I really don't know why I'm writing this, but you know when something is just so ridiculous you can't believe it's really there? Well it is, and I have to write it somewhere before I can reload the page...
I've just been deleting my facebook wall - I hate it to have stuff on it, though I realise that comes as an irritant to many people, especially when they've made attempts to be witty. I really only use it to get pictures off my mobile onto my computer because it's the only way I know how to, complex as that is. Oh and to put up status updates when I'm drunk, but there really is a reason for deleting them fairly regularly.
Anyway, straying from the point... on the right hand side of the page there is always a pile of either bizarre adverts, or boring facts about people you don't know, but might like to for some reason. On this page, it was adverts, and the one that caught my eye read as follows:
"See what your baby will look like by combining pictures of you and your boyfriend, for FREE! (100% accuracy)"
WHAT??!
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Totally clueless about transferring mobile photos to facebook, but have you tried e-mailing the photos to yourself (assuming you have one of those types of phone) and then opening the attachment and saving it to pictures? I have two computers running different systems and only one printer and that is how I move documents around when the kids want a printout of their homework (usually two minutes after they need to have left for school). I have also done similar when I ran into trouble with printing an assignment that needed to be sent that day using a neighbours computer - only trouble was that his computer replaced all the scientific symbols and stuff with squares and hashes and I didn't notice in my panic and lost mega loads of marks.
As for facebook I am staying away from it because I gather it is addictive and I CANNOT refuse to let the kids on it if I am on it - moral highground!!
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Clueless myself! No, haven't worked out how to e-mail the pictures from my phone. What I do now is go on facebook on my phone, where I can upload pictures easily. There's a nice button labelled 'upload photos'... then I just go into my phone photos and pick one, click. Then go back to the computer, log onto facebook, and then save the picture to my computer. Ha ha!!! Anyone who knows anything about computers will be cringing away!
You are quite right. Facebook is addictive if you have even the slightest propensity to become addicted to things. For me, it serves as yet another way to avoid doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I try to avoid using it much now, and the wall deletion is necessary to make me believe that I am not building some sort of relationship with the site. I didn't join for ages, but it is a useful way of keeping in touch with my friends who are abroad. Provided they're not in China of course, which two of them are. I spend far more time rejecting friend requests than accepting them. If I had hundreds of contacts I can imagine it could eat away at a life without bringing much to enhance it. Overall, waste of time, apart from the photo thing and stalking people in Oz