Maryrose Lyons blogging since 2003...

‘Do you use Facebook’ survey

July 19, 2007 at 3:43 pm

Facebook – ah yes – the wunderkind of the web . . . for now, until the next big thing comes along. But Facebook does seem to have traction. In fact it’s exploded in the past few weeks. It’s all over blogland (I don’t like the term blogosphere) and I’m receiving invites from even my most non-techie, non-online friends who are shocked that I’m not on it. In a dramatic about turn, I was actually defending myself about this decision last weekend.

Why am I not on it?

Because I’m an active member of many sites, enough for me now, with the little bit of free time I get to enjoy them. For sites that pique my interests like Flickr, Tripadvisor, 43things, Fairtilizer, Spanglish, and MySpace, I’m more than just a user number. I actively participate. So I don’t really want to join another one unless it’s offering me something I haven’t already got.

At this morning’s Open Coffee proceedings in Dublin, I did a straw poll amongst people who were there about Facebook. Have you registered on Facebook? Do you use it? If so, why?

The overall response was that most people have registered, nobody is using it.

Reasons People Registered for Facebook:

• because they wanted to see the API
• curiosity
• because they had a friend on there

Obviously not wholly representative of the population at large, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. Thanks to Eamonn, Lawrence, Olivier, Barry, Eoghan, and Alastair for your opinions.

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments