Anyone Else *Over* Social Networking Sites?

[NashVegas]

First I *had* to be on Flickr.

Then I *had* to be on MySpace.

Then I *had* to be on LinkedIn.

Then I *had* to be on Facebook.

Now I *have* to be on Twitter.

Oh yeah, and Classmates.

Why? To market myself and be marketed to, of course.

I dumped Flickr after the second phase (using your Yahoo login) of the Yahoo merger, because my Flickr account was not anonymous and my Yahoo was, and I wanted to keep it that way. I made a secondary Yahoo account and promptly lost the info, so I could never get back in. After a certain point I didn't want to bother.

I still have the MySpace and LinkedIn.

I made a Facebook account but no one was there yet, so wiped it.

I made a Twitter account and was *horrified* when I saw that anyone following you can read everything you've ever written, and you can't delete individual tweets or make them private. Fuck that.

Am I the only one who finds social networking sites, if I use them like all the marketing strategists tell me I have to, just another thing that's to add another two hours of work to my day?

[Idealism]

1. I never got into any of that crap

If I want to contact someone and I don't know their number and they don't know mine, it isn't that important.

[canetoad]

2. And remember when a phone

was either busy, not answered or picked up?

[Idealism]

9. Hell yeah, the good ol' days

[SoCalDem]

16. mine still "works" that way.. I just turn it off or don't bother with messages

:)

[canetoad]

55. I first got terribly suspicious

sometime in the 90s. Answering machines were all the go, but introduced call waiting for a charge. Then they made it free.
Now the telcos have whole sections devoted to 'growing' a single call into two, three, five.......

[SoCalDem]

57. My phone is directly in the "cat-path" to the shelf in the greenhouse window

and every answering machine we have ever had, was "done in" by careless kitty steps..

It is amusing to watch them when they step on the buttons, and "the lady" talks to them :rofl:

[malaise]

84. Ditto n/t

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

89. I don't either, but someone sent me this about Facebook today:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

Very interesting reading.....

[jazzjunkysue]

3. Never seen any of them. Sorry.

:shrug:

[sharp_stick]

4. I kind of like Facebook

I live a long way from home and find it's a decent way to keep up with old friends in a distant sort of way. I don't bother with updates and get a little tired of being superpoked but it's easy enough to ignore the stupid and just use it to share pics and the occasional how ya' doin.

[Quixote1818]

19. I have found tons of old friends on Facebook! It's free and helps me

stay in touch with friends and family. It took me months to do much on it but now everyone I know is on and we all keep up with one another.

[CurtEastPoint]

21. Ditto here on Facebook's usefulness. I do worry about...

their commitment to privacy.

[Hissyspit]

87. Zuckerberg was at Davos talking about the value of the user poll info.

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-facebook-shows-off-polls-in-davos-new-business-model-or-just-cool-toy/

Updated: Facebook Shows Off Polls In Davos; New Business Model Or Just Cool Toy?
By Robert Andrews - Mon 02 Feb 2009 04:19 AM PST
Update: As expected, Telegraph.co.uk got it wrong. A Facebook spokesperson told us: “The polls run at the World Economic Forum were not part of a commercially available product for advertisers and should not be confused with Facebook’s Engagement Ads ... Nothing has changed in our approach.”

Original: Facebook’s demonstration of some polling technology to luminaries at the World Economic Forum this weekend is causing some to wonder whether the social network isn’t trying out yet another monetization model. The company’s founder’s sister Randi Zuckerberg introduced the online public polls to 12 forums in Davos, generating real-time feedback for panel speakers. Now Telegraph.co.uk, which interviewed Zuckerberg, says Facebook is to offer the tool to companies who could conduct market research on potential new products by polling Facebook users.

Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s global markets director, said: “I had tons of people saying ‘this could be so incredible for our business’. It takes a very long time to do a focus group, and businesses often don’t have the luxury of time. I think they liked the instant responses. Davos is really a key place to launch an instant tool like this. It’s beneficial for everyone to see us as a global community of 150 million users. The vast majority are not just college students in the U.S. talking about things in their bedrooms. We are showing how we are a serious and insightful community.”

And now Telegraph.co.uk is calling it “an attempt to finally monetize the social-networking site by creating one of the world’s largest market-research databases”. There was no announcement at Davos about a new market-research platform strategy for Facebook, so it’s unclear whether this is Telegraph.co.uk jumping the gun or a potential new business model drawn up as instantaneously as the poll results Zuckerberg’s new toy received in Switzerland.

It’s true, though, that Facebook, with this year forecast to be crunch time for social networks, should be looking for as many ways to make money as possible, after erring with its controversial Beacon last year and now trying to build enthusiasm for its Engagement Ads. Though Facebook revoked users’ ability to create polls late last year, it’s retained the underlying functionality for itself.

[Lorien]

38. I'm starting to enjoy it too. It's fun to see all the photos of friends and former

coworkers-some of which I haven't seen in 20 or 30 years! I just added my old grammar school principle to my friends list. She's now 80 years old but still going strong-and she's as liberal as ever!(Her son, Jeremy, wrote the childrens books "why mamma is a Democrat" and "Mama voted for Obama)!

[roseBudd]

I am using Face Book almost entirely for political activity...

I had started an email list for a small group of folks who were or had indicated they might join me on a MSM newspaer web site in SW Ohio to fight the Obama smears & attack McCain.

I joined Face Book on a whim after the election because I had some time on my hands & discovered how easy it was to connect to other locals who are politically active through relationships.

I now use a secret group on Face Book as a shared white board & messaging system for a select group of activists that no freeptard can ever find. The group iscalled Writers for Obama SW Ohio.

Who want to be my friend on Face Book, PM me & I'll invite you to the group so you can check it out as I consider it a prototype that could be rolled out to other parts of the country.

[Quixote1818]

49. Me too. I just posted a link that I posted here at DU

This one: https://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/The_Economic_Impact_of_a_$750_Billion_Fiscal_Stimulus_Package.pdf

Even if just two or three of my 50 friends read it then it is making a difference.

[roseBudd]

53. OMG I have been using 2-4 paragraphs from that exact document for the past 2 days

on any LTTE or editorial criticizing the stimulus.

[Quixote1818]

56. Rachel Madow gave some stats and the website on her show

and I just had to go look them up to send to everyone. How did you find the link?

[roseBudd]

63. I google constantly as I write my comments for the MSM site, I so pwned today, check me...

Hmm, a 2.3% loss of GDP or a 6.6% loss of GDP.

Which do I prefer?

"Assuming no added fiscal stimulus except for that provided by the automatic stabilizers already in place, real GDP would decline for eight straight quarters, falling by a stunning 4.2 % in 2009 and another 2.2% in 2010. This would be more severe than the early 1980s recessions, which, combined, were the worst since the Depression. Some 8 million jobs would be lost from the peak in employment at the start of 2008 to the bottom in employment by late 2010, pushing the unemployment rate to well over 11% by early 2011.

The House stimulus plan would not forestall a sizeable decline of 2.3% GDP in 2009 but it would ensure that real GDP returns to its previous peak by the end of 2010 (see Table 3). The fiscal stimulus limits the peak-to-trough decline in jobs to some 5 million, and the unemployment rate peaknearly 9% in early 2010. With the stimulus, the unemployment rate falls back to its full employment rate oclose to 5% by early 2013. Without the stimulus, the unemployment rate rises to well over 11% by mid-2010 and ends 2012 at a still-extraordinarily high near 8% (see Chart 7)."

Now I realize dittoheads need to hear things on the radio, that whole reading stuff not being popular with the perpetually outraged, but for the thinking people here is a link to the projections based on, not opinions but a macroeconomic model system simulation.

http://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/Economic_Stimulus_House_Plan_012109.pdf

Because personally I give more credence to actual data, as opposed to Limbaughnomics.

[roseBudd]

46. I am using Face Book almost entirely for political activity...

I had started an email list for a small group of folks who were or had indicated they might join me on a MSM newspaer web site in SW Ohio to fight the Obama smears & attack McCain.

I joined Face Book on a whim after the election because I had some time on my hands & discovered how easy it was to connect to other locals who are politically active through relationships.

I now use a secret group on Face Book as a shared white board & messaging system for a select group of activists that no freeptard can ever find. The group iscalled Writers for Obama SW Ohio.

Who want to be my friend on Face Book, PM me & I'll invite you to the group so you can check it out as I consider it a prototype that could be rolled out to other parts of the country.

[NashVegas]

31. That's Cool

I login to MySpace as a way to keep up with what's happening with a certain scene where I am and keep them up with me.

[sandnsea]

5. Depends on your business

I just added Twitter to my daily mix, but I use it specifically for updates related to one specific web site. I don't use it for every thought that comes into my head. (That's what DU is for, lol) I have more than one profile on Digg and a few others for the same reason. But if you don't make your money online, or have a specific online strategy, then it is definitely a waste of time.

[TXDemGal]

6. I never "got" any of it

Too old I guess (40something). I have two friends who keep insisting I MUST be on Facebook but I can't get beyond Facebook's many privacy lapses to pull the trigger.

[Kahuna]

8. Same here. I'm too old for that stuff. I do go to myspace but I'm not a member...

Also, I don't want all those cookies and spyware on my machines. :scared:

[elocs]

7. I have a MySpace account to keep in touch with the kids.

Teenaged daughter, godson stationed in Afghanistan who cannot seem to call or email, but is constantly on MySpace.

[emilyg]

10. Never been to any of them.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

11. Phone,

which I can use to make or receive calls, and if I don't feel like answering, can be answered by a machine.

Email, which is just like the phone. I decide what to do with it, and if I choose not to sign in, that's good, too.

In all my many years on this big blue marble, I've never felt the need to stay in constant touch, or even a reasonable facsimile thereof, with anyone, including my nearest and dearest. Just because the technology exists doesn't mean it has to control me.

There's a lot to be said for silence, reading a book, thinking things over, looking at the sky.

[scarletwoman]

12. Huh? Never used any of them. (nt)

[shadowknows69]

13. In the words of Genesis (the band) "You've got to get in to get out"

I never got in.

[MrPerson]

14. That's a lot of networking.

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[dysfunctional press]

15. never got interested in them in the first place. ..

but- i am down to checking my email only 2-3 times a week, total.

[Donnachaidh]

17. I did actually find two old friends on facebook

But found that I have ZERO in common with them anymore. One actually started sending me RW BS emails, so I look at that as a total waste of my time. :shrug:

[Johonny]

30. yeah

my younger brother never emails or calls, but will always write to me over myspace.

[Mike 03]

18. Yeah, definitely.

I was on LiveJournal for a few years.
I joined eHarmony and quit after two days
I joined Facebook and quit after two hours
I did join MySpace to find out what happened to a friend of mine who had died, and the people there were very kind, but I did not stick around there at all... I left after I found out what I wanted to know.

[GregD]

20. I reject all linkedin requests as an invasion of privacy.

I want nothing to do with that.

[NashVegas]

33. I Reject - Ignore, Really - If They Come From People I Don't Know

Or who aren't in my field or any related field as far as I can tell.

[GregD]

71. I must be paranoid, but I reject them if they come from friends.

I just don't care - I want nothing to do with it. The "theory of unintended consequences" or something just makes me stay "not linked in".

[NRaleighLiberal]

22. Not as simple as that - depends upon one's personality, generation and lifestyle.

Extroverts are going to be a bit more open to social networking sites - but for all sorts of different reasons. There is certainly a generational bias - I am 53, but had to use computers/email/live chat frequently at work, so probably am more like my daughters in terms of use of the computer and various networking sites. I am on hobby sites, Facebook, but not Twitter and mySpace - but being an extrovert and open book, it is not surprising.

[shireen]

40. i'm an introvert but like facebook a lot ....

because it's not too intrusive. Taking to people, phone calls, emails can get time-consuming. But with facebook, just sentence or a few photos is a good way of keeping in touch with people you care about.

[NRaleighLiberal]

68. Indeed - should have expanded it a bit - how much you share tends

to depend on the Extro/Intro thing - Extroverts tend to be open books (loads of personal info), Introverts tend to be more careful/guarded.

[TXDemGal]

43. You make a good point about social networking

being more attractive to extraverts. I'm definitely an introvert, so that's probably a big part of why I just don't "get" it. And the two pals who keep insisting I MUST be on Facebook are very extraverted.

[BlooInBloo]

23. Twitter is stupid. There's nobody in the world I care THAT much about...

other than those I would just *call*.

Most of the rest are largely a generational thing. Old folks think they're stupid, young folks grow up with is, and it's their default.

To every season, turn, turn, turn and all that crap.

[Urban Prairie]

24. I prefer to remain completely anonymous in the ether...

Except for the four SNs I created on eBay and Amazon that were linked to two Gmail and two Yahoo!! email accounts I created for exclusive use as a buyer and seller, but no pics of me, my location or my family are floating around that I uploaded. Also had to reveal my RN and address to create online banking, utility payment, SS, Medicare, insurance, and PayPal accounts, but those are supposedly "secure"..LOL!!

Don't understand why anyone would register on any website using their real full name as a SN and/or create an email address with their full RN either. Makes them a juicy target for scammers, crackers, and spammers, IMO.

[barbtries]

54. i've had my full name on the web

for over 10 years. never been scammed. not that i have anything...because i'm a writer and want to share my writing and hopefully be recognized for it when it's good. because my daughter died senselessly and gave me a cause.

[IDemo]

25. I was told by people when I got laid off I *had* to be on LinkedIn

I fail to see the urgent need.

[undeterred]

28. It will help you meet other laid off people.

[NashVegas]

29. The LinkedIn Theory

Is that if you have contacts from previous work with Very Successful People, you can get them to recommend you. It's sort of like an unofficial resumé.

[IDemo]

32. I have plenty of recommendations

Does an emailed letter of rec via LinkedIn carry more weight with an HR person?

[NashVegas]

34. No, It's Just Faster

And more searchable.

[BlooInBloo]

35. Close to my main reason for not participating...

If a potential employer knows anything about me, it will be because *I* tell them, not google.

[Lorien]

41. I really like it because I have all my business contact's information on just

a few pages, and I can put friends who are looking for work in touch with one another very efficiently through the site.

[Horse with no Name]

74. I found our CEO on it

*looking* for opportunities...snort...snort...:rofl:
I immediately deleted myself. I don't want to be a casualty of finding out that kind of info. There are/were only a couple of us on that particular site.

[undeterred]

26. Never participated, never will.

And I turned down "invitations". I think its personally and professionally risky to put yourself out there like that.

[NashVegas]

37. You Know What's Funny?

Last year I managed a band for all of two months, and what I discovered was that of the people who I found through a search targeted to find those who like comparable artists, those who looked like they had the least "personality quirks" all had "refuse requests from bands" switched on.

[fishnfla]

82. never/never here too

dont see the point of it

[deaniac21]

27. Nah, I'm grown up.

[PBS Poll-435]

36. Twitter makes me twitch

[Ikonoklast]

39. Google 'In-Q-Tel Facebook'.

They are not what they seem to be.

[NashVegas]

42. Oh, That Looks Like Way Too Much Fun. Thanks

[Historic NY]

44. thats why I never could understand text messaging.....if you take the time to

type in a message why not just call them...?????? Essentially your instant messaging on the phone.

[BlooInBloo]

48. Nope - it's texting is abstractly different from both calling and IMing...

Call: committed to conversation - to end it, you have to say "bye".

Texting: complete lack of the above committment.

IMing: in between the two.


Practical upshot of this conceptual difference: For one-off statements, texting makes more sense, as is doesn't incur the "coversational overhead" of calling. For example: "I'm 5 minutes away" makes more sense as a text message than it does a phone call "Bob, this is Chris. Hey Chris. Hey Bob. I'll be there in 5 minutes. Ok, sounds good. Bye Chris. Bye Bob".

[tabbycat31]

62. the first text message I ever sent

was at a place where if i called the person, neither of us would have heard ourselves talk. It was at a (rock) concert, and I was trying to meet up with an out of state friend. We texted and were able to find each other.

I'd rather text than talk. I HATE talking on the phone.

[jmm]

65. The last text messages I sent where when

I was in a public place and probably couldn't have been heard if I did want to have a conversation and share my personal business. Also I like texts because I'm close to a number of people who work different shift. The sound a text makes is more discreet than a ring so it would be less likely to wake somebody up or interrupt work.

[Seen the light]

45. Facebook is the only one of any value

I'm not on in any of the others.

[Quixote1818]

59. I agree.nt

[Tsiyu]

47. Never got into them but all my friends do the gamut

Hell, with dialup it takes a half hour to load somebody's tricked out page and then my computer's loaded with junk.

I spend enough time here as it is! Like many, I check e-mail once a day (reply to resume? PLEASE?????) That's it.

[NJCher]

50. I guess I just don't want to meet any more people

Now, if I could establish contact with an alien (as in extraterrestrial), or talk to a cat or dog via one of these social networking sites, I might be interested.



Cher

[htuttle]

58. How do you KNOW that you can't talk to a cat or dog there?

[NJCher]

70. LOL

Good one!



Cher

[Alameda]

51. They are WAY too intrusive IMHO. If you use it for work,

and potential business acquaintances look at your stuff, and you have some personal info on there, do you really want them to know that much about your personal private life?

Do you take responsibility for the posts of your friends and their friends and their friends?

I'm on one of them, mostly to check on my nieces. I have noticed a lot of "elders" on them watching what the young ins are doing. My niece's big brother watches her too, as do other uncles, big brother and sisters monitor their "charges".

[Lisa0825]

78. You can select specific privacy options.

Only people I have added can see my full profile, and I set mine up so that my friends' updates do not show up as updates viewable to others. Only my updates and posts show to my list. I did that after a couple friends got a bit raunchy! LOL

[barbtries]

52. i use them

to keep up with family and friends, and for a place to park my photos. my entire family almost is on facebook now, so i'm there all the time. i actually never used them for marketing purposes. i have my flickr account and i have a webpage and a blog as well. and a yahoo group i created after my daughter was killed. i don't think i'm going to get over them. especially considering i moved from CA to NC and practically everyone i love is far away now.

[blues90]

60. I have an old cell phone and 5 numbers on speed dial

And use email every now and then and that's it. I could care less about all the other stuff. Too old to even care and don't know what most of it is.

[JerseygirlCT]

61. Well, I don't use mine for work yet, but I have been

enjoying catching up with old friends on FB.

I certainly watch what I say or do - anything I wouldn't say in a roomful of people, I won't say there. But it's been fun.

[Lex]

64. Heehee -- you have nearly 25,000 posts here

nt

[Lisa0825]

66. I hate MySpace. I am on FB and LinkedIn.

I only tried MySpace because some bands I was friends with did not have real webpages, and I wanted to keep up with them. I hated MySpace so much that I decided it was worth losing touch with them.

I only got on FB because so many friends invited me. I liked it better than MySpace because it wasn't so gaudy with horrendous backgrounds, music, etc. But I quickly tired of all the little games.... poke, grafitti, Vampires, etc... I'm a grown up, dammit!LOL! So I selectively reply to all that stuff. But I have found it to be a good way to find old friends and keep in touch.

LinkedIn: I agree that if you are looking for work, it is a VERY important resource. I got several job leads from former colleagues and alumni via LinkedIn. The job I landed was unrelated, but I still think that it is a valuable resource for a job seeker.

[tabbycat31]

69. I like myspace

I'm not on FB because I don't want to be a part of any site that makes people's last names public information. I'm just not comfortable with my last name on display.

[tblue37]

67. I have a Facebook account that I actually never use. I signed up

just so I could access other people's sites, since my adult daughter posts pictures for the family on hers.

But in just the last month, two dear friends I had lost contact with for years found me because I was on Facebook, and we have reconnected. When I first signed up a couple of years ago, another friend I had lost contact with for many years found me, too.

I don't spend any time on Facebook, but I am glad I signed up, because old friends are able to find me that way.

[krabigirl]

72. I love them, but to each their own.

[Lugnut]

73. I don't have time for that stuff.

I'm in touch with friends and family by e-mail, phone and in person.

[TwilightGardener]

75. Never used them--I prefer to remain anonymous and unreachable.

[progressivebydesign]

76. Hmmmm... good point. I love the Facebook right now, though.

Myspace. It was fun when my family was on it, so we could have fun even though we don't live near each other, But friends and family got bored with going there.. so it's now the playground for the 14 year olds that are now old enough to be there. And it is a good spot for bands, even if they just use it for directing their website to their myspace page cuz it's free multi-media for them.

Linkedin. I'm on that for biz, but frankly most people are like.. yah.. so what exactly are we supposed to do with this? Oh.. just have one. Okay. Got it.

Hate flickr. Picassa, which comes with the Gmail is much better.

Facebook. I'm really enjoying that now - though I find the platform to feel an awful lot like being trapped in a big house with lots of doors and no hallways. It has a nicer feel to it, and is more friend oriented, and not too cheesy. I'm glad they redesigned it to put the silly stuff on a separate page.

Twitter. Oh Twitter. See, I joined Twitter for my biz (I wrote a book and am a int. design consultant) Joined to promote those things.. but ugh. I have like 500 followers and vice versa. But I find it is just like high school for grown ups. SOOO tired of "internet marketers" and "social media gurus" and people that think it's good to have 50,000 followers (I mean how can you have any kind of meaningful experience if you're following and being followed by thousands? And you have the populars, which is anyone famous, who can tweet their bowel movements and have everyone telling them how brilliant they are and retweeting said bowel movements. You have the jocks, who are selling something but have to have their shirt off to do it. The flirts, who try to make their profile pics look like porn, but they describe themselves as "christian mommies", the Mommy bloggers who love to write about their child's runny nose, the snake oil salesmen who try to tell you that all you have to do is give them money to find out how they got so rich (by getting people to give them money to find out how they got rich, which was by having people give them money to find out how they got rich.) All the Anthony Robbins clones.. yech! I'm SO over Twitter.

[Blue_In_AK]

77. I never did any of that anyway.

I don't even own a cell phone, that's how 20th Century I am.

[DFW]

79. I even use telephones and write letters.

of course, I am one of the few people at DU who once used to cross the Bering Strait on foot........

[NashVegas]

81. Letters? Ha?

I always had the worst penmanship in the room. Now 20-somethings tell me how pretty it is. Surprised?

[datasuspect]

92. i still dictate letters to my secretary

[Political Heretic]

80. I only use Facebook, and no.

It's been a wonderful tool to connect with people I never dreamed I'd hear from again.

Really, really nice.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

83. I agree entirely!

I have only had a facebook account for a couple of weeks and it has been quite a ride. I have reconnected with long lost friends and even found some relationships that I would never have thought would be re-established. It has been great fun finding out that some of my friends and my wife's friends are also connecting!

I am not yet addicted...I am still on DU more. But I cannot by any stretch say that I'm 'over it'.

sP

[mistertrickster]

85. Agreed. And you know what else? Forwarding e-mails is NOT activism.

In the past, people had to actually, you know, DO SOMETHING if they wanted to make a social impact.

Now, electronic media gives people the illusion of doing something when actually they're doing very little.

[annonymous]

86. I never got into them. I value my privacy.

There are people in my past that I don't want any contact with. I suppose such sites are good if you run a small business or are in a band, but I don't want total strangers and/or potential employers judging me based on what I do in my personal life.

[LWolf]

88. I had a myspace page once.

Except that I didn't put anything on it, and I can't remember how to get to it or do anything with it.

I just never saw the point. The people I want to know anything about me do without an internet presence.

I guess if I had any interest in marketing myself, or being marketed to, I might feel differently.

Probably not, though.

[Skittles]

90. I never fell for any of that crap

[ddeclue]

91. I've found Facebook and LinkedIn to be useful as job networking and political organizing tools

but Facebook is starting to annoy me because idiots keep creating groups du jour for this that and the other political cause and it is really undermining the effectiveness of the tool.

I mean is it REALLY necessary to create a demand Howard Dean for HHS group for instance?

I've got a guy churns his school board group list like every hour with some new stupid idea or hare-brained scheme that has so pissed me off that I dropped his group like a rock yesterday.

His latest annoyance is convincing people to replace their FACES on FACEbook with his stupid little political slogan.

:argh:

That was the shark jumping that provoked me to do some bus throwing under.

Doug D.

[Le Taz Hot]

93. There are many advantages to getting older:

One of these is that you are no longer completely fascinated with the newest shiny thing that comes along so I never got on that bandwagon in the first place. Good goddess, DU and other news/political sites take up enough of my time as it is. Besides, I usually prefer to hang out with animals than a lot of people I've been forced to be around, so there is that. :shrug:

[carlyhippy]

94. I am an amateur photographer, so I live on Flickr

and myspace...I have a facebook acct, but have no friends :(