Nordic Voices on Facebook

I've now imported Nordic Voices to Facebook, where it's a networked blog. It's possible to "follow" the blog there, though I'm still getting used to the workings of the slightly clunky networking "application", and it may be that my FB settings prevented the sending of some of the invitation messages. Please be tolerant if you get one twice.

David

Poking Around

Merete Mazzarella has taken the plunge and joined Facebook. But she has some doubts:

Fast en mycket bestämd misstanke har jag: Facebook handlar egentligen inte om att umgås utan om att slippa umgås. Slippa umgås på riktigt alltså, in real life. Och att vilja umgås så man slipper umgås är inget nytt: för hundra år sen lämnade man visitkort hos varandra. Det måste vara som att 'puffa' på Facebook?

"Att puffa", we are told, is the Swedish Facebook equivalent of "to poke". And if one pokes someone who is not a Facebook "friend", one can't see their profile for a certain number of days. A penalty that's probably indeed reminiscent of visiting card etiquette, and fulfils a similar purpose.