Thu, 24th Sep 2009 by Alfie.

After one morning spending nearly two hours trying to catch up on all the facebook games that I was playing I decided enough was enough and ditched them all.

I much prefer multiplayer action games on PC and Xbox 360, so I’ll be sticking with them from now on.

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Mon, 14th Sep 2009 by Alfie.

I thought that I had understood the type of people that go on social networking sites like facebook, and decided that I wasn’t that type of person. I’ve never been particularly sociable, preferring to keep a very small, core group of close friends and a wider circle of acquaintances and friends of friends, etc, what I used to call the atomic theory of friendship (i.e. each atomic shell outwards holds more people but at a lesser level of regular contact).

But facebook uses every trick in the book to encourage you to add more friends to your profile;

Firstly, it recommends people to add to your network that have your friends in common.

Secondly, there are the networks; based upon your school, work, ‘fan of…’, etc, you suddenly find old school friends or work colleagues adding you.

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