Comments on: Can you Resist using Facebook for a week?

By: fogofeternity

fogofeternity — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:28:48 +0000

I don't use it as much as some in terms of reading it – I have an Adobe Air app called AlertThingy that runs in the background on my desktop and pulls in my subscribed feeds, but I tend to check Twitter more often on a day to day basis. It's a really good collation tool though, and also excellent at automating your own social activity into a single feed and pushing that out to the likes of Facebook.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:21:13 +0000

I should really look into Friendfeed, it's quite the talk of the town these days…

By: fogofeternity

fogofeternity — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:46:01 +0000

I struggle to remember to use Facebook in a week, it's a remarkably static site for a social media phenomenon. What activity there is on my profile page is updated automatically via Friendfeed and Twitter. I log in every week or so to deal with friend requests and to ignore the latest 50 or so trivial game app invitations!

By: Ahmed Naguib

Ahmed Naguib — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:42:02 +0000

Another reason is to spam your friends with Apps. and Groups requests “just for fun” or maybe poke them I have the ability to abandon Facebook for more than a week, just because I don't need to use it that much anyways, I can always check it once a week to reply to messages or to check what's happening with my other friends, Facebook is not really the main social network that I use, I love twitter and friendfeed, I'm addicted to both, and if I need to talk to any of my friends, I use IM .