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If I send an "old-fashioned" e-mail to a friend and they don't respond, or answer my e-mail questions in the form of a Facebook update, I get a bit ticked off. If I'm not worthy of a personal e-mail response then I will probably write you off as a friend before too long. This happened to me a couple months ago and I no longer consider the person to be a real friend to me which is very sad.
I experienced this as well. I know people can be busy, but isn't the whole point of email and Facebook to make it easier to stay in touch when you don't have a lot of free time? When a person is too busy to even email, you have to wonder what kind of friend that person is.
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Originally Posted by Degenerate
I still prefer email or the phone.
I must be old
I guess I'm old too. There's a lot to be said for talking with someone and actually hearing their voice. I know if I were dating someone, I'd rather hear their voice than see what they type.
I guess I'm old too. There's a lot to be said for talking with someone and actually hearing their voice. I know if I were dating someone, I'd rather hear their voice than see what they type.
The other reason is that I don't like being tied down to my computer/laptop all the time. It gets stale. I prefer face-to-face and hearing somebody's voice.
Although it's hard to engage in more than one phone call at a time -- but on Facebook/MySpace, you can actually communicate with many. The problem is, if your profile is public, everybody can see who you're talking to and what they're saying. And if your friends' profiles are all public, people can actually get a pretty good picture of what your life is all about.
Believe it or not, I'm far too private of a person for that.
I found this article today. Do you have long time friends that are on your friends list on Facebook (or MySpace or whatever) and now you only keep in touch by updating your Facebook Status? No more phone calls, visits, or e-mails? Do you think this is still a "real" friendship? I'm talking about people you used to keep in contact with in other ways, not just people you knew 20 years ago and added them as friends even though you haven't kept in touch in those 20 years.
Just curious.
I keep in touch with my MySpace and my Facebook friends by phone and in person since most of those friends are also my dance friends and people I see on a daily or weekly basis. We just exchange pics and stuff.
Don't you think MySpace is better? Facebook has too many applications ...
No, I find Facebook's "wall" a great application without all that background stuff. My niece has a background that will choke a blind man. OMG I can hardly read anything on it.
The wall on facebook and the "Chat" is awesome. Just last night my nephew and I were IMing each other while we were watching football.
No. Quite the opposite in fact. I have friends and family (TONS of family!!! t) on Facebook that I hardly EVER communicated with, and now am able to stay in touch with. Friends that I have not seen in years, are now easily in touch. It's been a wonderful tool for me, though I never thought it would be as useful as it has been.
The people that I normally am in contact with "in other ways", have not changed. We still call, talk, whatever. No, FB has not been a detriment at all, for me.
Couldn't agree more. I was another reluctant Facebook joiner - my friends in London were nagging me to join, but I thought I would only know them on there, and why bother when we could just e.mail?
Now I am a total convert - friends found me who I went to school with in Europe YEARS ago, and would have been unlikely to ever see again. I'm Facebook friends with family all over the world, and even reconnected with some old friends from London who now just so happen to be living in the same US city as we just moved to! It was an invaluable contact when we were moving because it gave us some ready made friends here.
The one thing I don't like is that I do get the occassional request from people who I really don't feel any need to keep in touch with. I ususally don't accept these, but I've accepted a few because I felt bad, and now I'd feel guilty if I deleted them. I may do it anyway!
I think Facebook is the most valuable for those who have moved a lot in their lives, or who have family and friends scattered all over the world. Then it really is a very valuable tool.
I've always hated the phone, actually, just a personal thing.
I'd much rather keep up with friends and family who are too far away to have facetime with via ACTUAL PAPER LETTERS - yes, I really DO write and send them. I have a wonderful array of cool stationary, a writing desk, and cool accoutremants like sealing wax and high-quality fountain pens. I've been writing letters since I was a kid. I also prefer e-mail, and messaging on social sites like Facebook to talking on the phone. I enjoy writing, be it online or off, that's my preferred method of keeping in contact with others. I don't think it's lazy not to phone. It actually takes more effort to communicate in writing, IMO. All told, however, I'd rather get together when possible, but I live far from most of my family and longest term acquaintances, so that's just not possible.
For a long time I didn't like Facebook, but since it's now home to my peers, most of whom are over 25, I've gotten quite attached to it. It's wonderful for getting back in touch and actually enhances some of my real life friendships, since we can attend gatherings we might not otherwise hear about and share tidbits of information before or after some happening.
For those who fear sharing too much, there are plenty of privacy settings that can help limit what and how much info gets out to others.
The problem is, if your profile is public, everybody can see who you're talking to and what they're saying. And if your friends' profiles are all public, people can actually get a pretty good picture of what your life is all about.
Believe it or not, I'm far too private of a person for that.
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I have friends and family (TONS of family!!! 
t) on Facebook that I hardly EVER communicated with, and now am able to stay in touch with. Friends that I have not seen in years, are now easily in touch. It's been a wonderful tool for me, though I never thought it would be as useful as it has been. 
