Do you Facebook?

[Kuhlau]

Jed Distler rejected my friend request.

Without wishing to appear disagreeable, do you know Jed? Is he a 'friend'?

If the answer to either question is 'No', then perhaps there's your reason.

FK

[Joe_Campbell]

One of my friends has deleted his facebook account. Knowing him...I won't create mine now for sure.

Impossible. I tried. One cannot ever delete a facebook account. The best one can do is "temporarily" de-activate it.

PS I think Brian was kidding around...

[karlhenning]

Speaking as someone who accepted Brian's friending, I do believe he was wrily jesting.

[Joe_Campbell]

Indeed. I mean, Yevgeny Subdin rejected my friend request!

[Joe_Campbell]

Indeed. I mean, Yevgeny Subdin rejected my friend request!

Well, to be fair, he has never actually acknowledged it. I can still pretend I wasn't rejected.

[haydnguy]

I'm on Facebook, and HAVE been on MySpace. For me the fundamental difference (or at least one of them) is the difference in the default privacy setting. On MySpace your profile defaults to public. On Facebook it defaults to private.

Facebook's default can be both good and bad. The good is that it keeps you from being hassled so much like on MySpace. Also, your information is protected if you want it to be. The down side for me has been that it's harder to find people with similar interests. On MySpace if I went joined tonight, I could probably have a hundred classical music fans as friends in a few days. On Facebook it's harder because although you CAN go to the classical groups and find people, without being able to look at their profile it's hard to tell at what level their interest is. I do have a few classical music fans as friends but mostly I use it for family that I keep up with in other towns.

The one thing that I do like is the iLike application because it allows you to display the CD's that you own on your profile page. It allows you to search and grab the information (including CD cover) off Amazon. I am pretty sure that after you have your CD's out there, you can download the information into a file that can be imported into Excel. That's very cool I think.

my .02 cents.

[jchen]

I have Facebook but I can only add friends that I know in real life.

[jchen]

But I don't have MySpace. No matter what I do, I can't join it. I am 14, so I can't join anyways. I tried "making" my age 16, but it still won't let me join 

[Brian]

Well, to be fair, he has never actually acknowledged it. I can still pretend I wasn't rejected.

Dang it, I wanted to be friends with Yevgeny Sudbin. And yes, I actually did send Jed Distler a friend request, and yes, he actually rejected it.

Peter Breiner accepted (arranger of the 2004 Olympic national anthems, conductor of a new Janacek CD on Naxos, composer of various lighter works like the "Beatles Concerto Grosso") - but he is what we call a "Facebook whore," with friends numbering in the thousands (1,875) and never a friend turned away!

Kuhlau - You are probably right. 

Corey - We should create a Facebook group to pay homage to the great works of the composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwurstle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm

[Renfield]

I have Facebook but I can only add friends that I know in real life.

That's reasonable.

Dang it, I wanted to be friends with Yevgeny Sudbin. And yes, I actually did send Jed Distler a friend request, and yes, he actually rejected it.

"Dear Jed, will you be my friend?"
"No."

[Kullervo]

Corey - We should create a Facebook group to pay homage to the great works of the composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwurstle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm

Make it so!

[Sarastro]

Impossible. I tried. One cannot ever delete a facebook account. The best one can do is "temporarily" de-activate it.

That's not good. Did you know that a prospective employer can take a look at your facebook or myspace profile, or your blog. I heard something like that, though have no idea how true it is. Why don't they allow to delete your page? I'm not going there for sure.

Hm...I remember how I registered on the Russian version of facebook just to take a look at my former classmates and couldn't delete my profile because of this stupid temporary de-activation. I deleted all my information, though. Sometimes I am tempted to restore the account - to talk to others who probably have registered there lately, to take a look at them - but we are so different now, listen to different music and live in different countries, there is nothing in common except we went to school together.

[Kullervo]

That's not good. Did you know that a prospective employer can take a look at your facebook or myspace profile, or your blog. I heard something like that, though have no idea how true it is.

There are privacy settings that allow you to select who you want to see your profile. You can set them so your name doesn't even come up in a search (like I have).

[Joe_Campbell]

Sometimes I am tempted to restore the account - to talk to others who probably have registered there lately, to take a look at them - but we are so different now, listen to different music and live in different countries, there is nothing in common except we went to school together.

What's wrong with that? You needn't have everything in common with your old friends.

[karlhenning]

. . . You needn't have everything in common with your old friends.

True, indeed.

[ezodisy]

I signed up with this today just to get in touch with someone I haven't spoken to for over a decade. Certainly good for that. Too bad that in most cases you can't browse profiles & pics without first becoming friends.

[ezodisy]

Jed Distler rejected my friend request.

lol! I'm gonna try

[Brian]

lol! I'm gonna try

You can also try friending Yevgeny Sudbin, Joshua Bell, Ilya Gringolts, Janine Jensen, Paavo Jarvi, Alban Gerhardt, Carlos Kalmar and others. I haven't, being daunted by Jed's rejection.

[karlhenning]

I bet Joshua Bell would accept your friending!

[jlaurson]

You can also try friending Yevgeny Sudbin, Joshua Bell, Ilya Gringolts, Janine Jensen, Paavo Jarvi, Alban Gerhardt, Carlos Kalmar and others. I haven't, being daunted by Jed's rejection.

I'm not quite sure why we would even try to befriend these people?!
Unless we know them or are related to them in some professional capacity, I don't see the point. There are fan-clubs out there, for those who wish to join... and even on Facebook there is the opportunity to join "Friends of..." groups. Which some might find juvenile, but why not. But to try to befriend a person who knows nothing about us... that strikes me as very odd.