Facebook. The New Pickup Line of The Century.
“Do you have facebook?”
A simple question that can be asked by girls and guys to people whom they’ve just met. Not as in-your-face as asking for your number or name card, but subtle enough to let them know that you want to keep in touch with one another.
And, on the other end, when he/she asks you for your facebook account, you’re more inclined to tell it to them more often rather than not.
But…when they add you, and you see their name pop up on your Friends Request, you can browse through their page to see their interests, favourite movies, yada yada yada, and then decide if they’re a freak or not and if you really want to approve their friend request.
Then you can see if they’re single, what have they been up to? More yada yada yada. Invasion of privacy at a new level? Maybe. But, instead of telling what do you like in person to them, they might go, “Oh ya I know, I read it on your facebook!”. Anyone who actually takes notice as such to your facebook profile is definitely interested in you.
A subtle poke can maybe even lead to dinner.
But for the love of God, please do not going around adding people that you do not know (or what I call “collecting” friends) just to show that you know a lot of people, and have an unbelievably high friend count (what? so it shows that you’re more popular then you actually are?).
My friends and I have another pet peeve. Those profile that has so many applications on it that practically makes your browser hang when you try to open their profile (no life ah?). Again, it doesn’t show how popular you are. A few tasteful applications reflects a lot on your personality. Applications are also a chance to show your interests and have some fun, not exactly to flood the page with pictures of gifts that you recently received. Again, this is all IMHO.
But then again, the beauty of community driven websites as such will continue it’s surge and become part of our daily lives. And yes, don’t hesitate to initiate the facebook question if you have a fancy towards someone. Then you can always keep in touch that way.
Cheers, Lynn
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December 12th, 2007 17:28
but in malaysia…friendster is more popular than facebook wor..
December 13th, 2007 23:42
I think more and more ppl using facebook in malaysia now, see lots of facebook activities but not friendster….
December 15th, 2007 18:32
Hi fred,
Friendster still is the most popular site compared to facebook. Check out this website from Alexa
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=MY&ts_mode=country&lang=none. Perhaps facebook will overtake friendster in few months time…