[Air-l] some thoughts from a user of facebook was: Re: A verb for using social networking sites

[Peter Timusk]

I am still reading the archives on facebook.

Just as a user note here rather than having any research. Facebook  
has less adds than myspace, and myspace allows me to share my home  
made music.

Now some thing roughly quantitative  to add. I joined facebook about  
a month ago. I looked for co-workers at statistics Canada as this was  
given to me as a choice in a fairly open way.

more than 500 people seem to be employed at Statistics Canada on face  
book. Our government department Statistics Canada has only 6000  
employees.

500+ / 6000 is an amazing amount of coworkers. Our recent section  
picnic of say 75 people was photographed by numerous people there and  
posted on face book a few times.

I am now networked to so many people at work


A different thought now.
  I am comparing facebook to the internet directly and finding more  
interaction with real life friends through facebook than on the  
internet without facebook.

Peter Timusk,
B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University
Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007).
just trying to stay linear.
Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.




On 16-Jun-07, at 6:08 PM, Holly Kruse wrote:

>  Although this may be changing (with notes, etc.), Facebook
> has for them certainly been more about the social network and less  
> about
> content: less "bloggy" than MySpace or LiveJournal or Xanga.
>
> A pretty important caveat is that I have some students who are pretty
> involved in local and regional music production and promotion, and  
> for them
> MySpace remains central, even as they also maintain "Facebooks," as  
> they
> would call their Facebook pages -- perhaps indicating that MySpace,  
> for all
> of its changes and problems over the past few years, remains the  
> best place,
> for whatever reasons, for bands to promote themselves and  
> information about
> music events to be circulated.