Dear Wise Flist...

[ash48]

Yep.. I'm back again seeking advice on other fandom places to hangout.

I'm not really a Twitter gal and I don't think Tumblr is for me either. So now I'm considering Facebook. I've had no interest in getting a Facebook before now because, to be honest, real life stuff really doesn't interest me so much - except in real life of course. (and that's not to say I don't like hearing about YOUR rl stuff.. it's just I don't really want to follow rl friends to hear what they're up to...)

So.

I'm thinking a fandom Facebook page. Where I might most stuff a bit like on LJ. (vids etc. maybe occasional personal stuff) My thinking is this: the thing I enjoy most about fandom is connecting with other people who are into the same thing. Chatting, sharing creative works etc. But I realise that not everyone is on LJ. In fact I keep being told "I don't do LJ because it's too complicated". Which I agree with. Until you get to know it that is.

So. I'm curious if anyone else does this. Have a fandom named Facebook? I'm pretty keen to keep my RL and fandom life separate - mainly because I would hate for my students to ever find me.

I have a very limited knowledge of Facebook so I don't really know how it works. Though I understand you can create a community as well as a personal page. Ack! I am so internet challenged!

Advice?

(and um... if I did get a FB is it easy to find like minded peeps?)

Sorry for the lame questions..

Comments

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

Out of everywhere I find lj the only one I can really understand and makes sense to me.

Couple of things with Facebook, anything you post over there is theirs and theirs to do with what they want. Sort of annoys me that, so I would never post anything but links and they'd lead back here anyway.

Also Facebook wants you to be real, I do have one in the Ellie pseudonym, but it's on the understanding that if they ever find out I'm not real? They can toss me out any time they like, so again I'm just not keen on the idea of that either. I know a lot of others do it that way and get on fine, but that and the fact that anything I post, pictures of dog or walks or anything like that belongs to Facebook and anyone from my RL recognising places could end up tracing back to me here through tags and things?

Nope, I think I'm staying just here and have closed my Facebook account. Besides which, finding out where to post things and find things was a nightmare and everything was very short, quick notes and I was always being notified about who was where, what they were doing, what games they were playing and such, just felt very invasive and highlighted my natural paranoia!

L/J has become very quiet though and I can see more and more moving over to other platforms, so it's probably worth you opening one and finding out how you feel about it.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for this. It's for the reasons above that I've never been interested in getting a FB and now, after reading everything everyone has here I will not be getting one.

I have no idea why I am even searching for other places to hang out. I am perfectly happy here. I think because people from YT have asked me if I have FB or tumblr it's made me think I need to get one. But between here and YT and I don't think I need to add anymore.

Thanks again for the feedback. I admit to being surprised by the anti FB sentiment on this post - I didn't realise there was so much negativity toward it.

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[el1ie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you will find a lot of anger towards FaceBook - remember the furore that went on when L/J decided to link up? I hated and still hate the idea, it is mostly about journals being our own private spaces, to be who we want to represent ourselves as, against Facebook who want everyone in the whole wide world to know WHO we are WHAT we do and then, just in case your old school mate might not have heard you ate Pizza for lunch yesterday, rakes through every e-mail address it has on you, every site you've visited lately making sure it links all this information together to make sure they know!

To be honest I've gone as far as installing NoScript as an add-on to Firefox and I've marked Facebook as an "untrusted" site to try and stop it collecting info on me, not sure if it does, but every site you visit nowadays seems to have that little FB icon and that's what it's doing, collating info.

Most people aren't like me though, they are happy to be kept in touch with others and want to know everything every friend of theirs is doing, I'm sure it works great for big families, but the time it sucks out of your day is kind of frightening, but it's how a lot of people function now, they don't talk or phone or meet unless FB has told them too! Sorry, I'm just horribly unsettled by the idea - but it seems the modern way.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

I hear you. Facebook has become mighty intrusive and I haven't really known how I've felt about it. Not given it a lot of thought. I've just never really wanted to have anything to do with it - but I am surrounded by people who do. My husband, daughter and family for instance. Also my work colleagues.

I get that there are some people who probably have a lot of fun there. And it's probably a good way for some people to keep in touch.

But yeah... after reading all the feedback here I won't be getting one.

xx