EDF on Facebook

[nutty]

Cool - I see we exist on facebook...

http://www.facebook.com

[mockney piers]

and does the EDF have a login to save me having to register to yet another site?

[AcedOut]

Why do we need this?

[mockney piers]

I've no idea, facebook is yet another way for the sub-20s generation Y or whatever they're called, to itch yet another solipsistic scratch.

The last couple of Roasteds (the little cartoon at the beginning of the observer magazine, and along with Barbara Ellen the only reasons to pick it up) have been spot on. Woman panicking as her IM, email, myspace mail, facebook poke, mobile phone and SMS all go off at once, but still no neighbour has ever knocked on her door!

Iraqis are apparently all dating and communicating on IM and email and chat sites, they have an excuse, we don't. So who's up for the next Forum meet, or RL (real Life) interfacing session?

*quietly pulls down '12,000 views screenshot' from flickr photostream, coughs into hand, ahem ahem*

[AcedOut]

Damn, better dash. Have to RL for lunch with an Iraqi...

[Ant]

I may be missing something here, but why have an online group about an online group? Isn't that a little redundant?

Please for to explain.

[mockney piers]

Seeing as every Homepage actually just posts to a myspace page, full of photos from flickr and events from upcoming.org, with delicious links, technorati tags and blogger blog entries, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised.

Does it have an upmystreet link for lordship lane?

[Ant]

Good lord. It's enough to make one consider retreating to meatspace.

[mockney piers]

Indeed.

Does this mean i'll have to stop posting here and do some work?

[nutty]

I think you are somewhat missing the point of facebook but I can't be bothered to explain why :)

I dismissed it myself until I was forced to sign up to see a friends pictures of a weekend away. I suggest trying something first before slating it...

[Ant]

Could be.

I'm just wondering whether the task I'm not quite doing at the moment would in fact be better delegated to someone else...

[AcedOut]

The list is endless-

myspace

facebook

facepary

friendster

bebo

hi5

friendsreunited

...

...

mobile phone

sms

email

IM

Skype

RL (if time permits)

[mockney piers]

I'm only poking fun Nutty. Most sites have perfectly useful applications. I only got into flickr to show a couple of holiday snaps to family and put stag do/wedding photos up for mates to enjoy.

Then you get sucked into the community, and the views and the explore hits and everything else. Somewhere it's taken me a good year to control and retreat slowly from.

Likewise there's no reason myspace can't be a genuine way to showcase music etc, but really for most it's a popularity contest, people logging on every half an hour to watch their hit counters etc.

I've not gone on to facebook but I gather it functions in much the same way, potentially useful, potential solipsism trap. After all a hammer's great for banging nails in a wall, or you can kill people with it.

Regardless, I'm going to have to come to terms with forum addiction at some point and slowly slip away from it, not to mention yet another new outlet for my penchant for online gaming that's recently come by, so i have to limit these things.

Hence i didn't register.

[AcedOut]

I eat my words. I signed up to Facebook last night and noticed that there are loads of people on the iloveeastdulwich (or similar) group!