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That's about it, until you add goofy things like cat macros or Chuck Norris quotes or apps to send each other alcohol or means for people to anonymously tell you they want to bone you.... it's a low brow social networking site. That being said, if this is something that we REALLY want, I wouldn't mind being a custodian/mod for the thing. I'm on almost every night just because I'm at work and quite literally have nothing else to do (owing more to the web filters my company has in place then to any merit of Facebook). On Nov 27, 2007 9:41 PM, Caroline Tully <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I can't see what Facebook actually is or does... I've been on it about 4 > days, I seem to have accumulated a pile of 'friends', 90% of whom I do > actually know, and we keep kinda going round and round, sending stupid > emails to each other... .:shrug:. I'm probably not using it corectly... I > have no idea how to 'show' is to non-subscribers, I have no idea how to even > look at it without subscribing.. I must try and resist it, its like smoking > - or heroin - a pleasant poison. > > ~Caroline. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: D E > To: [log in to unmask] > > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:08 PM > Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Facebook > > > > there are many pros and cons here; one of the pros being that file-sharing > can occur on facebook (within copyright law) but we don't allow attachments > on here (largely for the anti-virus angle as well as copyright control) > > a facebook group would be hard to moderate (i doubt anyone on the jsm > editorial board would have the time or inclinaion to do so), and as such the > new group could not have anything like "jsm" in the title, as the Journal > could not be affiliated with an unmoderated group that was not under its > control (in much the same way that any brand name will expect to be treated > in that fashion) > > anyone here is quite free to set up external groups that discuss similar > subject areas, and to invite readers here to join. Posting that ONCE, i > would sugest. But this list is for a specific purpose, and it could become > quite bothersome if the majority of a person's postings on any topic were > "hey, there's a really interesting thread about this on my > magic-academic-facebook site right now!!".... there are also problems of > permission; this is a non-public forum, and if someone's comments were taken > out of there and posted elsewhere without their specific permission (or > indeed to somewhere where they were not a member) there is a whole host of > issues.... > > ditto MySpace, ditto Blogger, ditto Livejournal etc > > There is also the problem that (in the UK at least) many of us look at JSM > e-list threads on email while at work, and a lot of British workplace > computer managers have blocked access to social networking sites like > facebook as they are, as a poster here remarked, a major time-suck > > dave e -- Ty Falk ~~~~~~~ Erisian Anthropologist Grand Rapids, MI, USA