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What your Friendface says about you?
What your Friendface says about you?
I never used to like using Facebook, but over the past few months have become increasingly addicted to it! Initially I used it to keep in touch with family, but now it seems I use it to keep in touch with EVERYONE. Gone seem the days when I used to call friends and family over the phone, when I can send them chat on Facebook, or message their inbox my mobile almost seems redundant. Facebook is well designed that even the most novice of internet users can work out how it works. My granddad has a Facebook account! And I was almost shocked when my newsfeed stated my granddad was single with a broken love heart, despite him being single for many years lol.
I myself don’t do any applications on facebook, and only join the xkype-tails things because I fear Daz may get me 
But I have many many friends who while away the hours becoming obsessed with Mafia wars, or Farmville! Not mention the wannabe Gus Hansen’s playing poker tournaments for millions 
But we cannot forget the love matching programmes where you can flirt with people you like the look of, and also all the social questions about people on your friends lists. I get many many requests and sadly I have to say ignore them ALL. I choose not to use Facebook that way, because I know too well how easily it can be to become obsessed by them and spend all your time competing for the best fish tank or fairground!
Its got to the point now that to know what’s happening in our friends lives we look on their Facebook status. It’s easier for people to let everyone know what’s happening in their lives via their page than individual telephone or person to person contact. Which I guess is a good and bad thing. Recently though my niece was poorly and had to go into hospital, her mum posted it on her Facebook so everyone would know, but I have a quite a few friends and so missed the feed 
So now I make a point or going through a few hours to make sure I haven’t missed anything! Lol
So to the point of this article, up until recently I never really looked at anyone’s pages except the newsfeeds. But a friend of mine, who will not be named, but she knows who she is Opened my eyes to the wealth on information you can find out about someone though not just their Facebook, but google, MSN, Yahoo to name but a few. I discovered some scary facts about what people can find out about you. But to concentrate on Facebook, I started to look at peoples pages and noticed some interesting stuff, and some that makes me question how much I openly trust people.
I know most of the people on my Facebook, and will add new people who I wish to get to know on there too. I have a guy who liked me and wanted to go out on a date with me. I had always discouraged the idea while he was working away, but when he returned to the UK considered the possibility. Now by chance I happened to look at his profile on Facebook, and through looking at his Facebook wall was able to piece together that he had already started seeing a girl, despite him still asking me out! So on this occasion Facebook helped me out, but what does your Facebook say about you??
I’ve looked at the Facebooks of people who I have added recently and this is what I have noticed. Some are always adding girls, and some have a lot of girls messaging them…..you’re thinking to yourself, there’s a man playing the field. But then I thought I have a lot of male friends and they always write on my wall, but there is nothing untoward in my case, so why should I assume it is for them? Other than their male I also have seen ones where they have nothing but application posts, their high scores etc. But rare posts from people or friends, does this mean they’re not popular? Or could it be that they just don’t use this medium very much or also that the people they know also don’t use this medium.
Should we even care what our Facebook says about us? Just like our dating profiles they do tell people something about us, but not necessarily the real story. They can read you conversations with your friends, see what groups and causes you join. See who you’re adding and whose pictures you comment on. My advice, don’t worry about it lol I don’t believe that you should feel the need to censor anything you do, and that if a person wants to get to know you that they should do it directly and not via your actions on your Facebook But still just be aware slightly that this does happen and people do judge. But also don’t lose site of the fact that sometimes it’s better to tell your life story or narrative in person! So get off ‘Friendface’ and SEE your friends too!
My final advice to you is to Google yourself; see what comes up and what people can really find out about you! You may be pleasantly surprised and I hope not horrified! For advice on data protection issues and removing content from the internet, do some research or ask me for some advice.
Rosalyn A. Scanlon
Signing off.
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