I'm Kyle B. on facebook, my picture is of my dog and my profile is open to everybody. I say this as my official website because I post all of my (good) writings there, thoughts, views etc.
I would love to have other members here, As, autistic, on the spectrum or not on there. It would be great. I take a lot of time to do the writing there and anyway, its a great release there.
Hmmm... no Aspie love for "FaceBook"? I know nothing about it except that several of my students prefer it to MySpace, which they consider more juvenile and trashy. True, Kylo?
Yeah, MySpace is a lot more trashy and juvenile than FaceBook. Facebook is actually useful.
I'm (name removed by request - Gareth) if anyone wants to add me on FaceBook, all I ask is that no one post anything about autism/AS on my wall because I have some siblings, other family, and friends on there that don't know anything about it, and I don't want them grilling me about the issue.
That won't be a problem Natalie, I'll make sure I don't mention it. I have written one blog about it and have been in a few groups but otherwise its not like its plastered all over my page. I look forward to seeing you on there.
Max, it is juvenile and trashy. I was a Myspace user (just to post some stupid blogs) and all it was about was acquiring friends, seeing emo people take pictures and listen to people song's on their page, all the while having your browser slow down since they added so much.
Facebook on the other hand is well designed, you can conceal what you want, it is useful as Natalie said, as I found some out of touch people I knew from elementary. It was designed by college students for college students. Its great.
I know since I posted this that Facebook has become much more popular. I wanted to know if since the original post anyone else got a Facebook and would like to be added (?)
I find Facebook a very interesting website in the way in dominates lives and has effected normal every day living so much. Now when most people go out they take pictures (including me) with the sole purpose of putting them on facebook which is to show everyone that you have a life that is very intersting. A large concept of it is that your messages and conversations are public (unless you choose not to but that is rare with the people i know) and its all about proving how cool and popular you are by how much you talk to people. When people say amusing things in real life other people tend to say "i'm gonna put that on facebook". Facebook is very interesting from a psychological view (my special interest is psychology) and i'm quite surprised how one website has had such a big impact on life.
I hate Myspace because its all about collecting a large number of friends who aren't real friends. I prefure Facebook because you mainly talk to people you know and its a way to keep in touch with friends you do know, not to make new friends. I also hate Bebo which is another popular site in the same genre. It's similar to Myspace but more chavvy.
I use my Bebo a lot more than I use Facebook - all of my Canadian friends use Facebook, and most of my Scottish friends use Bebo. Its a catch-22; some people live their entire lives through Bebo and its bloody scary. One of my friends has really p*ssed me off through really weird inappropriate comments over a couple of months... he is obsessed with one of my female friends who has a girlfriend and has been leaving inappropriate comments on her photos that she thinks its just 'banter'. I kept my mouth shut that he'd asked me extremely private questions... yadda yadda, long story, but I moved him down about 4 friends on my list (purely because I have other people I talk to more as well, people I'm closer to) and I got hysterical, sobbing voicemails from him asking why I've done this, I'm meant to be his best friend...too strange for my liking.
I do know what you mean re the chavviness of Bebo though - the 7 degrees of seperation on your friends list from a 'hot bi gyrl' with pix of her in her Primark finest is too marked.
I tend nowadays to post all of my articles on there and as such I'm quite careful with who I add (anyone from hear is fine, I refer more specifically to people I meet at work or around). A lot if not all of them now are carefully written activist pieces or articles, and the ones in Autism, and only some of them reveal myself as Autistic and so that's why I'm careful with whom I add. I use it only to refer to a very strong point, like in the JRC article to really drive my point home.
I spend a lot of time on the articles with edits and rewrites and such before posting. I'm glad some of them are read and I don't have a blog so Facebook does it for me.