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		<title>Is your Facebook cluttered?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Day by Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clutter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure I get Facebook. That&#8217;s not exactly true. I do understand what it is, and how it works. The thing is, I don&#8217;t see how anyone can possibly visit all of their friends pages, and browse all of the stuff that&#8217;s there. Most pages go on and on and on forever. I probably [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not sure I get Facebook.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not exactly true.  I do understand what it is, and how it works.</p>
<p>The thing is, I don&#8217;t see how anyone can possibly visit all of their friends pages, and browse all of the stuff that&#8217;s there.  Most pages go on and on and on forever.  <span id="more-307"></span></p>
<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t say that.  I don&#8217;t mean that they are boring or uninteresting  It&#8217;s more like <strong>there&#8217;s too much stuff.</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s all important stuff, I&#8217;m sure.  In fact, my page at facebook gets pretty long <em>(and dare I say it)</em> cluttered.</p>
<p>The fact is, the more &#8220;friends&#8221; you have, the more likely you are going wind up with a very long page.  For example:</p>
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<blockquote><p>The  page</p>
<p>to the</p>
<p>left is</p>
<p>my sister&#8217;s</p>
<p>Facebook</p>
<p>page.</p></blockquote>
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<p align="left">I&#8217;m not</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="left">picking on</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="left">her, or trying</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="left">to embarrass</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="left">her</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="left">at all.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
<h3 align="center">This is actually an average Facebook page!!!</h3>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
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<p align="right">But, to prove</p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right">my point, because</p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right">by now you are</p>
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<p align="right">probably scrolling</p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right">down this page</p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right">and wondering</p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right">when exactly</p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right">I am going to</p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right"><em><strong>make my point</strong></em></p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right">it can be more than</p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right">a</p>
<p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right">little annoying.</p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="left"> I doubt that I have ever made it all the way to the bottom of Sherry&#8217;s page, and actually read everything that&#8217;s there.</p>
<p align="left">Maybe you&#8217;re not supposed to.</p>
<p align="left">But that defeats the purpose of a &#8220;social network&#8221; if you don&#8217;t take the time to get all the gossip.</p>
<p align="left">Okay, it&#8217;s not all gossip.</p>
<p align="left">Since I only have a few facebook friends, I imagine I will eventually get through all of their pages.  Only to have to start all over whenever I get notified of a &#8220;post to my wall&#8221; or an &#8220;invitation&#8221; to some new gadget that I can add.</p>
<p align="left">How does everyone do it?  No wonder some employers are blocking Facebook at the workplace.  It can be a little time consuming.</p>
<p align="left"> I&#8217;m not suggesting that anyone change their facebook style or page.  However, I have had people say &#8220;Did you see on Facebook that&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p align="left">Well, I probably haven&#8217;t.</p>
<p align="left">  I&#8217;m still working on my sister&#8217;s page, and I hope to be at your&#8217;s tomorrow</p>
<p align="left">You can answer my totally un-scientific opinion poll below,</p>
<p align="left">(note: sometimes you are unable to answer the poll on this page.  Just go to the home page and answer the poll on the sidebar to the right  <img src='http://www.web-bandit.com/lee/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_arrow.gif' alt=':arrow:' class='wp-smiley' />   <img src='http://www.web-bandit.com/lee/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_arrow.gif' alt=':arrow:' class='wp-smiley' />     )</p>
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<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"> and if you</p>
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<p align="center"> want you can</p>
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<p align="center"> scroll down to</p>
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<p align="center"> the bottom and</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"> add a</p>
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<p align="center"> comment</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">about</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"> Facebook</p>
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