facebook

[Peter Howie]

Hi Adam and others.

I concur with the others. Ed's description is accurate but maybe it  
fills you with more horror than glee Adam?

In the last two open type psychodrama events in the last week here we  
have had five people who came partially through Facebook. This is to  
do with myself and a colleague who does consulting work for me - we  
have been boosting our Facebook presence. It is some work but easier  
than some other work. I make connections while watching scary movies  
as a distraction.

Adam you join up and then you look around for who you would value as a  
friend - many people I know have their families as the primary group  
of friends and find this an easy way to stay in touch with the regular  
life stuff like going to beaches and seeing movies. Colleagues who are  
travelling stay in touch on a daily or weekly basis.

The idea of a "friend" is a good one. Friends come as recommendations  
via facebook. If I was your friend then some of my friends might well  
be recommended to you or others who might match your info. Have a look  
at my facebook page as I have an open page and my data is free for  
anyone to look at. Most others don't do this and all you can see is  
"friends in common" and other friends.

I get very few emails - maybe 3 - 5 per week with 185 friends. Some  
people have 300 - 500 plus friends some people many thousands.

When you go to the home page on facebook you then get to see only the  
posts of people with whom you are friends and the responses people  
have to them. Mostly nothing is required apart from a browse.  
Certainly less work then here usually. There are certain on-line games  
people are into which make little sense to me and I haven't taken part  
of. But I have seen a bit of Ed recently and a bit of of a few others.  
If I don't go there my life wont be negatively affected. But it is  
certainly a step up on playing solitaire when on my own. I do feel a  
level of connection and at times quite a lively one. Some of my  
"friends" are complete narcissists (in the common usage of that word)  
and others a shameless self promoters. Anyone can be "unfriended" at  
any time.

If you were on there and my friend I would be most interested in some  
o the stuff you get up to. You would see some of the ways I work with  
this stuff and so do others. The Hudson mob are somewhat active.

I found the greatest difficulty in asking young attractive women to be  
my friend. And then young attractive men, and then old men and...... I  
found I was quite shy about asking. But in the 170 odd "friends" I  
invited to be my friend, only one has asked me anything. Another came  
to the open night last night and now will accept me as a friend. Most  
of the others simply don't use facebook that often so responding to  
friend requests is very slow. I used to be very reluctant to accept  
friends requests. Now I simply say yes.

It is good for staying connected to the world.

Cheers

Peter


On 17/12/2009, at 10:44 AM, Adam Blatner wrote:

> Well, the problem is that you have to join to find out, and I don't  
> want it to open the window to unwanted intrusion. Can not anyone say  
> more clearly how this is an advantage to them?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Edward Schreiber
> To: Adam Blatner
> Cc: HV Psychodrama ; list at grouptalkweb.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 5:51 PM
> Subject: Re: facebook
>
> find it out for yourself Adam - it's a window to the world.
>
>
> On Dec 16, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:
>
>> Hello, all: Interesting news. I'm open to being persuaded. What  
>> would I possibly learn that I don't find on the grouptalk  
>> listserve? Or at the asgpp listerve.
>>      How do people actually find this useful?
>>           I'm at a point in my life when I do not want to be  
>> distracted or diffuse my efforts as I find my focus increasing on a  
>> number of projects. But perhaps I'm being too self-protective, or  
>> maybe not. Warmly, Adam
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: HV Psychodrama
>> To: list at grouptalkweb.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 5:30 PM
>> Subject: facebook
>>
>> The ASGPP is now on facebook. Do take a look and do join and get  
>> your psychodrama buddies, students and trainers to join to!!
>> Rebecca
>> Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute
>> 68 DuBois Road
>> New Paltz, NY 12561
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Peter Howie B.Sc, TEP
Managing Director
The Moreno Collegium for Human Centred Learning, Research and  
Development
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