Facebook's biggest project yet - allowing users to message each other

[Muffled]

I simply don't want to be inundated by the minutiae of everyone else's lives.  I don't get notifications from FB for anything but friend requests, and I rarely go to Facebook for anything else (usually only to try to contact someone I no longer have email/phone for).  To me, the fact that FB wants to make this shit follow me *everywhere* is not a selling point.

--Dave

Yeah, pretty much this. Facebook is basically my internet address book, wherein I can reliably get their current email address.

I just do FB to see people's pics…

That's not creepy at all.   

[KallDrexx]

Looks like Microsoft has come to the same conclusion about messaging in a less centralized form at least

[Mrbloodworth]

Microsoft

No, I will not install silver light to view your shitt.

[Azazel]

I would have never emailed most of the people from High School that I have on Facebook and would have completely lost touch with them, but now I have them on my friends list and once and a while we'll comment together on something.  The same goes with the people I met on my trip to Africa a few months ago.  With email I most likely wouldn't ever talk with them ever again, but with FB I can still have those communications with them spontaneously.

I kept getting facebook friend requests from people I barely knew, even in high school. Then, just before I deleted all of them, including the 10 or so I'd added, I came to the realisation that if I haven't talked to those motherfuckers in the last 20 years, why the fuck should I suddenly care about them now?

[Lantyssa]

Pretty much my take.  There's only one friend that I did care about, and that's because of mutual moves which had us lose contact.  We reconnected, so I don't really need FB anymore other than as a backup to my address book should my e-mail get nuked across multiple computers.

[Ginaz]

Do people actually need all this shit?  Am I the only one who seems to live life perfectly fine without a cell phone, facebook, twitter etc etc etc???

[Lantyssa]

Not at all.

I have a cell because I got rid of my landline.  On a busy month I spend an hour on it, and that's talking with Mom.  Facebook I only got on because of volunteer work and now I ignore it almost completely.  Twitter I've never touched and won't.

[KallDrexx]

Do people actually need all this shit?  Am I the only one who seems to live life perfectly fine without a cell phone, facebook, twitter etc etc etc???

You can live life perfectly without a computer at home, without a car, video games, or any technology for that matter.  Everyone picks technology that they want to use based on what they want to do.  So what's your point?

[Soulflame]

Do people actually need all this shit?  Am I the only one who seems to live life perfectly fine without a cell phone, facebook, twitter etc etc etc???

You are not alone!  I don't have a cellphone, I'm not on facebook or twitter, and I don't quite comprehend why most people need any of those three.

[Merusk]

No cell or twitter, but I Facebook to keep in touch with folks I don't necessarily want to or know well enough to talk the phone with once a month or so.  Also it's proven to be a better way to send out invites and set up events than regular old e-mail.

[Azazel]

(cell)phone for both work and contact with friends and family.

email for work and doing internet things.

I don't really bother with the rest.

edit - come to think of it, we only have landline for our Parents' convenience.

[Viin]

Microsoft

No, I will not install silver light to view your shitt.

Last I heard, MS is going away from Silverlight and decided to go HTML5 instead.

.. on topic, I am interested to see what FB does with this. If it's a way to spam me with messages on every one of my devices, no thanks. If it just lets folks use username@fb.com and normal alerting happens, fine - but that's not really a big deal.

(I assume everyone's seen the latest The Office?) I sure hope it's not WUPHF!

[Der Helm]

(I assume everyone's seen the latest The Office?) I sure hope it's not WUPHF!

I have yet to see The Office, but google showed me this page.