Are my fellow jellies enjoying the Fluther/Facebook interactions as much as I am?

i refuse to use facebook

@ragingloli I understand that mindset completely, frankly I am surprised at how much I enjoy playing over there.

A lot of us use tumblr. It has kinda exploded in the last few weeks. Mine is

http://johnryanpowell.tumblr.com/

And I have one with Allie.

http://allieandryan.tumblr.com/

@SuperMouse
I am opposed to the entire concept of revealing my entire private life on a website. I like to keep this to myself.

@ragingloli I totally understand that mindset. I am pretty careful about my personal info and pictures of my kids getting up there, but for the most part I find it a lot of fun. I have a brother who is absolutely horrified by the entire concept of social networking sites, every time I even utter the word “facebook” he freaks out and starts to lecture me on the dangers of internet predators. He also makes the argument that no one beyond the 7th grade belongs on one of those sites.

i like FB and I like Fluther. However, since i’m totally honest on Fluther, i would not want my friends on FB to learn i am on Fluther and start reading my posts and all my innermost secrets. on Fluther i talk about things i would not want people to know, and sometimes i talk about the people themselves – they’d be reading Fluther and say “hmmm, this sounds like she’s talking about me.”

@SuperMouse – I have a brother exactly like that to.

@SuperMouse Since those sites are supposed to be for people 14+, you can tell your brother that 7th graders aren’t allowed on those sites and have their accounts closed if identified as a 7th grader, or someone who is probably 12.

Facebook was originally for college kids and was only opened up to people without a ”.edu” e-mail address.

I have been on Facebook but I find it eats up vast amounts of time without my either learning or teaching anything, so I don’t bother any longer.

@Darwin: Well said and true.

@gailcalled & @Darwin…Olen huomannut saman olevan totta kulutukseen.

@Blondesjon That’s easy for you to say.

@Darwin . . .if you don’t mind the thprained tongue.

@Blondesjon Are you Finnished yet?

I found that I control the time it eats up as I am the user.

I found that face book enabled me to connect with some people I had lost contact with.
I decided to only use it for communicating with the few people I was glad to have found. It works for me.

I am! I really enjoy getting to interact outside of Fluther. That said, facebook and tumblr (I am at AugustThoughts.tumblr.com) are really eating up a lot of my time. I need to get it under control. :)

I have found AugustThoughts.tumblr.com are taking up a lot of my time as well. There are worse ways to waste your time kids. Check ‘em out.

i enjoy fluther and facebook. i keep my tumblr account of boudoir photography of myself private.

@eponymoushipster And we thank you for that. Really.

@augustlan well, i know you all wouldn’t be able to control yourselves, so i grant you that. my monkey mojo knows no limits.

I use Fluther for my social networking, although it wasn’t designed for that. The rest of my internet usage is online games (nothing too complicated like WoW) and researching for more knowledge.

In my opinion, Facebook and MySpace are as useless as nipples on a bicycle rim. I have eliminated both of those accounts, and find more joy in uploading pictures to my photobucket account.

@evelyns_pet_zebra I still want to see a closeup of the eyeball tattoo!

I really thought I was going to dislike Facebook and resisted the urgings of friends and family for a long time. But alas, I finally gave in – and I’m really digging it. I too have a gaggle of jellies alongside my real life people.

That being said, I use their security settings to the fullest, am very selective who I friend, and will block your ass in two seconds if I think you’re fucking with me.

As for the Fluther-Facebook connection; I keep the Fluther references subtle and don’t share very personal information anyway on FB.

That being said, there’s nothing I’ve said on Fluther I wouldn’t share with my real-life folks on FB.

I’ve actually had a Facebook profile for a while (since its early days), but took an extended hiatus for about a year. Around the time I picked it up again, I also discovered Fluther. Naturally, everything fell into place.

Yep, I’m enjoying it very much. Jellies are so passionate, caring, and witty. If my Friends List contained nothing but members of the Collective, I honestly wouldn’t care less.

‘sides, it’s nice to see everyone’s pretty faces. Before, though there is a strong sense of community here on Fluther, you were all just avatars sprouting ideology and philosophy. Now, you are all real, legitimate people – all with your own faults, idiosyncrasies and such. I like that.

I don’t have a Facebook, I don’t really like taking pictures.
But I do have a Tumblr, which I use frequently. Some of you have seen a bit of what I look like, though.
http://tink1113.tumblr.com/

@cprevite I echo your statements. I finally gave in & just joined Facebook the first of June after many invitations. I was always afraid of the privacy issue. But after learning how the site really works & that YOU can determine who sees what, I got on board. OMG, I’m having a ball there. I have RL, Askville & fluther friends on there. I don’t differenciate between them. Because to me, a friend is a friend to me. 5 posting here on this question are friends of mine on FB, & I greatly enjoly them.

I have always loved my Jellies! I could always trust Fluther to keep me entertained, Jellies are just so smart and funny! Then Tumblr came along and I follow many of my fellow Flutherites. Fluther people are slowly taking over my twitter and I feel the same will soon happen on my Facebook and AIM. Currently I only have one Fluther person on my Facebook but that’s because he is my online husband ;), but I like him so much I want more Fluther people to grace my Facebook feed!

@Blondesjon:
Kaunopuheinen kuten aina.

Kyllä, todellakin.

@IBERnineD i tried to click on your FB badge from your tumbler, and it wouldn’t come up. Do you have it on super secure lockdown or something?

I use Facebook more than Fluther (which is one of the reasons I dropped off the face of Fluther), but I don’t know anyone from Fluther on Facebook. So I can’t say as I do enjoy the interactions at all. ;)

Yeah my facebook is on superduper lockdown, I will friend you myself!

@IBERnineD ok, cool. you have my info or you need me to PM you?

nope I just requested your friendship!

@IBERnineD and i just responded. thanks!

@eponymoushipster I knew I felt a pull to return to this board… Must have been that monkey mojo.

there was an interesting article in last week’s new york time’s magazine about a small number of people who are dropping out of facebook for various reasons. some said it’s not private like you think it is, despite your privacy settings. they say that info about what you look at and what you like on other sites is sent to advertisers on FB. another reason people are dropping off is that they find they are only communicating by FB and not calling to chat any longer. that has happened to me, also. i rarely talk on the phone with most people now, except my mom and a few select friends. the rest, it’s FB all the way. I spend way too much time on Fluther and FB and i feel i should be reading or being productive in my spare time, which i have little of

@avvooooooo oh, probably. it’s a curse/blessing thing, you know…;)

I just got a Facebook account a few weeks ago, and I spent way too much time explaining to people why I hadn’t accepted them to my friend list yet. I also had to explain why I don’t use it much.

That took so much of my time, I hardly had a chance to use it, so I’m thinking of cancelling the account. I don’t even want to mention how many weirdos I had to delete before I learned that I should have made the account private!

Just before I clicked on answer I looked up to see @jca‘s post about privacy, or the lack thereof. Now I know I will cancel the account!

@scamp The information you put out on the internet isn’t private. That’s not news, nothing new about that. However, you can limit what you put on the internet to begin with and then work with the privacy settings to manage who can see you, see what information you put out there, and who can contact you. There’s no need to cancel your account just because information isn’t private. Nothing on the internet truly is.

@IBERnineD First, I was like

:D

…when I read I was your only friend. Then, I was like

:|

…when you added @eponymoushipster. DON’T YOU KNOW HE’S MY ARCH RIVAL

WHOOPS! well maybe I’m just keeping your enemies closer?

@Grisaille i’m your archrival? that’s a hoot. besides, you guys flirt enough on twitter, i could never compete. ;D

She’s my internet wife. You keep out of our internet bedroom.

oh dear…

blushes

I mean, don’t our profile pictures just look as if they were meant for one another?

@Grisaille & @IBERnineD Can I call the two of you IBERaille?

eye-ber-eye?

Sure, why not? Though, it is up to the missus. I’m just the one that kills spiders, opens pickle jars and what have you.

I approve, who knew our names would sound so good together! Oh and honey there is a weird bug in the bathroom, could you get that?

DON’T YOU TALK ABOUT OUR SON LIKE THAT

How many times have I told you! That is my nickname for our DAUGHTER!

pish posh. They both look the same, goddamn it.

I guess that’s what we get for having twins

I still don’t understand why they are black, though. Are you sure it was because you tanned every day that summer when you were pregnant?

For the last time, they look black in comparison to me since I am so pale. jeez

Oooooh, yeah. Sorry. Man, my wife is so smart. I wonder what I’d do without her.

I was going to say something but it would have been too dirty ;)

@IBERnineD Have you met my husband? He’s the king of dirty. What’s the worst that could happen? Removed By Fluther Moderators

@jonsblond Not so much since he shaved that patch of fur that he was hiding behind.

Nope not funny anymore. I believe my husband said it best, “Where you excel in intelligence, you lack in comedic timing. :( ”

For the rest of you, yes. This kind of stuff between us goes on all day. On every imaginable social platform.

Ex. Twitter:

Me: You’re a nut.
Iber: takes one to know one sir
Me: It takes one to know one that knows one.
Iber: takes one to know one that knows one to know one times infinity I’m the wife I win
Me:…Dammit.

@Please keep it among yourselves; have pity on the rest of us and go chat elsewhere.

Well someone sure is a Grumpy Gus.

@Grisaille: You need a different venue for this kind of stuff, which is not riveting to the general collective. Trust me.

@gailcalled I dunno, I was pretty entertained.

Some gentle reminders from the Fluther Guidelines. (Now if they had written the above in Finnish, that would be entertaining.)

Egocentric attention-grabbing
Vague, confusing, or generally non-sensical
Off-topic chatter or an inside joke

@avvo^8: Join them on FB, PM, Chatroom, Twitter or get an adjoining room.

Honestly, I don’t understand FB. I can never think of anything to put there. I don’t like the silly apps. No one ever seems to say much of interest. Fluther seems much more useful. What am I not getting?

@daloon: ” I don’t like the silly apps.”

Agreed.

@daloon – The best use I have found for Facebook is sharing recent photos of the kids with the grandparents. Otherwise, I feel much the same these days about it as you do.

Haven’t been on fluther or facebook for a while, thus I have not noticed it!

@gailcalled . . .On kieli sisällä vitsi?

@Blondesjon: Puhu kovempaa. En ymmärrä sinua.

Onko tämä parempi?

I have a lot of fun keeping up with my jellies on FB, TUMBLR ( http://dr-c.tumblr.com/) and of course on this site. I hardly use FB but when i do it’s to check up on my jellies or to answer some interesting post.

@Dr_C: NO interest in learning Finnish?

@gailcalled sure! why not?

Mikä on edellä asia i-kirjain pitäisi kuulla?

@Dr. C: Opit liian nopeasti.

@gaycalled
panna rikki , minun kalu on palava!

@ragingloli: Nimeni on Gail

And that just an unfunny in Finnish as in English.

Howdy! I have a few Jelly friends on FB as well, and I’ve really enjoyed having that “outside of Fluther” interaction with those people. It’s a special bond!