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Originally Posted by vilia
1. The "friends" thing! There seem to be quite a few people who feel the same way. It feels very "high school", like a popularity contest.
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It is useful if you think of your friends page as your Contacts page. There are people I know from bhuz, who I would be PM-ing quite a lot (love that function!), and it's handy to have all of their details together.
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Originally Posted by vilia
2. Clicking around and experimenting I discovered my icon was being left on people's profiles! OMG! Does that mean that when I have a geriatric moment and click on someone's profile several times in a session because I who they were, as I'm often prone to do, they're going to think I'm either insatiably nosey or have some sort of creepy fixation on them? And what about the lurkers that don't want to be noticed? Are we going to be checking "outing" them?
I've made my profile totally private because of these two reasons and that's so silly because what's it for but for people to look at? I really don't care who looks at my profile if I make it public!
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Well that's just Paranoid!
Nobody's paying that much attention, and if you're having enough senior moments to be worrying about that, then you have more serious problems to worry about than
that!
And I put it on record here, that I
am insatiably nosey, and I
like looking at people's profiles. It helps me feel I can understand them better, and I can apply the right mental filters when I read their posts. For example, I was thrilled to read someone's profile yesterday, because she seemed, in terms of her experiences and interests, to be my Canadian Twin!