The wonders of Facebook

Hello all! Right, I know I said I'd put up pictures of my Christmas trip but I haven't finished drafting the post yet. It's soooooooooo long. In the meantime let me tell you about my new obsession >> FACEBOOK! Okay la, it's not an obsession per se, but I'll say this much - it's bloody addictive. I keep checking my account every couple of hours or so, and there are always *gasp* NEW UPDATES. Anyway, you can tour FB on the site but I thought I'd give you my own personalized one :D

We'll start off with the main page...................



TADAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Brownie points for the effort

Upon logging in, this is what your home page looks like:



See? More organized than Friendster right? Actually it took me a while to get used to the layout. But now that I'm used to it, I like it alot more than I do Friendster's.

FB has this Newsfeed thing which tells you what your friends have been up to (i.e. their Recent Stories). It's similar to Friendster's updates section, except that it's more detailed. Andre is now going to enlighten us on how it works:


NB. Not EVERYONE is a stalker like Andre though

What's more, Friendster will only tell you "*photo here* Toi Toi has recently updated her profile, added new pictures, added a new friend" (Kay pohs will be going, "WHO WHO?!?! WHAT FRIEND?? I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY FRIEND SHE HAD"). But FB does more than that. If you've added a new friend they will even tell you who it is e.g. "Toi Toi is now friends with Ming Foong." What a marvellous device for all of us nosybodies, and especially for those who are super gung ho and want to win the war of how-many-friends-I-have vs how-many-friends-Toi-has.


More friends for them = more friends for me! Muahahahhahaha...

You know when ppl invite us out and sometimes we're a bit reluctant to go cos we don't know if anyone else we know is going too and we're too shy to ask about it? Well, GOOD NEWS. The Newsfeed not only lists the event down, but it tells you who and how many of your friends will be attending. YAY!!!!!!!!!



Obviously this only works for ppl whom we're not that close to - if it was someone like Nat I'd say, "Eh who's going for that sdfghjxcvbn party? Oh nobody I know... Then I don't want to go cos I'd have to see your face the whole day. Bleegggghhhhh..."

The Newsfeed also updates you on your friends' newly uploaded pictures...



You can tag a person in your photos by highlighting their face in the photo and typing his/her name down. If the person is on FB his/her name will be highlighted as a link to his/her page. And ooh ooh, this is one of my fave things about FB. You can poke ppl (like nudging on MSN)!!! It's such a cute gimmick.


Ya ya, I digressed from the point...

This is what my profile looks like to viewers:



Scrolling down..........



The Wall is like a bulletin board where your friends can leave you messages. So much cooler than leaving testimonials, yes? Plus, The Wall sounds way better than "testi". It's TESTIMONIAL people, not testi! Honestly, doesn't ANYONE think testi sounds gross? I shouldn't even have to hint at male genitalia.



After allllllllll that, what's the best thing about FB you say? FB is about as PRIVATE as Prince William. You can't just view anyone's profile. When you first register, you have to join a network, usually decided according to one's school. Once you've been accepted on the network you can only view the full profiles of ppl on the same network. E.g. I am on the UCL network so I can only view fellow UCL profiles. If I want to view Wei Ning from Imperial's profile, he has to be my friend first otherwise CANNOT view. FB also doesn't have that stupid irritating viewing thing like Friendster - you know, the one where you can see who's viewed your profile?

I joined FB about a week ago and I'm still learning new things about it everyday. When Suan found out I'd joined she couldn't contain her joy and sent me a congratulatory message:



Now guess who else is addicted to FB?
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EUGENE!!!!!!!

But his face quickly turned sour when he realised that James and Azim had been poking me...



So the moral of the story here is, join Facebook today so I can add you to my list and I'll have more friends! But seriously la, it's more user friendly than Friendster.

xx