Comments on: Facing the Future

By: Daniel Harlow

Daniel Harlow — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:41:00 +0000

It is interesting how facebook has grown from a networking site for undergraduates at elite universities to encompass most schools in the country until now where anybody can join, student or not. Honestly I’m not sure that I’m happy about cooresponding decrease in privacy though; I recall it being a comfort when I joined that only people with an email address at my school could see my page. Of course you can still restrict your page in this manner if you choose to, but it to me it was that it was for students that made facebook special. Now it is just turning into another myspace…

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Facebook « Nerd Wisdom — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:43:47 +0000

[...] me seriously underwhelmed), but a strange convergence of events made me reconsider. First, I read this post about Facebook at the excellent blog (run by six theoretical particle physicists and/or [...]

By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:42:29 +0000

Help me out with facebook etiquette. Should I be pleased or affronted when someone pokes me? Should I poke them back? And what about these superpoke applications that let you salute your friends in more imaginative ways? Chest bumping or high-fiving someone seems fine. But is spanking or bitchslapping a friend appropriate, especially if said friend is a work colleague? I think not. However a real-life and facebook friend disagrees, claiming it’s only harmless fun. Who’s right? At the publishing company where I work, our facebook activity is monitored so I simply cannot go round licking my friends … as much as I might like to sometimes.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:25:48 +0000

All this “what does a friend mean on facebook?” conversation reminds me of the facebook group entitled, “I gave you a night of passion, and all you gave me was this lousy friend request.”

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:26:00 +0000

Let the facebook whoring begin (sigh)–sucks that even this haven has now succumbed.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:54:57 +0000

I just made a facebook account a little while ago (been inactive mostly). What a great way to start my group memberships

By: Brent V.

Brent V. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:14:44 +0000

Sean, One of the aspects of starting this facebook group that you may have overlooked is the social network exposure you will bring to CV. For instance, when I join your group many of my friends will see that I joined (there is a news feed that tells your friends what you’re up to on facebook). Being that many of my friends are also physicists, this might be a great way to increase readership.

By: Amara

Amara — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:52:24 +0000

Sean: There are twelve other Sean Carrolls in LinkedIn presently, but none of them are cosmologists.

By: Nora

Nora — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:29:28 +0000

Facebook sounds nice, unfortunately I can´t join because I´m from Finland and when I tried to registrate they didn´t accept the name of my school. Which wasn´t very surprising, but anyway I wasn´t able to registrate…

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:05:43 +0000

There is nothing like the real world.

Claire