I am on Facebook for maybe the third time. I’m still trying to figure out a use for it. Anyway, I’m there.
The ambience is strange. It calls for an avatar of some kind, or if not that, a photo that shows perhaps my right ear, or just my nose. Maybe my full face, but with most of it lost in shadow, would fit the social network style.
If I used an avatar, which I don’t, it would be the one you see here. Instead, I have my own photo in my profile.
I also sent away for an operator’s manual for Facebook. I know I’m supposed to be able to figure it out for myself, but that is too much work, and I don’t like clicking buttons I don’t understand. I might spam all my friends with some bizarre Facebook ritual or something. Any software that “pokes” people should be approached with a measure of caution.
I was on MySpace for a while, and I learned that social networking sites bring to the surface a couple of peculiar forms of vanity. One is the number of friends a person has. The other is the amount of traffic to one’s profile. MySpace had a hit counter. I don’t know if Facebook does that or not. Maybe I’ll be spared the low-hits depression cycle.
In any case, getting one’s ego in a knot over a social networking site is pretty lame. If you want to visit my site, and help me pump up my numbers, click HERE. Of course, you have to be a registered Facebookian to get past the gates.
If I learn anything useful from the manual that is coming in the mail I will let you know.
A manual? Please tell me you didn’t pay for it. After all the coaching you’ve given me, I could’ve walked you through FB in an hour. I still can.
There is no counter of which I’m aware, and if there is, who needs it? If ever I’m not feeling insecure enough, I’ll check my blog readership stats for the 11th time today. My husband says the little graph looks like an EKG.
~Michelle
I was planning to comb through that book in search of information about a hit counter. I do have the right to return it.
I still want to know your top 10 Facebooks techniques.
Come up with a list of things you want to be able to do on FB and we’ll work through it on Sunday, if you’d like. My, I feel so powerful!
~Michelle
You’ve got a deal!