I took out the trash today, and I'm on fire

[venta]

Bloomin' 'eck. In an attempt to be down with the kids, I have bravely attempted to interact with the Facebook page that an ex-member created for my dance team. She told me the password when she left, but every time I've logged in, I've immediately run away screaming.

Today I have boldly grasped the nettle, accepted some friend requests, updated my status, and even commented and liked some stuff. Holy crap, it's confusing.

Also: Usenet had cracked comment-threading well over two decades ago. Why do we still have to put up with an impenetrable jumble of comments? It's like the Ancient Brits deciding when the Romans left that they didn't want any truck with this foreign-fangled central heating nonsense, thank you very much.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001767268566, by the way, for people who are into that kind of stuff.

Comments

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

It's ok, they didn't know what they were doing either; I gather one's meant to make a 'page' rather than a 'personal profile' for that sort of thing (unless you want the privacy of a 'group'). That way, people can follow it without you having to accept friend requests.

Good news is you can apparently now convert it.

Oi, where'd LJ put the 'preview' button? I want to test my links before I hit post...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had noticed that "Mabel Gubbins Rapper" seems to be a person. Had no idea how to covert it, though, so thanks for the link. Will read. I wonder what happens to all my friends...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Reading the comments on that link haven't really made me want to do it! Sounds like the 'Page' is extremely unuseful, doesn't allow much interaction, etc.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

So far as I can tell you can still do status updates, post links and images, and maintain image galleries.. Not sure how they work with event creation/invites; I seem to get most of my event invitations from humans, but many of them are from people I've not friended who I'm assuming are admins of 'pages' that I've 'liked.'

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

is sounding a lot like wordpress so far. :)

(Hi Venta, I've spent the week introducing myself to Wordpress & converting an old CMS I've been working on. It seems like a handy platform if you want a blog/CMS, with optional comments, and maybe one other function for which there is a plug-in. There are gazillions of plug-ins. I expect Wordpress doesn't handle conversations as well as LJ, alas)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmm. LJ comment notification seems to be stuffed again. Excellent.