{"id":10122,"date":"2010-08-20T03:09:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T08:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2021-11-27T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:15:53","slug":"why-i-like-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/why-i-like-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I like Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love search engines.\u00a0 If a thought comes to me that I want to know more about, I Google it.<\/a> A movie coming on that I want to know more about?\u00a0 I Google it.\u00a0 When someone on Facebook posts an interesting quote, I Google the author’s name and see what else they’ve written that might interest me.\u00a0 I love to research and learn, and Facebook lets me keep up with whatever my friends are interested in.\u00a0 Facebook, that’s another reason I spend more time on the computer.\u00a0 Since 2008, Facebook has been my social life and that’s one reason I spend so much time on it.\u00a0 I can take a few moments here and there during my work day, to pop in and say hi and see what my Facebook friends are doing.\u00a0 Several dozen are my real life friends who live locally, and if I had more free time, I’d hang out with them in person.\u00a0 Facebook helps me feel connected even when my schedule doesn’t allow me to attend many events.<\/p>\n

A friend who teaches a Facebook 101 class posted “Facebook is hard to research because I keep getting distracted by Facebook<\/em>.”\u00a0 I commented, ” It’s perfect for people who think their life is boring or who isolate from others in that social phobia we all think we’re the only ones with. It helps awaken their natural curiosity (Google it!<\/a>) and having friends on Facebook lets them feel connected without having to leave the house.”<\/p>\n

As my friends get older, I see more and more of them begin to isolate themselves and that results in a lot of feeling alone and friendless.\u00a0 They stop having interest and curiosity in life and don’t have the discipline to motivate themselves to get out among people.\u00a0 They want their life to be different but don’t want to take any steps to make that happen.\u00a0 They may not even have enough interest to research any steps to make that happen.<\/p>\n

For a lot of these people, tv has been their life up to now, parked on the sofa with a bag of chips.\u00a0 For a lot of these, Facebook can give them a real sense of being connected with real people, people they know, and it also satisfies a natural voyeurism, letting them look into the life of someone else for a moment.<\/p>\n

I helped a friend sign on to Facebook yesterday and I told him what we were doing at each step in the process.\u00a0 I told him FB would ask if he wanted to use their Friend Finder<\/a> feature, which would use his email address book to let him know which of his email contacts are on Facebook.\u00a0 I suggested he do this and a handful came up.<\/p>\n

As we got more into the process, he began getting suggestions from Facebook about “People You May Know<\/em>.”\u00a0 Some he kind of knew and wondered how their profile showed up.\u00a0 I told him what FB was doing was finding “mutual friends” which are people who have one of his email contacts in their own email contact list.\u00a0 He’s like me, he’s self employed and busy and Facebook can be a good place to keep up with friends.\u00a0 I found all my childhood buddies on Facebook.<\/p>\n

I also get a lot of business from Facebook, just from people who go to my website from my facebook profile.\u00a0 What do you use Facebook for?<\/p>\n

July 11, 2014: I’m suddenly getting a lot of traffic to this post and don’t know why.<\/span>\u00a0 If you can tell me how you found it by emailing horizonsmagazine@gmail.com<\/a> I promise you won’t go on any list.<\/p>\n

I’m just discovering Facebook<\/a>
\nManaging Incoming Information; What Is Facebook For? <\/a>
\nFacebook quizzes; every little bit of insight helps<\/a>
\nFacebook posts; I\u2019m in charge of what I attract <\/a>
\nFacebook friends to the rescue, helping me Excel<\/a>
\nIf a Friend Asks For $$ In Facebook, Ask A Personal Question<\/a>
\nYou Want To Be My Friend On Facebook?<\/a>
\nHow To Stop The Stupid Facebook Posts On Your Wall <\/a>
\nThe Zen of Farmville on Facebook? WTF? <\/a>
\nAre Your Facebook Friends Really Your Friends? Don\u2019t Assume Mine Are Either
\n<\/a>What I post on Facebook<\/a>
\nFinding childhood buds on Facebook, flashback to age 18<\/a>
\nPutting personal details on Facebook and Myspace<\/a>
\nIs it ok to break up with someone over Facebook?<\/a><\/p>\n

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