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How important is it to make a Facebook for uni?

IRoranth

And do people still use it?

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Reply 1

IRoranth

Bump, need to know please!

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Facebook is so overrated. Wait till you start uni to start making friends and socialising. In my experience, the loudest ones on Facebook prior to starting university are the quietest and dryest ones in real life

Reply 4

IRoranth

Original post by Pinkberry_y

But isn't it a bit embarrasing, because i don't have a FB, but if i decided to make one like a day before uni for socialising in advance/student union stuff etc, people would be like oooo who's that loner. lol am i overthinking idk.

Reply 5

Pinkberry_y

Original post by IRoranth

You're over thinking it.

Reply 6

Arianax

We have a Facebook group and chat to talk to each other etc, I think it's essential as it helped me to get to know my course people better.

It's always a ice breaker I guess. You could always say you deactivated it for exams and just made a new one :smile:

Reply 7

IRoranth

Original post by Pinkberry_y

You're over thinking it.

Haha, thanks for the reassurance. I'm just already a bit nervous about the whole university experience even before applying for 2017.

Thanks again!

Reply 8

Trinculo

I think it is pretty essential - for the courses, clubs and socs I've been in anyhow. It's the main means of communicating.

Having said that, no-one gives a crap if your own fb is just your name and your Y8 school photo.

If you don't want to use it, don't. But you should have it to stay in the loop. Can't just rely on university email.

Reply 9

IRoranth

Original post by Ishax

Yeah but I'm worried if I won't have as many 'friends' on FB, because I don't want to add a few people on there (really judgemental weirdos), like do you think people would think "omg why doesn't she have like 600 friendssss :0"

Lol

plus im pretty shy, like im half intro/extrovert D:

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 10

Arianax

Original post by IRoranth

You can set your friends list to private which means you can only view your friends list :smile:

Reply 11

Trapz99

You might as well make one. Pretty my be very one has one and has one for a long time. Make sure you get snapchat as well and maybe Instagram, wouldn't bother with Twitter though it's pretty dead

Reply 12

IRoranth

Original post by Trapz99

You might as well make one. Pretty my be very one has one and has one for a long time. Make sure you get snapchat as well and maybe Instagram, wouldn't bother with Twitter though it's pretty dead

Yeah i've got snap and insta, just never bothered with facebook.

Reply 13

Trinculo

Original post by IRoranth

It's university. No-one will care.

Also, I mean take a minute to think about the whole "judging" thing. It doesn't really mean anything unless you want it to. Everyone makes value judgements all the time, every day.

Reply 14

IRoranth

Original post by Trinculo

no as in, like, my friends are ok. It's some of my family members lols- and it's not just because they're judgemental, it's because they're really jarring and just question you on everything, I'm a brown girl LOL the judging gets pretty real.

Reply 15

tg1998

I'd definitely make one. It's easy and takes five minutes. Group chats will be so useful for anything from societies to house notices. TBH everybody has it nowadays so probably easier to join the bandwagon. With regards to friends who cares. Some have 50 others have 500+. People use facebook for different reasons, the days of judging people by friends has long gone

Reply 16

user382

WhatsApp etc would be fine.

I guess when you finish it could be more useful. Keeping in touch.

Reply 17

Helloworld_95

Definitely get one, it's pretty much necessary if you want to be communicated to as important information will be posted on groups or events, and occasionally you'll have group chats on facebook instead of whatsapp.