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Facebook and You

nikasaurnikasaur Telltale Alumni
edited May 2010 in General Chat
Some people totally LOVE Facebook, and this is what I'd like to know more about.

We're doing a little redesign of the Facebook page to be fun. What are your favorite pages? What do you like about them? Link 'em! We're gonna steal their ideas!
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  • RibsRibs
    edited April 2010
    Well, I 'like' every single post on the Jolly Rover Page. Because The Game looks amazing. :)
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    I think you should have more pictures of your male employees.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited April 2010
    I guess video and the most recent pictures..... If at all possible some facebook browser games or apps to get fans involved.
  • patterspatters
    edited April 2010
    To me simplicity is key to a successful facebook page. Too much makes a cluttered page. Updates should be semi regular, too often and people get annoyed, too infrequent and you lose the advantage of facebook.
  • nikasaurnikasaur Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    I want liiiiiinkssss! What pages out there are doin' this right?
  • patterspatters
    edited April 2010
    nikasaur wrote: »
    I want liiiiiinkssss! What pages out there are doin' this right?

    To be honest, you guys are. Other cool ones are:

    http://www.facebook.com/flickr?ref=sgm
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Withington-United-Kingdom/2000-Trees-Festival/217377606914?ref=sgm
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Flobots/124949638449?ref=sgm
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gremlin-Solutions/176462096626?ref=sgm
    http://www.facebook.com/roosterteeth?ref=sgm
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    nikasaur wrote: »
    I want liiiiiinkssss! What pages out there are doin' this right?

    Well, I found facebook pages with pictures of your male employees but if I post the links I'll be called a stalker again >.>
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited April 2010
    I have an account, but I haven't used it in months.

    Oh, except a couple weeks ago when I went to change my profile picture from "Me and my ex girlfriend" to "Me with the Laputa robot at the Ghibli Museum", because it had been about a week/a week and a half since the break-up and it was getting pathetic.

    ...

    I have a somewhat antagonistic view of the site.
  • WapcapletWapcaplet
    edited April 2010
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    I have a somewhat antagonistic view of the site.
    Aside from their horrendous privacy track record and the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is a complete tool?

    I hate Facebook with the fiery heat of a thousand suns.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    I have an account, but I haven't used it in months.

    Oh, except a couple weeks ago when I went to change my profile picture from "Me and my ex girlfriend" to "Me with the Laputa robot at the Ghibli Museum", because it had been about a week/a week and a half since the break-up and it was getting pathetic.

    ...

    I have a somewhat antagonistic view of the site.

    My profile picture shows me with Goblins. If you were wondering.

    Honestly, in all seriousness, I don't know what to suggest for the facebook page. Sorry Nikki. I'm sure other people will be more helpful.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited April 2010
    Oooooh of those pointless gift applications could be cool... and a clever tie in for Sam and Max..... you could have little graphics of toys and descriptions of what powers they give...

    I would even help make some of the graphics.
  • RibsRibs
    edited April 2010
    oh, obligatory post from me:

    GIVEAWAYS EVEN THOUGH I OWN ENTIRE CATALOG
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited April 2010
    I never visit company Facebook pages. I just click on the "Become a fan" button and that's it.

    In fact, I very rarely visit other Facebook pages at all.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited April 2010
    Before the DVD/Bluray came out they did this virtual card collection thing... it was kind of cool.
    http://www.facebook.com/SupermanBatmanDVD?ref=sgm

    here is the card app
    http://apps.facebook.com/supermanbatman/
  • kaptein_kaffekaptein_kaffe
    edited April 2010
    With me it's mainly music related stuff because I like to keep myself updated on what they're doing.

    Things like:
    Steve Vai
    Joe Satriani
    Kaizers Orchestra
    Symphony X
    Iron Maiden
    Mike Patton
    Pantera
    Spotify

    etc.

    Also:
    Become a fan :D
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited April 2010
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    break-up

    our little Rather Dashing wasn't dashing enough for the ladytypes, rather.
  • ScrawfflerScrawffler
    edited April 2010
    I'm a fan of about 25 page thingies on Facebook and really I think Telltale has one of the best ones.

    Another good one I'd recommend taking a look at is this:
    http://www.facebook.com/DisneyPixar

    But really the best advice I can give is to continue doing it the way you are. If it turns out there's anything that can be added then hey, that's great, but you seem to be doing a good job so far.

    Perhaps adding videos to your page would be cool. But I don't know how necessary that'd be considering you usually post links to the blog when there's a new trailer out.

    (... I apologize for the uselessness of this unhelpful post!) :D
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited April 2010
    Wapcaplet wrote: »
    Aside from their horrendous privacy track record and the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is a complete tool?

    I hate Facebook with the fiery heat of a thousand suns.
    Yeah, that's more or less why I stopped using it. I can understand how it can be a useful social tool for certain people. It's annoying because there's no alternative, because everyone is on Facebook, which is a good service on the basis that everyone is on Facebook. You can't exactly us a smaller, unknown social networking site and get the same or better results.

    I don't remember when I left, but it was pretty soon after a change in privacy rules and some really dickish comments from the site founders that made me just sort of phase the site out. I wasn't even using it that much anyway, I checked it maybe once or twice in a day if I wasn't particularly busy.

    The Highway wrote: »
    our little Rather Dashing wasn't dashing enough for the ladytypes, rather.
    Well, thanks, way to kick a man while he's down I guess.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited May 2010
    Dont do anything on this and you will be fine.
  • jeeno0142jeeno0142
    edited May 2010
    Wapcaplet wrote: »
    I hate Facebook with the fiery heat of a thousand suns.

    Me too. I always thought that the whole point of a social networking site was to meet new people and socialise. Instead, all I've seen it used for is talking to your current friends. That quickly got on my nerves as everyone in my college class were talking to each other through facebook, even though they were sitting next to each other. Isn't it easier to just turn and talk?

    I much prefer the forums, now I'm socialising with people I don't know, but have the same(ish) interests as me.
  • FriarFriar
    edited May 2010
    Hmm.. i really should get a facebook page...
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited May 2010
    At first I was happy when I found all of my friends from various schools that had lost contact with.
    Then I realised why I had lost contact with them :p
    And those I'm still in contact with, what do I need them on facebook for?

    ... I say that, but I like playing their games. So I keep going anyways.
    But I deleted almost all of my contacts from my friends list.
  • JennyJenny
    edited May 2010
    I thought of facebook as one large address book online. My friends told me to join so that they could keep in touch with me when they graduated. Of course, thinking back, that makes no sense, because they could just email me instead.

    Then it turned into some ridiculous popularity contest. Who has the most friends? Silliness. Then everyone I ever passed on the way to my class "friended me", even if I had only spoken two words to them. Maybe this happened on the off chance that we might want to be friends sometime in the future? I don't know. And then there are those people who terrorized you in high school, that find you and friend you, for who knows what reason.

    I guess it is a way to keep in touch with people you don't want to loose complete contact with (but whom you don't have time to really devote time to). Although, I use it now as a form of networking for work, but it is really bothersome to me. Especially when you're tagged in random pictures of you eating spaghetti (when you look your absolute worst) and there is no way to stop them, unless you are constantly untagging these photos. So I don't use FB very much anymore, and made my privacy settings as private as possible.

    Yet, if you were ever on FB, your friends expect that if they send you something on FB they don't have to actually call you, because they assume that you checked your FB. Which is absurd. Luckily, a friend of mine called me a few days before her birthday asking me why I hadn't responded, and I had no idea what was going on. Thankfully she remembered to call me, or I would have missed it entirely. It's kind of scary how dependent you can become to a site like that.

    So, um, I'm not very happy with Facebook. But it has its uses, I suppose.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited May 2010
    Jenny wrote: »
    So, um, I'm not very happy with Facebook. But it has its uses, I suppose.

    That it does.

    Stalker's heaven.
  • JennyJenny
    edited May 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    That it does.

    Stalker's heaven.

    Best photo!

    While I was all worked up in my facebook rant, I completely forgot how much fun stalking is. Facebook really does promote and teach the art of stalking. :p
  • WapcapletWapcaplet
    edited May 2010
    At one point earlier today, the phrase "delete facebook account" was the ninth most popular Google search in the USA.

    This pleases me.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited May 2010
    Facebook's idea of "privacy" has gotten more and more lax. Like how, for example, EVERYONE ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST can be tricked into sharing YOUR information.
  • WapcapletWapcaplet
    edited May 2010
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    Facebook's idea of "privacy" has gotten more and more lax.
    Wapcaplet wrote: »
    Aside from their horrendous privacy track record and the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is a complete tool?

    I think there's an echo in here.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited May 2010
    I personally don't understand the privacy thing. If you want your info to be private, why do you put it on the Internet on a networking website? Isn't the whole point of it that anyone can access your info and catch up with you?
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited May 2010
    I agree
  • WapcapletWapcaplet
    edited May 2010
    One of the issues is that Facebook has changed its default privacy settings, so that information that you thought was only visible to friends could now be seen by everyone.

    I could write a massive tome on all of the unsavory things Facebook has done. Wikipedia has a long summary of them.

    Here's a quick timeline from the Electronic Frontier Foundation showing the changes in Facebook's privacy policies over the years.

    And Mark Zuckerberg's claim that online privacy is a "social norm... that has evolved over time" is absolute crap. He can take away my right to privacy from my cold, dead hands.

    Edit: another good writeup at Wired about how Facebook Is Evil.
  • jeeno0142jeeno0142
    edited May 2010
    Wapcaplet wrote: »
    Facebook Is Evil.

    This, I have no doubt.
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited May 2010
    You should watch the South Park episode You Have 0 Friends. (Don't worry, the link is legal and the episode works everywhere on Earth)
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited May 2010
    I usually just use facebook as a texting service online. I've also found it to be easier to put together outings with multiple friends at a time (whereas before I might spend up to an hour calling back and forth between multiple friends to agree on a time I only need to make one or two posts on facebook to get the same job done).

    It's not perfect, I agree, but because so many people use it regularly it's useful, especially for people like me who have a phone phobia.
  • JennyJenny
    edited May 2010
    Alcoremortis wrote: »
    It's not perfect, I agree, but because so many people use it regularly it's useful, especially for people like me who have a phone phobia.

    I used to have a pretty bad phone phobia. It was more with strangers than friends though. Although leaving messages on friend's answering machines was very nerve wracking. So I overcompensated and made my message into this big dramatic monologue, which ended up being quite entertaining. I started to think of the anxiety as more of an adrenaline rush, and I slowly got over the phobia.

    But yeah, a facebook-like service has its uses. It would be nice if a competitor came along that also gave more user control.
  • estarielestariel
    edited May 2010
    I think Southwest Airlines does a good job: http://www.facebook.com/#!/Southwest
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited May 2010
    ive just begun dedicating all my posts to so i herd u liek mudkipz
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited May 2010
    Jenny wrote: »
    It would be nice if a competitor came along that also gave more user control.

    I agree that that would be nice, but only if people using the different networks could communicate to each other via them. Like how people using different phone services can still talk to each other. Otherwise, it would just be another monopoly.
  • Harald BHarald B
    edited May 2010
    tredlow wrote: »
    You should watch the South Park episode You Have 0 Friends. (Don't worry, the link is legal and the episode works everywhere on Earth)
    I was just about to say that that episode sums up why I'm not on Facebook.

    Oh and that link does not work everywhere on Earth, "Due to copyright and other legal reasons".
  • JennyJenny
    edited May 2010
    Alcoremortis wrote: »
    I agree that that would be nice, but only if people using the different networks could communicate to each other via them. Like how people using different phone services can still talk to each other. Otherwise, it would just be another monopoly.

    Yes, it should be able to cross networks. That would be fantastic!
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