We had an awesome conversation at MIS dinner tonight. I took rough notes.
Should we use Facebook? Is it a lost cause?
People doing stupid stuff on FB
Not directly FB’s fault.
Is this a good reason not to use FB?
You can also do stupid stuff in public.
Very bad privacy policy?
For a time, when you deleted your account, all of the information would stll remain, and you could come back at any time.
“I spend too much time on FB.”
Why do they do it?
“It’s cool.”
“Everyone else is doing it.”
“All of my friends are on it.”
Stay in touch with people (requires less effort)
Contact Directory
Why the poke? Developers say they just wanted to see what would happen.
It’s an American way of socializing. Some people in the UK are worried that it will change the way people relate to one another on a day to day basis.
“I’m more ok with putting my info online than my parents.”
Is it a good thing to make it easy?
If I already know what you have been doing, why should I talk to you?
Helps for trans-geographical communication.
For some people Facebook is their primary form of online communication, above email.
The story Jeremy found and shared last December. “At least he could have facebooked me.”
They are not sending some long detailed message. The facebook message box is fairly small.
Email is more useful for actually acomplishing things.
It is very hard to acomplish things with facebook.
Facebook groups don’t really help things get done. Today, Chris took a video of something that a facebook event accomplished.
Might be useful for:
-Directory info
-Some long distance communications
FB is used for many things that arn’t useful. A ton of stuff that does not matter.
Currently it is a somewhat childish way to communicate, but sometimes that can be fun.
Can we make useful facebook apps?
We could make an app that lists stuff that people have and are happy to lend out to people.
an app that lists skills that people are happy to teach.
A travel/ride finder similar to dopplr.com. Could be nice for carpooling between cities. Along with this, we could make a shipping app where you could send something to someone and take advantage of the inter-city travel.
Video Ideas - people could list interesting ideas for intersting youtube style video shorts.
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Facebook realized what email didnt’t. We should integrate text, photo and video communication! Its much more efficient at communicating things then email. But im not saying email doesn’t have a place.
When I email people for a group project, its a bunch of x500 names and God only knows who is who. With FB I can put a face to the name.
The other day my friend Clare came up to me and said, “how do you know Liam”, turns out Liam and I had mutual friends we didnt know about and me and Clare had mutual friends that we didnt know about. We all hung out later that weekend and it was a great time. It creates a real network which email doesnt.
I also think facebook serves the same purpose as gchat does for Division folks;status updates, little notes throughout the day, messages. So in a way Division folks are using something i would consider comparable to facebook anyway.
One think i think facebook should do would be to loss some advertising and allow for sending attachments like email. Maybe they already do.
Well what do people think? All I ask for, is that people do not think theyre too good for it, most times its just that your friends are on a different program doing the same shtuff.
F to the a - c -e, b to the double ok!
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