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Now Smell This on Facebook

Posted by Robin on 1 May 2010 54 Comments

I'm on record as saying I'll be the last person on earth to join Facebook. Well, you know, never say never: Now Smell This has a new Facebook page.

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  1. Daisy says:
    1 May 2010 at 11:34 am

    2nd to last……oh God, this probably means I should give in to the pressure and learn something about Facebook….my brothers have been nagging me about getting on there for ages….I won’t tell them that it was the perfume blog that pushed me over the edge…..

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    • Robin says:
      1 May 2010 at 11:36 am

      Very nearly the whole world has already joined, so yeah, we’re near the end of the line. But I *still* am not going to get a personal page on Facebook, so there.

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      • Rictor07 says:
        1 May 2010 at 4:02 pm

        Its hard enough keeping your myspace page up to date, right robin? 😉

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        • Robin says:
          1 May 2010 at 8:06 pm

          LOL…exactly.

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      • Angela says:
        1 May 2010 at 6:06 pm

        I’m with you, Robin and Daisy. No Facebook for me. Heck, I can barely find time to make it to the grocery store!

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        • Robin says:
          1 May 2010 at 8:07 pm

          It is really no wonder people don’t read books anymore.

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          • Joe says:
            2 May 2010 at 3:05 am

            You’re telling me, sister. 🙁

          • Filomena says:
            3 May 2010 at 12:20 pm

            That is so true Robin. Between the internet and email, there is no time left to leisurely read a book. I’ve been on Facebook for a while but I don’t live and breathe it. It has some good points, but I am not one of those people who will say what I am doing right now–and I don’t care what others are doing either!

        • parfumliefhebber says:
          2 May 2010 at 4:28 am

          I’m also with you. No Facebook for me.

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    • boojum says:
      1 May 2010 at 11:45 am

      Didn’t you dip your toes in already? I thought you had…

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    • Joe says:
      1 May 2010 at 12:12 pm

      For some reason I thought you had already, too, Daisy, and were catching up with everybody from college. The water’s fine… LOL (further proof I have no life, perhaps?).

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  2. Haunani says:
    1 May 2010 at 11:40 am

    This is great, Robin! I joined not long ago, and I’m enjoying it as a way to stay in better touch with family members and friends that I don’t see often.

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    • Daisy says:
      1 May 2010 at 11:49 am

      The problem is I signed up (briefly) a while back to make sure I was getting all the info on someone who had been injured very severely and was essentially clinging to life—wanted to be sure to get constant updates. He lived (yay!) —but then people I had briefly met years ago started flooding the place….some of them quite vigorously ….and I could see the problems rising up to meet me! It was wild—guys who pestered you 25 years ago in college were now showing up in my email! Bad news. I bowed out quickly enough after that.

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      • mjr17 says:
        1 May 2010 at 1:45 pm

        Daisy – fyi, if you do come back there is a way to prevent random awkward high school connections from finding you through the search function. 🙂

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        • LaMaroc says:
          1 May 2010 at 2:21 pm

          I finally plunged into the world of Facebook several months ago to keep in better touch with my close friends and family. I, too, however wanted to keep my anonymity and avoid all the unwanted contacts by signing up under a pseudonym (er, an anagram, actually, of my full name). I emailed everyone first to let them know who I was listed as so that when they got a “friend” request, they would accept it. So far it’s worked out very well for me.

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      • miss kitty v. says:
        1 May 2010 at 3:36 pm

        To add to what everyone else has said: that deluge of people clambering to contact you does drop off after a while. I at first added anyone I knew who wanted to friend me, just because I felt bad if I didn’t, but I’ve learned to say no. (And for the record, the initial ones I felt bad about turning down ended up deleting me anyway, which I suspected would happen once they realized that we really had nothing common besides going to the same school at one time.)

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    • Robin says:
      1 May 2010 at 12:03 pm

      I’ve been doing the same on Twitter. And must say, if you are already using Twitter via one of the standalone apps like Tweetdeck, you can basically sync your accounts so it isn’t really any extra time.

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  3. Tama says:
    1 May 2010 at 11:45 am

    I had to be dragged to facebook but I have reconnected and newly connected with so many fun people. Learning to get rid of all the game crap and the feeds you aren’t interested in is the key.

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    • Haunani says:
      1 May 2010 at 11:49 am

      So true!

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    • Joe says:
      1 May 2010 at 12:14 pm

      Oh god yes… I don’t understand the pull of Farmville, etc. Hmm, but I shouldn’t judge, because if they had a “Perfumeville” I might be pestering all my friends to give me pipe to help me build my steam distillery, etc… 😉

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      • Haunani says:
        1 May 2010 at 12:34 pm

        Ha! We should design our very own app!

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      • mjr17 says:
        1 May 2010 at 12:58 pm

        Joe!! Perfumeville – YESSS!!

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      • miss kitty v. says:
        1 May 2010 at 3:37 pm

        Perfumeville!! God, maybe that would curb my spending habit–I could just do some virtual buying, have an online imaginary collection.

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      • mals86 says:
        1 May 2010 at 3:53 pm

        That would be so much fun.

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      • Filomena says:
        3 May 2010 at 12:21 pm

        I don’t see the pull of Farmville either, but I have friends who are addicted to it!

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  4. Jill says:
    1 May 2010 at 11:57 am

    You’ve been lured by the facebook siren’s call! LOL. I’m on facebook (only recently) but I find it so overwhelming I kind of avoid it. I think it’s fun NST has a page though! I’ll be sure to check it out.

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    • Robin says:
      1 May 2010 at 1:12 pm

      Guessing it’s less overwhelming to have a business as opposed to a personal account…

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      • Jill says:
        1 May 2010 at 1:53 pm

        Yep, I would think so. A lot of boundary issues come up with the personal account!

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  5. Joe says:
    1 May 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Congratulations! And you already mentioned that the apps that let you link FB & Twitter make it not any extra work. (I haven’t really warmed up to Twitter for whatever reason.)

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    • Haunani says:
      1 May 2010 at 12:36 pm

      I haven’t done Twitter yet. It sounds like the type of thing that would drive me crazy, but I suppose I should check it out to see what I’m missing.

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    • Robin says:
      1 May 2010 at 1:13 pm

      I like Twitter…short & sweet!

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      • Haunani says:
        1 May 2010 at 1:14 pm

        Doesn’t it move, though? I sort of like my text to stay still.

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        • Robin says:
          1 May 2010 at 1:16 pm

          It really depends on how you’re reading it. Works very like facebook, really….additions go to the top of a column. What I like is the character limit: you can’t go on & on about anything, which makes it fast.

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          • Haunani says:
            1 May 2010 at 2:03 pm

            Ah, I’ll have to check it out. I suppose lots of people use it on their cell phones to keep track of kids, spouse, etc.? Haven’t tried that yet, as my cell phone functions as a car phone and not much else, lol!

  6. mjr17 says:
    1 May 2010 at 12:46 pm

    Oh AWESOME! When I’m not here, I’m on FB – sort of a professional requirement in this day and age LOL 🙂
    I just “LIKED” you – so yay!

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    • Robin says:
      1 May 2010 at 1:13 pm

      I think the “like” thing is kind of funny. There ought to be another box that shows people who “dislike” you.

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      • mjr17 says:
        1 May 2010 at 1:47 pm

        There have been many requests for a “dislike” button on FB, but honestly, I think it would be abused and used for abusive behavior. Just think of what teenagers would/could do with a “dislike” button – gang bullying on FB!

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        • Robin says:
          1 May 2010 at 1:51 pm

          So true!

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      • miss kitty v. says:
        1 May 2010 at 3:40 pm

        Up until really recently you would be a fan of something, rather than “like” it. I don’t like the “like” because it’s confusing. (As if that sentence itself wasn’t.) It used to be that you could just like what someone posted, but now it’s how you become a fan of something. Facebook likes to pull a fast one on people. I’d drop it if I wasn’t so addicted to it, and if it wasn’t my only social outlet.

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        • mjr17 says:
          1 May 2010 at 4:07 pm

          ITA with everything you said, Miss Kitty.

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  7. Aparatchick says:
    1 May 2010 at 1:58 pm

    The last person on earth to get a facebook account will be my husband who only recently got a cell phone – and it’s a work phone that they made his use. He’s a happy Luddite. I’ve found FB to be a great way to keep in touch with my family (spread out all over the US). I have it set so that no one can friend me and once I figured out how to hide Farmville, it’s all been good. 🙂

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    • www.mybeautyblog.de says:
      2 May 2010 at 4:02 pm

      Is it possible to hide that stuff? For the few minutes I spend during the week on FB… please tell me how, so I get the more important informations!

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      • Aparatchick says:
        3 May 2010 at 12:46 pm

        The next time one of your friends’ Farmville things shows up in your news feed, just move your mouse over to the upper right hand side of that item and you’ll see the word “Hide.” Click on that and you’ll have the option of hiding that friend’s posts or just that application. It works like a charm!

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  8. Carlos BFL 319 says:
    1 May 2010 at 2:55 pm

    I spend alot of time on FB. So nice to have you there too!

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    • Filomena says:
      3 May 2010 at 12:23 pm

      I’m on there too–just think of all the new “friends” we can have who are perfumistas!

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  9. ami says:
    1 May 2010 at 3:12 pm

    come on, FB means full bottle, and let’s keep it that way : DDDDD
    so happy to see you guys on Facebook!

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  10. Bela says:
    1 May 2010 at 3:19 pm

    I have a personal page on FB (under my real name). Thanks to it, I have reconnected with people I haven’t seen for over 30 years – without having to write great big long emails relating everything one has done in the meantime. Like Aparatchick, I use it to keep in touch with relatives scattered around the world, and I have the strictest privacy setting too.

    I haven’t got time to tweet, though.

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  11. mals86 says:
    1 May 2010 at 3:59 pm

    I do like checking in with my college buddies, and my cousins and friends from high school, and people from the summer program (where I met The CEO, when we were 16 and 17, respectively).

    What I hate is a) the game and quiz apps and b) people updating their status with “k now i’m leavn work! Workin again Monday 9-6” or “going to bed now” or “Im so sad, they dont have these yellow shoes in my size.” I do not need to know people’s flossing schedules.

    (Of course, there ARE some friends of mine on Facebook that can post about their flossing schedules and be hilarious. The rest of them, I wish they’d stick with “Productive day at work today” or “Samantha’s cancer is in remission!” or “Had coffee and gossip with the girls,” or “Lee got accepted at UVa!”)

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  12. Shelley says:
    1 May 2010 at 8:12 pm

    Welcome to FB Robin! Wait – is it a Fan Page or a Community Page? =)

    Hey – I have Farmville too! (One serious bout of flu made me get my own farm in FV) But I generally do not publish any level up I get there so as not to annoy other FB users who might not be interested on what’s happening on my farm. Lol. =p

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    • Robin says:
      1 May 2010 at 8:42 pm

      It’s a business page…I guess that’s the same as a fan page?

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  13. Quimby says:
    2 May 2010 at 10:33 am

    I’m one of those “I’m the last person on earth” people, too. Nearly 200 friends and one business/fan page later…

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  14. ami says:
    2 May 2010 at 2:53 pm

    it is fun guessing who is who 🙂

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  15. AnnS says:
    3 May 2010 at 8:08 am

    Robin – late to this party … but if it makes you feel any better – facebook is beginning to sell off data of its registered users to corporations. Heck, it’s even gotten some members of Congress up in arms over privacy issues. No thank you. I opened and closed a facebook account last year after two months of being pestered to be friends with people who hated me in highschool. Ack. People won’t fill out census forms b/c the government is spying on them, right? But then they give away the horses and the barn on facebook for free. I know corporations mine our data all the time, but at least they could pay me directly for the value of my information, lol.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/04/25/2010-04-25_schumer_blasts_facebook_social_network_sites_for_making_money_by_selling_users_i.html

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  16. Juniper says:
    3 May 2010 at 9:46 pm

    I am excited NST finally has a FB page! It’s my way of staying in contact with everyone. I go over the privacy settings with a fine-toothed comb, and have all the apps BLOCKED so I never see any of that. For those worried about friend-requests, you can change your settings to not allow any friend-requests.

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