mean my facebook lifespan is down to under 2 years!! I plan on staying on facebook after I turn 25. We are living in the digital revalution right now, so of course it is going to be awkward to get used to digital sources of communication at first. I think eventually, most communication will take place through some form of electronics. After I graduate I plan to use facebook as a way to keep in contact with friends that moved on to all different places. It is much more convenient than writing letters or whatever else they did back in the old days!
Oh yea, I also agree with Amanda about the book “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs!” Great book!
The book Bringing Down the House is about students from MIT who beated the system at casinos by card counting. Card counting isn’t illegal, but you have to have unbelievable math skills in order to accomplish such a feat. The students obviously went to school in Massachusetts, but while their friends and colleagues were studying long hours on the weekends, they were flying to and from Las Vegas in order to win hundreds of thousands of dollars. The author of the book is a investigative reporter who followed the every move of the MIT students. He partied with them, stayed up all night with them in casinos, and even taped $300,000 cash to his body in order to get through security at the airport with them. This book is a true story, and fabulously written. Everyone knows that the MIT students all got caught, but what happens to them even though card counting is not illegal? They were red flagged at every casino in the United States so that they couldn’t continue to card count. Since card counting is not illegal, floor bosses at the casino would take them into the deep chambers of the casinos and threaten them by breaking fingers, etc. In order to win more and more money, the students had numerous identities and costumes that enabled them to win BIG. Millions of dollars was won by these students and none of it could ever be taken away from them. Rooms at the casino hotels were free for these guys. They hung out with celebrities and loved the attention/free services the casinos would give them. Little did the casino know, these guys were flying way under the radar.
Christina, is there a movie coming out based on that book? I know there’s one coming soon about the same premise, but i don’t know if it’s that particular book.
If it is, they can’t call the movie the same name…. it’s already taken. Haha.
Yep, I did a little IMDB’ing and found it, it’s called 21 and it comes out at the end of next month: http://imdb.com/title/tt0478087/
In case anyone was wondering.
Yeah… the movie is entitled “21.” It is not based on the true story, but it based on actual events. It’s going to be a crazy movie.
In my post earlier I said the word “beated” when I was really talking about “beat the system.” It definitely isn’t beated the system. Ha ha. thanks
The book “Rigged” is also by the same author of Bringing Down the House. His last name is Mezrich. Rigged is also a great book.
i like it, but i think the name of the site is horrible.
it’s catchy, but it sounds annoying when you hear people say ” i’m gonna check my “facebook”
I think facebook should be limited to college students only. It use to have a sense of entitlement for us in a way, because we chose to go on. It was kinda rewarding.