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Colleges & Universities United States Naval Academy (USNA)
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<p>Anyone else willing to make facebook friends before we leave? I’m thinking we PM info back and forth…(trying for a modicum of personal information security :))</p>

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<p>gah…ok, here’s what I learned over the past year at UW:</p>

<p>Facebook is a COMPLETE waste of time. It’s cool for about, oh, the first day that you have it. Then it just becomes a ■■■■■■■■ past-time in which you compulsively check to see if any of your friends have updated their profiles. Sure it’s cool to post pics of you for your friends and be able to share contact info…but EVERYONE turns into a “Facebook Whore” at some point. I’m guilty of it myself. Whenever I got bored in the library, or just wanted to take a break, I would go through a cycle: Email, CC, Facebook…invariably, I would spend the most time on Facebook.</p>

<p>There are plenty of better…and less addicting…ways of keeping in contact with your friends…IE, AIM, and if your company doesn’t let you use that, plain ol’ Email is just as good, and not nearly as addicting. </p>

<p>Yes…I speak of Facebook as if it were a drug…in fact, it is. You get on it with the attitude of “I’m just gonna put my contact info on it for my buds.” Two weeks later, you’re in a mad race with your hometown friend to see who can get the most Facebook “Friends”…90% of whom you have never actually met.</p>

<p>I have no intention of creating a USNA Facebook (I say that now… :rolleyes: ) and the only reason I don’t delete my UW account is because not everyone in Seattle has my address yet.</p>

<p>I have thus far been unsuccessful in quitting…they need to make a Facebook ‘patch’ or something. Anyway, I’m speaking from a civilian college student perspective. I highly doubt we’ll have much time for Facebook…and if you do…you’re probably gonna end up prayin’ for that “gravy.”</p>

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<p>I think Facebook is really helpful for staying in touch with people I went to high school and a year of college with though. I rarely cruise people’s profiles on Facebook…I just get on to see if I have any new messages or friend requests. Plus, if you need contact information on a friend, like their phone number or that, a lot of people post it so that their friends can see.</p>

<p>The big thing with Facebook or MySpace is DON’T post pictures you don’t want everyone else to see. I have WAY too many friends that think it’s “cool” to post 50 pictures of them underage drinking at parties. I also know that a lot of employers are now actually checking people’s Facebook profiles to see what kind of person they really are. Keep your profile clean, nothing you wouldn’t want your parents to see.</p>

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<p>Yeah, since school ended, I’ve really only used it once or twice to look up a cell number…but other than that, it’s pretty useless now.</p>

<p>As for the picture thing, I know the NROTC commands were crackin’ down on the whole drinking thing. It didn’t happen in my unit, but our CO told us several other units dismissed some mids after finding underage drinking pics on Facebook.</p>

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<p>By the way people…no one thinks you are cool or badass because you have pictures of you playing beer pong or doing a beer bong on your Facebook.</p>

<p>Somehow I don’t think it’s a good impression to leave on others when over half their pictures are the person half naked, completely drunk, doing something illegal…but maybe that’s just me.</p>

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<p>okay, aside from dmeix’s perspective, i love facebook. yes i might be obsessed…but i’m loving every second of it, and it’s a huge aprt of plebe year (lots of time doing nothing on a friday night? facebook!)
ps. they have an officer at the academy whose job is to look through facebooks and catch people doing stuff underage or that’s illegal. about a third of the brigade was fried right after reform last year. don’t have upperclass friends, and don’t put pictures of yourself drinking.</p>

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<p>Why doesn’t this surprise me at all? :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Man, to get assigned that duty you must have been caught shagging the Supe’s daughter or something…</p>

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<p>Zaph, TAD ENS</p>

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<p>LOL!</p>

<p>Yep! That makes sense! :D</p>

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<p>okay wheelah,
exactly how many upperclass “poked” you the day after Herndon???;)</p>

<p>p.s. please explain what “poked” on facebook means to the folks.</p>

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<p>it’s just little bit of harmless fun. meghan clearly has the sense of humor of a rock.</p>