Tip For Tomorrow: Ain’t never been there, they tell me it’s nice (name that tune!). I’m making my maiden voyage to the Fashion Bug tomorrow to scope out their new line of Right Fit pants and jeans. They carry them in plus AND non-plus size, so everyone can join in the ‘Let’s Not Show Our Booty Crack’ fun.
Further Elucidation Of My Cheap Deal: Back in the Stone Ages (when I was 4 years old) I made friends with the little girl next door like this – her mom brought her to my house to introduce us, we smiled at each other, and presto! Instant friends. And if you’re reading this, hi See-Yun! How’s Boston treating you?
Apparently, going out into the real world is WAY too scary, and people don’t really talk to their neighbors anymore. So instead of making friends the old-fashioned way – going up to a person and asking, ‘hi, will you be my friend?’ – we’re letting our computers do talking for us.
With MySpace (for tweens, teens and young adults) and Facebook (for fogies like me), you can meet people, share stories/photos/videos/hugely embarrassing facts about yourself, and hopefully create deep friendships, or at least useful business contacts. But most importantly, you can add them to your Friends list.
From what I’ve seen so far, the biggest activity of Facebook and MySpace is adding as many people as possible to your Friends. You e-mail people, begging them to accept you as a Friend, and when they do, they’re automatically added to your Friend list. The more Friends you have, the cooler you look.
It’s like high school all over again.
On the plus side, these sites could introduce folks who have never heard of frugal living, let alone Cheap But Not Easy, to my website. Thus helping to expand my Media Empire. And they’ll definitely help me stay in contact with friends and colleagues. Plus, joining MySpace or Facebook is FREE, which you know I love.
But isn’t that what the phone and e-mail are for? I’m so confused. What benefit is there in using Facebook and MySpace? Let’s put it to the group for discussion: Why do you use Facebook or MySpace?
P.S. If you’d like to be my Friend, my pages on either site are listed under my real world name: Erin Schneider. And thanks! I need all the friends, and Friends, I can get.
P.S. Squared. I’m also on LinkdIn, if that’s your bag, baby.
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I recently started using Facebook to keep in touch with a few friends after I moved. I never joined Myspace since all the video and music and animated stuff people put on their myspace profiles slows down and crashes my (already slow) computer.
I've never used either MySpace or Facebook, but I've seen someone use FB once. I recently got invited to be someone's Friend. It was very nice, albeit, a teensy awkward, as nary a soul has ever just "walked" up to me and asked me to be their friend. Since I've no clue how to use these sites (I'm a fogie too), I'll have to ask a teenager at the library for help.
I'm already on the computer too much so I've avoided MySpace and Facebook so as not to feed my addiction. But I hear you can throw granny panties at your friends on Facebook:)
I work in IT and Facebook is like yesterday's news to my peers. They have now moved to Twitter. I assume that everyone will catch up to Twitter in the next year or so.
I don't use either of these – too much work for me… I have a hard enough time keeping up with my blog these days. I just sent you an e-mail before I read this post – anyhow, I'm on Linked In, too – you'll see my info in your e-mail.
A few nice things about facebook:
You can post random little things in your "status" that might not be worth sending an e-mail or even post a blog post. These are fun things to know about friends and makes you feel like you're hanging out with them even if they're across the country.
You can play scrabble and other addicting games with friends. And do ridiculously silly things like "superpoke" each other.
It's a nice place for sharing and commenting on photos.
As you know, Erin, I'm on all those sites.
I use my FB and MySpace to market Bionic Beauty. I post tidbits of articles and links on both profiles to draw people over to my blog. Especially useful for giveaways (getting entrants in) and cross-promotion for articles you'd like to get a bit extra attention. I actually get quite a bit of traffic from FB.
I also Twitter daily. And love it. At first it baffled even a computer geek like me, but now I see it's usefulness, although it can sometimes work against you. But I can ask a question or for help on there and get instant answers. Much faster than IM'ing 20 million people or sending emails.
Plus I use it to promote BB too.
Then there's Plurk (like Twitter) which is where everyone from Twitter has moved on to. lol It's hard to keep up…
I originally started using Facebook and MySpace solely to find my college friends (some international) that I had lost touch with. I'm not sure why I still have the accounts. I guess I feel like I'm missing out if I don't have them. Besides, it's a guilty pleasure to get a sneak peak into others' lives