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Would You Leave Facebook for A CollegeOnly World?
Would you say goodbye to the FB?
Back in the ages of early social media, I turned to Facebook to find as many friends as I could before I went to college my freshman year. “Hey [insert name here], it says you are living in [insert dormitory here], like, OMG let’s meet up and do our laundry together or something!”
Facebook was there for all my major college needs, and I quickly came to depend on the status update to let people know I was really fun/cool/endearing, busily tagged myself in pictures, and coyly searched for the cute boy in my Spanish class…
Then things started to change.
The mom friend request. The 13-year-old sister friend request. The 13-year-old sister’s friend’s friend request. The sparkly new mini-feed, which loaded itself and pressured me into talking to people on Facebook I forgot I was friends with. (“Bill is lonely. Reconnect!” Um, Facebook? Chill your jets, Bill is lonely because he peed his bed Sunday morning after our first football home game.) And now, Facebook is begging you to check in with Facebook Places.
Oh, goody.
And by “goody” I mean, “WTF IS YOUR DEAL, FACEBOOK?!”
I can’t count how many times I wanted to meet the people who were changing the online community I had built, take them by the shoulders and shake the ‘idiot’ right out of them. How many times I drew a line in the sand and threatened to say goodbye to FB forever.
But would I really?
Well, that option is becoming reality as a barrage new social networks come our way. One of which will give us the opportunity to go back to the way things were so many years ago: college kids only.
An original Facebook supporter has invested in a new social site called CollegeOnly. And yes, the name of the site says it all: it’s restricted to college kids only, peeps. And it does not plan on expanding or offering access to a non-college student demographic. CollegeOnly will focus solely on the privacy of college kids and the freedom to not worry about future bosses seeing those pictures you were tagged in after power hour. A silly promotional picture for CollegeOnly even states, “I like your mom, but why is she poking me?” High-larious!
Sounds pretty great, right? Seems like a good enough reason to pack your bags tagged pictures and make the switch. But really, would you?
Although CollegeOnly sounds like an awesome place to spend a healthy chunk of my free time (because the privacy rules are the bomb.com), I’m having a difficult time (and experiencing pre-separation anxiety) seeing myself switch over. Even with all of my FB pet peeves. I’ve invested so much time into Facebook – building my network, loading my photos, coming up with witty status updates that people “like”… Do I really want to start all over again, even if it meant that my great aunt Ethel wouldn’t see my Pimps and Ho’s party photos??
What do you think?
Would you make the switch to CollegeOnly? Or does Facebook, despite all its downfalls, have a special (and permanent) place in your heart?
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Lisa says:
Thu, 26th Aug 20107:20 am
Um, K, not to be rude, but why should college kids only get access to facebook…I mean, yeah moms are annoying on facebook, etc and don't get me wrong, I'm in college myself…It's just that plenty of my friends are NOT in college right now…and I still wanna creep on them…and I have all the 'adults' or whoever I don't want to see me at my cousin's poledancing bachelorette party in a specific filter so that they don't see my friends comments or inappropriate pictures….it's really not that hard to filter. I have pet peeves about facebook too, but everyone having access is definitely not a bad thing in my book. Plus, if you don't want your mom seeing something maybe you shouldn't be putting it on the internet for all to see.
John says:
Thu, 26th Aug 20107:44 am
I completely understand you being hesitant to completely leave your facebook behind, but that's a great thing about CollegeOnly: they don't want you to. It's not nearly as much as a replacement to facebook as much as it is an alternative social hub for students. Unlike facebook where you have to find/seek out people who attend your school, on CollegeOnly, your school is your social network. You are put contact with your entire student body, making it simple to do anything from share pics/stories from last nights party or find out who the other 200 people are in your bio class.
Karen Hannon says:
Thu, 26th Aug 20108:30 am
im far from out of college but I agree with you. I used to enjoy facebook and other sites before they became invaded with mommy brigades and advertisers and more and more. I used to like to through out the occasional f-word without worrying that grandma or one of my kids friend's parents were gonna see.
I think having a new site for your specific demographic could appeal to many people but as in all good things I am sure that as more people join up with the site there will be some of the same problems that you find when using facebook. Some kid will let their mom post or creep from the site, some photo will become public domain by SOMEONE, SOMEHOW. And it's also true that many of the people you don't want included in your new "college only" site could actually be college students themselves. How do you determine who to "exclude?"
and my last thought is one day — when you graduate from college can you truly see yourself being cut off from your social networking? because that day is gonna happen. and I am betting you wont.
the best thing about this world is it is continually evolving. think of how much you have all grown since myspace!
grace b says:
Thu, 26th Aug 20109:12 am
Hmmm I might make an account on CollegeOnly but I probably won't give up facebook. In the last few months I have made my profile more and more private (am also blocked in the search) and really, really pruned my friends list to who I want on there. It helps me to spend a lot less time on facebook and when I am on it, I'm not looking at as many random profiles.
I do agree with Karen that all of the advertising and business with facebook pages and games are really excessive. A lot of times I'll "like" a page and then end up hiding them in my news feed because they never.stop.updating.
L says:
Thu, 26th Aug 20103:19 pm
what happens when you graduate from college though? does it kick you out? does grad-school count? I'm not sure they could limit it as well as they want to. There's a lot of questions they'd have to answer…
Jennifer says:
Thu, 26th Aug 20103:59 pm
I think i would like the site, if it became as popular as facebook and I could find people there.
Thing is, I mainly use my facebook to stay in touch with people who I do not see often. Either friends from high school who went to different universities, friends from university during the summer, and christmas break, friends from internships I've had where there have been a large amounts of students hired, and not really for the daily talkative stuff. I've been purging my facebook lately of people who i don't talk to and probably won't talk to again.
Caroline says:
Thu, 26th Aug 20104:22 pm
Yeah, I really miss the days when FB was only for college. Life has changed so, so much on the Internet in the past four years…yeah, I would definitely think about it. I probably wouldn't leave FB since I only have one more semester of college, but if I still had a few years left, I'd definitely consider it.
Amy says:
Fri, 27th Aug 201011:52 am
I want one!
And I plan on leaving Facebook after grad school anyway. There's just something rather desperate about being a 35 year old on Facebook posting statuses like "Brayden just pooed in the big boy potty!"
John says:
Mon, 30th Aug 201012:35 pm
I know many people have questions about CollegeOnly and possible issues. Check this out for answers http://blog.collegeonly.com/?p=30
Guest says:
Thu, 9th Sep 20103:27 am
I have and I did. But not this website. I got fed up witht he uncontrolled spam long ago. And to the 1st posters question, FB security sucks balls. That "filtered" friends list can be reset or screwed up at a whim by FBs crack team of retarded engineers. Peoples friends lists have been exposed after being set to hide, walls have been exposed to everyone during upgrades/changes, the list goes on. You can't trust FB security settings for squat.
Just to ramble off a few alternatives that the media overlooks
http://www.usurvive.com http://www.thesquare.com http://www.thenamepages.com
One that looked real good was http://www.lymabean.com – but they're stalled for funding apparently.
Guest says:
Thu, 9th Sep 20103:42 am
Forgot to mention alsom this site is a failure before it even launched. Because the sites listed above allow ALL people with .edu address on, and really, they're not too hot or popular. So making a site like this that's even more restricted, is a death sentence. And yeah at the end when you graduate, you're kicked off the site. Um, no thanks. Waste of time to even bother. But then what did you expect from someone who came from a ripoff company like paypal.
And if you believe the spiel in their blog about sorting each and every address that tried to signup, and have students rat out imposters, you've got another thing coming. They're even too damn lazy/stupid/unpatriotic to report spam/fake accounts on FB. You think they care or are going to take the time to weed 30,000 people out? ha.