Social Networks are the big thing when we talk about web 2.0 and beyond. But due to privacy issues, some people avoid Facebook and others like the plague. So, do you use them? And which ones?
Only Flickr Sean and I'm no longer active on there, only use it for the storage really. I have Facebook but never use it, I also have Google+ but never use it, would not have thought of Youtube as a social network?
YouTube is a social network as far as it works with commenting on videos, sharing videos and making friends on there. Granted, it falls from the radar when you think of a social network. But for many people, it is as big in their lives as a social network as Facebook or Twitter. For me.. I use Facebook, Google+, I recently joined Twitter again, have a Flickr account (though I have never used it's social side much) and I have a YouTube account that I have uploaded videos on and commented on others videos and messaged the odd person, so I guess I have used the social side of that too.
Facebbook seems to be mostly women chatting to each other and posting family photos. I use it hardly at all now, I'm bored with it.
facebook is a nice tool, if handled properly. Same with googleplus. Yes, privacy isa concern,but one can put upthe settings, that hardly anybody can even see your name or profile. As a try one couldlook at both of my profiles: zwiebelgardencafe@gmail.com which is an open Restaurant one and cebucrossover@yahoo.de which is my personal one. you can see the difference invisibility. Hacking of facebook accounts has happened ( very seldom and mainly because people use their facebook a a login for other sites or answer to those notorious emailspam which asks for passwords. well, yahoo, google,facebook would never ask for your password, they got it already, right ?) But then again, i never had this problem with facebook,but both, my yahoo and gmail email has been hacked several times in the past years.One of the gmail just during this days, nothing i can do about it, it has been done in the gmail world,not on my PC. But personally i dont want to miss fb anymore,i just opened a "secret" groupwith some oldfiends of mine of the "wildtimes"when we were 16 to 18 years old.Secret groups provide absolute privacy similar to the hidden forums in this forum. Without it i would nevere ever get all those old stories and photos of those days. And its the only tool i have to stay (or stay again) in touch with old buddies from Germany. My personal conclusion about facebook,its a great tool and the negtive propaganda is rather neglectable,asitonly appears from case to acse and the media jealously plays it up big time. After all, when Yahoo started its "yahoo info services" many years ago the media also exploded in warnings about it. Logically, because fb groups and infokeepsmore and more people away from buying newspapers. Why buy when one can talk directlywith people involved?
Ahh, the secret group thing. I have one with a few of my closest mates. In there we just basically call each other names and make crude jokes about scousers and welsh people (given that one of them married a Welsh woman). The sort of stuff I don't want my workmates or sisters looking at...
Social Media has helped us communicating with our friends and to those long lost ones. I am using Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest Stumble upon and Digg.
That's a bit sad.............. Nothing beats a chinwag.............. By the nature and content of this member's posts, I am having some difficulties in not believing a spot of trolling is going on............ Prove me wrong...........
Is British Filipino a social network? I can never understand why people collect "friends" on facebook, people who they have never met. Having facebook friends seems a stupid idea. If one of your 876 unknown "friends" gets arrested for drug dealing, kiddie fiddling, or armed robbery, then you might be woken by armed police at six in the morning, and taken in for questioning. Real friends will buy you a pint down the pub. Far more social!
FB is far more useful for our asawas as they can keep in touch in whats happening back home, but otherwise I agree, it all seems a bit intrusive and boring at the same time. I don't use any social networking whatsoever, maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but a phone call or a chat in the street/pub/shop is miles better. The paranoid in me sees FB & Twitter as a cynical marketing tool to get us to buy stuff we don't need or want.
Facebook and forums have different roles to play. With a forum, you find it because you went looking for a particular subject, you meet people and often there lies some level of anonymity if you choose to, you can also meet like minded people through that niche subject. With Facebook, you can meet new people but there is no anonymity to it, they know who you are and as soon as you become Facebook friends they can see your other friends and more. Also it is nigh on impossible to search through Facebook for niche subjects if it isn't included into the title of the page. However, that may soon change and who knows what the future for forums, or even social networks???
My wife uses Facebook a lot. But she restricts access to those she wants to see her postings. It isn't particularly user friendly, that way, but is still possible. She has no interest in any forums.
I do use Facebook quite a bit - and I tend to use it for two things - to keep in touch with friends and ex colleagues who are now scattered across the world and for discussions with Filipino friends. Interestingly, I find these two groups have tended to coalesce into one - the first group consists largely of British/Aussie/Kiwi ships officers who have all visited the Philippines and have worked with Filipino colleagues and the second group consists mainly of journalists and other people in the media who have a correspondingly international outlook. So yes, I find FB very worthwhile. Corina on the other hand uses it with great reluctance; she seems unique in her family in that respect!
Facebook I find is great for Facebook chat (especially since my finance is still in Pinas) and the funny youtube videos but yeah the pointless status and the women posting selfies on themselves with lots of make up (always seems to be single girls) is rather tedious! I honestly didn't realise so many people were on google plus! I thought that was a non-starter!
