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Reviews (14)

4/5 (minimum 1) by Mark on 19 Apr 2007

I've never been a big fan of these 'community' websites like myspace and WAYN etc. I always get bombarded with mails from them, it takes ages to set anything up and you need a degree in programming to get a Myspace page looking good. Facebook is different!

Its really easy to use and set up. You'll be amazed about how many people are on it at the moment - I've got back in touch with about 20 people from school and uni through it! Its really easy t upload pictures and you can tag your mates in them which is cool. It also gives you a summary page at the start which tells you what all your friends are upto!

Only downside is when anyone 'writes on your wall' - i.e. posts you a message, it sends you an email which is quite annoying, but worth it!

give it a go!

3/5 (minimum 1) by tom on 19 Apr 2007

I'm interested in these sort of social networking sites from a research perspective, so I'm both enthusiastic to see what they offer, and as a regular person quite cynical. I've been a longtime user of LinkedIn, which is just starting to prove useful now I've reached a critical mass of connections, but have held out on MySpace and Facebook until recently.

Since I signed up I've been reasonably impressed, but more at a technical and user interaction level than anything. As with many things, it's affected by the "I already use X number of social networking sites, why would I need another?" problem, and without the ability to port all my connections from LinkedIn I can't see Facebook being my "social networking site of choice" any time soon.

Having said that, they do some cool things. The Status Updates are nice, although nothing I can't get with my Jabber roster or from Twitter. The Social Timeline is quite interesting, but a bit meaningless when sparsely populated (guess I need some more Facebook friends). Probably the biggest advantage over LinkedIn is the use of photos; optional, but really helpful, and gives the site more of a familiar and personal touch. By far my favourite feature is the "Poke" feature. I haven't even used it (again, more friends needed), but I know I want it, and have wanted it for ages. Well done Facebook.

After all the good stuff, now the gripes... Sometimes I find the options on the site annoyingly restrictive, and Facebook really needs to learn from the tagging world about this. The "How do you know X?" options are stupidly narrow. Where's the "Other" option? Or the "We just know each other from around" option. There are stacks of people who I know in multiple contexts, and the overly restrictive options means I live this connection blank which makes the system less rich and less useful.

Lastly joining the college (university) networks requires you to log an email address from that institution with Facebook. Maybe this would give me lots of useful extra features, but I'm sorry they're not getting their hands on my Uni mailbox. I deliberately use other accounts for these sorts of services, and that isn't going to change any time soon.

Facebook seems to be immensely popular, and deserves to continue doing well. It's a crowded space, but there are some good features in there. Just a few kinks to iron out and it could be unstoppable, especially if the "how do I get my data out to reuse elsewhere?" issue was sorted ;)

5/5 (minimum 1) by Ilovebananas on 03 May 2007

5/5 (minimum 1) by joekarow on 14 May 2007

facebooks is a lot better than myspace even though most of my friends only have a myspace accounts.

/5 (minimum 1) by itsmeConnie on 19 Jul 2007

HI Just trying out this web site I am in Nova Scotia and looking forward to meeting up with old friends.

/5 (minimum 1) by itsmeConnie on 19 Jul 2007

HI Just trying out this web site I am in Nova Scotia and looking forward to meeting up with old friends.

/5 (minimum 1) by kidehen on 25 Jul 2007

A major step in the right direction re. open social networking. Of course, I would like the profiles to be FOAF based.

4/5 (minimum 1) by luis on 14 Aug 2007

/5 (minimum 1) by FlamingFire on 17 Sep 2007

/5 (minimum 1) by PINKSISTER on 18 Sep 2007

/5 (minimum 1) by sousou3333 on 03 Oct 2007

5/5 (minimum 1) by KeshiaR on 11 Oct 2007

Hey, My name is Keshia R.

/5 (minimum 1) by Tammy09 on 16 Oct 2007

1/5 (minimum 1) by Theskystheway on 11 Jan 2009

Facebook is terrible! they disabled my account for no apparent reason, and I cant even contact them to ask them why. However they did mention something about a fake name, I legally changed my first, last, and middle names through the court, and changed it on facebook also, I wouldn't advice anyone to use them.

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