Comments on: Robert is Blogging about Facebook

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:48:42 +0000

I’ve gone in the other direction, and taken the “is” to be simply describing the word.

So my status becomes “Robert is a boy’s name of European origin. It means “bright fame”, derived from the Germanic elements “hrod” and “beraht” … ”

If found that by visiting Behind The Name.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:45:34 +0000

A friend of mine on here who’s only sixteen but leaves me standing creatively and intellectually, used his as a question, his first one being “Vernon is that it?” I thought that was brilliant and told him I was gonna plagiarise it but do the decent thing and credit it. So mine became “Richard is that the best you can do, steal an idea from Vernon?”

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:38:09 +0000

No need to own up to anything.

The lyric may be someone else’s, but the idea to put it on facebook was yours. It is the latter which I am applauding.

By: Gill Rickson

Gill Rickson — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:17:39 +0000

I feel I should own up to the fact that my “Gill is like, so, whatever” status was actually lifted from an Avril Lavigne lyric.

By: James

James — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:07:12 +0000

I love the (deliberate?) irony in Tara’s post.

Oops, there go my social skills!

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:19:04 +0000

Haha! I was tempting to use your one too Robert but thought it may be a little skanky!

One thing I do love with the status’ though is the meta status conversations that happen. I changed mine to ‘Leon is wondering why such and such’ and later that day I noticed a friend had changed hers to ‘[name] is wondering why Leon is wondering such and such’! Great fun.:D

Now I know you’re fine with Status stealing I’ll be thieving away more often.;)

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:38:29 +0000

Tyra - I think Thompson’s point is that Twitter actually helps with all those other activities.

A few decades ago, people did not routinely have telephones in their houses. Mobile phones have only been ubiquitous for ten or eleven years. I’m sure there were people who said that using the telephone would damage your social skills and writing skills! The art of proper letter writing is withering.

Twitter and Facebook are two examples of what Michelle kasprzak calls the Smallweb. Connecting with people you already know and allowing improvements in those relationships… rather than the BigWeb, which would I suppose be connecting with people you do not yet know.

By: Sahra

Sahra — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:55:32 +0000

There’s actually a much larger Facebook group than the one you linked to, here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2219762655

By: Tyra

Tyra — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:49:36 +0000

Here’s a suggestion, instead of spending so much time getting a “social sixth sense” of your closest friends via text and internet, how about going out and spending quality time with them, talking to them on the phone, writing to them and actually becoming involved in their lives on a much deeper level, therefore enhancing any social skills you may have left!