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Koreans and "interested in" on Facebook
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ZIFA



Joined: 23 Feb 2011
Location: Dici che il fiume..Trova la via al mare

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slowmotion wrote:
If you're security settings are right, random people including employers can't look at your pictures.


Yep..

Steelrails wrote:
Why the stupid tagging system? That just needs to die


Agreed. Not all of the settings are easy to figure out. I can't seem to get rid of unwanted pictures and vids I've been tagged in from my profile.

Auntie tags you in a baby bathtime picture? = the world gets to see it forever.
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slowmotion wrote:
Who cares if you're drinking, especially in Korea. As long as you're not doing outrageous things in the pic.


Again- this mentality of Who cares?

I don't know, maybe my family, my church members, students, and children I know?

It's one thing to engage in those behaviors- we're all adults. It's another thing to throw a pic of one doing a kegstand or clearing a 6 foot bong for said people to see.

There are limits. I didn't join facebook to share those kinds of pictures. E-mail is perfectly fine for them to share amongst friends.

The same goes for profanity-laced/sexual posts on facebook. I really wish they had a "PG" system or some sort of profanity filter. This is why I really distrust single young people. They have this striking inability to see beyond the single, young perspective.
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Slowmotion



Joined: 15 Aug 2009

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds more like you're leading two separate lives. I think that's more of an issue than the pics going up themselves.
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nate1983



Joined: 30 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

*double post*

Last edited by nate1983 on Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:44 pm; edited 1 time in total
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nate1983



Joined: 30 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah I just put my fb settings in Korean to check it out. Actually the "interested in" is fairly literal. Just for fun I put my "relationship status" as "in a domestic partnership" a few weeks back...well in Korean it says "co-habitation"! I wonder what my Korean friends think when they see that lol. They probably don't wanna make any gay-references so there's not the connation we have with 'DM'...
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slowmotion wrote:
Sounds more like you're leading two separate lives. I think that's more of an issue than the pics going up themselves.


Which I enjoy. I enjoy being around church people and drunkards and families and my parents and people I went to High School with and people I know through a professional setting. But I don't always mix them and, unfortunately, some of those people have mixing with each other.

Besides, there are still limits. Kids don't need to see pictures of you doing kegstands.

Facebook is supposed to be for everyone that you know to interact with you, not just a certain segment. Unfortunately some people can't get that through their heads. It's especially sad seeing 29 year olds not get it. Grow up.

Again, there should be a "PG" setting or something so people look at your page and know that that stuff isn't cool.
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ZIFA



Joined: 23 Feb 2011
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Steelrails wrote:
I enjoy being around church people and drunkards and families and my parents and people I went to High School with and people I know through a professional setting. But I don't always mix them and, unfortunately, some of those people have mixing with each other..


Remove your wall, would be the answer. I'm considering it. That way people have to pm you to get in touch.

Thus reducing the whole thing to a glorified email system.
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PardonTheInterruption



Joined: 02 Mar 2011
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slowmotion wrote:
If you're security settings are right, random people including employers can't look at your pictures.


True story, make it more difficult for the creeps to peep, and soundly you will sleep.
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Crockpot2001



Joined: 01 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slightly OT - I did a short ad campaign for my band here in Korea. My only restriction was that people needed to be >18 and live in Korea. We had good response but I started to get worried that it was not from anyone who would give a damn about our type of music. We even had MP3 samples to people could listen to us. MANY of the names of people who "friended" the band were like "Candyfe nc7592qerx" or "982q3yr27fn" and seemed to be kids, whores or whatever. The majority also hid most everything about themselves so I really could not tell where I went wrong. When I post events for the band, not one of them RSVPs.

I wonder if FB sets up fake accounts to respond to their money making ad campaigns to keep the ads going? I know, sounds weird.
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crossmr



Joined: 22 Nov 2008
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, usually scammers who join groups and friend people to try and look more legitimate/increase the amount of others they can spam/scam.

Facebook does nothing about these accounts even though they have forms to report them.
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Slowmotion



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Steelrails wrote:

Again, there should be a "PG" setting or something so people look at your page and know that that stuff isn't cool.

This is actually a good idea. Have certain people only be able to view the R rated pictures lol
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crossmr



Joined: 22 Nov 2008
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slowmotion wrote:
Steelrails wrote:

Again, there should be a "PG" setting or something so people look at your page and know that that stuff isn't cool.

This is actually a good idea. Have certain people only be able to view the R rated pictures lol

Totally possible with friend groups. You can create whatever groups you want and give them access to what you want. You can allow them access to only certain photo albums, or only certain profile information. Unfortunately you can't give them access to different walls or anything. When posting you could make a post though only visible to certain groups.
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Sector7G



Joined: 24 May 2008

PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another angle to this is how some of the things our Korean friends post on our walls may also be misconstrued.

For example, I am back in the states now and just posted some pictures from my brother's wedding. Under one pic of me dressed in a suit one of my former male co-teachers wrote, "Wow! you look so good^^ bu I really miss you now".

My wife cracked on me pretty good for that one.
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NohopeSeriously



Joined: 17 Jan 2011
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Facebook and Cyworld are becoming less and less popular in Korea. Twitter is the #1 social website for now.
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