| If you've been puttering around the internet using | | | | Facebook is, if you aren't a famous person or a |
| a dial-up connection for the past couple of years, | | | | 13 year old, you might want to keep your friends |
| you've missed out on a whole lot of content. The | | | | to people that you actually know. |
| truth is that the world wide web is not currently | | | | Another thing to consider when you are first |
| made to be experienced using this sort of | | | | using Facebook is that there is a difference |
| technology, because so much of today's internet | | | | between just writing on someone's wall and |
| depends on instantaneous data transfer. And | | | | actually sending them a private message. For |
| nowhere is this sort of need more apparent than | | | | those who want to say something to a friend |
| in the world of social networking websites, where | | | | that everyone cannot read, the wall is not the |
| people are far more inclined to be constantly on | | | | place to do this. Satellite internet users are |
| the move, updating pictures and statuses and | | | | encouraged to figure out the difference between |
| writing on walls time and time again throughout | | | | the wall and the message feature early on, |
| the course of the day. | | | | because sometimes there are hilarious missteps in |
| So if you've recently switched to satellite internet | | | | the world of catching up. If you are writing to a |
| and are noticing the changes in what is available as | | | | relative or friend you haven't talked to in a long |
| far as the world wide web is concerned, there is | | | | time, it might make more sense to send them a |
| no better place to go after you check your email | | | | message rather than just to write on their wall, |
| and favorite websites than over to Facebook. | | | | anyway. |
| While many people still prefer to use Myspace, | | | | Also be careful about all of the games on |
| the fact is that Facebook is currently reigning | | | | Facebook. Sometimes people who have been |
| supreme as far as how people spend their time | | | | using slower internet connections end up spending |
| socially networking online. And while there are | | | | so much time poking around Facebook because |
| definitely good criticisms of Facebook and how it | | | | of the fact that they get a bit excited about all of |
| handles privacy, the fact of the matter is that | | | | the possibilities, and then find themselves in the |
| there is no better way to stay in touch these | | | | realm of addictive Facebook games. You don't |
| days online. | | | | have to play Farmville or Mafia Wars to stay in |
| But for those who are used to getting to the | | | | touch with friends, and when someone asks to |
| internet with dial-up rather than with satellite | | | | help fertilize their garden, the truth is that you are |
| internet, it might seem as though Facebook is | | | | not getting an actual personal request, but rather, |
| moving entirely too quickly. This is due to the fact | | | | it's something the games send out on their own. |
| that you can see a "live feed" of what all of your | | | | So don't get too carried away once you are on |
| friends are doing. And while this might be nice for | | | | satellite internet with thinking that certain status |
| someone who has less than 100 friends, if you | | | | updates are actually personal--a lot of them are |
| are out there friending everyone, that is a whole | | | | automated as far as games and quizzes are |
| lot of data to pay attention to. So the first rule of | | | | concerned. |