You are absolutely right, in fact i have forgotten when I actually joined FB but I can see people have changed and their ways have certainly changed too. You know ML is back and I learned it yesterday through FB only.

suni51 wrote:

You are absolutely right, in fact i have forgotten when I actually joined FB but I can see people have changed and their ways have certainly changed too. You know ML is back and I learned it yesterday through FB only.

Is that right, I guess I will look up and see how it is now...

I am also one of the early birds of FB and to get in touch with long lost friends. I too posted my published articles in FB. But over a  period the exercise has not given me desired results. Instead I found other book marking sites like linkedin are more useful in promoting my articles. Presently no activity in FB

I feel that twitter is the best site for promoting your articles...Of course others like google and linkedin too are very effective ! Facebook has become a gossip rag now since I see everything being discussed there..

Ha ha ha ! That's a good observation Usha, now that you mention it, I realise that FB has indeed changed a lot in people nowadays. eg. girls I knew back in college, who used to be even horrified at the prospect of wearing a tight jeans and a T-shirt and raised their eyebrows at those who did wear such attire, can now be seen posting photos of themselves wearing sleeveless, short jumpsuits and the like. I can visualise them planning what more glamorous dresses to wear simply post it on FB. People who hardly talked to me in college now keep sending me friend requests repeatedly so that the no. of friends on their list increases. so on and so forth!

  In fact i write more for Local Publishing houses which pay me very well. All in cash i receive through a courier. As far as my aims are concerned FB is useless. 

It is funny Kalyani to think that people spend hours on FB and also spend some precious money and time to upload pictures and share their activities, and the top guy  Zimmermman is laughing all the way to bank, getting richer by the minute ! I wish he shared some of his wealth with die hard users ..

usha manohar wrote:

It is funny Kalyani to think that people spend hours on FB and also spend some precious money and time to upload pictures and share their activities, and the top guy  Zimmermman is laughing all the way to bank, getting richer by the minute ! I wish he shared some of his wealth with die hard users ..

Yeah, I wish he shared some of it with the users, the way they are falling all over their feet trying to keep each and every minute of their waking life updated on the FB, you'd think that they get money to do it. LOL:_

@Rambabu, FB is not totally useless, there are a number of ways it has proved useful but the millions of users who have turned it into a social circus overpowers over everything that is good and useful.

FB has become a center for more scandals and cyber bullying..In what way ticking on "Like" is going to be of any use to any serious  writer or Publisher, I do not understand. FB is more of a fad.Nothing else.

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

It is funny Kalyani to think that people spend hours on FB and also spend some precious money and time to upload pictures and share their activities, and the top guy  Zimmermman is laughing all the way to bank, getting richer by the minute ! I wish he shared some of his wealth with die hard users ..

Yeah, I wish he shared some of it with the users, the way they are falling all over their feet trying to keep each and every minute of their waking life updated on the FB, you'd think that they get money to do it. LOL:_

 

@Rambabu, FB is not totally useless, there are a number of ways it has proved useful but the millions of users who have turned it into a social circus overpowers over everything that is good and useful.

I agree that it has its good points , I am able to keep in touch with my children and close friends and cousins constantly , also know what is happening in their lives although we are all scattered all over the world and I am thankful for FB for that .