Facebook for Aspies

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My first questions:

1. What's the difference between the news feed and the live feed?

News feed just updates once in a while, while live feed is really good if you play games on there, as it keeps info going minute by minute.

2. In the right-hand bottom corner, the word "chat" appears and a couple people's profiles are there. Does that mean they tried to chat with me?

Those are the people available to chat. If you click the chat button and click one of their names, you can chat that way.

3. How can you see all your contacts' new wall comments and not just a few of them?

That, I'm not sure about...

4. What's the difference between writing on your wall and writing a "status update"?

I haven't figured that out, because if I write on my wall, it automatically updates it as my status. It's quite irritating actually.

i quite like facebook and dont find it to hard to use, although i hate it when they constantly change it.. dont like change.

1. What's the difference between the news feed and the live feed?
the live feed is new posts the news feed is old posts

2. In the right-hand bottom corner, the word "chat" appears and a couple people's profiles are there. Does that mean they tried to chat with me?

no it means they are online and avalible to chat

3. How can you see all your contacts' new wall comments and not just a few of them?

i dont know

4. What's the difference between writing on your wall and writing a "status update"?
if you write on yuor own wall it wil automatically put it as status update.......

I absolutely HATE FaceBook. I'm not particularly happy with any "social networking" site, although I do have a MySpace account that I basically use as an online diary. I also have a LiveJournal account, but that's not quite the same thing; I kind of like LJ. I do have a FB account because of school -- my daughter and then my advisor insisted -- but I almost never open it. I can't stand the layout or all the invitations or other stuff that keeps clogging my inbox. I'm really tempted to just delete it.

My neice is on FB constantly, talking to people she hasn't seen in decades, and I just can't figure that out. She says it's nice to keep in touch with them. Why? A lot of them are people she didn't really spend that much energy on when she saw them every day. Why bother now?

I play poker on facebook. But I am not very good with keeping up with the friends.

I had to choose "other" because I've never seen Facebook, and I have no intention of joining. I don't have a social network offline, and there isn't anyone from my past that I ever want to talk to again. I'm not looking to find anyone, I don't want to be found by anyone, and I am not putting any personal information that can identify me on any website. Especially one which collects that data and claims to own it and will use it in any way they see fit. Screw that.

Hmm, I have been rethinking about spending a lot of time on FaceBook because of that person who desecrated a memorial page to a 12 year old boy that was stabbed. I won't go into specifics but there are some sick people in this world.
It made me think that people spend too much time online, especially those cruel trolls that use sick humor to get their kicks.

I was talked into it by several family members who assured me I could keep it at family only interaction. Then I got friend requests from childhood friends, then from city I used to live in friends, then people who never said a word to me in high school friends...I'm trying to keep it simple. I left the city I used to live in in a state of nervous collapse and lost touch with some nice people. It's nice to have that connection available. It's just that ease with socialization is a mystery to me and has been since I met anyone outside of my immediate family. I shouldn't let it get to me. I should put a sticker on my monitor that says Give up. Do not post..

I should clarify that the definition of friend is someone I know and had a pleasant relationship with. I did not and do not have a social life.

You don't care about the poor orphaned lemur in need of a good home LOL
I cut that stupid farmville and stuff like that off.

I am thinking of writing an update that says, "I just got done working at 2;15 (explain what workout). I am walking to my car now, I am getting into my car now, I am buckling my seatbelt.... I am ordering at starbucks now, I just bought a... I am drinking it... You get the picture. I seriously want to do it and know I would tick people off. Do I care about ticking people off. I am sure about 75% would think it's a bit rude but would probably laugh, too because they can't stand it either. The other would probably delete me as their "friend" LOL
Yep, just something I wanted to do but will never have the guts to do it.


Perhaps some people are just so incredibly narcissistci they think EVERYONE wants to know those stupid little things. Perhaps it's just part of the generation? Perhaps they are just being impulsive or bored. DK

I was just about to delete my Facebook account when all of a sudden i got a call from wrongplanet, the sort of call that comes into one's head when trouble is near. So i did, and what do you know, a whole topic on the very subject i'm having problems with. lol.

I wanted to ask this question, hope you don't mind as it's not my thread, do you ever feel like you are being stalked on Facebook?

There's this one girl, every single time i go onto Facebook she opens the chat window and starts typing to me. What makes it worse is that she is also a working colleague so i see her quite often, about three or four times a week. But honest to god it's driving me crazy because all i want to do is play games on FB and read what people are doing. What i don't get is why when she sees me three or four times a week, she needs to chat to me on Facebook nearly everyday? Is this normal NT behaviour?

I think I will look a this site...

That's my only beef with facebook...the chat option. You can sign out, yes, but the second you open a new window, it signs you back in, and 99% of the time I DON'T want to chat with the people who are trying to chat with me. I am incredibly awkward in coming up with things to say especially with co-workers and people I knew 10 years ago, but haven't heard from until facebook came along. In public, for the most part I'm good at masking these things. I'm sure I still appear weird to those who know me decently enough, or even those who just pay attention when I talk, but even so, there are some people who don't suspect a thing. I find that when i'm not in say, a work environment, or out in public, it's a lot harder to put that mask on. I find myself completely clueless as far as things to say, because yes, the pressure is there to not mess up what I say, but it's in a different manner. As for everything else on facebook? I really do enjoy it! It has helped me to connect further with those I already know, but not well. For example, if a co-worker posts something about a tv show I like, and we bond over it, I have that extra knowledge to help me strike up a future conversation. There are times I come off sorta rude with what I do say, when I don't intend to, but for the most part I feel understood on there. It's always been easier for me to type my feelings as opposed to saying them, though.

Other. I have never been on facebook. I have seen it a few times and it does not interest me. Some people I didn't like in high school and haven't talked to since, making such great insights as "I just got out of the shower."

Who cares. I didn't care then and I sure as hell don't care now.

I like facebook, but it is difficult sometimes, especially the chat box and adding friends. I never know what to say to people in the chat or if I know them well enough to add them as a friend.

I love Facebook. the only thing is that I have chat turned off usually, I don't like people trying to chat with me without then asking me beforehand.

I check it a few times per day and do like keeping up with some of my 'IRL' friends who have since moved out of the area. The 'chat' feature is handy, too, although one of my IRL friends recently disabled that part due to an incompatibility between it and his computer.

AND - I am also open to adding new FB friends from WPland. (PM me and we can trade FB names)



Mike

I had to stop posting on Facebook, because it was way too much for me. I'd rather be posting, here at WP.