Facebook again

I did indeed contact my 'ex' re his use of Facebook and received this informative reply.

I too have the same reservations about Facebook for all the reasons you gave and also about the potential for people knowing more about me that I care to share! I’m still trying to sort out how you restrict the info that’s available, even to your ‘friends’.
Currently I feel like I have tracing device on Oli, Rols and Jane as they record tons of stuff (I even know when Jane washed the car!) and I can also get to see lots of stuff about their friends.
My thoughts on reasons for joining were:
Contacts with student officers - I’m still doing work with Students’ Unions and they all have profiles. I haven’t got around to contacting any yet but I see it as a way of maintaining a relationship with those I’ve worked with this summer. I also think that, properly positioned, there may be some marketing mileage in being seen as in touch with how students communicate!
Quite a few Students' Union General Managers are on the site so it’s a way of keeping in touch with them
One of the things that the site does is that every time you update your own pages it sends all your ‘friends’ a message that you’ve done so and they can easily see what you’ve added via one click (I guess this is the basis of the social networking!). So, if I put something on my page about designing a new training course they all get a notification
I’m doing a graduate recruitment project for a commercial client and I was thinking of using the network to spread the word that we are offering some free interview training to students in selected department of universities. I will need to establish some key contacts for this but I have a cunning plan!
I added ***** as a ‘friend’ and then got contacted by someone else who used to work with him and is now with another company so I’ve re-established a contact that I’m following up on
Hope that helps

I have sympathy with his point about filtering out the stuff you want seen from the stuff you don't. His work brings him in contact with people who regularly use Facebook - students and academic staff, and he has no firewall to prevent him from using it to the full. I tried to register earlier in the week, but received no confirmation e-mail, presumably because it was kicked off by our firewall. I am still excited by the amount of new tools there are out there to use, but wonder just how many will, in the end, be of any use to the library.

.....only time and 3CsT3 will tell! Well, I'm off to my best friend's wedding, i shall have a good weekend and hope you all do.

See you next week !