I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: ILOVEFLUID on May 13, 2007, 07:56:57 AM
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Is anyone else addicted to Facebook. I love it. i have found friends for way back. It is a great way to catch up with everyone and a lot of fun as well. If anyone is on facebook...look me up...Lisa Cooper in the Barrie, On network. :2thumbsup;
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I have to admit, I'm addicted.
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what is it and can you please give us a link? pretty please ::) ;)
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Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.
Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a workplace, region, high school or college.
You can use Facebook to:
Share information with people you know.
See what's going on with your friends.
Look up people around you.
http://www.facebook.com/
It is such a cool way to find friends from the past and present. You can email them, share funny pics, websites and jokes, share your favorite pictures. It is a great way to keep in contact with everyone without having to spend hours on the phone.
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Sounds like IHD.
:beer1;
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It's fun to find people you haven't heard from or seen for a long time. Even people you have forgot about. I like to look at my kids list of friends, it's interesting to see what they are doing with their lives.
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If you've got facebook please join this group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2214748643&ref=mf -- Awareness About Tissue & Organ Donation.
From member Bill Young, "I hope you take the time to invite some of your friends and help us hit our goal of 1,000,000 members."
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I loving refer to it as "Facebook McTimeSuck" as I'm always checking it for updates, when I should be working.
I started a similar group to the one listed above, however it's more focused on Ontario's Trillium Foundation.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2246110738
http://www.giftoflife.on.ca/ - Trillium
This is another one I'm a member of that deals with Organ donation - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2228800670
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Which would you say is better? Facebook or MySpace? I love MySpace but i'd like to know what the differences are as well :popcorn;
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Here is a comparison: "Facebook Hammers MySpace on Almost All Key Features" http://mashable.com/2007/06/10/facebook-hammers-myspace-on-almost-all-key-features/
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i just signed up on facebook yesterday and i haven't recieved ONE piece of junk mail yet, unlike myspace, which continues to send me several pieces of junk daily, even though i've stopped using it entirely. my daughter recruited me so she'd have someone to play scrabble with, online. i had to be added to the vancouver network, since victoria is so small, i guess.
anybody wants to add me my name is wayne wilson on the vancouver network...
love
~LL~
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I am addicted to playing Scrabble on facebook! LOL
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can't find you on facebook, richard. you must be using another name...?
love
~LL~
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OK, i have signed up and i am sooo lost, i dont know what to do next, all i do is look at the page and it seems to complicated, :-\
RichardMel, you are sooooo lucky i dont know my way around Facebook, i would love to beat you in Scrabble :P ;) ;)
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what name are you using on it, nina? you have to be specific, or be forever in limbo.
its pretty easy, once you play around with it a bit.
:beer1;
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Hey LL, i am none other than good ol.... GOOFYNINA :yahoo; i figure it would be easier for my IHD family to find me that way :2thumbsup;
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ok, i'll look. and i looked thru 20 pages of lisa cooper but couldn't find her.
weird.
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nope. no luck there, nina. mine is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=527407163
but i can't find you on it either.
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I will see if i can find you ok, maybe it is under my real name perhaps?? i am not sure, but i do know i have an account :popcorn;
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I got on facebook. I still prefer myspace. I might try keeping both up. ???
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There he is, my little buddy, glad you had a safe trip, i am on facebook now trying to check it out, but its all so confusing :urcrazy;
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Susie everyone i know keep telling me to sign up.... but I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks its confusing, thats why i didn't want to sign up. :-\
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Well, now that i am really looking into it, it is all coming together, man, it sure does put someone's info "out there" for everyone to see though, lol, Amanda, do you have a myspace? i think that one is alot easier than this one. (but i am not going to give up on Facebook) ;) I have Light Lizard and Tubes as my friends now :yahoo; :yahoo;
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i repeat, myspace gives your email address to advertisers, who inundate your inbox with mindless ads, endlessly. facebook allows you more control over notifications, and doesn't give your email address to anyone.
love
~LL~
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I have BOTH....What I find is that myspace tends to be geared for the younger folks....teenagers.... I find that a good portion of my older buddies are on facebook.....however, ADD ME ON AS A FRIEND!!!!! :-)
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you're 'highlight36' on facebook?
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nope. no luck there, nina. mine is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=527407163
but i can't find you on it either.
i just asked to be your friend on facebook :)
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Here I am:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=596681019
for all those ladies who want me .... to play scrabble with :) and anyone else :)
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you're 'highlight36' on facebook?
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It's "highlite36" :-)
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'highlite36' does not show on facebook. you have to use the name you registered with, not your 'cyber' name.
;)
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'highlite36' does not show on facebook. you have to use the name you registered with, not your 'cyber' name.
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I thought you used email to find people on facebook....in which case, my email would be highlite36@yahoo.com. Otherwise, I should be registered as "Dee Her" Hope that works for you....
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helps a little, but not much. there are two 'Dee Her's' on facebook.
go figger.
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LL, i hope i replied correctly and i wrote on your wall too, it took me a while to find how to look at what you wrote on mine but i found it, I love it, had alot of fun creating my own beat, lol,
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cool, nina. yup, you did it right, thanks, and i knew you love horses so i couldn't resist!
love
~LL~
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helps a little, but not much. there are two 'Dee Her's' on facebook.
go figger.
;)
Well, Gosh dang it!!!! I think i put the picture up with the wet hair.....
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i repeat, myspace gives your email address to advertisers, who inundate your inbox with mindless ads, endlessly. facebook allows you more control over notifications, and doesn't give your email address to anyone.
love
~LL~
I was suckered into getting into MySpace from a friend, but I haven't been innundated with emails. I just get the stupid 21st century hooker wannabees in the friends request. But that has changed since changing privacy settings and so forth. If it wasn't for surgarfree on MySpace though, I wouldn't have found this group.
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I also don't have problems with myspace and my inbox. :)
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hmmmm... i guess i must have my 'settings' wrong, then.
but, i'm perfectly happy with facebook, anyway. i don't even bother with myspace anymore. i just empty my trash and carry on...
love
~LL~
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Maybe an IHD group might be a good idea?
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I guess I should register for facebook then... :lol; I went to it before but it didn't seem interesting, guess I shall need to look into it further :thumbup;
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Maybe an IHD group might be a good idea?
isn't that what we have here?
??? :)
love
~LL~
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i've deactivated my account on facebook. its not easy, as most of you know, when you have a life-threatening condition, to communicate honestly, your feelings, your perceptions. i find that there are too many who are too quick to attack, like seagulls tear apart their own.
'healthy' people don't want to hear about illness, it can often cause them to react with anger and cynicism. i'm tired of that crap. thanks to the internet, one doesn't even have to leave their home to find a nest of raging assholes, it seems.
i've come to the conclusion that there is no way to relieve the isolation i feel and that i may as well embrace it, instead of trying to change it.
thank the cosmos for this site!
love to all.
~LL~
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You can't put people on ignore on Facebook? Or Block them? (I don't know anything about it, I don't have an acct yet.. so i ask) :)
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You can't put people on ignore on Facebook? Or Block them? (I don't know anything about it, I don't have an acct yet.. so i ask) :)
i'm pretty sure you can, but i'm too lazy to do that. really, i don't want to be on a site that has so much potential for misunderstandings and conflicts. i used to like message boards, but the more time i spend on them, the less i like them...and people...
i love my cat. and wife.
;)
love
~LL~
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Totally understand. :)
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I don't have a Facebook acct. but I've heard myspace is better.
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After looking into it further, I agree, Myspace is better... but it's to each his/her own. :)
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Yea I might try to see if I can get one or see someone elses to compare.
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I never really could see the point of myspace, but I don't have that many contacts so that may be the problem. I have had it for a long time and I did blog there for awhile.
I use facebook everyday. It is so easy to post photo albums and add music and videos, even in messages. I like that people can write on my graffiti wall. I also like the news feed feature, it tells you which of your friends added something on their page.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=783018071 -- http://www.myspace.com/okarol
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Karol- Can you only view your profile if your on your friends list? All I see when I click your page is "Member Not Found/Page Not Found" so I then logged in, and it pulled up your page, but I see nothing.. no "graffiti wall" or anything... I see nothing.
I see a picture you have of yourself on the left and some trees on the right, and then I see "Name: Karol Franks" "Network: Los Angeles, CA"
On the right I see "Send Message, Poke Karol!, View Friends, and Add to Friends"
And all of that info is in 1 small box at the top of the page, under it an advertisement and then blank page underneath of that.
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I think you have limited access unless I add you? Not sure - PM me your facebook and I will look.
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i had myspace for awhile, too. just after i signed up i began receiving numerous pieces of 'junk' mail- advertising, on a daily basis.
i cancelled my account and am still receiving the junk.
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Yep you can set an account to only allow full access to friends .. that way if a random person is doing a search they will just see your name and not the whole profile. Useful for people who may be well known and want to retian some privacy (for example, I have seen a bunch of Aussie Rules footballers with facebook profiles but unless you're agreed to be their friend you can't see their friends or their profile or anything.. which is reasonable). I believe you can control the privacy to different levels too so that you can limit what friends see as well as general users or non-members etc.
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I just got sucked into facebook last night - I've tried to add from contacts from this thread - RichardMel and Okarol - and I joined Awareness About Tissue & Organ Donation group. I know I missed a few of you - there are 297 Lisa Coopers! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=539754184
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Sorry it was so hard to find me ...I am listed as Lisa Cooper-Sheehan now :oops;
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=897820564
click on add friend and tell me you are from IHD and I will add you
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Hey Lisa! I have missed you! Good to see you again! :waving;
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I am still trying to figure out how to do anything on Facebook, it is just so busy (facebook is) that i dont know where to go, i get all of your messages and pokes and stuff but i dont know how to read them or "my wall" so please understand if i dont answer back :P I am hoping to understand it one day!! lol,
Ilovefluid, i have requested to be added to your friends as well. Hope to hear from you again soon. :cuddle;
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News story - kidney donation connection through Facebook http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=7260.0
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You can't put people on ignore on Facebook? Or Block them?
Indeed you can block them. They can't see you and you can't see them. Check the privacy section.
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Maybe an IHD group might be a good idea?
Took us awhile, huh?
But we've already got 20 members! :bandance; http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46205402133
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Hey Lisa... looked you up on Facebook and there were 2 Lisa Coopers in the Barrie, OR group... are you Lady posing with kids or lady holding old fashion toilet flusher string?
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The Las Vegas pic of IHD.com is posted at the Facebook group and actually I labeled everyone in the pic. It took some research and a PM to Florida.flyer, but we got everyone labeled properly. I hope?