Facebook

[DaveM]

I never did get the idea of what Facebook was actually about and I have had an account for some time now. Anyway I started playing a bit with it this last weekend and am actually quite amazed with it all. I have made contact with some very good old friends that I have not seen in many years. Some are now located outside of SA. It is really cool to catchup on what they have been doing all these years.

My FaceBook

 

[The Seeker]

The mention of Facebook reminded me of one of my favorite TV Ads:

Verizon commerical- Twitter Updates and Facebook

"You know...other people can see that"......LOL!!!

"I'm sitting on the patio"....BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[avion]

Most of my family are on facebook. I can't be bothered to tell you the truth. It's like I always tell them - there's a reason why I lost contact with people. If I wanted to talk to them I wouldn't stayed in contact. lol

Just remember whatever you put on facebook, pics, info etc, does not belong to you - it belongs to the admins and they can do with it what they wish.

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[DaveM]

Well it is great to mack contact with some people after all these years.

 

[avion]

Just hope that you don't owe 'em money dave. :>

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[The Seeker]

My highschool graduation class has it's own website with a message board, chatroom, mailing list, and photo album. We just had our reunion last summer.

There are some I like seeing and then some I would love to forget.

 

[DaveM]

[quote author=avion link=topic=7365.msg39948#msg39948 date=1255009535]

Just remember whatever you put on facebook, pics, info etc, does not belong to you - it belongs to the admins and they can do with it what they wish.

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The same goes for any media type site where you add content, forums, blogs you name it. Unless you own the site that is :ya2: :ya2:

 

[Rocky]

Same here. I'm on Facebook, but hardly bother with it.

 

[Dilligaf]

Facebook is great. I have found a handful of long lost friends.

 

[DaveM]

Yeah it is quite something I must admit I never got it until this weekend. I also like going to our old schools page and reading up how the sports teams are doing and checking out the latest pics :y115:

 

[Nodster]

Guess it's a case of "YouTube Myspace and I'll Google your Yahoo" then?? :ya2:

Yep, I finall scummed to signing up but don't go in for "I think I'll wash the bike today" kinda posts :silent:

 

[CarlS]

I have never gotten involved in any of the social sites. I would rather be out riding or kayaking.

 

[DaveM]

Carl it is actually quite amazing finding and meeting up with long lost friends

 

[CarlS]

I am a member of military.com which has a membership listing. I have found some old Army buddies through it. I simply found their names and emailed them through the website. And some found me. Like AJ, I have kept in touch with most of the folks I wished to keep in touch with over the years.

 

[DaveM]

I think for us in SA so many people leave the country it was hard to keep up with them at the time

 

[otherwise]

[quote author=DaveM link=topic=7365.msg40178#msg40178 date=1255403117]
I think for us in SA so many people leave the country it was hard to keep up with them at the time
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For us in Australia, we are getting some of your best people.
For you, the wrong people are leaving.
I have two, unrelated, sets of SA friends, both professional and cashed up.

 

[DaveM]

Yes we are losing more and more good skilled people each day.

 

[CarlS]

Admittedly, we don't have much of that. I know some folks who immigrated to Australia, Costa Rico, Honduras, and Mexico. These folks were mostly ranchers.

 

[DaveM]

Carl the way things are now it is very unusual to find a family here that does not have direct family that is now living in another country :sad: :silent: It is basically a fact of life here that you have a good chance of one of your children ending up in a foreign country

 

[CarlS]

And that is very sad.